The Slow Down Of The Vaccine Rollout

Davepick said:
I was given a card on my 1st (and only so far) injection. It says 'make sure you keep this record card in your purse or wallet'.
It also says :-
Name of vaccine. 'Pfizer Bio Tech'. Batch no. (looks like) EJ0724_L456. Date 22.12.2020.
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Don’t suppose you could give us your credit card details, too, could you
 
The owner of Pimlico plumbers, who is not adverse to a bit of self-publicity, was actually in the media earlier this week saying that he will, from now on, only employ people who had been vaccinated. He also said that he wanted to get his existing staff vaxxed asap. On the program I listened to there was then a discussion on the legality of this - the result of which was that it was unclear as to whether this would break existing employment law.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pimlico Plumbers to make workers get vaccinations

Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a "no-brainer" that workers should get immunised.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
ElBurroSinNombre said:
Interesting piece at lunch time on the Israeli data - it may actually be good news.
The 33% figure of efficacy was for the first 14 days from vaccination. This figure suggests that some vaxxees (one third) are getting some protection before 14 days (which was supposed to be the minimum time to for the vaccine to have an effect). So actually if the other post 14 day efficacy figures remain as first reported this could mean that the vaccine is actually more effective than first thought (i.e. it starts protecting sooner at least for some).
There is still a long way to go with this. The report also mentioned that Israel offered to report all relevant information to Pfizer in return for getting the vaccine before other countries. In effect they are running a large scale clinical trial on the population of Israel. It makes sense, a smallish population of 10 million and the health and informatics infrastructure alongside an educated workforce to carry it out. The results from this will be very interesting and maybe what we heard this week isn't actually bad news. Here's hoping!
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Probably because some people already have some natural immunity so their immune memory kicks in quickly. Those without need around 2 weeks for the innate immune system to kick in. For example, if you've had covid, it's effectively your first vaccination and the first jab is your second dose.
 
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Any idea what other countries are doing about vaccine certificates or validation in allowing people to be recognised as being vaccinated?
 
Davepick said:
I was given a card on my 1st (and only so far) injection. It says 'make sure you keep this record card in your purse or wallet'.
It also says :-
Name of vaccine. 'Pfizer Bio Tech'. Batch no. (looks like) EJ0724_L456. Date 22.12.2020.
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So they dont mix the doses when you go back presumably
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Look, the science backs up the 12 week wait, you can look for articles all over the place if you want, the BMJ isn't cut and dried on anything.
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Heard on the radio yesterday that they actually want to bring the next date forward from 6 weeks to four.
Might be just for the Pfizer Bio Teac because it's not as effective as first thought.
 
I have to say that the vaccination figures are impressive.
The latest figure that I have seen was 480,000 for Jan 23rd.
Given that we need to vaccinate about 50 million this is almost 1% of the total (or 0.5% if you count the second vaccination).
If we can repeat this figure (or even better it), it will only take around 3 months for everyone to have one jab. If we can improve capacity significantly we may even get there even sooner. It's a great effort but I suppose it's early days yet. 9.5% have had at least one vaccination so far.
 
ElBurroSinNombre said:
I have to say that the vaccination figures are impressive.
The latest figure that I have seen was 480,000 for Jan 23rd.
Given that we need to vaccinate about 50 million this is almost 1% of the total (or 0.5% if you count the second vaccination).
If we can repeat this figure (or even better it), it will only take around 3 months for everyone to have one jab. If we can improve capacity significantly we may even get there even sooner. It's a great effort but I suppose it's early days yet. 9.5% have had at least one vaccination so far.
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490k first doses given yesterday and 480k on Friday - very impressive. All down to supply from the vaccine manufacturers now to keep this up as the NHS have clearly demonstrated the ability to deliver high number of doses on a daily basis.

Just imagine how many more could have been delivered if this task had been given to the government favoured management consultancies. 🤔
 
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I think If the vaccine supply stays consistent and with extra capacity adding each day I think we should be able to vaccinate 4 or 5 million per week... Now what the split between 1st and 2nd dose will be is one for the many many eminant people to discuss endlessly.
 
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