in ten staff off sick, operations being cancelled and more and more trusts declaring critical incidents, isn t the nhs already overwhelmed, and you re not doing very much at all to stop it? and secondly, on the issue of staff absences, at lbc we ve been hearing about lots of nhs workers who say that even now they haven t been given the fp3 grade medical masks to protect them from covid, others say they can t access lateral flow tests to prevent them having to isolate, what would your response to then be? and if i could just ask sir chris very quickly, how frustrated are you as a medic about the number of beds being taken up by people who have rejected the offer of a vaccine? people who have re ected the offer of a vaccine? people who have re ected the offer of a vaccine? thanks very much. on our of a vaccine? thanks very much. on your point of a vaccine? thanks very much. on your point about of a vaccine? thanks very much. on your point about fp3 of a vaccine? thanks very much.
of the vaccine question. the good | of the vaccine question. the good news is as you get vaccinated more the immune system broadens its response so that it covers more variance macro. the immune system tends to get broad as you get more exposed to infection or you get vaccinated. more varients. some have a very long lasting memory of what you ve seen before, and therefore will provide some durability. i think andrew pollard is right, it would be a situation which is untenable where it is said everybody needs a new vaccine every six months. that s not the long term view. there may be some people who require an additional dose but longer term i would think as this becomes a disease which is endemic, in other words we have it circulating and it comes back every year, it ll be something like an annual vaccine like the flu. we
say, let s order your questions systematically and say which ones are fair and which ones, as in many cases, are really completely untrue and that have been put into the public domain deliberately often to scare people. insofar i am frustrated, it is simply people deliberately trying to scare fellow citizens away from getting something which is going to be potentially life saving for them, and stop them getting a hospital admission, and protect people around them. the final thing people want is convenience. that s what the booster programme has allowed. there is a massive expansion of our capacity. if people have not yet had a vaccine at all now is a good time to get it. there is a lot of capacity and we would like to use it. whether it is second or third doses people are needing. second or third doses people are needini. ., .. second or third doses people are needini. ., ,, i. second or third doses people are needini. ., ,. ,, ., ., second or third doses people are needini. ., ,, ., .
don t know what the vaccine will be for that yet, it is what people will work on in the coming months and years as we look at long term strategies. i don t see this as something you end up having a vaccine for as frequently as you do now. we need it now because it is at the early stages of the disease, and we need to get boosted for this variant at this moment. there will be a change over time and that ll settle into a much more routine type of vaccine programme as we have four other infectious diseases. for other infectious diseases. for other infectious diseases. for other infectious diseases. you said it ll become increasingly for three you said it ll become increasingly for three vaccinations. you said it ll become increasingly for three vaccinations. when - you said it ll become increasingly for three vaccinations. when are i you said it ll become increasingly. for three vaccinations. when are you planning for three vaccinations. when are you planning on for three
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