Prioritising keyworkers for vaccination
Giving evidence to the inquiry on 15 January, Jean Rossiter, who set up the group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, questioned if key workers such as teachers and transport workers should have been prioritised for early access to vaccination.1
Rossiter’s son Peter was a music teacher who only received his first vaccine dose in May 2021, five months after the first vaccine was given in the UK. He contracted covid-19 soon after a delay in receiving his second dose in July. He was admitted to intensive care in hospital and died on 11 August.
Covid inquiry chair Heather Hallet said, “You had a fit and healthy young son, under 40, and so it helps to remind people that we’re not just about protecting people who some may think have had a good innings, we’re about protecting the whole population.”
Concern about delivery of vaccines in Scotland
Melanie Newdick, from Scottish Covid Bereaved, …
