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Herd immunity will not come • https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... • https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/de... • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021... • Prof Andrew Pollard, Oxford vaccine team • Clear that the delta variant can infect people already vaccinated • Making herd immunity impossible to reach even with high vaccine uptake • Anyone who is still unvaccinated will, at some point, meet the virus. • We don't have anything that will stop transmission, • so I think we are in a situation where herd immunity is not a possibility • and I suspect the virus will throw up a new variant that is even better at infecting vaccinated individuals • Angela Merkel • Ending free testing from Oct 11 • Department of Health • https://www.gov.uk/government/collect... • UK vaccination, prevented 60,000 deaths and 66,900 hospitalisations • Never be enough to stop Covid from spreading • Winter wave inevitable • Professor Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia • The concept of herd immunity is unachievable • because we know the infection will spread in unvaccinated populations • and the latest data is suggesting that two doses is probably only 50 percent protective • Time to change the way the data is collected and recorded as the virus becomes endemic • We need to start moving away from just reporting infections, • or just reporting positive cases admitted to hospital, • to actually start reporting the number of people who are ill because of Covid • Otherwise we are going to be frightening ourselves with very high numbers that actually don't translate into disease burden • Sajid Javid • Preparations to offer Covid booster jabs from next month • Waiting for the final advice from the JCVI • Over-50s set to be offered the flu jab at the same time as booster • Sir Andrew Pollard • I think as we look at the adult population going forward, • if we continue to chase community testing and are worried about those results, • we're going to end up in a situation where we're constantly boosting • to try and deal with something which is not manageable • It needs to be moving to clinically driven testing • If someone is unwell they should be tested, • but for their contacts, if they're not unwell then it makes sense for them to be in school and being educated • Dr Ruchi Sinha, consultant paediatrician, Imperial College • Choosing not to vaccinate children would be unlikely to cause problems in the health service • What matters is the burden of patient hospitalisation • and actually there hasn't been as much with this delta variant • They tend to be the children who have got their comorbidities, obesity, or severe neurological problems • and those children are already considered for vaccination. • Covid on its own in paediatrics is not the problem
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