SIR – On Friday the Government put an advertisement in
The Daily Telegraph telling readers how many hundreds of millions of pounds it had spent on the development, purchase and distribution of Covid vaccines.
However, the primary care health group to which my GP surgery belongs has no idea how many vaccines it will receive, or when. My wife is over 80 and would like to know.
Dr Martin Henry
SIR – Further to Lesley Wright’s letter (December 19) regarding invitations for Covid vaccination being sent by text, what of those of us over-80s who do not own a mobile phone? How will we be told that a vaccination awaits us?
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As calm as they come - Caoimhin Kelleher s journey through the LFC ranks
Scott Fleming He s so laidback in training, so the staff were all intrigued to see how he would handle the game. But he handled it exactly the same way as he would a training session, which is some mentality to have as a young goalkeeper.
Neil Edwards could just as easily be talking about Caoimhin Kelleher’s impeccable Champions League debut against AFC Ajax last week, when the 22-year-old Irishman kept a clean sheet against a team that have averaged 3.9 goals per game in the Eredivisie so far this season, helping to secure Liverpool’s place in the tournament’s last 16 in the process.
In Africa, public opinion is often difficult to measure, whether due to conflict, undemocratic regimes, or a lack of administrative capacity. To work around these challenges, Novetta collects and curates traditional and social media data from fifty-four African countries. Novetta’s Rumor Tracking Program (RTP) was developed specifically to track misinformation and disinformation associated with COVID-19 and vaccines in development.
The RTP reveals that the Pfizer vaccine, compared to other vaccines in phase III clinical trials, has maintained the highest rate of positive press and social media coverage across Africa since April: 52 percent of extracted quotes from traditional and social media were favorable to the Pfizer vaccine. The positive public perception of the Pfizer vaccine was largely driven by the uptick in discussion on November 9 the day Pfizer announced its early findings suggesting that the vaccine could be more than 90 percent effective. Recent news of the Moderna v