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The Telegraph, on its front page article today (you can sort-of-read it on the BBC front page summary
here) is saying that PHE's data is now showing that most outbreaks are happening in care homes and that vaccinations are running very slowly in that environment (the article claims 10x slower than in the wider community).
If all this is true I can't help but feeling that the lockwdown is a bit like the Maginot line and care homes are the Low Countries.
There were serious logistical challenges in administering the Pfizer vaccine in care homes, but these challenges faded with the Glaxo vaccine.
The obfuscation surrounding whatever is limiting clinical delivery of the vaccine is troubling. Bruiser Zahawi is not quite so nimble on his feet as Hancock, and there have been inconsistencies in the explanations they offer.
They have been slow to involve pharmacists, and to adopt 24/7 regimes: so it's not surprising that
peripatetic administration of treatment has been slow getting off the ground. It's not clear if this reluctance to pull out the stops is down to general incompetence of central control or limits to the rate of vaccine supply.