Government officials aren’t just disappointed by the speed of the Covid vaccine roll-out for healthy 12-15 year-olds. Experts have warned that the booster vaccine roll-out is also moving too slowly and will not be completed until the end of January if it continues at its current pace. The Telegraph has the story.
On Monday, Downing Street promised to “step up communications” as it emerged that only 3.7 million of the 8.5 million at-risk people who had a second jab at least six months ago have had their third dose. It means 4.8 million are in danger from waning immunity.
Currently, people eligible for a third dose must wait until they are contacted by the NHS before booking a jab.
John Roberts, of the respected Covid Actuaries Response Group, who calculated the figures based on the latest NHS England booster figures and historical vaccination data, said: “At the start of the booster campaign, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care stated that the aim was to protect the most vulnerable from Covid as we head into the autumn and winter months.
“But at the current rate, it’s likely to be towards the end of January before the approximately 22 million that fall into the most vulnerable groups receive the booster.
“With case numbers very high and still rising, and admissions to hospital also rising again, it’s clear that accelerating the booster roll-out is vital to reduce the pressure on health services and minimise Covid-related deaths this autumn and winter.”
Experts blamed the slowdown on the growing complexity of the Covid vaccination programme, which is now dealing with schoolchildren, extra doses for immunocompromised people and rolling out the flu jab.
At the peak of England’s vaccine roll-out, more than 500,000 doses were being given a day – but just 99,000 booster shots were reported in England on Monday, and the current daily average for other jabs has fallen to around 50,000.
The booster programme is working its way through nine priority groups, starting with the over-80s, care home residents, frontline health workers and the clinically vulnerable.
The Covid Actuaries Response Group warned that there are two million people becoming eligible each week but just 1.3 million weekly jabs being carried out, meaning the backlog is growing. The gap between a second jab and booster is concerning, because studies have shown that immunity continues to drop over time. …
Professor Andrew Hayward, an epidemiologist and government adviser of University College London, said the situation was “concerning” and there was “huge potential for the NHS to come under a lot of pressure”.
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Good.
Simple questions for these ‘authorities’.
When does this end?
When hasn’t the NHS come under pressure in winter?
Why is the case & infection rate per capita in the vaxed now double that of the uinvaxed?
Why do you still deny the much superior efficacy of natural immunity?
Why do you still deny the known, safe & effective medicines, used very successfully in large (200m+ people) real-world deployments?
Why haven’t you stopped the vaccine program in light of the massive injury & death rates being reported?
Why have you not encouraged the preventative/protection measures including vitamin C and critically, D supplements?
Why haven’t you spoken out against the use of masks by the general population given the volume of evidence against their effectiveness, and lack of evidence for them?
Why do you not utilize real science?
The assumption is that the only way to deal with Covid, is after it arrives as Covid in your body, after the initial cold infection, in your head, some 20 days earlier
.Why is that?
Kill the Flu or Coronavirus in the head, soon after getting the virus in the nasal passages inside the head, the brain bulb and brain stem, etc, with my free salt water cure, which flushes out the nasal passages (so no Long Covid) and kills off the Coronavirus infection, immediately, or during the 10 to 14 days of self isolation.
No infection in the head, no Covid – it is as simple as that.
Then the purpose and functions of the vaccines, ceases to be a problem and you simply can’t get sick and won’t ever get Covid.
Mix one heaped teaspoon of “iodine” table or sea salt in a mug of warm or cold “clean” water, cup a hand and pour some of the solution in, then sniff or snort that mugful up into your nose, spitting out everything which comes down into your mouth, from the back of your throat, by so doing, you flush out your nasal cavity, where Coronavirus lives.
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Simple answer to the slow rollout – the NHS is not contacting people! I am eligible, having had my second jab over 6 months ago and being over 50. The NHS site said I must await contact and would not let me book. I phoned 119. The call handler said I should be able to book, and would report it as a system fault. She also kindly offered to let me cheat by being an NHS worker (I have been retired from hospital medicine for 10 years), but I didn’t have the right ID, so that was off. Instead I am joining the walk-in queue at my local centre today. I tried yesterday but they had run out, and I can report that business was very brisk for booked boosters…
Why does this fill me with some hope? Maybe people have had enough and are not prepared to be jabbed over and over again. Maybe some felt so rotten after the first two that nothing will persuade them to go for anymore!
Roll up, roll up ….. get your jab here. Free goldfish for those who comply.
I expect a large number of people are now aware than these jabs have some very unpleasant, sometimes fatal, side effects.
Disappointing the Officials has become something of a hobby of mine, but I doubt that I disappoint them as much as they have disappointed me, i.e fatally and irredeemably.
I understand that Colin Powell the former USA Secretary of State has died from Covid complications and was fully “vaccinated”. Isn’t this vaccine great!
https://stephenc.substack.com/p/the-israeli-moh-caught-red-handed
Based on MOH dashboard data, an analysis conducted by members of the Israeli Public Emergency Council for the Corona Crisis demonstrated that the Pfizer COVID-19 booster effectiveness is much lower than that claimed in the NEJM study presented by Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis to the FDA panel.
Just listened to the Joe Rogan Alex Berenson interview. Couple of things stand out:
1) There are now a buttload of people in the world who know what’s what.
2) Didn’t learn anything new. I think we (sceptics) have all become covid experts and probably don’t give ourselves enough credit for that. Many Normies I talk to don’t even know who Fauci is. This project relies on ignorance.
My elderly parents (85 and 92) have just had their “booster shots” along with, on the same day but in the other arm, their annual flu jab. They were already both double jabbed.
About 6 to 8 weeks ago, so prior to the boosters, my Father (92) became increasingly frail, with inability to grasp a pen or fasten buttons. He was also quite shaky and needed a Zimmer frame to walk. They are lucky, as they have almost immediate access to their GP and other health services, so he has had every test possible and seen several medics. There is talk of Parkinson’s disease or even Motor Neurone disease, which I think it highly unlikely to start out of the blue at his age. Test have so far proved negative. Of course, this all could be nothing more than old age. He has improved marginally in recent weeks.
Prior to lockdown, both of them led active lives, with clubs and activities several times a week. My father was not able to walk quickly, but he was steady on his feet and able to keep going for quite some time, age considered. Even at the start of this year, he was… Read more »
Before treatment began I asked my lymphoma/chemo Consultant whether I should take the jab.
He said, in writing, that it was government advice that I should do so but “at the end of the day it is your decision”.
Hypatia, I can identify with every single thing you have written in your post and can only sympathise with you and your situation – we are in exactly the same boat. My parents are of similar age, are both double jabbed [they did it on the QT without telling me] and at time of writing, for all I know, may have had their booster and flu jabs for exactly the same reasons as your parents. I have tried to talk to them but they wouldn’t listen and now all I can do is watch from the sidelines for signs of deterioration and be ready to pick up the pieces. If my parents get past this christmas I will consider myself lucky. 2 years ago such a thought would never have occurred to me. I hope that others coming to this site read what you have posted and perhaps get a chance to try to influence their parents and dissuade them from supinely rolling their sleeves up. I will never forgive what has been done to my family.
Looks like a sharp swing in the past few weeks towards covid labelled deaths being in the older age groups (source: chart produced from today’s ONS weekly death data).
Good indication the experimental vaccines don’t work.
And are the boosters in the older age groups leading to relatively more positives in the older age groups, certainly in those who go on to die with SARS-C0V-2 (or where covid is a contributing factor)?
Latest score:
2020. Number of people I knew who “tested positive, 2
2021. Number of double jabbed who have now “tested” positive, 9. Our d-i-l has just hit the jackpot.
Our son is taking his dad to the theatre in a couple of weeks. Son is doubled jabbed so will walk straight in with an app. My husband will have to show a negative LFT before he is allowed in.
Makes complete sense doesn’t it????!!
I have a covid-scared friend – late 40s, had double jabs, got covid. Now isn’t going to have the booster – ‘whats the point?’
yep. There must be an awful lot of that going on!
John Roberts “of the respected Covid Actuaries Response Group”! Are you having a laugh? Roberts has without question, throughout the plandemic, puppeted regime mantras. Moreover, Andrew Hayward is a member of SAGE (Say Anything Get Employed) and receives funding from the Welcome Trust (which has investments in vaccine companies). Its bad enough the Telegraph publishing this propaganda without the DS doing likewise.
Agree.
Respected actuary means someone like Nick Hudson to me
Nick Hudson Interview – The Covid Operation As A Battle Of Ideologies
Maybe it’s stories like this that are deterring the already vaccinated from having a booster.
That is a terrible story. Just what is it going to take to make people realise that the ‘vax’ is causing such awful damage? We are battling against a brick wall where the MSM is concerned, in general.
I would like to understand the psychology of persons who, hearing of adverse reactions in others, presume they themselves will suffer no harm.
I can only assume that for them, the psychological pain of admitting they made a terrible mistake is in their eyes worse than the adverse effects of the jab.
As was being pointed out here at LS at least a year ago, the longer the BS goes on the more difficult it will be for people to admit to themselves that they’ve been taken for fools all along.
So he’s actually got a death sentence now due to, for some unfathomable reason, going ahead in getting 2 jabs that he didn’t even need as he has natural immunity, and the injection wasn’t even mandated either! At the risk of sounding like a callous cow, I have absolutely no sympathy for adults who demonstrate this level of stupidity. If ever there was a person who wished they could turn back time it must be this guy!
It’s a shame people won’t learn from this story.
Heart inflammation is irreparable damage, it’s for life, covid is normally for a week at most, then you’re immune.
Boris entertained some high falutin’ people last night at a meeting which was entitled ‘Jabs for Boilers’
Meanwhile, over the walls in the lunatic asylum:
Face masks should be worn OUTSIDE – especially when it’s windy – to curb the spread of Covid, scientists say
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10084131/Face-masks-worn-OUTSIDE-windy-curb-spread-Covid-scientists-say.html
It doesn’t require a strong imagination to guess what the Comments section of that article looks like.
As if now, there isn’t one.
In my experience about 75% are sceptics, maybe surprisingly.
The real deal ie the vicious “left elites”, can unerringly be found in the G******n – the bastion of fearless investigative journalism.
What happened to the solution to stuffy contagion boosting classrooms?
Govt advice was
“Open the windows so the wind would blow Covid away or teach outside whenever possible”
Taking us for lackbrain fools again.
If someone refuses their third shot does that make them a selfish anti-vaxxer putting everyone else at risk?
In all seriousness though, this is actually an important moment. Someone, I can’t remember who made this point a few months ago. Essentially everyone will draw their own line on this, for myself and presumably others on here it is zero, for others it is 1, or 2 etc. If it gets to the point where 3 is the new standard (like Israel) then anyone with 2 is on the same rung as anyone with zero. Ultimately unless you’re willing to go all the way and get jabbed forever at some point increasing numbers will end up as the untermenschen. We just need to hold the line and our ranks will swell
I raised that question here a few weeks ago. As a double vaxee I am required to renew my QR covid pass monthly via the NHS app. and queried whether declining to uptake a booster would result in not being able to renew my pass. Thus far nowhere has asked to see it and short of food retailers insisting on it, I don’t suppose anywhere ever will.
Also, see my post above, one hour ago.
Thanks, and I guess thanks for giving an inside track to the booster ‘experiment’ you spoke of in your earlier comment, I’ll certainly be interested to hear of the outcome so please keep us abreast!
I went to a music festival about a month ago where we were required to present our ‘covid status’. My friends used their vaccine passports to gain entry. Luckily I was able to do a fake LFT. I only found out about it the day before, otherwise I would’ve boycotted. New communication has been disseminated from my football team (Aston Villa) stating they will be ‘stepping up’ vax status checks on match days. I can only really see this going in one direction as we enter the winter months.
FYI, The reason I got double jabbed stems from when it was announced that all workers in health/nursing care would need to be vaccinated and also suppliers to the premises: builders, the milkman, paper youngpersons, taxi drivers (?) and so on.
The next illogical demand could have been that other users of taxis or alternative transport providers would likewise be compelled to be vaxxed.
Knowing that I was about to embark on numerous taxi journeys to and from the hospital for a series of Consultations and treatments that might well cause side effects including nausea, confusion and extreme fatigue I decided to get being vaxxed out of the way rather than being compelled to in the middle of treatment.
As it happens I experienced very few of those (and many many more) side effects; neither did I have any reaction to the Covid jab nor the slightest hint of Covid itself and am still refusing the usual annual Flu jab on the grounds that I’ve never had flu.
Ah yeah I recall you mentioning previously about your situation, and it’s absolutely understandable that you decided to unburden yourself of any additional BS under the circumstances. And besides, I don’t mind one jot if any adult has it, it’s a personal choice and frankly none of my business. Anyway, thanks for your insights and I genuinely wish you all the best and bon santé
I am a zero
Apologies this is off topic but just giving a bit of visibility to a fundraiser: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/defend-free-speech-and-assembly/
Various legal cases pending against a campaigner (Debbie Hicks) arrested and charged for various protests, filming in a hospital etc.
22million are in the most vulnerable groups?
One third of the population?
I suppose even if people weren’t in poor health before March 2020, 19 months of lockdowns and fear and panicmongering in the media as well as the unavailability of the NHS for anything other than acute medicine has made plenty of people vulnerable.
Another number plucked out of the air
They might have got it from that tv ad that said 1 in 3 people could have it?
1 in 3 people who don’t have it, have it. Even if you feel well and don’t have it, you have it. Look into her eyes and tell her you’re not acting like you have it.
Easy if they include all those above a given age.
Might also include anyone in a frontline health-related job.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1508048/Breaking-news-girl-dead-Moat-Community-College-Highfields-Leicester-cardiac-arrest
This seems odd
11 years old so unlikely to have been vaccinated if the rules are being followed.
Maybe for once this really is just a coincidence.
But the media is so full of lies every news story is suspect.
Yes indeed, Arthur, I thought the same. As you say everything must be viewed through the lens of suspicion. Someone speculated in the comments on that article that the media may be highlighting such stories, cardiac events in young people, to normalise the idea that these things happen in people’s heads. So that when they begin to occur in larger numbers from the jab, people may be inclined to be less alarmed. Not sure I’m ready to believe that, but it’s food for thought, and nothing can be ruled out at this point.
Wouldn’t put that past, or beneath them.
I can tell you one reason why it is slow.
Last week I received a text from NHS? saying that, as a vulnerable person, I need to get a booster jab and should contact my GP or My Consultant.
The only person who is ‘my Consultant’ deals with lymphoma.
As posted last week, my GP responded by saying that they are only boosting over 75s and that NHS Vac ine Central will contact me when ‘your cohort’ is due a booster jab.
Yesterday I received a Round Robin text from my GP Surgery saying that they are ‘only commissioned’ to boost over 75s, health workers or care home residents.
Also yesterday I received a short letter from NHS(?) saying that ‘as a vulnerable person you should have already been contacted by your GP or hospital’ to arrange said boost. If not I should contact my GP (see para 2 above)
From the above it is clear that they are at 6s+7s over their booster rollout.
No contact details were supplied other than to say not to try the NHS website or dialling 119.
I got double jabbed for reasons I explained a few weeks back, nothing to do with fear… Read more »
Why was Gates here yesterday, is he coercing Mr Johnson about this?
He was either bringing Boris’s next set of orders or he was there for a crisis meeting because the whole plan is going wrong.
Hopefully the latter…
But couldn’t they just call or Zoom for that?
I suppose you can’t use thumbscrews or do waterboarding over the internet. Well, not yet, although I expect Microsoft is working on it.
The UK will be like Australia very soon!
https://twitter.com/ThreadsIrish/status/1450405073079599113?s=20
A terrible thought.. but will it though? Something about the timing of the UK’s descent into totalitarianism suggests to me that this will be very hard to pull off over here. We’ve been ‘given’ this period of relative normality, where it must be clear to even the most fearful that it’s possible for society to operate normally without a covid holocaust. How will they ramp up the pressure exactly? Remember that Victoria/NSW has been kept in a constant state of terror meaning they can be coerced to bend to the will of the state in order to ‘win back’ their freedom. I don’t see this as being politically feasible here. Further lockdowns are a no-no. No appetite for that. I think the UK has messed up (from the globalist orchestrators’ perspective). Add to that the growing scepticism about the efficacy and safety of the ‘vaccines’ and I think they’ve got real problems.
Ironically I think it will be the reluctance of the BAME population to have the vaccine which will save the UK.
That makes the vaccine passport thing difficult to implement not because the politicians care about the discriminatory aspect of locking out proportionately more ethnic minorities from events, but they do worry about BAME people rioting and rightly or wrongly think that is a more likely and more worrying outcome than white unvaccinated people rioting.
It would be poetic justice if the globalist fans of multiculturalism and open borders ended up being hoist by their own globalist petard.
Indeed! Makes me think of that story from New York City a few weeks back. Three ladies from Texis wanted to enter a restaurant and were told they needed to show their pass. A kerfuffle / assault then followed. The young Asian lady who was asking for the papers was set upon by the 3 Texan ladies, who were poc. They promptly claimed that the young Asian lady had been abusive, racist and used the n word. The next day BLM was saying it was going to hold a protest outside the restaturant in question.
Personally I believe the young lady from the restaurant probably did nothing wrong and that the 3 ladies from Texas went OTT. But – New York mayor De Blasio, who insisted on the fascist pass, has also been a big, big supporter of BLM, allowing them to get away with (probably literally) murder in NYC. So it tickled me no end to imagine him figuring out which of these 2 golems that he had created he should support and which one he should combat.
Yes, the much smaller ethnic minority proportion of the population in Scotland may be one reason for their higher uptake there.
You’re absolutely right. Narrative malfunction! Abort! Abort! Abort!
In New York this has resulted in the vaxxed middle classes eating comfortably inside restaurants while the largely unvaxxed BAME communities have to sit outside in whatever wigwam has been provided.
It’s only just starting to get cold there.
What a pretty picture that is 🗽
I’d rather sit outside with real people. Where I am, I don’t even get that option.
Nice to hear optimism. But they’ve come a long way, and they haven’t begun to give up, as the child sacrifice shows. A long fight is ahead of us.
Probably why Gates jetted in, to give Johnson a good whipping for his failures to meet targets.
Maybe it’s trickling through, that the more you have the more it’s going to go on! There are many people, unaware of the Yellow Card Scheme, have still realised that their jab has affected them in some negative way, and they’ve had enough!
BBC going full fear porn today
Summary
Well, they wou!d say that wouldn’t they? Lie layering is all they’re capable of now. Plan B is hovering in the sidelines (what Plan A?) Billy Boy was here last night, prodding the Fat (out of)Controller, and probably the British Bullshit Co at the same time.
Waning effect? So they admit, unlike natural immunity, it wears off after a few weeks.
That’s the business model isn’t it. I think the ‘pandemic’ hasn’t lived up to requirements and it’s getting incredibly tenuous. Being ‘vaccinated’ against something that is extremely unlikely to kill you is one thing, but topping it up every six months just so you can live your life? Even for Normies that must be a bridge too far!
Annual top ups have been discussed for several months.
Imagine having to play Russian Roulette with adverse effects EVERY SIX MONTHS. Yikes.
They’d follow all this up with a Churchill speech, if they could.
Why don’t they just use their beloved AI to reanimate an synthetic new Churchill speech every year? I’ll do it for them if they want?
“Never has so many beaches been in service fighting them for their few darkest coronavirus [female voice] hospital factory hour duty” 🤧 🇬🇧
“The approximately 22 million that fall into the MOST vulnerable groups.” Eh? A THIRD of the population? Or even more if this is an E&W (59 million) figure. 37% And how many of the rest are not the most but have above the line vulnerability? That’s ludicrous.
It is indeed totally and utterly ludicrous. It seems that three-quarters of those with positions in the opinion chain see themselves as public health data dudes nowadays, yet they are so thickwitted as to consider it sensible to label everyone aged 50+ (and that is no exaggeration) as “belonging to an at-risk group”, regardless of lifestyle, existing state of health, diet, whether they smoke 40 fags a day and stuff their faces with crisps while married to their smartphones, etc.
“Third dose”, “booster”… So pols and scribblers and editors and government scientists have been told to stop using the phrase “fully vaccinated”? If so, I wonder how long it will take the order to reach all the units at the front lines.
“Professor Andrew Hayward, an epidemiologist and government adviser of University College London, said the situation was “concerning” and there was “huge potential for the NHS to come under a lot of pressure”.
Note the reference to the NHS.. its almost as though Professor Hayward is reading from a prepared script.. he wouldn’t.. would he ???
More ‘might’ ‘ could’ ‘should’ from the Ferguson school of hyperbole.