Vaccine rollout

[scotlandg]

Does anyone know if you have been told you are on shielding list if that means you are in the group of high risk for vaccine rollout? Just wondering when my children maybe able to return to school roughly. Had to remove them as I’m CEV and school couldn’t do anything. Thank you.

You will be in the sixth group to get it. After the over 65s and health / care workers.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advice-from-the-jcvi-25-september-2020/jcvi-updated-interim-advice-on-priority-groups-for-covid-19-vaccination

I would imagine so UNLESS your condition makes it risky, but they are working on another thing (it's like a vaccine but has another name) for those who can't have the vaccines.

I should imagine you're exactly the kind of person they want vaccinated ASAP!

Keep staying as safe as you can 🌷

They are apparently starting with care homes in 2 weeks, along with NHS staff and carers, but they haven’t announced anything else yet. You could ring your GP to see if they have any further information

Thank you. That's really helpful. I don't have an immune issue so hoping is ok. It's my little ones I feel guilty for as they have had to suffer because of my vulnerability but yes it will be wonderful to think is some way out if this. I don't like to bother doctor as know they so busy.

Sorry to piggy back, but do they know how long it is likely to take to vaccinate each group? I'm the last category and I'm not thinking about me, but just generally keen to know roughly how long it may take..

The plan for the 11 groups is to complete the programme by Easter, basically over 20-24 weeks. This all relies on vaccine supply. Rates of vaccination can’t go any faster than that. There is an anticipated slow start accelerating to a peak about 10 weeks in. The peak coincides with the inclusion of at risk cohorts.

Very reliant on large volumes of Oxford being supplied from January.

So will dif groups get dif vaccines or all get Oxford one? Also will that be the double dose one or the half plus full as obviously then goes much further.

I'd like to know this too, I'm not sure if anything has been said on this yet

I can't imagine they would let us know, even if they have detailed plans drawn up. For one, some would take this as a sign that the vaccines were simply being waved through the approval process and secondly, it might raise expectations that cannot be met.

I'm in group six too op. I can't bloody wait!

I think I will be in group 6 too, wish it would hurry up, its been a terrible year.

If we ordered 100m Oxford and 40 m Pfizer then most people will probably get Oxford. The instability problems with Pfizer means it might only be available at a few sites that can cope with this.

Oxford seems a more practical vaccine to use in a dispersed system like GP practices.

According to the Telegraph

The provisional timetable - which depends on the authorisation and arrival of millions of vaccines, is as follows:

Care home residents and staff, healthcare workers - from beginning of December;

Ages 80 plus - from mid-December;

Everyone aged 70-80 - from late December;

Everyone aged 65-70 - from early January;

All high and moderate risk under 65s - from early January;

Everyone aged 50-65 - from mid January; and

Everyone aged 18-50 - from late January; but with the bulk of this group vaccinated during March.

It depends on the vaccine. For example the vaccine test group I'm in, and another drug company have only just opened testing to ppl who are immunocompromised.

@LemonTT

If we ordered 100m Oxford and 40 m Pfizer then most people will probably get Oxford. The instability problems with Pfizer means it might only be available at a few sites that can cope with this.

Oxford seems a more practical vaccine to use in a dispersed system like GP practices.

There are apparently already manufacturing bottlenecks with the Oxford vaccine:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/24/oxford-covid-vaccine-bottlenecks-mean-uks-full-order-will-not/