All over 18 year olds in the UK are encouraged to vote in a 12 hour period. Surely then people could be vaccinated in a much shorter time frame?

[Fatherbrown]

This occurred to me earlier.
On polling day the entire adult population of the UK is encouraged to turn out and vote. Schools, libraries, community centres are all turned into polling stations with volunteers manning the stations.

Voting papers are delivered to each station in time for people to vote, the electoral roll is used to mark off each person who has voted.

All of this is delivered in a 12 hour period.

Now, surely, if enough vaccines were prepared, delivered to each ‘station’ and every HCP, nurse, doctor, pharmacist was asked just for one day to commit to administering the vaccines they could get HUGE amount of people vaccinated in one day?

If this country can organise and roll out a mass voting programme a couple of times a year then surely something as important as a vaccine can be delivered quicker?

@Didkdt

Gosh dead simple you should be in government running this

So true

hmm yes. But you have first to manufacture enough vaccine (not yet done, time consuming and..you know a bit more tricky than printing a voting slip) Then it needs to be transported in stict temperature controlled conditions (even the oxford one, although less difficult still nees to be kept at a certain temp) so you know, not stuck in the boot of someones car and delivered to the polling station, then you need to have adequate clinical grade refridgeration at the station to store the vaccine and the vaccine needs to be back in this refridgeration within a certain tiemframe or has to be discarded.(not quite the same as setting up a flask of coffee in the polling station) Each vial contains either 8 or 10 doses. Once the bung is punctured for the first time the whole vial has to be used within 6 hours, so you have to plan carefully to ensure all doses can be given and none is wasted. Currently each dose has to be individually authorised by a prescriber (this will change at some point and will speed up the process a bit) so each person needs to be seen by a prescriber , assessed for their suitability, given information and then needs to give infromed consent. This all needs to be recorded. Then they need to go and actually have the vaccine. Then they need to be monitored for 15 minutes to ensure they dont have a serious reaction (what should happen for all vaccinations) Then the details of the vaccination have to be recorded correctly on the new recording system. Plus all the requirements of needing a suitable venue that meets clinical infection control requirements, all the required extra consideration around infection control and working in a covid safe way.... etc...
I do love it when people who have no clue how vaccinations work come along and suggest we line millions of people up and just stick the needle in their arm, what can be difficult LOL!

FGS OP.
Look past the end of your nose.

Don't you think that if they could do this they would? Wouldn't Boris love to boast about that?

The frightening thing is, I can imagine BJ and his band of fools debating your very point OP.
It’s some poor medical advisor’s job to explain as gently as possible what an oversimplified, ridiculous suggestion it is and why.

Yes obviously because these things are identical - a ballot paper and a vaccine. And these; a voting official and a nurse with a needle, gloves, and a medical skill. Oh, oh and a voting station (co-opted space with a couple of tables and pop-up booths) and a fully equipped clinic.
Also possibly OP and Boris Johnson; oven ready plans in common.
Fabulous.

It’s up there with ‘let’s test every school child on the first week back after the Christmas holidays with no forward planning or preparation - can’t be that hard, just line them up...’