{"id":213455,"date":"2020-09-12T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213455"},"modified":"2020-09-15T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T07:27:00","slug":"british-army-could-help-with-covid-19-mass-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213455","title":{"rendered":"British Army Could Help with Covid-19 Mass Vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Army could be drafted in to deliver &#8216;moonshot&#8217; vaccination drive at empty NHS Nightingale hospital sites &#8211; as government&#8217;s screening advisers say they&#8217;ve NOT been consulted<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Officials say soldiers are needed to dish out the tens of millions of jabs to public<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Troops may be deployed to the NHS Nightingale hospitals and other public sites<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>NHS bosses have been tasked with creating vaccination plans by end of October<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Government screening advisers say they&#8217;ve not been consulted over &#8216;Moonshot&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James Gant \u2013 Mail Online Sept 12, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_211077\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/waiting-for-a-second-wave-One-of-the-Florence-Nightingale-hospitals-that-were-set-to-deal-with-an-expected-throng-ofcoronavirus-patients-but-which-have-remained-almost-empty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211077\" class=\"wp-image-211077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/waiting-for-a-second-wave-One-of-the-Florence-Nightingale-hospitals-that-were-set-to-deal-with-an-expected-throng-ofcoronavirus-patients-but-which-have-remained-almost-empty-768x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/waiting-for-a-second-wave-One-of-the-Florence-Nightingale-hospitals-that-were-set-to-deal-with-an-expected-throng-ofcoronavirus-patients-but-which-have-remained-almost-empty-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/waiting-for-a-second-wave-One-of-the-Florence-Nightingale-hospitals-that-were-set-to-deal-with-an-expected-throng-ofcoronavirus-patients-but-which-have-remained-almost-empty-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/waiting-for-a-second-wave-One-of-the-Florence-Nightingale-hospitals-that-were-set-to-deal-with-an-expected-throng-ofcoronavirus-patients-but-which-have-remained-almost-empty.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-211077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting for a second wave. One of the Florence Nightingale hospitals that were set up in Britain to deal with an expected throng ofcoronavirus patients but which have remained almost empty. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Army could be drafted in to deliver a &#8216;moonshot&#8217; vaccination drive at empty <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\"><strong>NHS<\/strong><\/a><\/span> Nightingale hospital sites, it has emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Officials believe soldiers are needed to dish out the tens of millions of jabs to the public when a vaccine is ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Troops could be deployed to the makeshift\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs-nightingale-hospitals\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hospitals<\/span><\/strong><\/a> &#8211; which have been empty since the first Covid wave ended &#8211; and other public buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Health service bosses have been tasked with creating these vaccination plans by the end of next month in case a vaccine is ready in the winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes as the government&#8217;s screening advisers said they have not been consulted over Boris Johnson&#8217;s ambitious\u00a0Operation Moonshot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Prime Minister is hoping to carry out ten million tests a day by early next year including DIY pregnancy-style kits which turn around results in 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sources told the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/politics\/coronavirus-uk-latest-army-help-nhs-deliver-vaccination-push-643706\"><strong>i<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0GPs and chemists do not have the resources to hand out the huge number of vaccinations that will be needed to tackle the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But it is believed the NHS would thrash out a\u00a0Military Assistance to Civil Authorities (MACA) to the British Army to get help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Soldiers would also be needed to assist with moving vaccines across the country, as well as refrigerating and storing them an potentially defending them from sabotage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And army medics could also work with NHS nurses to administer the jabs, which is a harder task than the current Covid-19 swab test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It would not be the first cooperating between the military and NHS during this crisis as the Army was deployed for the setting up of the NHS Nightingale sites in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There are plans being considered for a &#8216;dry run&#8217; before a vaccine is found, where soldiers would assist with the dosing out\u00a0 of the annual flu vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8724967\/British-Army-drafted-deliver-moonshot-vaccination-drive-NHS-Nightingales.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the British Army is deployed they will do so from Nightingale hospitals, which were built to deal with the pandemic but which have remained all but empty <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213460,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213455\/revisions\/213460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}