Renewed Covid vaccination push needed to help prevent pandemic deaths - The Yorkshire Post says

That, in essence, is the sobering message of today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee into how the country should cope with the continuing threat from the pandemic.

It comes against a backdrop of stubbornly high numbers of hospitalisations, even though death rates and admissions to intensive care have thankfully fallen because of much-improved treatments compared with the darkest days of Covid.

It is a fair assumption that the almost three million unvaccinated adults account for many of the hospitalisations, and the Government should heed the committee’s urging to redouble efforts to get them to come forward for their jabs, both for their own sake and for that of the NHS, which still needs to be protected from undue pressure on its resources.

The coming months present a good opportunity for the Government to mount a renewed push. Autumn is likely to see fourth booster jabs offered to the over-50s and the vulnerable, and alongside that there should be a campaign aimed at the unvaccinated. This virus still has the potential to kill, and everything possible must be done to prevent avoidable deaths and the consequent grief of loved ones.