Tony Blair’s vaccination strategy leaves many questions - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Neil Richardson, Kirkheaton.

Tony Blair’s Saturday Essay (The Yorkshire Post, January 16) requires an injection of robustness and clarity.

First, he relates to an issue of system capacity as a matter of ‘organisation and logistics’. Does the hazy phrase mean there’s a need to enlarge the system’s capacity – or has that already been considered by offering suppliers/potential suppliers a stronger financial reward?

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Second, he advocates a central database of vaccinations holding ‘every piece of information’, aggregated and made available to the entire country.

Former Prime Minster Tony Blair (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)Former Prime Minster Tony Blair (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
Former Prime Minster Tony Blair (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Regardless of the time required in designing, testing, and running such an investment, exactly how would lay users make sense of local charts contrasted against either a national average or government expectations?

Should we be surprised that pharmacies in, say, remote parts of Cumbria have different issues over patient background, travel, IT, and staffing to those working in central London?

Are any groups already stretched way beyond capacity – will that appear on a database?

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Third, in Mr Blair’s closing paragraph, we learn the plan will require an unprecedented mobilisation of resources and leadership – so, given the murky status of leadership, has it been written yet?

The Covid vaccination programme continues to prompt much debate.The Covid vaccination programme continues to prompt much debate.
The Covid vaccination programme continues to prompt much debate.

Will the plan include much in the way of participative dialogue between the folk involved, explicit links with existing arrangements (which so far have provided more than three million vaccines), and flexibility to respond to new shocks in our highly regrettable Covid-ravaged milieu?

From: Sarah Stow, Thornton Dale.

AS a nurse who has a brother-in-law in intensive care on a ventilator, I am appalled at the constant stream of visitors who insist on exercising out of area.

They come to villages such as this, park up and go for long walks complete with rucksack. I beg them to stay put and follow the guidelines.

Boris Johnson's handling of the Covid pandemic continues to be scrutinised.Boris Johnson's handling of the Covid pandemic continues to be scrutinised.
Boris Johnson's handling of the Covid pandemic continues to be scrutinised.

From: Ian Barnes, Stamford Bridge.

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WITH reference to Barry Foster’s letter (The Yorkshire Post, January 16) criticising the 
BBC for running the story regarding Boris Johnson doing a seven-mile bike ride, does he not watch any other channel than the BBC?

This story was run by ITV, Channel Four News and Sky News, plus it featured in the national press. Or is it just fashionable or political in certain quarters to deride the BBC?

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