Dentists should help doctors during the vaccine rollout to allow cancer patients’ treatment to continue, the chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners has said.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam set out how the timetable for developing and approving a vaccine had been condensed from the usual several years due to the coronavirus crisis. At a Downing Street briefing he said: "Everyone knows that this is a public health emergency. We are in a much more difficult position." He said he had encouraged his 78-year-old mother to be ready to take a coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible. Asked whether high-profile Government figures such as himself or the Prime Minister should take a vaccine first to prove to the public it was safe, he said he would be "at the front of the queue" if he was allowed. He said he was a 56-year-old with one medium-to-high risk condition, so there were people with greater priority. "If I could, rightly and morally, be at the ver...
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