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Plans for “Booster” Covid Vaccine Roll-Out Coming Within Weeks

by Michael Curzon
21 June 2021 2:05 PM

Health Secretary Matt Hancock says that plans for a “booster” Covid vaccine roll-out in the autumn will be set out in the coming weeks. BBC News has the story.

The Health Secretary said ministers were waiting for results from trials of different combinations of vaccines.

It comes after doctors and NHS trusts said planning for a booster rollout must start now as it will involve bigger challenges. 

They said many questions needed answering, including how long immunity from the original Covid jab lasts.

The issue of whether children will be vaccinated also still remains, health leaders said.

“We are currently trialling which combinations of jabs are the most effective,” Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast. 

“In the next few weeks, when we get the clinical data through on what’s the most effective combinations to have… then we’ll set out all the details for the booster programme for the autumn.”

Among the ongoing trials is the U.K.’s Cov-Boost trial, which is testing different combinations of third doses across England. 

A senior Government source said the U.K. would also benefit from new vaccines from Novavax and Valneva, which are awaiting approval from the U.K.’s medicines regulator. 

So far, nearly 60% of U.K. adults have had two jabs of the vaccine, meaning they are fully vaccinated, and more than four in five adults have had their first dose.

People have been rushing to get their vaccines in recent days, with more than one million jabs booked on Friday and Saturday in England after vaccinations opened to all over-18s.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Matt HancockThird doseVaccine

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jeepybee
jeepybee
1 year ago

“…the CCC blasted the Government for not providing evidence for those claims.”

That’s the finest bit of hypocrisy I’ve ever heard in my entire life. Committees are usually a bunch of naive, self-important, pompous c***s at the best of time, but these lads are lacking so much self awareness that I can only laugh.

Where is YOUR evidence, you absolute bags of sh*t? This CCC is pushing for the destruction of civilisation, without any evidence all while censoring actual data, and yet they “blast” and “advise” and “condemn”. Hell upon them all. Livid.

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Nicely put. I share your outrage.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

The head of the CCC Gummer (Lord Deben to fellow members of the cartel) & family all have investments up the arse in so-called ‘renewables’. As do most other cockroaches of the House. That’s the problem. Until there’s a drone strike on the CCC and the climate change act is consigned to the dustbin of history it’s all systems go and hello again 17th century..

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 year ago
Reply to  psychedelia smith

Opinion polls have to be taken with a pinch of salt, but they seem to suggest that a lot of people support net zero in principle but go off the idea once they realise the cost they’ll have to pay. Therefore if the government simply scrapped the climate change act they could loose a lot of support. A better approach might be to keep a commitment to reach net zero, but amend the act to say that policies to reduce emissions should only be introduced if it can be shown they won’t increase costs for ordinary people. Since EVs, heat pumps, renewable energy etc. are currently more expensive than fossil fuel alternatives this would rule them out while the government would still look like it wanted to do ‘the right thing’. An alternative would be to commit to reduce emissions in line with global commitments to reduce emissions. Given that China, India and loads of other countries are building huge numbers of coal fired power stations and their emissions are going to keep increasing for a least a decade this would mean we have to do nothing for ages as we’ve already cut emissions since 1990 and it’s unlikely China etc. will ever go back to the same level of emissions they produced 30 years ago.

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Less government
Less government
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

It’s time for the people to wake up and see this insanity for what it is. A massive scam against the people of this country and across the globe.

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  psychedelia smith

“hello again 17th century.” Optimistic I’d say they want us back in caves or dead preferably.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  Epi

You will be dead soon, if you had the Vax.
https://youtu.be/42uoERKuzo4?si=5g1xq6__4RXrE4ff
Cancer is almost always fatal .

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Less government
Less government
1 year ago
Reply to  psychedelia smith

Vote Reform Party.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

The environmental and climate hysterics have had a free ride for decades and I’m hoping that enough people are now awake that they can be seen off. Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb in 1968 and none of his dire predictions have come true, but has he changed his tune? Of course he hasn’t. Here are a small sample of quotes from a number determined misanthropes. These people and others are listened to without scrutiny as if they are scientists, but they are not:

Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun Paul Ehrlich

We contend that the position of the nuclear promoters is preposterous beyond the wildest imaginings of most nuclear opponents, primarily because one of the purported ‘benefits’ of nuclear power, the availability of cheap and abundant energy, is in fact a liability.
Paul Ehrlich

A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer Paul Ehrlich

The addition of a temporary sterilant to staple food, or to the water supply. With limited distribution of antidote chemicals, perhaps by lottery Paul Ehrlich

We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [AOC]

I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis’ Al Gore

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.’ UN

Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?’ Maurice Strong

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day
Jacques Cousteau

A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible
UN Commission on Global Biodiversity 

In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations; yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistics speak of the death and displacement of millions of human beings because of global warming, especially in Africa
Osama bin Laden

More evidence here:
https://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html

Last edited 1 year ago by sskinner
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Apologies – I posted before reading the comments.

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jeepybee
jeepybee
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Not at all. Great minds hux

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Less government
Less government
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

The globalist shills at the unelected CCC should be referred to the article above and the link to an excellent piece by Michael Kelly on the insane cost of attempting to achieve Net Zero in the US. It is of course an enormous scam to impoverish us all and exert control over every aspect of our lives. This corrupt cabal, with their noses in the trough, threatening the equally compromised Government that set them up so that we the people can be fined or imprisoned for non compliance and colluding with big corporations is,indeed,despicable.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Out with it – don’t hold back!

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AynRandyAndy
AynRandyAndy
1 year ago

“Climate Change Committee Warns That Sunak’s Watering Down of Net Zero Increases the Risk of Britain Failing to Meet its 2050 Target”
Good.

He should sack all the members of the Climate Change Committee (and legions of associated hanger-ons).

And if he doesn’t have the power to do that, he should make sure no taxpayer funding (theft) is used to support the boondoggle.

But he won’t.

Last edited 1 year ago by AynRandyAndy
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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago

Good, get the torpedoes in the water and sink the CCC, IPCC and any other insane AGW adherents. We can burn their carbon too.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

In other news, fire insurance companies say that fires are like really dangerous and will surely become more common, and local companies in the waste management business express concern that your shop might get smashed up unless you donate to their benevolent fund.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

These people sound like the Saudi clerics of the Net Zero religion.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Who the **** are the climate change committee and why do they have any say whatsoever on my life?

Last edited 1 year ago by Hardliner
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

It’s SAGE all over again. If you appoint a committee of experts and give them prestige and power and money and career advancement, they are not going to say “oh, nothing to see here, move on, we’re not needed, let’s disband ourselves”.

The committee is a creature of the government.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

They’re decidedly worse than SAGE as they’re formally above the government (let alone parliament) and not only informally. Existing legislation binds all UK governments to the 2050 Net Zero target and the CCC are the overseers responsible for ensuring that everyone sticks to the plan.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Probably worse in that the “climate emergency” is even harder to spot than the “pandemic” so there’s no obvious endpoint to it. Towards 2050 they can make up some other rubbish to prolong it.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I only have my memories of the recent DS article which implied this (and don’t even remember the article itself) but if both are correct, the CCC is formally the real government of the UK in all but the name and all of this continued voting for MPs and other such irrelevant procedures just exists to throw sand into people’s eyes. They’re the Net Zero overseers tasked with cracking the legal whip if something doesn’t seem to be moving according to plan.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

They are a result of the Climate Change Act 2008. The current government could repeal that, if they wished to. But they haven’t. A few possibilities spring to mind:
1) They believe in Nut Zero. I don’t buy that – they are not that stupid.
2) They don’t believe in Nut Zero but they don’t think they would have the votes from some Tory MPs to repeal it. I don’t but this either, though the bit about not having the votes may be true.
3) They don’t believe in Nut Zero but they fear the international reaction if they step out of line. For example, I can easily see a Truss situation where the “markets” decide they want to bring down the government because they don’t like its policies. I think this is plausible.
4) They don’t believe in Nut Zero but it furthers other aims and/or they are doing it to please their global puppet masters. Also plausible.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Why not try a simple explanation? Sunak needs to conduct an election campaign in the not-too-distant future. For this, he needs truckloads of money. As always, Tony ‘my friends can call me Josef’ Blair is the gatekeeper for people with a real lot of money who are willing to put it into election campaigns of parties supporting their political agendas. And hence, it is hard for Sunak to kick against the pricks. Plus he couldn’t care less what will or won’t be happening in 2050 because by that time, he’ll certainly be in a very comfortable overseas retirement if he has proven to be a trustworthy ally of his financiers. At least, that’s the plan.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Indeed – very plausible.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Featured here recently. It’s an expert panel created by the late or rather, undead and thus, forever ranting and raving on, New Labour government supposed to oversee the Net Zero implementation of future UK governments and to provide advice on how to achieve it this goal.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

With many of the things they say they are so far from being “experts” that the term is simply rubbish. They are jumped up little jerks in it for the money. I presume they are on a percentage of the taxes they waste, because there has to be a good reason to even think renewables can power Britain. Starmer is as bad, he wants more wind turbines to stand stationary when the weather doesn’t blow hard enough (which is surprisingly often)! Hot air from politicians doesn’t work although that was promised as the backstop. LOL.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
1 year ago

We will fail to meet our 2050 targets, due to the fact that we don’t have the cheap and effective technology yet. It doesn’t exist. End of story.

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AynRandyAndy
AynRandyAndy
1 year ago
Reply to  Baldrick

The deliberate use of the weasel-word ‘our’ by those who know best, is no doubt intended to impart a sense of ownership and shared endeavour . . . ‘our NHS’, ‘our Net Zero target’, ‘our Diversity’.

None of which I accept.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  AynRandyAndy

They are certainly not mine either.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

Oh no. Boo hoo.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
1 year ago

“Rishi Sunak has become engaged in a row with the Climate Change Committee”

Has he though? Or is this just act 2 of the pantomime? As long as Millipede’s climate change act exists it’s all systems go and nothing is getting watered down.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Climate Change Committee: The CCC working for the CCP

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CHRIS
CHRIS
1 year ago

So the CCC says “Electric vehicles will be significantly cheaper than petrol and diesel vehicles to own and operate over their lifetimes” but that’s just another one of their many lies. Insurance alone for electric vehicles will rise into the thousands per year due to their high write off risk. I do 25,000 miles a year in my diesel Renault. My fuel bill is under £3000 a year. I get almost 800 miles from a full tank. I paid £5995 4 years ago for it second hand. My insurance, for my sins, is about £650 a year.

A Tesla Model 3 costs £43,000 or more. It has a real range of about 200 miles. It costs £29 to fully charge from a home charger. 25,000 miles is going to work out at £4000 a year and this assumes no expensive motorway services or commercial charging. Per a recent Daily Sceptic article by way of The Guardian many Tesla owners are finding their insurance is going to cost £4000 a year or more.

So, CCC, flat out lying, just as they lie about the need for Net Zero to even exist, let alone be the UK’s major policy target for many bankrupting years to come. But I doubt you’ll see the BBC “Verify” morons pointing that out.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  CHRIS

So the CCC says “Electric vehicles will be significantly cheaper than petrol and diesel vehicles to own and operate over their lifetimes” but that’s just another one of their many lies.

That’s a misunderstanding on your part: The plan is doubtlessly to get this sorted with ever-increasing taxation.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Whilst increasing tax may be the idea, it would now break the economy. No one of any use has any money left, and the people who can afford anything much are the ones who are useless. Lets sack the lot, overpaid prats!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

“… in a new assessment published this afternoon, the CCC blasted the Government for not providing evidence for those claims.”

The same CCC that has not produced a scrap of evidence to support its net zero by 2050 position.

Pot – Kettle.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Rules for thee, not for me. And how the word ‘independent’ is abused. There is not a single indepedent thought within the CCC, they run on groupthink.and all are aligned to the idiocy of nut zero.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago

Electric cars cheaper over their lifetime? They cost more and the fuel is as expensive as petrol at the Garage. A strange thing to say and completely untrue. Then a new battery every few years (my experience with Li-ion camera batteries has not been great) will cost vastly more. Where do these people live? Islington I suppose, where Harrods is a quick tube line ride away!

Last edited 1 year ago by The Real Engineer
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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago

I wonder if there is criticism of the Israli war. Huge anounts of CO2, N20, NO2 and pollutants, along with all the rebuilding materials for Gaza city, which seems fully destroyed, and it will be worse once they try their ground assault. Its all anti-green and should be banned and Israel pay total reparations. See, thats the UK yearly output in a few days. Net zero my foot!

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

“… the Climate Change Committee as the advisers claimed his watering down of Net Zero measures will hike costs for families and increase the risk of Britain failing to meet its 2050 target.”

Good news at last!

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