Sajid Javid is among MPs urging the Government to prioritise investment in vaccines amid claims the UK is as unprepared for a future pandemic as it was before Covid
Speaking at the joint health and science committee on Wednesday, she said existing Covid vaccines were not effective enough against possible future variants and warned that in terms of preparedness, the UK had regressed to where it had been pre-pandemic.
Responding to her warnings, Mr Brine said the Government appears to have “lost” the lesson of how important advanced contracts for vaccines are. “How capable local authorities will be to prepare for future waves of covid or pandemics may well depend on how much a council is willing to put on to the shoulders of those paying council tax. Funding arrangements for social care and how much central funding will be going to local authorities is high on our agenda.”between June 2021 and July 2022, warned of the importance of a “sustainable framework” in a forward to a new Policy Exchange paper on the future of vaccines.
Former head of the UK vaccines task force, Kate Bingham, said yesterday the UK was ‘losing its leadership’ in Covid-19 preparedness
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