How many have been vaccinated so far?

[spikeyhead]

isaldiri said:

spikeyhead said:

Have you any evidence to back up your statements?

Feel free to read some of the various neutralising antibody studies along with reinfection rate studies plus phase3 trial data and if you think I have posted anything untrue, do expand on exactly what and why I'd be happy to debate that as to why it seems reasonable to me to have posted what I did.

Go on then, post some solid evidence for what you specifically claimed.

[Boringvolvodriver]

Biglips said:

MiniMan64 said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

Biglips said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

But according to what they are saying, you can still give it other people and indeed you could still get it yourself so how does the protecting others work in that instance?

Need to travel for your business?
Want a foreign holiday?
It reduces transmission if you do get it
It protects those people who are unable to have the vaccine.

Can’t see why you wouldn’t. Very little downside. Given to millions without a significant safety signal. Amazing piece of science to develop this in the time scales and great job of vaccine roll out in the uk.

Do we know what the effect on our immune system will be by having the vaccine every year yet?

Why would it be every year? And why would the bodies reaction be any different to all the other vaccines you’ve (hopefully) received in your life?

And why would it be any different to being exposed to Covid every year?

We don’t know what the effect will be yet though do we? That is the issue that I can’t reconcile in my mind. Maybe I am being too cautious in my assessment of the information available.

[amgmcqueen]

Can anyone explain why i should get a rushed vaccine for a virus with a 99.04% survival rate...? A virus where the average age of death is 83...?

[MG CHRIS]

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

[speedy_thrills]

Chile overtook Bahrain for fifth place, US next?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccinati...

[Terminator X]

98elise said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

Pickled Piper said:

Just booked my two doses on the NHS online system. End of March and then June. It's a good feeling.

How so? What were your chances of having a serious case of covid to start with? Do you not trust your own immune system? Have you ever had the flu vaccine and felt good about that?

Just intrigued to know why younger people are so keen to have this vaccine when all the evidence based on 12 months of infections, hospitalizations and deaths says that they don’t need it.

Protecting others.

If they are old or vulnerable then they've been jabbed. Who are you / others protecting?

TX.

[MG CHRIS]

speedy_thrills said:

Chile overtook Bahrain for fifth place, US next?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccinati...

Could well happen looks like we are in a good 3rd place and looks like we will start to ramp back up in the coming weeks. Numbers of cases and deaths dropping fast specially considering we are testing so many per day.

[spikeyhead]

Terminator X said:

98elise said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

Pickled Piper said:

Just booked my two doses on the NHS online system. End of March and then June. It's a good feeling.

How so? What were your chances of having a serious case of covid to start with? Do you not trust your own immune system? Have you ever had the flu vaccine and felt good about that?

Just intrigued to know why younger people are so keen to have this vaccine when all the evidence based on 12 months of infections, hospitalizations and deaths says that they don’t need it.

Protecting others.

If they are old or vulnerable then they've been jabbed. Who are you / others protecting?

TX.

Because the vaccine isn't perfect, so not everyone jabbed will become immune. The more people jabbed, the fewer vectors there are for transmission.

[spikeyhead]

figures announced today for the UK
first dose second dose
437,463 56,772

[don'tbesilly]

MG CHRIS said:

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

[MG CHRIS]

spikeyhead said:

figures announced today for the UK
first dose second dose
437,463 56,772

Nice too see it back up after a few low days tomorrow should be up on that as well.

[isaldiri]

spikeyhead said:

Go on then, post some solid evidence for what you specifically claimed.

Go on then, exactly what do you have a problem wrt to what I claimed? Everything is broadly googlable, covid reinfection rates, antibody immunity, potential sterilising immunity, general hcov immunity. As I said I'm happy to defend anything i did post if you can point out anything false or incorrect.

[Pickled Piper]

Boringvolvodriver said:

Pickled Piper said:

Just booked my two doses on the NHS online system. End of March and then June. It's a good feeling.

How so? What were your chances of having a serious case of covid to start with? Do you not trust your own immune system? Have you ever had the flu vaccine and felt good about that?

Just intrigued to know why younger people are so keen to have this vaccine when all the evidence based on 12 months of infections, hospitalizations and deaths says that they don’t need it.

Several reasons; so I can visit my elderly and frail parents who are just about coping as well as protecting other people. Also, i don't trust my own immune system after a chat with a younger, fitter friend who was hospitalised last year and is still suffering some related symptoms.

[amgmcqueen]

MG CHRIS said:

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

No answer then.

What is the point of anyone other than the old and vulnerable having the vaccine?! Makes absolutely no sense.

[youngsyr]

amgmcqueen said:

Can anyone explain why i should get a rushed vaccine for a virus with a 99.04% survival rate...? A virus where the average age of death is 83...?

I really would have thought it's obvious - there are 123,000 odd thousand reasons why every adult should have one.

[MG CHRIS]

amgmcqueen said:

MG CHRIS said:

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

No answer then.

What is the point of anyone other than the old and vulnerable having the vaccine?! Makes absolutely no sense.

Because the question has been answered countless times and people like yourself still ask the same questions. If you look at the titles this is about the numbers of people vaccinated leave the pointless arguments for other threads.

[MG CHRIS]

don'tbesilly said:

MG CHRIS said:

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

Thanks 2nd doses coming in strong now my next door neighbour both in their 80s have had both doses now the one only had a 7 week gap between both doses. This is in south wales.

[GMT13]

youngsyr said:

amgmcqueen said:

Can anyone explain why i should get a rushed vaccine for a virus with a 99.04% survival rate...? A virus where the average age of death is 83...?

I really would have thought it's obvious - there are 123,000 odd thousand reasons why every adult should have one.

Do you know how many healthy (i.e don't have at least 1 pre existing medical condition) adults under 40 have died of Covid in this country? 76

That's 76. In total. In over a year. And I imagine most of those were obese (obesity is not classed as a medical condition in these figures)

There is absolutely no medical reason for any healthy 20-40 individual to take this vaccine because they're at virtually 0 risk. Even if the vaccine is incredibly safe, how can it be safer than the virus for that age group when you consider those stats?

The only reason to have it would be to 'protect others' or to avoid being excluded from society.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/u...

[snuffy]

Boringvolvodriver said:

We have never had restrictions for not having the flu vaccine every year and even one of the SAGE experts said recently, that we will have to live with covid just like we do with the flu.

So we should all have the flu vaccine now every year as well?

But the thing is, we are not treating it like flu. So in a bad year, 50,000 people die in the UK of flu. And we accept it. Now it's not acceptable it seems. So some on SAGE may say that, but that's approach is not happening.

[tertius]

amgmcqueen said:

MG CHRIS said:

Can we get back on track about the numbers please leave all the pointless repeated arguments for other ruined threads.

No answer then.

What is the point of anyone other than the old and vulnerable having the vaccine?! Makes absolutely no sense.

It’s been said above:

“ Because the vaccine isn't perfect, so not everyone jabbed will become immune. The more people jabbed, the fewer vectors there are for transmission.”

It’s very clear ... it is better for the country as whole that the vast majority be vaccinated ... it may not affect each specific individual, but that is true of almost every single vaccine programme ... do you also refuse MMR on the basis that you aren’t a pregnant woman so won’t miscarry?

Additionally there will be many people unable to have the vaccine for very good medical reasons ... the more of everyone else who has it the better for them.