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Originally Posted by jfman
The advice has reduced the waiting period to five months while the most vulnerable (and proportionately more Pfizer) had to wait six.
I’m aware they all have differing functions.
The real question is why the JCVI exist at all considering they aren’t approving the vaccine for safety (the MHRA), they broadly aren’t experts in a relevant field (mostly behavioural scientists or sociologists) and their decision making is neither timely nor binding (12-15 y/o vaccination).
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Don't you think we need behavioural scientists?
I know they're indySAGE and that I'm hardly Michie and Reicher's greatest fans either in terms of their politics or their views but on a committee where you are looking to think tank your way through a crisis you absolutely do need a variety of different backgrounds and opinions - even a Sinophile Communist Party member has her place in this.
If nothing else, they need to be in the discussions regarding how people will behave once vaccinated, and how to best encourage people - one would imagine the "i'm vaccinated so f**k restrictions" attitude would've come up and how they best counteract this mentality... which is a behavioural scientist's question, and wholly related to vaccination.