16th December 2021
Local health and care partners are responding to the latest government announcement to give booster COVID vaccinations to all eligible adults who want one by the end of December. We have already undertaken over 220,000 vaccinations across our community but now plan to increase this significantly and deliver more per day than ever before.
The speed of spread of the new Omicron variant is very concerning and appears to be doubling every 2-3 days. This means that within just a few weeks there will be a very high peak of positive cases. This would mean people being in isolation or caring for those that are which would put additional enormous pressure on health and social care in terms of workforce and likely more patients being admitted with severe disease.
The third booster jab appears to provide much improved protection than just two jabs against severe disease from this new highly transmissible variant. We are therefore encouraging all our staff, local citizens and patients to Get Boosted! as soon as possible to ensure we can keep our local community and local services safe.
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