News Patients turn down Pfizer's vaccine so they can 'wait for the English one'

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An NHS doctor has expressed his frustration at patients turning down the chance to get the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine - rather opting to "wait for the English one”.

Former Stockton South MP, Dr Paul Williams OBE who assesses people with coronavirus symptoms in Hartlepool and Stockton said the remarks were "a lesson that Nationalism has consequences".


Dr Williams posted on social media: "Some local patients have turned down an offer this weekend of getting a covid vaccine when they found out it was the Pfizer one. 'I’ll wait for the English one'.

"People at risk of death in the depths of a pandemic.

"A lesson that Nationalism has consequences."

A huge effort to rollout the covid-19 vaccine to as many people, as quickly as possible is underway after the country was once more plunged into a national lockdown amid soaring case numbers and deaths.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first to be approved by the UK and is currently being administered to patients across the country.

The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was approved by the healthcare regulator on December 30 and first administered in the UK on January 4

Dr says patients turning down vaccine to 'wait for the English one'

Two vaccines have been approved for use in the UK to date, one made abroad and another developed at the University of Oxford

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