and the buttons interview a marvelous watch and then glen miller says nobody ever cites bombs as well as billy kay does perfection and reflection jimmy reed speeches were radical delivered on velvet and alan jones says a bob showed of passed by winnie ewing watched a video of jimmy reed on parkinson as mentioned in the sure body do we need jimmy today and i was ignored close court stimulated from what he's most famous speeches there were no hooliganism they'll be no vitalism will be in a bevy in because the world is watching great man says listen and these she defended jimmied speech to the the upper clade shipbuilders what can very very famous speech indeed jackie blair says this is brilliant especially about douglas hume and what jack is the fed into is that the story is told by billy k. in the program of we're using the dough to pull scottish nationalist travelling to a bump in support of tory prime minister douglas hughton and i think that this

should be said to willie ewing is a scottish nationalist in his heart by a unionist to his head and got the past room with a ewing. the hat side of the paps that my access wrecked a wrong quoting the bob himself and finally john cooper said that is going to be a good read easter offending to the new brooklyn jimmy reed by brian mcguigan coming out in time for the 50th anniversary of the u.c. s. work and he can't wait says says john and i we turn to a topic of the day is sure the topic has dominated conversation across the planet over the last year the the pandemic the corona virus professor look at deal of trinity college dublin is a man who knows more about vaccines and more sed professor neal in your assessment where are we with the struggle that's developing between the vaccines in the one hand and the virus on the other. well that's a big question alex in

a way i mean we're making great progress let's make not no doubt about that i mean the rate a vaccination in the u.k. for example is spectacular with the c.n.n. israel every country lapping up with an aging company and it is awful with the virus for japanese the most important thing now is speed actually to get the vaccine out especially as we kept it the more explanation that happened the less chance there is for the united and you variants to crop up that we're seeing more and more of you know but so far so good as a question of keeping focus now on this huge nation companies and viruses such a difference between the vaccination rate across similar countries some in the u.k. is about 12 percent of the population already vaccinated across the european union it's more like 2 or 3 percent and some countries like israel are a roaring ahead than of vaccinated or a 3rd of the population already why such a difference between the the roll out rate and various countries. we've got we've got to get credits in israel and the u.k.

alex on this one because they really got their act together you know and it is a just they don't this is simply a case of getting to supply and getting the vaccine out deploying people in centers and you know the rate through which people go through centers on this thought was really important and it's why i got in early got a big on with pfizer probably paid a premium we think is the rumor netanyahu himself the negotiating some talk about getting stuck in and then a very white house service in israel has 4 separate how regions and they really got behind it's not the u.k. similarly had a great tradition of course of science in this area you know it was already a back seat initiative that was going on even before co you see so so and i could be deployed to great effect now the rest of europe will catch up no doubt one issue was there they were trying to coordinate things across the e.u. and that may have slowed things down a bit but now for heaven's sake as you have seen in the past week the focus on brussels was a massive partnership and the germans were complaining why are we doing better and i think i'm sure they'll improve with all casualties of an operation. and do

countries basically have the same of of priority in terms of vaccinations starting with the the most vulnerable older people in the population and walking the way through the various categories i mean for example a number of our viewers tracy and for example rotten to ask why isn't the central health worker meeting people every day as part of a job that she's not enough priority to list not begrudging the national health service workers but just asking a question to all countries of the same basic floor flu in terms of who gets vaccinated 1st but you brought me you know i mean you might see a few categories the one about the other in some countries so but certainly i had my way my magic wand i'm back like everybody now i would start with now that can't be done because they're just every country would have the elderly on or about health care workers out front and i guess my company likes it you know you might see teachers are about fire engine men or whatever it is you see slight differences

in different countries and the lot but again the goal is to get those groups fascinating over the course of a few weeks so even though you might be slightly down the list and someone else you'll still be in a certain category that will get the vaccine for those people as possible we're going to see a lot of dickering about you over there so we've got a top vaccines but actually in the field the been obviously pfizer astra zeneca the chinese vaccines the russian vaccine sputnik is a new vaccine they're being developed and livingston and scotland i.v. all based on the same type of vaccine or some vaccines are going to be more efficacious and others for example against the the new variants of the virus yet to come i think the science across the not they mean i just worked on this for for decades i suppose and there are different types of passings of 4 main types are all even before i was roughly 4 different types of axing and the pentagon the bulk of

your last night. against one might work better than the other for you know the good news is all for politics the been approved now like for example the most recent one is novak's called a sort of unify seem different to the our name i've seen some that we know that we've got is you know you've got more shots on goal of a. i mean one will work better than the other in the long run but all these different buy things are there and they may see africa see differences between them you may see more effect than older population but for the moment we must treat them as a quibble since you know we need to get as many people like snakes as we can now it is true that some of them. for example one of the chinese will sign a farm one that will probably work better against all the variants where as say the the fires of one might work as well against one so we may see slight differences here having said that they buy things that are there are working against very just to make maybe slightly efficacious and other ones i want a really important one in your defense made by coming out about

a neighbor that one you would predict could work against most order so it's pretty much a work in progress what amazes me alex is you're never seen an attention on one thing in your life i mean everybody's an expert now often different vaccines and how they might work and so on but still it's a work in progress comparing them and we will chase down eventually i'm not the one that was dominate the market and house science being caught by surprise by the variance in the violence of the chrono viruses to dictionary when the gov't is clearly slow to to mutate but now we have the the can be taishan the south african variation the californian violence. a surprise to the science this this bug is proving so adoptable all this is just a question of the the scale and which has affected the planet. yet we know a lot about that such so before if you go back to when this big b. and i some of a year ago it was now met maybe in march april times this virus is called sars

probably too it's very like sars are also venting about the like siblings if you will we knew sars had a low mutation and in fact if a 10th of flu farts it's a 100th of a child me which you know the anchovy is very me tell you that when you see and so it's flu so we thought this should be ok you know 10 to flu is really good but that was that was a scientific fact the chairman is in the field it's a different story and want to throw out and about different pressures on different people you begin to see these variants emerge and it's a bit of a disappointment we would hope this won't be the case we hoped it might take a year or 2 for variants to emerge but the fact is we now have at least 4 variants of look different maybe more difficult to vaccinate against and we know about the can't one the v 117 is more transmissible and that's not good because that means we're really going to affect it per unit time so it's a bit of a work in progress and now of course vigilance is kate now that we know these variants are cropping up we've got to keep a very close eye on that much for even more malign ones to emerge we can do that

the good news is in the u.k. you can leave the world on this genomics business i'm reading the virus very closely you see so so now we know what to look for basically and then we get a very close eye on it and then the big question is where are they coming from now it turns out it's likely to be someone who's immunosuppressed who gets infected and the virus now grows in the person's body for a long time over 34 months and every time it divides there's a risk of a new one you see so the longer it's in someone the greater the risk is a bit of it me taking i suppose so now there are not going out in the field as it where we're seeing pressures on the virus that we didn't necessarily anticipate early on but are giving rise to these new variants so it's a really important question it also means alex we must vaccinate the world as quick as we can because it will be there in other countries and it may well be giving rise to extra variants that come into europe in our era so so it really it puts puts a sort of an urgency to the whole process the way it was urgent already but at the margin. that was seen a a low level of opposition to vaccination itself as of another danger that people

once vaccinated don't realize that they are still and others indeed risk so as a an office a danger that people might feel invulnerable once a vaccinated and go back to normal life too quickly that's really important point like so we got our calls i think last basically vaccines are another weapon to use in this phase of this time and they're very powerful weapons and by proxy it's i think most powerful weapon we have but we need to get the weapons of like yours during a war let's say you're winning you don't cancel the air force the keep the air force with the ground troops you know so and some of the ways we've got to keep up with all the measures i've been saying this recently in aren't you know maybe not a farce knowledge even you know the american troops are still in germany a long time out of world war 2 you know so there is always there will be caution you know we will be even anxious in the coming months and you must maintain some kind of stringency meaning in the face of. the pandemic will at some point

move to being endemic unless violence will be endemic across the world will it still then pose dangerous to to the human race will or will we have to be vaccinated every year against one variant of this virus on another where we want ice and this is hopefully going to happen if we become like the flu our severe cold ok more now on the flu end of the spectrum because you know it's a bit more troublesome and remember 99 percent of people their own immune system is very good at fighting this fire this anyway. and then after that are some of those 99 percent you get long term since we want you but we do worry about long how about as well of course but the fact is for the vast majority are immune system is great ice the virus you get over this you may get really infected but you're not less severe disease just like coals can reinfect in the severe so that's about the kind of way this virus is now if you're protecting the hohner just like fluid every winter that's the main weapon and they go then damage it's

a mild disease in the vast majority of people so so one prediction we definitely have no beginning every winter will be a set of vaccine for coping one thing that will join the flu vaccine protocol you know and then the 2nd thing is it will box and i children and then they're protected as a movement a lot of folks nothing good things to do well because that becomes like an illness that's protected well in childhood beyond you know and those are the things that we're going to move towards i think so there i thought every winter there may be a new 2 or 3 strengths mostly when i realize that the current winter flu 4 separate strains in the flu vaccine so we may end up with 3 or 4 striking thing in the vaccine every winter and not only workable i think but that's a reasonable enough prospect and certainly it means that we have a way to carry on like we used to with an endemic part professor look at them from dublin many thanks indeed for joining me again on the alex salmond show. thank you alex but join us after the break when i'll be joined by professor harvey buttons

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a large quantity of it seems very early on i think that it has been very successful and as much as that been a 'd lot of people g.p.s. volunteers in store 'd and ready to 'd administer it and they're on it yet i was asked to comment on how the vaccine might suggest it was a mixed economy of g.p.'s doing it as well as the large scale vaccination centers and so on those advantages than most and i think go. there when it has that has been contentious is the fact that scotland has decided one shot should be given and the safe ensure the rage in order to have more people be vaccinated was one sure than it would be possible to buy it in the if you're getting 2 shots and that's caused some concern amongst health care workers who are

exposed to a daily to risk but i think the evidence is showing domain the 2nd goes is not necessarily a problem so all 'd i'm fairly relaxed with that as long as the 2nd shot does come eventually that's critically important as in the future and if the success of the vaccine rule thus far. is that a sign of the splendor of a a national health service so having a command health service with effectively you could get these things done if yes it is scotland and went into a great successes of the past few years has been to use an improvement science the idea of collaborative change where instead of having a talk every. people want to do in terms of patient safety in hospitals and improving child health and so if we caught frontline staff together and they came

up with i.d.'s which they tested and implemented and the team working element of the n.h.s. in scotland has been very very powerful over the past years it's important that we continue that that kind of approach as fully as we 'd should and allow me i'm hearing stories of people being told his are away on used 'd by taxi rather than find somebody to give it to you you're not allowed to give it to someone who says no out. here extra whatever bestest not we need to really to trust from brain start to do the right thing with that of those low level of public opposition to vaccinations them and some people feel but will be a strong anti virus campaign that doesn't seem to happen and fight people seem incredibly enthusiastic about about getting the vaccination are you satisfied with

the the way the message is being put forward on a public health perspective i think the message you know that the control measures that have been put in place showed just how serious this virus has to be taken you know the law down in the closing of so many different respects of our daily 'd life plus the fact that in the u.k. we've 'd seen protests and they asked me people need to realize that this is what they had a baby c.s. . out rate and therefore i think it has gone a long way towards convincing them to get by and see i still hear stories from g.p.'s about asian suffusing it because they think it's poisonous or all this kinda stuff which is not it's clearly not but that's a very small number of people have have refused it as far as i can tell. you explain. the supine the scrap and say on the one hand that the united kingdom

definitely the most talented meat is among the highest if not the highest of any major pump in the world while on the other hand the vaccination program seems to be in advance of other countries have been why has the u.k. failed in one aspect but seems touchwood to be succeeding on the vaccination i think made it too little too late right at the beginning of the pandemic you know i remember star we had chelton races a lot of west tens of thousands of people crowding into the area yeah that liverpool playing atlantic originated in spain was one of the biggest outbreaks at times he of the spanish will coming over and mixing most english footballers and their member being crate surprise train man the chief scientist in england was us the poet the dangers of. a mix we hate her he said was there is no evidence that

matches and spread the virus well scuse me if you could you know a 10000 people from a country with a virus and west 40000 susceptible people. i actually 'd quite i detected their voice and of political interference the i don't basically decided it was more important he business it's all pretty good to shut down and angling to only shut their fiske off and then instead it was going to show we did too little too late and therefore it got a hold in our country you know that now i think is the main problem. and then don't know that once people of vats of the bill will think them invulnerable and they can go back to to normal life too quickly and is that a danger to public health at the present moment when the message of keeping up the the guard against the virus a might somehow be lost very very much so this idea that you get the army and that

you vote of all is just no up going to happen northwest one shot you know they have the dances that for at least 2 weeks to just the weeks you're still susceptible to say action before the immunology. is in place to protect your brain even after you've had the 2nd shot it's american something different strains that will be slightly more aggressive slate us acceptable to the vaccine and what it's time share of you know a g h we're going to have this virus around for some time. or fully we will get it under control and suppress that enough and hopefully when just everyone expects an agent if they get their virus it will damage them so much but we still don't know if having been vaccinated you can carry the virus or over here and spread it to

other people why isn't the authorities have been slow to move in what would similarly be fairly obvious measures to take them in for months ago when the show for example you suggested the the testing of effluent of waste water would be a good early warning signs of via white think i have read that was being considered just this week or even face some him why i could be spared from a public health perspective why face bassam not compulsively everywhere i think i need to stay specially the u.k. government has been to america. control savings they didn't want to be seen to be shutting down businesses they didn't want to be seen you know i remember being asked about face masks on a television interview oh so we're all going to look like chinese people walking around with face masks sort of you know up my hancock's said the evidence and

facemasks is weak well no it isn't we the evidence is very clear here today baby wreaks depending on now you're waiting room and sore but you know there was an f. lack of appreciation as to how severe this was going to turn out and just how important discipline was in terms of just saying and different protective measures the social inequality aspects of being highlighted by the virus in the course demick world when we. blinking back into the sunlight will. be concentration on how the the poor have suffered fos them foremost from the impact of coronavirus i think i have had in scotland i don't get any sense that conservative government and so this will 'd spend too much time on that. but the fact is that we know that the circumstances in which people grow and are

supported as they grow can determine a lot of their own come their health outcomes more susceptible to different kinds of that their city and so on and one of them is their structures finances and we know all of that is coronavirus the more vigorous your stress responses are the more likely you are to damage your mum's ended up in the intensive care and so on and that me and heart explain the different susceptibility the different much ality and poorer people i really hope this become this for kisses or attention when the biological consequences of some seem to weaken and quality in particular may impact on children of poor families those children move grew up to be more susceptible to a whole range of problems at life and we really need to get a grip of that going forward it will allow more children to grow up and be

successful in life and contribute positively to society of all one of the other lessons be the the great virtue of having a public national health service. oh absolutely. the experience of people in the states who are reliant on insurance and so on you know some of the costs associated with things that here would be taken for granted and just simply dealt with in a consistent over investigates because the money by over investigating it over to cheap editions is a profit making industry whereas the health services we're seeing here is is an industry that supports the community support society that is far rather have our motto 'd in any conceivable world from america professor how to bombs thank you

once again for joining me from ellen salmon joe thank you so pleasure one year into the pandemic and people are understandably really of the battle the salvation of the vaccine this time to lies only with an reach but it's often darkest before the dawn and right now to the virus and it's variants on ripping through society but we'll discuss this issue just before christmas the death toll in the u.k. was $60003.00 weeks ago it was over $80000.00 though it's over 110000 rising fast the united kingdom though has the highest death toll per 1000000 of population of any major country in the world. across seoul for that ministrations of the u.k. the vaccination program is proceeding well a new vaccines are arriving to cope and to offer the insurance against mutations of this virus. in the last week the vein of vaccine started commercial production in

livingston scotland lancet p. of us confirmed disputant 5 seen at 92 percent efficacy but such as the economy is right no the strain must be taken by a renewed emphasis on public health measures the has been as yet no satisfactory explanation why the countries which pioneer public health in the victorian period have been so incapable of coping with a 21st century fund and before live from me and everyone of the show stay safe and we'll see again next week.

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