Coronavirus doctor’s diary: Why are some of Bradford’s elderly refusing the vaccine?

Tom Ratcliffe, a GP in Keighley, north-west of Bradford, points out that there’s a risk that Covid will remain endemic in pockets of the population where there is a low uptake of vaccination. Nearly a fifth of the population of the area covered by the Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (which provided the data above about vaccine refusal) falls into the Pakistani/British Pakistani category, and it’s a group, Ratcliffe notes, that has been more vulnerable to the virus than some others.

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