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Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford, has been on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning in the UK.
Referring to Public Health England (PHE) data published at the weekend, he said that more time was needed to see how the vaccines work in the longer-term as people build immunity.
Kiyoshi Takenaka for Reuters has some more details on the pressure the healthcare system is under in Japan. They write that the speed at which Osaka’s healthcare system was overwhelmed underscores the challenges of hosting a major global sports event in two months’ time, particularly as only about half of Japan’s medical staff have completed inoculations.
“Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system,” said Yuji Tohda, the director of Kindai University Hospital in Osaka.
Read the original article at The Guardian