At least 15 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.....
It can but it rarely does.
Israel Covid vaccine data shows extremely low rate of infections
Only 0.04% of people caught virus a week after second dose and 0.002% needed hospital treatmentwww.theguardian.com
Now the challenge is getting 'everyone' vaccinated, polls in December suggested only 71% of the population here would take it!
I think the last 6 weeks might have softened a few coughs, this has been a tough lockdown and people will realise that vaccines are the most efficient way to get back to a semblance of normality.Now the challenge is getting 'everyone' vaccinated, polls in December suggested only 71% of the population here would take it!
Great link, I couldn't believe GSKs decision, Merck too, two renowned vaccine makers and they are simply on the sidelines.A high level reason for lack of vaccines is the failure by the worlds 3 largest vaccine companies Merck GSK and Sanofi
Why the world’s three biggest vaccine makers failed on Covid-19
Less than a year on, mRNA inoculations look likely to change the industry foreverwww.irishtimes.com
@EmmDee yes but the UK have deliberately made that decision to administer the first dose as quickly as possible and hold back on the second dose until much later, most of the benefits of the vaccine come from the first dose anyway, the benefit of the booster shot is marginal, maybe good for the individual getting both shots but society at large benefits by getting many more people vaccinated with one dose quickly. We can criticize the UK for many things but their approach and implemention of their vaccine program has been world class.
You wouldn't be far off, another thing that popped into my head today was with the UK striving on with the initial dose, will people " bother" going for the second?I was just looking at the vaccine numbers for Ireland Vs UK. Their rollout of first jabs is incredible but I wonder are they going to have to slow significantly to catch up.
My "back of the envelope" calculations... In the UK, about 3% of those who have gotten a first jab have received the second (Vs roughly 50% here). I might have it wrong but it looks like our rate of full vaccination per population is twice that of the UK (approx 90k Vs approx 500k)
@EmmDee yes but the UK have deliberately made that decision to administer the first dose as quickly as possible and hold back on the second dose until much later, most of the benefits of the vaccine come from the first dose anyway, the benefit of the booster shot is marginal,
The media and many on here are obsessed with these percentages but they don't matter that much as they capture all infections no matter how minor. Much more important is the percentage of those who after being vaccinated develop serious Covid-related symptoms or even die. Here the Pfizer vaccine is almost 100% effective as the Israeli study shows.According to Pfizer the first dose is 52% effective. This increases to 95% upon the second dose.
In Israel they’ve found the first dose to be less effective than the Pfizer figure of 52%.
Who will be in a better place in a year's time the UK or NZ.
Interested that you mentioned that New Zealand only started vaccinating this week and small numbers. Who will be in a better place in a year's time the UK or NZ. They have invested so much capital in zero covid that they won't be able to open an inch until they get everyone vaccinated. The UK will begin opening substantially in next few months. That will also pose great difficulties for us much more than last summer trying to maintain restrictions into a second summer when our big neighbours is open
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