To be fair I didn't say either way what I believed. This come from a director of public health in a london borough which is also a labour council, so wasn't particularly lies being peddled by torys like you suggested.
There was a fair bit of confusion on this thread about whether the strategy was to stop the spread. Which it isn't, the main concern at the moment is to reduce deaths from covid.
I felt it was an important clarification to point out, as it considerably changes the conversation around the strategy if you understand the final goal.
I've got to be honest its well beyond me to be able to work out if its a good way to go or not, I couldn't even pretend to be able to replicate the modelling and working out the different probabilities for what difference to the death rate this strategy is likely to make.
I can however see the logic that if you provide more people with a single dose, you are more likely to reduce the death rate than if you use your limited supplies to give significantly less people two doses.
For a government who's logic has been lacking throughout this pandemic, actually being able to see why they have made the decision makes me more confident in the strategy over all.
Well done to the NHS for implementing it so affectively though, imagine if we'd let them manage our track and trace programme too, we'd probably have a much better handle on the spread as well.