Omicron, boosters and ramping up the pace for Xmas
December started off on a wee bit of a lull, perhaps a calm before the storm. At Leith CTC the numbers attending were beginning to fall as we focused on 1 st and 2 nd jabs as well as some boosters. It began to pick up once we added flu jabs to the list of vaccines administered. And then along came the little known fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet to spice things up somewhat. Once Omicron emerged as a significantly infectious and then also highly transmissible variant the pace and demand accelerated. We do not yet know how virulent this variant is and won’t know that sadly until enough people are infected and enough time has passed. It may well be into the new year before there is any clarity on this. In the meantime our main lines of defence are increased social distancing measures, albeit variable across the UK, and a major push to get as much of the population vaccinated and especially boosted as possible. This has meant cutting back on flu vaccinations and some enormous...