>> I've heard a local vaccination centre is closing next week, due to lack of supplies.
There are certainly issues with supply of vaccine. There may, or may not, be a hiatus with Pfizer re-organising so as to increase supply in the longer term - accounts of this vary. Various spokespeople for the medical profession (Claire Gerada, former chair of the RCGP was on Radio 4 earlier this week) have described supply as 'lumpy' or unpredictable. It seems the commissioning groups have to wait to be allocated supply, at which point they call up patients in priority order. Some groups have been well ahead of others with inevitable consequences:
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/07/covid-kills-half-of-sussex-care-homes-residents-over-christmas
I think government ministers doing the daily broadcast round really need to more frank and open about this than Dominic Raab was last Sunday.
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