{"id":1190681,"date":"2022-01-05T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190681"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:50:37","slug":"uk-vaccine-chief-says-constant-booster-shots-is-not-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-vaccine-chief-says-constant-booster-shots-is-not-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Vaccine Chief Says Constant Booster Shots Is \u2018Not Sustainable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-vaccine-chief-says-constant-booster-shots-is-not-sustainable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237287588-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Britain\u2019s vaccine chief has said that \u201cat some point, society has to open up\u201d and that the strategy of consistently trying to give booster shots to the entire population is \u201cnot sustainable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the UK\u2019s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), professor Sir Andrew Pollard said that while the decisions on lockdown and vaccination policy are ultimately up to the politicians in Westminster, he shed doubt on enacting future booster campaigns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It\u2019s not sustainable or affordable. In the future, we need to target the vulnerable,\u201d Sir Andrew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/01\/03\/fourth-covid-jab-cant-vaccinate-planet-every-six-months-says\/\">told<\/a> <em>The Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The JCVI chief went on to suggest that it is too early for Britain to go down the route taken by countries such as Israel, which has already embarked on providing its elderly population with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/12\/22\/israel-becomes-first-country-to-roll-out-4th-vaccine-shot-to-over-60s\/\">fourth dose<\/a> of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that people have strong antibodies for a few months after their third vaccination, but more data are needed to assess whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Pollard also implied that the time for lifting restrictions is likely approaching in the UK, saying:&nbsp;\u201cAt some point, society has to open up. When we do open, there will be a period with a bump in infections, which is why winter is probably not the best time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s a decision for the policymakers, not the scientists. Our approach has to switch, to rely on the vaccines and the boosters. The greatest risk is still the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Striking an optimistic tone, the head of the JCVI declared that&nbsp;\u201cthe worst is absolutely behind us. We just need to get through the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jabs for Life: Ex-British PM Tony Blair Calls for Fourth Jab<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rnzP6c6agz\">https:\/\/t.co\/rnzP6c6agz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1473699864731029504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To date, over 90 per cent of the population of the UK over the age of 12 have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Nearly 83 per cent have had two doses of the jab and 59.8 per cent have come forward to take a booster shot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the high vaccination rate, the UK saw a record number of cases <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.data.gov.uk\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday, with 218,724 cases being logged and nearly 1,270,000 cases being recorded over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/pm-we-can-ride-this-out-without-new-covid-curbs-0k77tchh3\">press conference<\/a> on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson downplayed the idea of the record cases necessitating any further restrictions being imposed on England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say we have a good chance of getting through the Omicron wave without the need for further restrictions and without the need, certainly, for a lockdown,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said that because of the high vaccination rate and that the omicron variant appears to be a \u201cmilder\u201d form of the Chinese virus, the country is seeing fewer serious infections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson did caution, however, that it would be&nbsp;\u201cprofoundly wrong\u201d that the fight against the virus is over and urged people to take the&nbsp;\u201cutmost caution\u201d and to come forward to take a booster shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boris Says Getting Jabbed for Others &#8216;Is the Teaching of Jesus Christ&#8217; in Christmas Message <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gW4ng8hcGq\">https:\/\/t.co\/gW4ng8hcGq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1474354051525582855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s vaccine chief has said that \u201cat some point, society has to open up\u201d and that the strategy of consistently trying to give booster shots to the entire population is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}