Hacker News Reader

It's so odd that he would make these statements in an interview without the data or a press release published. I mean this should be information subject to mandatory publication with regards to their shareholders. Astra has been by far the least trustworthy of the major companies so far. I just hope their jab works anyway.

From how I see it T4 is already a full lockdown and iirc over half the country is in T4 already so I don't see how things can be much different in January.

There's the 'school closures' lever still to pull.

Then there's things like only being allowed out of your house once a day for exercise.

And maybe if your work can't be done from home you're paid to stay home and not do it unless it's an essential service?

Key things are

1. This is only for a short and bounded time while we roll out vaccine 2. We need to get numbers down so that vaccine rollout isn't impinged

Yes the UK is about to hit a healthcare meltdown at this point.