Martin’s photos

Martin walks regularly in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland. He collected some of the best of last year’s photos for a calendar which can be seen in his Flickr site at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mndunstan/albums/72177720304736078 For his full range of photos, including albums for different types of birds and animals, see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mndunstan/albums

Waiting …

Tomorrow NICE who decide what drugs and treatments should be used in the UK will announce whether the preventative Covid antibody treatment Evusheld will be rolled out via the NHS to immunosuppressed people like me who have a reduced response to vaccines. I am lucky I have some antibodies now, after 6 Covid vaccines so far. Many immunosuppressed people still have no detectable antibodies. I am not optimistic that NICE will approve it. But I hope they will. It could help transform the lives of people who vaccines do little to protect. It has been used for these patient groups in many countries but not the UK.