much has been spoken about regarding the
safety
of the vaccine roll out here in the uk
particularly on social media
what would you like to say to our
viewers firstly about
the concerns that they may have
regarding this process
so this uh vaccine has been rolled out
across more than 20
000 people and it's been through the
regulatory
uh process based on those 20 000 people
and that included
groups which are older so it was 65 to
85 it's
included people with black and other
ethnic minority groups
and it's giving back the data looks just
like any other vaccine that we've been
through
so with these kind of numbers and these
type of
analysis it looks safe and that's why
it's been regulated
it takes years in a situation of this
kind to get a vaccine
in a normal situation i should say to be
approved this is
taken a matter of months is speed an
issue here
so i think the actual time of the
vaccination process has probably been
pretty similar what's being compressed
is the regulatory um delays
so normally you'd have to go through
various stages and you're in the queue
of people that might be interested and
this
in this case we've given high priority
and it's gone through much more quickly
as a result of that
that priority there not because there's
anything being missed out
is there the possibility of adverse
effects side effects being recognized in
the coming months
so it's uh the approval is now goes into
the next stage we haven't seen it in the
first 20 000 but that doesn't say
that there aren't some minor effects
that might occur in some people and some
groups
so there will be constant monitoring
over
you know for the lifetime of well during
the next year at least
so uh i think we we should be aware of
that but clearly these are going to be
relatively minor
there is a lot again about younger
people who can typically become
asymptomatic from covid19
with that in mind is it safer for them
to get the virus rather than the vaccine
itself
so of course um you know there is less
symptoms in the younger people but
actually
it's not they're not without symptoms
and some of these people may go on to
get
more severe inflammatory process or even
potentially
long covered or other things so i
personally i think it's much better to
get the
vaccine and of course we don't know yet
how long your immunity lasts
and uh it could be that the vaccine
lasts longer than a natural infection
yeah how much do we know about the
immunity because we don't know how long
but do we know how short
so obviously these vaccines are new and
we haven't really had the time to
explore how long
they're going to last it probably will
mimic a natural infection so we're
talking months to years