The incompetent delivery of booster jabs has left the vulnerable in limbo
SIR – I am clinically vulnerable and spent many months self-isolating. I had my second Covid jab more than six months ago. Earlier this week I tried to book a booster online but the site would not allow me to. On Friday I received an email from the NHS telling me I’m vulnerable and urging me to go online to book a jab as soon as possible. The website still won’t let me, and says to await an invitation from my surgery (with no time frame).
My husband, who is not clinically vulnerable, received his invitation two weeks ago and has a booster jab booked. Why are Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, and his colleagues still encouraging people to go to the website when it is not working? I often think that our Government cannot become more incompetent, and am always proved wrong.
Amanda Lovejoy
Castle Acre, Norfolk
SIR – I am 75 and in the vulnerable category. It is more than six months since I had my second jab and I have made six attempts to book a booster, without success. Is this yet another case of the Government not knowing what is going on? Surely it is only a matter of time before we are back in lockdown. Neil Fraser
Olney, Buckinghamshire
SIR – The NHS is failing in the booster jab rollout and as a consequence another lockdown is looming, in order “to protect the NHS” (Leading Article, October 21). So the NHS is to be protected because of its own failings. The logic puzzles me.
Tony Manning
Barton-on-sea, Hampshire
SIR – If there were zero cases of Covid in Britain, the NHS would find another reason to declare a “winter crisis”.
These reliable declarations are simply evidence of management failure on an annual basis.
Paul Gaynor
Windermere, Cumbria
SIR – Why not implement Plan B? Surely if we all mask up and work from home Covid transmission will be reduced. I am definitely playing my part, as Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, has asked us to do, but I don’t think he is. I am double jabbed and in a few weeks will be able to have my booster. Is the Government going to ruin another Christmas by not acting quickly enough?
Anne Roberts
Worcester
SIR – The Prime Minister’s inability to act swiftly in the face of rapidly rising Covid numbers is staggering. By implementing the Government’s Plan B measures now, he could help to prevent more deaths and a possible further lockdown. His reliance on the vaccination programme is not enough. He has clearly not learnt the terrible lessons of past hesitancy in this crisis. Liz Smith
Taunton, Somerset