{"id":3232,"date":"2021-01-06T17:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:49:51","slug":"the-guardian-opinion-britain-could-be-mass-producing-its-covid-shot-shame-we-junked-our-industrial-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian-Opinion: Britain could be mass-producing its Covid shot. Shame we junked our industrial base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aditya Chakrabortty<\/em>(*)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wed 6 Jan 2021 16.33 GMT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dire state of UK manufacturing has left us dependent on other nations. We may soon find out why some call this a \u2018national security risk\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Boris Johnson\u2019s government had only 530,000 shots ready to go, with another 450,000 due this week.\u2019 Illustration: Bill Bragg<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Everything now hinges on a vaccine: how many more Britons die, whether the NHS finally breaks, how long the UK stays locked down. All depends on how fast the country can get vaccinated against this plague. Yet we\u2019re in this position in large part because of government failure. When the prime minister imposes lockdowns late and with a sulky grumble; when we haven\u2019t fixed our \u00a322bn test-and-trace system (which, by the way, now bankrolls more outside consultants and contractors than the Treasury has actual civil servants); and when the Dominics and Stanleys are allowed to carry on as if rules are for the little people. If Boris Johnson blunts every political instrument he can lay his pale and meaty hands on, pretty soon a syringe is the only resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccines were always going to be how the world limped out of this pandemic; but as Taiwan and New Zealand show, even without inoculation it is possible to drive the number of Covid cases significantly down. Compare their record with the UK \u2013 which is on course to hit 100,000 Covid-related deaths before January is out, and where a staggering one in 30 Londoners is today infected. The lecterns from which Johnson and his top advisers gave their press conference this week read \u201cStay Home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives\u201d \u2013 exactly as they did at the start of all this last March, as if to confirm how little progress they have made in almost a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all the anger and anguish caused by this week\u2019s lockdown, modelling suggests it is simply too late to make much difference. Analysis from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shows that shoving all of England into tier 4 and shutting its schools will barely dent the total number of Covid deaths. The only major impact will be immunising 2 million people a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and senior economics commentator<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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