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All eligible care home residents in Newcastle upon Tyne and most of the staff looking after them have received the coronavirus vaccine, the GP leading the project has said. As PA Media reports, Dr Jane Carman said the programme involved seven teams made up of a doctor, nurse and administrator going to each home, working with care staff and completing the task in less than a fortnight. She said none of the residents refused to have the jab.
Prof Stephen Powis, the national medical director for NHS England, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain this morning that the vaccination programme won’t have an impact on hospital admissions or death rates until “well into February”. He said:
For the next few weeks and into February, it’s really important that everybody sticks to those social distancing guidelines. The vaccine programme gives us hope, but it’s not going to impact on deaths or hospital admissions until well into February.
