Band width

I was sent an email telling me about reference 1 earlier today, the top of which is snapped above. A paper published online by the Lancet a week or so ago. Just one paper in what I imagine is a huge number of such. Let's hope our once world class civil service still has the band width and organisation needed to cope with them all - to the point of formulating at least adequate - if no longer world class - policy options for our ministers to consider.

Let's hope also that our ministers do not allow their understandable parochial concerns to blot out wider concerns - or to put it another way, the needs of others, particularly those others with a lot less money to throw at COVID than us.

References

Reference 1a: Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses - Philip R Krause, Thomas R Fleming, Richard Peto, Ira M Longini, J Peter Figueroa, Jonathan A C Sterne, Alejandro Cravioto, Helen Rees, Julian P T Higgins, Isabelle Boutron, Hongchao Pan, Marion F Gruber, Narendra Arora, Fatema Kazi, Rogerio Gaspar, Soumya Swaminathan, Michael J Ryan, Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo - 2021.

Reference 1b: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2821%2902046-8.