{"id":739,"date":"2021-01-24T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-rosie-shire-in-the-mirror-hancock-reveals-75-of-over-80s-vaccinated-but-warns-cases-long-long-way-from-being-low-enough\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:26:34","slug":"dauks-dr-rosie-shire-in-the-mirror-hancock-reveals-75-of-over-80s-vaccinated-but-warns-cases-long-long-way-from-being-low-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-rosie-shire-in-the-mirror-hancock-reveals-75-of-over-80s-vaccinated-but-warns-cases-long-long-way-from-being-low-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Dr Rosie Shire in The Mirror: Hancock reveals 75% of over 80s vaccinated but warns cases &#8216;long long way from being low enough&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3941\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that, as of Sunday morning, three quarters of all people over 80 in the UK have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c(This) is absolutely brilliant progress,\u201d he said, speaking to Sky\u2019s Sophy Ridge On Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSimilar number of care homes, around three quarters and in fact we\u2019ve vaccinated more people in just the last three days than France has in the entire history of this disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hancock also defended the Government&#8217;s decision to delay the second doses of those receiving the Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hancock said the responsible course of action was to get &#8220;as many people protected&#8230; as quickly as possible&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hancock said that case numbers were \u201cincredibly high\u201d and the NHS remained under intense pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down but we are a long, long, long way from being low enough because the case rate was incredibly high,\u201d he told Sky News\u2019s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can see the pressure on the NHS \u2013 you can see it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It came in response to concerns over delaying the Pfizer vaccine by up to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dr Rosie Shire, a member of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK, said studies of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine show two doses three weeks apart gave 90% immunity.<\/p><p>\u201cWhat really concerns us is we don\u2019t know what happens if you don\u2019t give that second dose of vaccination after three weeks.&#8221;<\/p><p>\u201cThe fact is that people are being vaccinated now and being put into what is effectively an unregulated unlicensed trial, whereby they\u2019re receiving this vaccination on the understanding that they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p><cite>Dr Rosie Shire<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article here: https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/hancock-reveals-75-over-80s-23375171<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that, as of Sunday morning, three quarters of all people over 80 in the UK have been vaccinated. \u201c(This)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,29,58],"tags":[316,300,45,38,301,70,33,34,451,452,368,42,113],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-covid19","tag-covid19-vaccine","tag-daily-mirror","tag-dauk","tag-dauks-gp-committee","tag-matt-hancock","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-sophy-ridge","tag-sophy-ridge-on-sunday","tag-the-daily-mirror","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}