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Edinburgh 99-year-old’s struggle to get Covid booster jab

© Andrew CawleyChristina Thomson, age 99
Christina Thomson, age 99

The daughter of a 99-year-old woman has revealed that she is struggling to get her mother a Covid booster vaccine.

Margaret Fairweather’s mum Christina Thomson lives independently in her family home in Edinburgh with support from carers and grown-up children.

The great-grandmother got her second jab seven months ago but is still waiting for her booster.

Public Health Scotland figures released last week show one in six people aged 80-plus have not received the booster, despite being one of the top priority groups who were supposed to receive it first.

Research in the Lancet medical journal shows that after six months, immunity from the Pfizer vaccine falls to 47%.

Margaret said: “I have called the NHS Scotland vaccine helpline and spoken to our GP who is sympathetic but it seems that there is a desperate shortage of health professionals able to vaccinate our elderly and infirm at home.”

On Friday night – after The Sunday Post stepped in – Margaret was contacted by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership and told her mother would get her booster jag on Tuesday.

Burn-out warning

Nine out of 10 pharmacists fear they are at risk of burning out, while almost a third are considering quitting, a survey has found.

Clare Morrison, the Scotland director for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: “We have pharmacists who are being asked to work from eight in the morning till six at night without so much as 15 minutes for lunch.”