Health
Frontline workers should be first in vaccine queue – The Guardian
Letters: Dr Richard Lawson argues for the need to prioritise frontline workers, Dr Hugh Adler praises clinical trial volunteers, and Heidi Chow says patents must…
NHS staff no longer top priority to receive coronavirus vaccine (Report, 3 December). This is because the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advises that the first priority should be prevention of mortality, and to do this they have opted for immediate protection of very vulnerable, elderly people in care homes, rather than general prevention of mortality by using the vaccine to reduce the reproduction rate (R-number) of the virus.
JCVI did model the use of the vaccine to interrupt…
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