The Vaccine: When will we all get it?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
One of the GPs on the frontline of the UK's vaccination efforts, and the Times science correspondent, on the bottlenecks and obstacles that are holding things up.
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Guests:
- Rhys Blakely, science correspondent, The Times.
- Dr Amir Khan, a GP in Bradford.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | After a relentlessly bleak year, the end of 2020 brought the news we'd all been hoping for. |
| 0:15.0 | In the last few minutes we've heard that the first coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. |
| 0:22.0 | But now we could have an agonizing weight on |
| 0:26.2 | our hands. Our questions about the precise town table for vaccinating millions of |
| 0:31.0 | people. We're cracking this problem. The national vaccine effort is |
| 0:35.2 | progressive. You are Mr vaccine in this government. We have had nine months. I care |
| 0:41.2 | about vaccines because I want our country to get back to normal as fast as possible. |
| 0:47.0 | I want us to have that great British summer. |
| 0:49.0 | Why once again are we behind the game? Are we behind the game? |
| 0:53.0 | Are we behind the game? |
| 0:56.0 | And if so, what are the bottlenecks and obstacles that are holding things up? |
| 1:01.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the |
| 1:05.0 | Sunday Times. I'm Manveen Rana. Today, when will we get the vaccine? And why |
| 1:11.6 | isn't it happening faster? |
| 1:14.0 | June. |
| 1:17.0 | That's apparently when I should be able to get the first dose of the vaccine. |
| 1:24.0 | If you go to the Times website and put your age and postcode into the vaccine calculator, |
| 1:35.2 | you can find out when you should be able to get yours too. |
| 1:38.2 | Assuming the government meets its current targets. |
| 1:41.6 | So, to find out firsthand how the vaccine rollout is going, |
| 1:46.6 | we called one of the thousands of frontline NHS staff who are ready and |
| 1:52.1 | waiting to vaccinate around the clock. |
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