It is > 7 months since the JCVI published guidance on the Autumn 2025 #COVID19 booster programme which would restrict entitlement to a vaccine dose restricted to people over 75, immunosuppressed people and residents of care homes for the elderly. 1/
gov.uk/government/pub… The government has not endorsed the proposals to date despite pressure to reject them. What is going on? - are the just sitting on it until it’s too late to procure vaccines necessary for a bigger programme - my MP has written to DHSC 2/

There is very little data on the impacts of #longcovid on the economy but we can make inferences from available data.
A 🧵bhawkins3.substack.com/p/impact-of-co… Apart from students, those aged 50 -64 are the largest economically inactive group & this group are most impacted by long Covid according to ONS data published April 24. Being sick, injured or disabled was the main reason given for economic inactivity amongst this age group.

Kamran Mallick from disabled peoples organisations explains to the Covid Inquiry how many people not included in the clinically extremely vulnerable list - and were not called for the vaccine early - but who would have had particularly bad outcomes had they caught #COVIDー19 He was not included in the CEV list despite having lung capacity issues - he didn't get his first call for vaccine until April 2021 yet his medics told him he was at high risk

@GwynneMP @wesstreeting we enter the 5th #Covid wave of the year we urgently need to reinstate the ONS Infection survey. I live in a CV household and need to be able to judge the level of risk posed to us. UKHSA dashboard data is so reduced it is almost useless to us 1/5 I am part of the ONS sample that is now being used for the ‘Health Insight Survey’. I have completed three of these on-line surveys and I don’t see what the point of the survey is. It seems to duplicate the far more detailed annual GP survey 2/5
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