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These Over-90s Are Still Waiting For The Vaccine. Here's Why
Audrey Tudor is turning 99 on February 5. When news first broke that the Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out in the UK, she and her daughter Kath were “delighted”. “Mum and I both thought that because of her age she might be one of the first to be vaccinated after those in care homes and care workers,” Kath told HuffPost UK. “How wrong we were.”
Seven weeks after 90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan became the UK’s first patient to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, the pair are still waiting. Kath describes a “very quiet Christmas” in North Devon spent anxiously anticipating a letter from the GP inviting her mother to be vaccinated. “I’ve been googling how many 98 or 99-year-olds there are in the UK and North Devon, and there are not that many,” she said.
“When I heard that the PM’s father had been vaccinated I knew something in the vaccine distribution was wrong. My mum was serving in the armed forces fighting in WW2 the year Stanley Johnson was born. It just didn’t seem right or fair.”
A great-grandmother of nine and former National Trust employee – she is a carriage-enthusiast who helped build the collection at the Carriage Museum at Arlington Court – Audrey has been “puzzled” as to the “endless” wait after a “very, very difficult” year spent with barely any contact with her family and friends.
“She can’t understand why the vaccine hasn’t reached her yet. She doesn’t live in the wilds of Exmoor, just six miles from the main hospital and seven miles from her GP surgery. The roads are passable, she has a telephone. There is no excuse.”
As Kath pointed out, “every day counts when you are nearly 99”. “Having the vaccine will mean she can plan to see her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She could have visitors and live the few years she might have left as she used to.”
Daphne Dickinson, who turns 95 in April, has also been desperately waiting for the vaccine and for the chance to finally...
