Professor Karina Butler:

I can answer the question about the seasonal influenza campaign while the slides are being put up. That has been scheduled to roll out with the recommendations for the usual groups to be vaccinated. The modifications this year are that the Covid-19 vaccine can be given at the same visit as the seasonal flu vaccine, or separated from it by any interval, and the only other modification to the programme is that an adjuvanted influenza vaccine is being recommended for those 65 years and older because it is shown to have increased protective effect in those age groups. The seasonal flu vaccine plan is to start and the good thing is that hopefully combining the vaccines - not combining them together but administering them on the same day - might optimise the roll-out of the vaccines together, for example, in nursing home facilities with the booster shots.