Are we vaccinating fast enough?

[SonicTheSorryRabbit]

Do you think the government is doing a good job of ensuring the maximum number of people possible receive the vaccine as quickly as possible?

Any suggestions on how the process could be speeded up? Should medics in PPE start going street by street in the worst-affected areas and vaccinating people at their front doors to minimise time and vaccine wastage from missed appointments? Also, infection risk from large numbers of people travelling to the same location to receive the vaccine.

Doesn’t matter how many staff avail - it’s being put into vials in Belgium and there isn’t enough glass for everyone who needs it. I wish it was different.

@Nameitychangity

I agree, I don't think enough is being done and people who are trained are being under utilised. I'm a veterinary nurse, would be more than happy to have a training session and crack on with helping the vaccination programme, as are all the other nurses and vets I know. I'm sure dentists, dental nurses, pharmacists, retired doctors and nurses and dentists, lab techs, and loads more people who are used to giving injections and handling medication etc would be more than happy to join the vaccination drive. We're just not being used. Thousands could be done if they opened up a stadium or similar with volunteer vaccinators, as well as drafting in the army.

So apply then!

No, we need to go faster.

Even if it is expensive, we will be more than compensated by getting our economy up and running sooner. I think the government understand this. So I believe the issues are beyond just throwing money at it. It could be:
-no available vaccine
-bureaucratic or union based red tape make it slower and the government judges that picking a fight with either of these groups will make it worse.

This said, I think we are actually ahead of every other country in the world besides Israel. And Oxford and AstraZenica created a vaccine that is much cheaper and easier to roll out than Pfizer and they did it very quickly. There is much to be proud of.

@hannahbull

What about the blood service? They have all those mobile vans that go and get blood donations on car parks year round (I've no idea how much blood is required and if recommissioning them for a few weeks would lead to a shortage!)

I'm not sure they can really help, they are on a constant drive for new donors.

I'm on maternity leave and offered to staff the vaccine clinic 2 days a week on a voluntary basis.
It was refused as they couldn't have me there voluntary, but if they paid me I'd lose a lot of my monthly maternity pay and lose a KIT day.