‘Does the vaccine give lifelong immunity?’: Your questions answered - BBC News

From next week the first Covid vaccine, developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, will be rolled out in the UK after being approved.

England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam has been answering questions from members of the British public about Covid-19, including on vaccine safety and effectiveness.

[abisnail]

Heres a question...why does the media keep asking STUPID questions...nobody knows anything about the long term effects or if it proves long term immunity, because guess why... its just been invented 🤦

[mammothmotouk]

Freedom of choice. I say no. I’m not a crack pot or a conspiracy theorist. I just don’t need it. If you want mine, please help yourself.

[thejoker]

Here’s another football analogy. If your goal posts are that close together that the ball doesn’t fit through, why do we need a goalkeeper?

[mullyb]

I feel sorry if you actually think this will work

[atommachine]

Can we have a full detailed breakdown of the Ingredients from the batch proofing Please ? QQ is in the public interest not just Corporations.

[michaelmacintosh]

Have a live debate on the bbc with Dr Vernon Colman and then let us decide, instead of censoring him.

[googlesucks]

Safe? Then why no public liability for the drug companies? Remember Thalidomide?

[chrisbrown]

It is so heartening to read many of these comments . The public and the world are finally waking up to the truth .

[pupster]

If you have a loved one in a care home you need to get them out ASAP

[dazcovhotmail]

We need to ensure we have FREE WILL in whether we take this vaccine or not. We must not allow them to blackmail us or restrict us in any way if we choose not to have it!

[evans]

The MHRA are from their 2017 Gates foundation donation 👍

[baronsilverbaron]

GUARANTEED TO GIVE LIFELONG IMMUNITY IF YOU DIE AFTER HAVING IT.

[peterpan]

This guy gives me no confidence whatsoever.

[mathematics]

I am a biochemist and virologist. The football analogy is absurd. The away team, is a different species, not humans

[michaelmacintosh]

Dr Vernon Colman, Prof Delores Cahill, Dr Kaufman, Dr Buttar and The World Alliance Dr’s would completely disagree with these lies 💯

[simoncoleman]

Nobody is allowed to ask him a challenging question, of course. It's all perfectly safe, we're told - so why have the manufacturers been given immunity from damages, long before they even had it ready for testing??? Who can you claim against, then, if it should all go horribly wrong?

[davidduffy]

Why wasn’t her question “I have 3 children what are the long term adverse potential side effects?”

[mrgfranklin]

Comparing a pandemic to football match shows the seriousness of the matter

[Strong-jwet]

He’s given the game away, won’t know how effective the vaccine is until the “second

[andydalfen]

Can we please have some public recognition for the truly outstanding news that the team behind the Oxford coronavirus vaccine have been granted permission to carry out real world tests on a malaria vaccine.
This malaria vaccine has the potential to save more lives than any other vaccine since the smallpox one was created, a true game changer.