Covid vaccination sites out of reach for hundreds of thousands in England
FT analysis of data from mapping company TravelTime shows about 5.5m people in England live more than one hour’s travel on public transport from their nearest vaccination centre
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FT analysis of data from mapping company TravelTime shows about 5.5m people in England live more than one hour’s travel on public transport from their nearest vaccination centre
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Of those, 336,000 are estimated not to have access to a car. A total of 1.3m of that group are aged 65 and above, of whom 166,000 are unable to use a car.
Quite a compelling reason for GP surgeries, more accessible and more familiar, to be engaged in the process fully
Quite a compelling reason for GP surgeries, more accessible and more familiar, to be engaged in the process fully
“Rebecca Fisher, a fellow at the Health Foundation think-tank who practises as a GP in a deprived urban area, said her practice had very few patients over 80 “because poor people don’t live as long”
That really hits home.
That really hits home.
I wonder how the uptake of the Covid vaccine maps to uptake of the flu vaccine.
If the latter is high in areas where the former is low then the mode of delivery of the flu vaccine should be preferred.
If the latter is high in areas where the former is low then the mode of delivery of the flu vaccine should be preferred.
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