The United Kingdom is in a jubilant mood because they can be the very first to start vaccinating there. Pfizer’s vaccine is approved and so relief and joy in the British lower house. ‘Now it is really getting started’, says director Marcel Levi of University College London Hospitals.
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Big job
Levi calls the vaccine a ‘big step forward’ to get out of the pandemic, but sighs that the real work is only now starting: the large-scale vaccination that will be differentiated and prioritized. Both in hospitals and in vaccination centers as well as in nursing homes and in people’s homes.
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‘The program we set up here can be divided into many groups: care workers, but we also go to care and nursing homes, and to a large group of people who want to keep you away because they are at risk, GPs will play a role there. Finally, there will be large vaccination centers. ‘
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Levi says he works closely with home care organizations and so-called community care organizations. “They are used to visiting nursing homes.” Levi says he is not yet ready for the large-scale vaccination, he says to start slowly and step by step. ‘It is a huge job, we will start at the end of next week.’
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