Recommendation 10

The vaccine programme still has some issues to address. In England, 2.98 million adults were still unvaccinated at the end of May 2022. Analysis by UKHSA has confirmed that full and booster vaccination reduces the risk of someone falling seriously ill, needing to go to hospital, or dying because of COVID-19.23 Consequently these people are at 14 RCP0006 Note dated March 2022 from Royal College of Nursing point 3.2 15 Committee of Public Accounts, Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government on risk, Forty-Sixth Report of Session 2021–22, HC 952, 23 March 2022, page 1, 7 16 Qq 29, 30 17 Qq 29, 48 18 RCP0006 Note dated March 2022 from Royal College of Nursing point 3.3 19 Q 41 20 DHSC, Joint statement from the UK government, CEPI, IFPMA, ABPI, BIA, BIO and DCVMN on delivering the 100 day mission, 8 March 2022. 21 Qq 49–52 22 Q 39, 48 23 UKHSA’s report, COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: week 14, 7 April 2022 12 The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine programme in England greater risk of coming to harm than if they had been vaccinated. Additionally, a further 1.5 million people had only had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while uptake of first boosters, for which all adults are eligible, stood at 73% (32.6 million people).24