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By 5 January 2021, 1.3 million people across the UK had received their first dose of either the Pfizer or Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which included more than 650,000 people over 80, representing around 23% of that age band in England. [116]
December 2014 [19] to 2020 [20] – Michael Rawlins (also chaired UK Biobank; previously chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) September 2020 to July 2023 – Stephen Lightfoot (also chaired Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) [21]
Among the over-80s, Covid testing data on more than 12,000 people found at least 57% protection against coronavirus 28 days after vaccination with a single dose of Pfizer, rising to 88% after a ...
The committee was established in 1963, having been until then an advisory board for polio immunisation. [1] It gained statutory status as the Standing Advisory Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, a non-departmental public body [2] advising the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Secretary of State for Wales, under the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees ...
The study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, included more than 7.5 million people aged 70 and over in England.
The jab, which is suitable for people aged 12 and over, will be sold in pharmacies and private health clinics.
1 February – NHS England confirms that every older care home resident in England has been offered a COVID vaccine. [78]Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms that around 80,000 residents over the age of 16 in areas of Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are to be asked to take tests for the South African COVID-19 variant after 11 cases were identified that could not be ...
The vaccine targets both the original strain of coronavirus and the Omicron variant.