Covid 19 vaccine vaccination numbers, why won't they tell us?

[MG2020]

I've been looking for a few days about the number of people vaccinated in the UK. However, this appears to be some kind of secret.

Does anyone know how many people have been vaccinated and how many vaccinations we have in the UK and what we can expect by mid Jan 2021?

I fear this secrecy means that things are not going to plan and when Matt Hancock said the other day that tens of thousands of people had been vaccinated, it was far from true.

You may recall the figures about Covid 19 tests when we were told x amount of tests were carried out but they failed to declare that everyone had at least two tests and many NHS staff and others in hospital were being tested several times a day therefore 100k tests may have been 20k tests in reality.

I want the jab and so do our children but both are severely allergic so we are praying for others to come on line ASAP.

so how many vaccines does the UK have and how many people will get the jab by the end of the year then end of January, please?

Considerably more than 800k of the Pfizer vaccine. The first batch was of 800k and more batches have since been approved and supplied. Details are secret for security reasons.

The AZ/Oxford one is expected to be approved next week and will be rolled out from the beginning of January.

I would guess 8-10M people will have been vaccinated by the end of January.

There are several people on this thread who are clearly quite close to the rollout project, but no-one is going to be able to provide you with the proof you want. You’ll just have to wait and see.

Oh, and for the record, the government is incompetent, corrupt and shameless, and have made this more difficult than it needed to be.

Why haven’t we been told how many other Pfizer vaccines have been delivered. Every day the news is getting worse and worse.

Latest US numbers released:
mobile.twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1340762759538110464

500,000 vaccinated in the U.K. - good start

MG2020

Please do the maths at the surrent rates.

I've done the maths. You're wrong. By decades.

@WiseUpJanetWeiss

so how many vaccines does the UK have and how many people will get the jab by the end of the year then end of January, please?

Considerably more than 800k of the Pfizer vaccine. The first batch was of 800k and more batches have since been approved and supplied. Details are secret for security reasons.

The AZ/Oxford one is expected to be approved next week and will be rolled out from the beginning of January.

I would guess 8-10M people will have been vaccinated by the end of January.

There are several people on this thread who are clearly quite close to the rollout project, but no-one is going to be able to provide you with the proof you want. You’ll just have to wait and see.

Oh, and for the record, the government is incompetent, corrupt and shameless, and have made this more difficult than it needed to be.

I'm now going to stop reading Mumsnet as you've given me the hope and positivity I need (group four,so hoping if your right I might get the call in January 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞)and I don't want to tarnish it tonight 😉

So one of my friends sent me a message about being a vaccinator today. I know another person signed up to do this who has attended training and heard from another that they are vaccinating in care homes in Wales next week. Havent checked the local vaccination centre recently but the vaccine is getting out to the high risk.

You are indeed wrong by decades.

DF in Care Home. No sign of vaccine. Late 80s. DM nearly 90 living independently again no sign of vaccine.

Are we being lied to? Surely if there are more Pfizer vaccines they would be shouting it from the rooftops and jabbing all over the place.

how many times is it necessary to repeat that this is avaccine that is extremely tricky to handle. It is not a yoghurt to be taken out of a normal fridge and put back in, it needs special storage and transport. That is less difficult to arrange in some locations than others. distribution will be uneven.

DF in Care Home. No sign of vaccine. Late 80s. DM nearly 90 living independently again no sign of vaccine.

I knew half a dozen people over 80 who have been vaccinated. I think it depends on where you live and how competent your local GP surgeries/health authorities are.

I know half a dozen...

DH is a GP - they have started giving vaccinations. Taking some time to get the systems in place but they have had some of their 90 year olds in for their first vaccination.

@notevenat20

DF in Care Home. No sign of vaccine. Late 80s. DM nearly 90 living independently again no sign of vaccine.

I knew half a dozen people over 80 who have been vaccinated. I think it depends on where you live and how competent your local GP surgeries/health authorities are.

The competent comment is a bit rough. It will just roll out to some areas faster than others like you said. No GP can get it quicker because they are more competent.

If you make comments like that we will have people criticising there GP next.
WHY AREN'T YOU GIVING MY 90 YEAR OLD MOTHER THE VACCINE. YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR JOB. GET THE VACCINE HERE NOW.

I think it depends on where you live and how competent your local GP surgeries/health authorities are

This isn’t about competence.
Our local GP wasn’t contacted about the vaccines until this week, and then it was to be told that they wouldn’t be doing any. They will all be done at a ‘hub’ 10 miles away, starting in Jan.

Agree that this is not entirely about competence. You cant magic up freezers capable of storing something that needs -70C. It's about where it is practical to do vaccinations and use a whole batch before it spoils.

What I meant by competence was that in my local area they had all the agreements between gp surgeries, who would be delivering the vaccine and how to contact the people who would get it in the right order sorted before any vaccine was available. This meant they have contacted over 80s and started vaccinating them very quickly.

@notevenat20

What I meant by competence was that in my local area they had all the agreements between gp surgeries, who would be delivering the vaccine and how to contact the people who would get it in the right order sorted before any vaccine was available. This meant they have contacted over 80s and started vaccinating them very quickly.

That isn’t down to the GP surgeries themselves though. Ours were given absolutely no information from the government regarding vaccinations. They had agreed a system internally for delivering them when they came, but were told this week that they will never be receiving any. They were told this week that the people in our village will be vaccinated at an entirely different surgery in a different town. In fact it’s in a different county.

They were told this week that the people in our village will be vaccinated at an entirely different surgery in a different town.

What level of govt made that decision?

I’ve got no idea, I’m not privy to that level of information. The surgery itself certainly wasn’t involved in the decision making.

""They were told this week that the people in our village will be vaccinated at an entirely different surgery in a different town.""

Actually if you read the NHS guidance letter which are publicly available, each Primary Care Network was asked to nominate a single site to be its designated vaccination point. So the decision was made by your local PCN.

Jesus, please believe me that there are enough difficulties in getting the vaccine safely through the 'last mile' and delivered to a single site per PCN but you want to make it even more complex by having every surgery delivering the jabs??

@ChequerBoard

""They were told this week that the people in our village will be vaccinated at an entirely different surgery in a different town.""

Actually if you read the NHS guidance letter which are publicly available, each Primary Care Network was asked to nominate a single site to be its designated vaccination point. So the decision was made by your local PCN.

Jesus, please believe me that there are enough difficulties in getting the vaccine safely through the 'last mile' and delivered to a single site per PCN but you want to make it even more complex by having every surgery delivering the jabs??

No I don’t want that at all. I completely understand why one surgery has been nominated. I was just responding to the PP who said that the speed and delivery of the vaccine was due to the competence of the GP surgery, when it has absolutely nothing to do with that at all.

To those questioning the supply chain, one of DD's friends is military and been seconded to distribute vaccine, not even allowed to tell family where or how for security reasons but he said it's going to plan despite the ports and many more are on standby from the 28th December to distribute the Oxford/Az vaccine. You won't hear definitive details of movements because terrorists are a potential threat as always

@FeelingBIue

MG2020

Please do the maths at the surrent rates.

I've done the maths. You're wrong. By decades.

More to the point - doing the maths at the current rate is nonsensical. Because the rate started low, and is accelerating - as it was always planned to.

As a rough estimate, by the time all the GP practices who are to be involved in vaccinating are up and running, we will be able to vaccinate half a million people a day - assuming sufficient supplies of vaccine.

I’ve made this point - about the rate starting slow and ramping up - before. You are not listening, OP. You are wilfully ignoring it with your “do the maths on the current rate”. Why is that?

Apparently the UK has now vaccinated 0.74 in every 100 of the population.

Does that really mean we are getting that close to 1 in every 100 people or am I miss understanding it.

Yes, approaching 1 in 100 have had a single dose of the 2 they will need.
In fact it’s probably over 1 in 100 by now because the figure was given out on Sunday afternoon.