The latest stage in the battle against Covid-19 has begun. Across the UK people aged over 50 are being called for vaccination with a booster this autumn to protect them against a likely new wave of infection this winter. But how many will accept it?
The anti-vaccine movement is a growing threat to public health here and across the globe. Over 3.7 million people in Britain (6.4 per cent) are yet to have a single dose of the Covid vaccine, with rates of refusal highest among young adults, the black population, the unemployed and the deprived. In the United States 21 per cent are not vaccinated at all.
The risk of death is 14 times higher in the unvaccinated and without full coverage the danger
