Impact 4th December
The top priority for the vaccine is care homes and patients over the age of 80 years. This means that doctors and nurses may have to wait for some time before they receive the vaccine. The hospitals expect to start next week with 800 thousand doses from Belgium. This means enough for 400 thousand people (they have to get two jabs, three weeks apart). Not enough really. It is not clear when the next batch will arrive after that.
Public health experts saying that the Government is not being truthful about the Liverpool mass testing. They say the results show that the fast test they use, is missing 30% of people who have the virus. In fact, the fast test only found half of the people that the standard test found. They say the fast test should not be used in care homes.
Department for Education say GCSE and A-Level exams in England will be changed because of the virus – lower grade levels, give out the topics in advance and also provide special help papers – seems like a good idea, until you stop and think. Schools in Tier 3 have more teachers off school and more pupils out of school because of the virus, than in Tier 2. Schools in Tier 1 have hardly missed a single day of school, while the other kids have to work from home. In the higher risk areas more kids don’t have Internet access; they will be much further behind in work. If you give them all the same exam even with help, then there will be huge differences … and another big mess because different schools will have very big differences in success rates.
Impact on daily life
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