Staff shortages are “paralysing” health and social care services in the UK and the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for frontline staff must be abandoned, a British social care boss has warned. CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination has been made a condition of employment in care homes in England since November 2021. The same rule will come into effect on April 1 for National Health Service (NHS) and other health care workers, meaning unvaccinated frontline health care workers will face redeployment or dismissal. The Homecare Association said that the safety and wellbeing of older and disabled people will be “dangerously compromised” if between 15 and 20 percent of home care staff cannot work because they are unvaccinated. Jane Townson, chief executive of the association, said that her organisation has “strongly supported” the vaccination drive, but has also “consistently argued that persuasion would likely be more successful than compulsion in achieving high …