How many have been vaccinated so far?

[SomersetWestie]

Mum (73) had the AZ a couple of weeks ago. No effects at all, and she's got various other stuff wrong with her !

[lufbramatt]

I realised last night that if someone is in an eligible group (e.g. either 64 years old, a carer, has underlying health conditions etc.) then you can book online to have a vaccine at one of the mass centres without having to wait for an invitation.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19...

as a result, my 64 year old mum got booked in for 9:15 this morning she was going mad waiting to be contacted by the NHS as my Dad had already had his as he's 65.

[Andy Zarse]

Only 150,000 first jabs yesterday and 4,000 second doses. Anyone know why?

[spikeyhead]

Andy Zarse said:

Only 150,000 first jabs yesterday and 4,000 second doses. Anyone know why?

Phizer shut one of it's factories for a couple of weeks to rearrange things so that it can make lots more from it. That's been published widely for at least a month, so it's not a surprise.

[rscott]

CraigyMc said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

It's >6 months based on data from last year.

Protection against variants notwithstanding it's likely to be quite a bit more than 6 months but there's incomplete data on that since C19 has only been isolated since Dec 2019, 15 months ago and the vaccines first went into arms in the West (phase I trials) in April 2020. China was about the same time.

I know there are research projects underway monitoring some who have previously had Covid to see how long they have antibodies - a colleague's wife had it back in March 2020 and still has similar levels of antibodies now. She was given the choice of either continuing in the project or having the vaccine (frontline NHS worker).

[W124Bob]

CraigyMc said:

I agree this may turn out to be a problem.
A couple of mitigations:

• fewer helpers will be needed for the later groups (the fit/healthy/generally mobile)
• unemployment is up

I'm not happy about the latter one, but if it has any upside it's that there isn't a dearth of people.

My wife and I are early retirees, missed the boat for volunteering first time round, happy to fill the void if needed. There might be a dip in volunteers but I suspect it could easily be filled.

[anonymoususer]

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries .It would make other countries realise we are really nice people and we are very much aware of our responsibility to everyone wherever they are.

Share the vaccine share the joy etc

Obviously this seems a daft idea and it certainly won't gain any traction with any of our brilliant MP's but........................

Edited by anonymoususer on Tuesday 23 February 09:35

[cymatty]

Andy Zarse said:

Only 150,000 first jabs yesterday and 4,000 second doses. Anyone know why?

Multiply by 11 or 12 for expected UK volumes

[anonymous-user]

anonymoususer said:

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries .It would make other countries realise we are really nice people and we are very much aware of our responsibility to everyone wherever they are.

Share the vaccine share the joy etc

Obviously this seems a daft idea and it certainly won't gain any traction with any of our brilliant MP's but........................

Edited by anonymoususer on Tuesday 23 February 09:35

UK is already the largest donor to COVAX and is funding production at the AZ india sites for distribution world wide.

[Blib]

anonymoususer said:

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries

I agree!

You, your family and your friends should do the right thing, refuse to have a vaccine and insist they are sent abroad.

I would join you in your selfless endeavour. However, I'm booked in for my vaccination first thing tomorrow. It would be churlish of me to muck up their schedule.

Bon chance!!!

In other news......

I just spoke with some neighbours. A couple; he had AZ with no side affects, she Pfizer with a sore arm for 48 hours.

Edited by Blib on Tuesday 23 February 09:58

[NRS]

W124Bob said:

CraigyMc said:

I agree this may turn out to be a problem.
A couple of mitigations:

• fewer helpers will be needed for the later groups (the fit/healthy/generally mobile)
• unemployment is up

I'm not happy about the latter one, but if it has any upside it's that there isn't a dearth of people.

My wife and I are early retirees, missed the boat for volunteering first time round, happy to fill the void if needed. There might be a dip in volunteers but I suspect it could easily be filled.

It might be there is more retirees who will volunteer going forward, as they should be protected so it would be a much easier choice for them to do so than before.

[Blib]

NRS said:

It might be there is more retirees who will volunteer going forward, as they should be protected so it would be a much easier choice for them to do so than before.

I plan to have a word about volunteering tomorrow, when I get my first jab.

[CraigyMc]

Blib said:

NRS said:

It might be there is more retirees who will volunteer going forward, as they should be protected so it would be a much easier choice for them to do so than before.

I plan to have a word about volunteering tomorrow, when I get my first jab.

Thank you both.

[Muncher]

cymatty said:

Multiply by 11 or 12 for expected UK volumes

So roughly speaking we should get up to about 40m first does given by the end of march and whole adult population by the end of April.

[vaud]

Good that Moderna is coming on stream as well.

[sir humphrey appleby]

CraigyMc said:

PushedDover said:

bitter mood hoovers

I'm stealing that.

Same here, that is great!

Fun Sponge is another good one.

[Wombat3]

anonymoususer said:

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries .It would make other countries realise we are really nice people and we are very much aware of our responsibility to everyone wherever they are.

Share the vaccine share the joy etc

Obviously this seems a daft idea and it certainly won't gain any traction with any of our brilliant MP's but........................

So some people here should be put at risk of serious disease and worse so that people in other parts of the world who's governments simply didn't get their st together to place a simple order can get vaccinated?

Shall we have a lottery to decide who goes without??? That'd be fun!

You are Emmanuel Macron AICM5P!

(will you personally be attending all the extra funerals yourself or not? )

Edited by Wombat3 on Tuesday 23 February 10:48

[Brave Fart]

anonymoususer said:

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries. It would make other countries realise we are really nice people and we are very much aware of our responsibility to everyone wherever they are.

Share the vaccine share the joy etc.

I sense you're being a bit sarcastic here, but I've already heard the view expressed that a young, healthy UK citizen might refuse the vaccine in order to benefit those elsewhere in the world. Of course, some posters on here might regard that as wrong, and insist that person be excluded from society, or publicly shamed or something. But it shows that declining the vaccine doesn't always mean you're an anti-vax loon; it might just mean you are trying to help those less fortunate elsewhere in the world.

[Wombat3]

Brave Fart said:

anonymoususer said:

As we are doing so well we should do the right thing and stop vaccinating for a few weeks.
By doing that we can send loads of vaccine abroad and share it with other countries. It would make other countries realise we are really nice people and we are very much aware of our responsibility to everyone wherever they are.

Share the vaccine share the joy etc.

I sense you're being a bit sarcastic here, but I've already heard the view expressed that a young, healthy UK citizen might refuse the vaccine in order to benefit those elsewhere in the world. Of course, some posters on here might regard that as wrong, and insist that person be excluded from society, or publicly shamed or something. But it shows that declining the vaccine doesn't always mean you're an anti-vax loon; it might just mean you are trying to help those less fortunate elsewhere in the world.

Numbers of people declining vaccines here for "altruistic reasons" is all well & good except that if enough of them did it then you just maintain a level of infection in society which is unnecessarily high even if its asymptomatic (also even the risk of developing a new variant)

As has also been said, nobody is safe till everyone is safe but its not the UK's responsibility to take on the responsibility of ensuring that happens in every country in the world & plainly there is also always going to be a queue of some sort.

Even so, we have done & are doing more than our share of the heavy lifting.

[768]

Brave Fart said:

I sense you're being a bit sarcastic here, but I've already heard the view expressed that a young, healthy UK citizen might refuse the vaccine in order to benefit those elsewhere in the world. Of course, some posters on here might regard that as wrong, and insist that person be excluded from society, or publicly shamed or something. But it shows that declining the vaccine doesn't always mean you're an anti-vax loon; it might just mean you are trying to help those less fortunate elsewhere in the world.

It might mean they allow the virus to circulate and mutate within our borders where we can't easily contain it. It might mean vaccines go to waste because substitute recipients can't be found in time.

Probably best for everyone just to take the vaccine when offered.