How many have been vaccinated so far?

[Carl_Manchester]

Thankyou4calling said:

7 days in and we should be really going for it.

We knew (were told) the vaccine was coming, have we mobilised all our resources to really ramp up the mass programme.

From day 1 we should’ve been fully set up as we’ve had the time and have the people to do it.

Are there any official numbers to date or projections going forward?

Where my parents live (age - 70s) the first appointments went out earlier this week for those in the area in their 80's and a bunch of them are going in this Saturday for their first jabs.

[anonymous-user]

...thought to represent 90-99% of those at risk of dying from Covid-19.

Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
80-year-olds and over and frontline health and social care workers
75-year-olds and over
70-year-olds and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
65-year-olds and over
16 to 64-year-olds with serious underlying health conditions
60-year-olds and over
55-year-olds and over
50-year-olds and over

I wonder how far down the list we have to go, before the vaccine feeds into the easing of restrictions ?
Or maybe the whole list..
Should the above be done by Easter?

[JmatthewB]

Jimboka said:

...thought to represent 90-99% of those at risk of dying from Covid-19.

Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
80-year-olds and over and frontline health and social care workers
75-year-olds and over
70-year-olds and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals
65-year-olds and over
16 to 64-year-olds with serious underlying health conditions
60-year-olds and over
55-year-olds and over
50-year-olds and over

I wonder how far down the list we have to go, before the vaccine feeds into the easing of restrictions ?
Or maybe the whole list..
Should the above be done by Easter?

The top three on this list represent around 80% of deaths so far. There's around 6 million in those 3 groups. Once the Oxford vaccine is rolled out we could be able to vaccinate close to 2 million per week, so if the Oxford get approved before the end of the year as suggested, then by the end of January the death number will rapidly be falling.

[The Mad Monk]

Armchair Expert said:

I asked in another thread should the Scottish government be vaccinating before the EU says it is OK to do so?

What was the answer?

[pavarotti1980]

Armchair Expert said:

The EU have said yesterday that all EU nation will start vaccinations at the same time!

I asked in another thread should the Scottish government be vaccinating before the EU says it is OK to do so?

Yes because Scotland is part of the UK and the UK has granted emergency use for the vaccine via the MHRA outside the remit of the EMA (EU) in line with legislation which allows it to do so when public health need arises. All EU nations could have also done the same as the UK but they wanted some unity for the remaining 27 nations so encouraged them not to follow the UK path and wait for the EMA decision.

[98elise]

Russ T Bolt said:

yajeed said:

Same here. With a pretty small margin for wasted doses tolerable it’s the only sensible thing to do.

You could over book, but having the elderly wait even longer (in the rain) would hardly be patient focused.

Could you not have some people on standby ?

I am below age but clinically vulnerable (so fall into tranche 4 or 5 I think), if my GP asked me to be on standby if people didn't show I could be there in 10 mins of getting the nod, if they all showed nothing lost.

Same here. I'm 54 so won't be due for months, however I'm retired and live 2 streets from my our local surgery so could be there in minutes if the dose would otherwise go to waste.

There must be loads of people who could do the same.

[Shnozz]

Carl_Manchester said:

Thankyou4calling said:

7 days in and we should be really going for it.

We knew (were told) the vaccine was coming, have we mobilised all our resources to really ramp up the mass programme.

From day 1 we should’ve been fully set up as we’ve had the time and have the people to do it.

Are there any official numbers to date or projections going forward?

Where my parents live (age - 70s) the first appointments went out earlier this week for those in the area in their 80's and a bunch of them are going in this Saturday for their first jabs.

Yep, my Dad based in Hampshire has his first jab Saturday morning.

[Gargamel]

Ntv said:

100k vaccines in a week is ste.

We are destroying lives, jobs, education and society while we wait for this wonder drug.

Why don't we have 5000 teams administering this thing already?

How many med students were fast tracked in the summer, sheep dipped through vaccine training to build an army to vaccinate?

Didn't hear much about that?

Be grateful there IS a wonder drug and its already being delivered, it will scale up and we still really only have a small amount available right now.


The U.K. pre-ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine. On Nov. 4, five days before Pfizer cut its manufacturing target, Kate Bingham, chair of the U.K. Vaccine Taskforce, said 10 million could be delivered by year-end.

On Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said an initial batch of 800,000 doses will be administered starting next week, and that it was “not unreasonable” to expect 5 million by year-end — suggesting the U.K. has already lowered its expectations of how much Pfizer can deliver this year.

https://time.com/5917847/pfizer-cut-covid-19-vacci...

[Andy 308GTB]

jmflare said:

768 said:

jmflare said:

BrundanBianchi said:

Ntv said:

Why don't we have 5000 teams administering this thing already?

Because trained vaccinators don’t grow on trees.

But they've had 10 months and an unlimited money tree? Why are you making excuses? Who are you defending saying that?

You would have hired 5000 teams of people 10 months ago and had them sit on their arses in case a vaccine turned up?

Yes would've done that, that's exactly what I said down to a tee, well done.

Mass training existing staff and volunteers to administer vaccines over the last 10 months incase a vaccine, that we were pinning our exit strategy on, turns up. Sounds reasonable to me?

And I would have picked a different set of lottery numbers last week had I your obvious skills.

[Cold]

A calculator has been launched to give you an idea of where you might be in the vaccination queue. Obviously, just an estimate based on the answers you give to a handful of questions.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queu...

[Biker 1]

Cold said:

A calculator has been launched to give you an idea of where you might be in the vaccination queue. Obviously, just an estimate based on the answers you give to a handful of questions.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queu...

Apparently I'm not due the jab until end of June 2021!!!!
I'll either be dead from bat-flu, dead from liver or lung deseases, or still living in a mask ridden dystopian nightmare with a fked economy, riots, & pretty much zero joy......

[SunsetZed]

Biker 1 said:

Cold said:

A calculator has been launched to give you an idea of where you might be in the vaccination queue. Obviously, just an estimate based on the answers you give to a handful of questions.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queu...

Apparently I'm not due the jab until end of June 2021!!!!
I'll either be dead from bat-flu, dead from liver or lung deseases, or still living in a mask ridden dystopian nightmare with a fked economy, riots, & pretty much zero joy......

Lucky you, I should be between end of June and end of September, fortunately I don't put too much faith in the calculator and if lots of other people are vaccinated that helps everyone

[hepy]

Biker 1 said:

Apparently I'm not due the jab until end of June 2021!!!!
I'll either be dead from bat-flu, dead from liver or lung deseases, or still living in a mask ridden dystopian nightmare with a fked economy, riots, & pretty much zero joy......

Same here. I'm sure I saw somewhere that the first tranche, i.e. anyone older than 50, would be done by Feb/March?

[steveo3002]

Biker 1 said:

Apparently I'm not due the jab until end of June 2021!!!!
I'll either be dead from bat-flu, dead from liver or lung deseases, or still living in a mask ridden dystopian nightmare with a fked economy, riots, & pretty much zero joy......

just keep the mask on until then..its only a mask

[JmatthewB]

That tool is limited by the unknown figure of how many vaccinations we can carry out per week. Currently it's probably around 200,000, but in a few weeks time it could be over 2,000,000.

[Terminator X]

BrundanBianchi said:

Deathmole said:

Lol, they'll never be done away with.

The Chinese and Japanese ( as an example) have been mask wearers ( as part of their culture ) since the 1950s. They didn’t notice much difference when this all kicked off. I imagine mask wearing will become much more of a ‘social norm’ in many more territories, in years to come.

Afaik they wear masks because pollution not covid.

Anyhoo I won't wear one as soon as the "legal status" is removed.

TX.

[Muncher]

617,000 as of 20 December vaccinated.

https://bit.ly/3mNRZwH

[anonymous-user]

Can you opt out of the microchip one or is that compulsory?

[dmahon]

Muncher said:

617,000 as of 20 December vaccinated.

https://bit.ly/3mNRZwH

Boris said 800k in his Brexit speech today.

We could get through the vulnerable population pretty quickly if it keeps scaling up at pace.

Then it just depends if Mancock let’s us get back to normal when we are through them.

[speedy_thrills]

dmahon said:

Boris said 800k in his Brexit speech today.

We could get through the vulnerable population pretty quickly if it keeps scaling up at pace.

Then it just depends if Mancock let’s us get back to normal when we are through them.

Boris says a lot of things. According to the Governments statement it's just over 600,000 but that's only the first of 2 shots: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-600000-peo...

The government have ordered about 40m doses which finish delivery in Q1 and I seen to recall the maximum shelf life is 6 months. So I guess the'd need to administer around 220,000 doses per day on average just to distribute what they've got from one vaccine supplier.

Better pick up their feet here! BioNTech/Pfizer have delivered on their end so far, now it's up to the government and NHS. It's looking like vaccine availability won't be what bottlenecks this, particularly if this Oxford University/AstraZeneca one gets approved after Christmas.

Edited by speedy_thrills on Thursday 24th December 21:28