Perfidious Albion
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The calculator said between March and May this year.. But I have an appointment at the clinic for vaccination next Friday !
For once I am ahead of the game
For once I am ahead of the game
Gove on TV this morning saying they are aiming for 30m vaccinations by mid Feb.
Hard to see how that is possible as would be 5m a week starting Monday
Gove on TV this morning saying they are aiming for 30m vaccinations by mid Feb.
Hard to see how that is possible as would be 5m a week starting Monday
Might be a little while for me.
Based on your profile, there are between 28,049,905 and 38,844,493 people in front of you in the queue for a COVID vaccine across the UK.
�� Given a vaccination rate of 1,000,000 a week and an uptake of 70.6%, you should expect to receive your two doses of vaccine and be fully protected by between 01/02/2022 and 02/07/2022.
Thanks for that.....I thought I must have misheard what he said ! Can only think he meant a stock of 30m vaccines by then......[emoji2369][emoji2369]
If we’re able to get to 2m a week through by end Jan (definitely the target according to Gove) then we’re looking at maybe half the population being vaccinated (single jab) by end April or thereabouts, and all the highly vulnerable by maybe end March - if the NHS numbers are under some kind of control by then that’s when I reckon - best case - we’ll start to to see a gradual easing of restrictions, reversing cautiously through the tiers.
I wouldn’t take any notice whatsoever of the ‘calculator’ - it won’t be accurate.
The calculator said between March and May this year.. But I have an appointment at the clinic for vaccination next Friday !
For once I am ahead of the game
Having looked at the calculator I’m glad I took part in a Vaccine trial and have probably already had one.
That's an interesting point, have they not told you yet whether you had the vaccine or a placebo?
What they ought to be aiming for is to vaccinate people as fast as the manufacturers can churn out the vaccine. If the manufacturer can produce 5m per week, then the vaccination teams should be able to vaccinate 5m per week. If the manufacturers produce 10m, then the vaccinators inject 10m. No effort, and no expense, is greater than the cost - so no effort and no expense should be spared.Gove on TV this morning saying they are aiming for 30m vaccinations by mid Feb.
Hard to see how that is possible as would be 5m a week starting Monday
What they ought to be aiming for is to vaccinate people as fast as the manufacturers can churn out the vaccine. If the manufacturer can produce 5m per week, then the vaccination teams should be able to vaccinate 5m per week. If the manufacturers produce 10m, then the vaccinators inject 10m. No effort, and no expense, is greater than the cost - so no effort and no expense should be spared.
Incidentally they can manage about 1m per week flu jabs now - about 15m jabs given annually in September-December ish. So that's the absolute minimum starting point, or should be.
Seems the calculator is complete bollocks as my dad had a call today to say his first jab is on Friday.