`Explosive Epidemics` Likely Among Unvaccinated Groups If Lockdown Eased Too Soon, Warns Sage
(World News UK)

Lifting lockdown measures before enough people are vaccinated is likely to cause “explosive epidemics” in vulnerable and deprived communities where less people have had the jab, scientists have told the government. Experts from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) warned the government the vaccine rollout needs to be “well advanced” before restrictions can be relaxed. The Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling Operational (SPI-M-O) sub-group report – dated January 13 but only made public on Friday – states: “A further epidemic wave will take place if non-pharmaceutical interventions start being lifted before vaccine rollout...