Part 2: The letter as mentioned above.
“As you may know care homes have been by far the hardest hit group for deaths during the pandemic. The reason the Government believes mandatory vaccinations to be morally correct is because mandatory vaccinations will save many more lives than doing nothing. The evidence shows that the vaccination programme has directly averted over 52,600 hospitalisations and analysis on the direct and indirect impact of the programme on infections and mortality suggests between 11 and 12.5 million infections and between 35,200 and 38,600 deaths. Studies have indicated that a single dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine is between 55 and 70 per cent effective at stopping symptomatic disease, 75 - 85 per cent effective against hospitalisation and 75 - 80 per cent effective against death. Of course, people who are vaccinated may still catch COVID-19, as no vaccination offers 100 per cent protection, but the risks associated are significantly reduced. We know that vaccines work and are saving lives. The vaccine also helps to decrease viral load, which means if someone who is vaccinated passes on Coronavirus to another person the newly infected person will be less ill than they otherwise would have been. More information on vaccine effectiveness can be found here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/998411/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_26.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1627155595634000&usg=AFQjCNGMHvNxo0tKd_xdpGbkoxxPF9kgN g" data-originalfontsize="10pt" data-originalcomputedfontsize="13.333333015441895"> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/998411/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_26.pdf
Part 3
The point you bring up about taking into account natural immunity post Covid infection is certainly interesting, however this method was thought to be less effective in Public Health England's consultation. Natural immunity raises a few operational problems. Antibody tests will just tell us if they are currently naturally immune, but wouldn't give an indication as to when this natural immunity would run out. Besides this booster jabs would also be staggered between all care home workers rather than all care home workers receiving booster vaccinations within a smaller time frame, which ensures full confidence that workers would have antibodies.
Further information to any other questions you may have can be found in the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-older-adult-care-homes&source=gmail&ust=1627155595634000&usg=AFQjCNHpZr36jS3W799Mz3qTyo815E13L w" data-originalfontsize="10pt" data-originalcomputedfontsize="13.333333015441895"> https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-older-adult-care-homes
On a side note (but kind of related), Steve Baker MP recently reiterated the point that the general public should be vocal about their opposition to vaccine passports and should therefore write to their local MP and members of the cabinet, including the PM.
With that in mind, has anyone already done this and can share a template that myself and anyone else can use to contact their MP with, or are there any websites where these templates would exist?
Well, for what it is worth, this is my letter - submitted via the contact your MP Portal. [- thanks for the link]. Thank you everyone for all the notes and advice.
I have attached the letter as a document to avoid the multiple post syndrome I fell into earlier. There must be a vaccination for that?