@Rae36
I remember overhearing a conversation back in the summer among a bunch of old guys about how the bats in the woods out the back of our house had it and were spreading it by pooing in people's gardens in the night. That explains why Edinburgh is stuck in 3. No matter how hard we try the bats will keep crapping on our efforts.
See, if NS had used that as the justification for Edinburgh staying in level 3, I'd have bought it...
On the allergy thing, it sounds like the regulators did say that people with allergies shouldn't be given it, so it's not so much an issue with the approval being "rushed", though maybe with the roll-out being less thorough than it should have been, given the urgency and mass campaign. And as it seems to have been NHS staff who were affected, they may have felt under pressure to do it without reading the small print.... Hopefully they'll do things slightly more by the book from now. I do worry it will put people off who were on the fence, though, but I suppose by the time the majority of vulnerable people get offered it, it will be a well oiled machine.
I'm worried that they are still talking about restrictions on travel etc for next summer. Surely that is the point of the vaccines?! OK, the virus will still be around, but by then the people who are most vulnerable to getting really ill will be protected. At what stage are the rest of us allowed to take the miniscule risk of serious illness on ourselves (without worrying about "killing granny" by mistake) whether the virus is caught in Alloa, or Alnmouth or Alicante? Surely we could catch any virus abroad and bring it back to Scotland...OK, not ideal, but we don't stop people travelling on the offensive. It all seems rather draconian.