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10 million people vaccinated already - brilliant!

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buttery81 · 04/02/2021 10:55

This is a continuation of the previous thread, www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4145954-6-3-million-people-vaccinated-already-brilliant

This thread is intended as a positive place to observe our remarkable vaccine rollout as it progresses and to celebrate the ever increasing numbers as we go.

Polite notice: conspiracy theorists, doommongers and those looking for endless debate over vaccine efficacy, leave vs remain and one-legged trousers - this is probably not the thread for you.

So, to pick up from where we left off... a truly tremendous 10,021,471 people in the UK have now received their first dose of the vaccine - that’s 18.9% (or 1 in every 5.3) of all UK adults.

There’s no doubt about it - there is an unmistakable light at the end of this long, long tunnel and every day it’s getting brighter. Come on folks - let’s do this!! Grin

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TheHateIsNotGood · 18/02/2021 16:38

Cross-post with Dutch - the difference could be that mine was organized via GP Lists, not Central NHS Bookings.

Maybe it was a GP Priority List session as the first question asked was what GP Surgery I was from and we were directed to the Tables dealing with different Surgeries.

SomethingOnce · 18/02/2021 16:39

Looking forward to more jab jabber on the next thread...

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buttery81 · 18/02/2021 16:45

@Fgs1 my mum and dad were given a date for their 2nd jab when they were booked in for their first.

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PuzzledObserver · 18/02/2021 16:54

If you go to a hospital hub or mass vaccination centre, you get both appointments at once. Although if you were in the early ones who had their 2nd appointment cancelled (like DH) they contact you later with a new date.

If you go to a GP hub, the text says you’ll be contacted again to arrange 2nd appointment. At least, mine did.

crosstalk · 18/02/2021 17:22

Very pleased my CEV DP has had his first. But he'd fallen off the surgery CEV list as he was told when he asked them - he got his on 119 As did I a month later but I'll have a two and a half hour round car trip for the first one and if I didn't drive it would be four hours.

While I welcome the high proportion of vaccinations in the UK I do wonder why logistics are such a hard thing to deal with (weather apart). Supermarkets deal with it day in day out - and it's an army speciality - and presumably ONS and the NHS combined have a good knowledge of who is where in terms of those needing jabs in what tiers.

Fgs1 · 18/02/2021 17:29

[quote buttery81]@Fgs1 my mum and dad were given a date for their 2nd jab when they were booked in for their first.[/quote]
Ah thank you 😊

knittingaddict · 18/02/2021 17:41

My husband just had his text from the GP to book his first vaccination. I feel quite emotional about it. He is 63, but might possibly be in the CV group due to previous cancer and only having one kidney. I'm hoping our area has got to the over 60's and that I won't be far behind. I'm 57.

knittingaddict · 18/02/2021 17:42

We live in the Bath area, if that helps.

thatgingergirl · 18/02/2021 18:06

Gosh Crosstalk, whereabouts in the UK do you live? DH had his vaccination this morning and we left the house and were back again, all done, within an hour and a quarter!

TheHateIsNotGood · 18/02/2021 18:49

Geographically - I'm in NW Devon, vaxxed at Local Hub 10 miles away with the Pfizer one. All good, no side effects.

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buttery81 · 19/02/2021 09:31

What are people’s vaccine predictions for today? I’m thinking we’ll be just short of the big 17 million!

DH’s aunt lives in Spain, she’s 72 and hasn’t heard a peep about when she will get her first dose of vaccine. If she was in the UK she’d have had it weeks ago!

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Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 19/02/2021 09:46

Prediction for today: 16.9 million

On Sunday we should hit that 17.7 million/ 1 in 3 adults no matter what Smile

HalfDutchGirl · 19/02/2021 10:05

At the vaccine hub this morning everyone on the list had birth dates in the mid to late 1950s and a lot more CEV and carers etc coming in, I can see a marked difference from even just a week ago.

1 in 3 adults is phenomenal!

Blessex · 19/02/2021 10:15

My friends CEV daughter was vaccinated this week and she is going today as her carer. They are definitely motoring through the groups. I am in my late 40s and now starting to think I may be called within 2 months which is incredible if so.

PuzzledObserver · 19/02/2021 10:16

@HalfDutchGirl Interesting that more CEV are coming in... I wonder if these are people newly added to the list in the great Shielding rethink?

And people born in the late fifties are aged 60-65, so group 7. I was about to say they must have whizzed through group 6, but then of course group 6 are being done by GP hubs. It would make sense that vaccination centres would move on to group 7 if they’ve invited all their group 5’s.

Do you know anything about what happens to people who don’t respond to the invitation? Is the invitation repeated after so long if they haven’t booked?

Frazzled2207 · 19/02/2021 10:46

at this rate we will be at 20 million within a week won't we. That is incredible.

lurker101 · 19/02/2021 10:51

I helped out at a London vaccine hub this week, and was told they’re now inviting the over 50s age group, which is fantastic news.

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buttery81 · 19/02/2021 11:01

at this rate we will be at 20 million within a week won't we. That is incredible.

Can you imagine hitting 20 million?! I can’t wait!

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buttery81 · 19/02/2021 11:02

I helped out at a London vaccine hub this week, and was told they’re now inviting the over 50s age group, which is fantastic news.

Very encouraging news lurker!

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NeedToGetOuttaHere · 19/02/2021 13:35

My DH (54), myself (52) and my DS(22) had our vaccinations yesterday evening. I woke up feeling about 20% like I had flu but a nice long bath sorted me out. My DH is completely normal and just went for a run. My DS does feel
like he has a mild flu, he still has an appetite, and is taking painkillers for the chills. I’m sure in a day or two he’ll be back to normal.
I read that youngsters are more likely to have some side effects from the vaccination.

Frazzled2207 · 19/02/2021 14:00

@NeedToGetOuttaHere
Wow. Did your ds get lucky on the day or was he in group 6? Either way great to have all three of you vaccinated. I’m in my 40s and getting excited now

NeedToGetOuttaHere · 19/02/2021 14:02

I’m group 6 and I think they decided to invite us all together. My DH and DS are not group 6. I think my DH is group 9 and my DS is not in a group yet. We all got the text on I think Tuesday to book for yesterday.

Mumoftwoinprimary · 19/02/2021 14:13

Over 450k more doses yesterday.

400,823 additional vaccine doses registered in England yesterday (396,262 1st doses, 4,561 2nd doses)

36,032 in Scotland
22,523 in Wales

Not sure how Scotland and Wales will be split between first and second doses but we’ll probably be between 16.8m and 16.9m in total.

“16.8m people vaccinated already - brilliant!” sounds like a title of a thread that I want to be on!

CoffeeandCroissant · 19/02/2021 14:14

25% of the UK population have received at least one dose of the vaccine (1 in every 4 people).
mobile.twitter.com/ganeshran/status/1362766621954220049

PuzzledObserver · 19/02/2021 14:25

I came on to post the link and you beat me to it!

How close are we to 1 in 3 adults? How many adults are there in the UK?