Scientists defend failure to prioritise police and teachers in vaccine rollout

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The former chief scientific adviser to the Government said the strategy ‘made sense’

‘Of course, there will be many teachers, many police, who are in the 40-50 age group and indeed who will have been immunised already. So, it does make sense.

‘I do feel the Home Secretary has let us down. I understand the reasons and I’ve had many conversations with the Home Secretary. I’ve always said we have a constructive relationship. That doesn’t mean we’re always going to agree.’ He told BBC Breakfast that further loosening of lockdown measures were not going to go ahead unless the first phase of reopening of schools was successful.

Professor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 chair for the JCVI, explained: ‘The vaccination programme is a huge success and continuing the age-based rollout will provide the greatest benefit in the shortest time, including to those in occupations at a higher risk of exposure.’Health Secretary Matt Hancock has also defended plans for the next stage of the UK vaccination programme by arguing it was the ‘fastest and simplest way to roll out the jabs’.

‘Trying to come up with a scheme which prioritises one professional group over another would have been complicated to put in place and wouldn’t have done what we asked the JCVI to do, which I think is the right thing, which is to make sure we minimise the amount of people who die by using the vaccine,’ he added.

 

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