The writer is a science commentator
After a quiet summer, things are getting jittery. Global Covid cases and hospitalisations are ticking upwards; national vaccination programmes are kicking off. A batch of new variants is hoving into view — and the virus is still catching us on the back foot.
Following an outbreak in a Norfolk care home last month, the UK’s rollout of the twin booster for Covid and flu, which was due to begin in October, was rushed forward by about three weeks. But the updated Covid jabs will only be available through the NHS and will be restricted to groups such as the clinically vulnerable and frontline care workers.