the hesitation in the decision not to recommend. what was the thinking behind overcoming that concern in the netherlands? so first. the vaccine that has been recommended and that has been given here in the netherlands is a vaccination programme for 12 18 year olds, which started in the first week ofjuly. uptake is very high and the consideration was one, it is important first of all to look at the risk benefit for the children themselves. and then obviously the vaccines have been linked in rare cases, one in 10,000, one on 100,000, with incidences like myocarditis, but we should realise that the same associations have been made with covid itself, so. what may be associated with the vaccine is also associated with the virus itself, that is one important thing. and the same pertains to rare instances of systemic inflammation with children. now, the other important issue and the first discussion
freedom to go to a club or indeed anywhere else because they re self isolating. the most recent figures show half a million people in england and wales isolating in the first week ofjuly. that figure will almost certainly be higher now. and that s meant staff shortages with some public transport disrupted, some pubs and shops having to close, some hospital operations being cancelled and if that s adults, then there s children. figures from two weeks ago showed 840,000 pupils were out of school in england two weeks ago due to covid related reasons the highest number since schools fully reopened in march. and for many this is the final week of term. a week normally packed with hugely important moments from sports days to meeting new teachers to saying goodbye to each other and somtimes to the school. for hundreds of thousands of children, those moments won t be happening. and the daily telegraph s frontpage turned to this issue of isolation with the headline: freedom d
we re going to be out of it, it s all going to be fine, but now you re just thrust straight back into it, into the fear of the pinging and the fear of getting coronavirus, having people on site, all of those things just make our entire industry very, very nervous, although they are all desperate to open because it has been such a financially crippling period. across town, one of the brewery s customers, the royal oak pub. it was closed recently for ten days after a staff member tested positive and the rest of the team were pinged to self isolate. you have ordered stock in, everything is fresh food, as well, so that will go off, this will happen, you ve lost money, all of these things, so it is a concern that if we get pinged today, tomorrow, especially someone from the management team, then it spirals and we have to do the whole thing again. more than half a million people in england and wales alone were pinged by this nhs app in the first week ofjuly, so the impact on business from pu
after a staff member tested positive and the rest of the team were pinged to self isolate. you have ordered stock in, everything is fresh food, as well, so that will go off, this will happen, you ve lost money, all of these things, so it is a concern that if we get pinged today, tomorrow, especially someone from the management team, then it spirals and we have to do the whole thing again. more than half a million people in england and wales alone were pinged by this nhs app in the first week ofjuly, so the impact on business from pubs to major manufacturers has been huge, and if you are not self isolating because of work, you may well be because your child s classroom bubble has burst. at this school in nearby high wycombe, at times a third of staff and almost 300 pupils have been self isolating. this is the most stressful that i think we have all felt and i think the children and their parents have felt that, as well. real fatigue, lots of wonderful positive messages out there that we
so that will go off, this will happen, you ve lost money, all of these things, so it is a concern that if we get pinged today, tomorrow, especially someone from the management team, then it spirals and we have to do the whole thing again. more than half a million people in england and wales alone were pinged by this nhs app in the first week ofjuly, so the impact on business from pubs to major manufacturers has been huge, and if you are not self isolating because of work, you may well be because your child s classroom bubble has burst. at this school in nearby high wycombe, at times a third of staff and almost 300 pupils have been self isolating. this is the most stressful that i think we have all felt and i think the children and their parents have felt that, as well. there s realfatigue, lots of wonderful positive messages out there that we are heading back towards normality, that we have gone to stage four of the road map,