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For Britain’s vaccination success, we must thank our universal healthcare system | Gaby Hinsliff
After months of government misjudgments on Covid, the NHS has come to the rescue and given us a new sense of pride
One by one, they come to be saved.
Last Saturday alone, while much of the country wondered how to fill another empty lockdown weekend, a quarter of a million people were vaccinated. Like latter-day pilgrims seeking the cure, they queued outside cathedrals, whose cavernously draughty (and easily ventilated) spaces make surprisingly good makeshift vaccination centres. They came with their sticks and Zimmer frames to cottage hospitals and hastily repurposed conference centres, met in some cases by doctors and nurses who’d finished a gruelling shift at work only to grab a syringe and join in.
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