Sticking points with jab rollout

Trust in this Tory Government is in short supply as death rates and hospitalisations soar and the virus spreads at an alarming rate.

Few of us would buy a used car from Boris Johnson or Matt Hancock so it’s hard to have confidence that delaying the second dose of the vaccine by up to 12 weeks will result in the same efficacy seen in the trials.

We have no option but to hope that it will be just as effective. But hope may not be enough to prevent even more loss of life.

Under the present circumstance I feel the best way to proceed is to treat the vaccine as a safety belt – it won’t stop the car crashing but it may save passengers from dying. Malcolm Ball

Dewsbury, West Yorks

Most care homes across Britain all have their own nurses and staff so it would seem logical for them to carry out their own vaccinations. Will it happen? I doubt it as it would involve too much red tape. The annual flu vaccination seems to go off without a hitch so surely a similar process should be used with GPs and pharmacies? Given the incompetence of BoJo’s Government in dealing with the pandemic from day one, I fear we won’t have sufficient quantities available in the first place to carry out the number of injections required.

Les Wellburn, Middlesbrough

we were told the Pfizer jab didn’t give full protection until you had the second one three weeks later when it gave roughly around 95%.

My 80-year-old wife has lung and heart problems and was due to have her second jab in a couple of days but it’s been cancelled and I am extremely worried.

Jim Temlett, Dursley, Glos

I believe the vaccine should be given to our essential workers as priority. NHS staff, carers, teachers, shop assistants, bin men, transport drivers – those who are out and about in the community daily.

Surely, this would help to bring the infection rate down? I also believe the injections should be administered as intended with three weeks between doses.

Better to have some people fully protected than waste it all if leaving a longer gap results in little or no protection for many.

Alison Hammond, Derby

Surely people who work in the NHS and schools and colleges should be g iv en priority over us oldies for the precious vaccine? I hate this isolation of shielding, my family are looking after my husband and I to keep us safe, but many members of my family are health and essential workers.

Someone needs to think of the younger age groups who are bravely keeping this country ticking over.

Jan Gandy Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

I am convinced this shambolic Government is not up to the enormity of the task ahead.

From the PPE scandal, the abject failure of test and trace, the late implementation of lockdowns and now with the vaccine rollout, it’s delay, delay and more delay.

They are costing lives hiding away in their ivory towers.

Gig Hadley, Tilbury, Gtr London

I am pleased Matt Hancock is going to bring in military personnel to help with the vaccinations.

We have qualified nurses in all s services and volunteer vaccinators’ h help would also be appreciated so t that the jabs could be distributed f far quicker.

June Haldenby Wakefield, West Yorks