@4c681c0c In related news, anyone with diabetes (up to 10% of the population) *is* eligible for COVID boosters (NHSInform website is very ambiguous) and I hear rumours of folks going in for flu shots being offered COVID as well regardless of eligibility.

I suspect people in the Department of Health are quietly panicking. It'll be masks-on in hospitals next. (We're about a month behind the US on these trends.)

Of course the anti-vaxxers will blame it on government election campaigning ...