On the Use of the EICC for Vaccines in 2022

[danieldwilliam]

Bumped in to Dad on the way back from working out this morning. We were discussing the vaccine roll-out and he wondered what was going to happen when the people who owned the Edinburgh International Conference Centre wanted it back for non vaccine related things like conferences. With a working assumption that we are going to be vaccinating approximately everyone at least annually for at least 5 years where are we going to do it?

We then went on to wonder if extreme handwashing and sanitising will continue (almost certainly), whether facemasks will persist (likely) and whether an annual COVID vaccine would increase the offering and the take up of the annual flu vaccine (very likely). Which all probably means lower levels of things like flu in the future.

Comments

Masks

[lsanderson]

Asia has been more into masks from various flu outbreaks and pollution. I suspect we'll see more everywhere.

Re: Masks

[danieldwilliam]

That was what we were thinking. There seems to be in Asian countries like Japan and Singapore a view that it is the right thing to do to wear if you yourself are unwell.

Not sure that I personally would want to wear a mask outdoors if I were not ill as a habit but I'd certainly consider it if I were unwell with a cold or similar.