Publications
Search our database of publications on vaccines for COVID-19. These include published scientific papers, preprints and policy reports, and all are from teams based in the UK.
The UK government has decreed that we must all now “live with covid.” All mandated isolation measures have ceased in England, free lateral flow testing for all has come to an end, and plans are in motion to scale back the surveillance programmes that have been instrumental in predicting covid waves, new variants, and vaccine efficacy. Notably absent from this bold strategy is practical guidance for the protection and mitigation of ongoing risk for people who were previously deemed to be clinically extremely vulnerable. This has left the 500 000 immunocompromised people in the UK, who have not been afforded the same level of protection from vaccination as the general population, feeling dispensable. In response to this abandonment, UK health charities have called on the government to give more support to those at highest risk from covid-19 so that they can live more normal lives.