Ex-head of UK Vaccine Taskforce Calls for End to Mass Vaccination

Ex-head of UK Vaccine Taskforce Calls for End to Mass Vaccination
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) sits opposite Gordon Halfacre as he receives his COVID-19 vaccine from corporal Lorna MacDonald during a visit to a vaccination centre in Northampton on Jan. 6, 2022. Peter Cziborra/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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Mass vaccination against COVID-19 should come to an end and the UK should focus on managing it as an endemic disease like flu, the former chairman of Britain’s vaccine taskforce has said.

Dr. Clive Dix, who played a key role in helping pharmaceutical firms create the COVID-19 vaccines, said that mass vaccination should end after the ongoing booster campaign, and the UK should start returning to a “new normality” in which the focus is placed on limiting serious illness rather than stopping the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.