16.8 million people vaccinated already - brilliant!

[buttery81]

This is a continuation of the previous thread, www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4155962-10-million-people-vaccinated-already-brilliant

This thread is intended as a positive place to discuss 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 or anything else along those lines - this is probably not the thread for you.

So, to pick up from where we left off... a mind-blowing 16,875,536 people in the UK have now received their first dose of the vaccine - that’s 32% (or 1 in every 3.1) of all UK adults.

Every day, hundreds of thousands more people are gaining excellent levels of protection against this sodding virus. So, let’s keep jab jab jabbing our way onwards, upwards and out of this. Covid, we’re coming for ya!!!

If this thread lasts about the same length as the last one, they will be ramping up the 2nd jabs by then. I think we should reflect that in the thread title, when we get to it.

At the moment, I’m just soooo happy that 32% of adults have had their first jab. Amazing!

Checking in. Thank you for the new thread @buttery81

32%! That’s incredible🤩

Fantastic. DH and I (55+) both had our 1st jabs now.

So proud of our country - don't get to say that very often but it's fantastic news!

AnyFucker

Brilliant news! You're a nurse I think? x

Good idea @PuzzledObserver. I know, 32% - it’s just incredible isn’t it? We’re so close to 1 in 3 now!

You’re very welcome @Shehz21!

Great news @AnyFucker, congratulations to you and your DH!

It really is remarkable

Thanks for the new thread @buttery81, I was so worried the other one was going to fill up and we’d lose posters with no link to the new thread

DP has been booked in for his first jab next week, much sooner than we expected!

Oh thank goodness for that. Thought we were going to lose the thread if to many people came along 🙈

Tell your DC you have very important cheer work to do and a bunch of jab addicts need you😂😂😂

Place marking for my mood boosting daily fix.

Pleased to hear about the 55+ jabs! They are really cracking on. 👏

Yay! So happy for the new thread 😍

Thank you for the new thread ❤

32%🥳🥳🥳 Amazing 🥳🥳🥳🥳

So proud of our country - don't get to say that very often but it's fantastic news!

I'd say so proud of our NHS. But I won't nitpick. I agree!
It's bloody brilliant!

Ahhh, I need this tonight!

Reposting this from the the last thread:

More justification for the 12-week gap between jabs, reported on BBC:

Higher efficacy in Oxford jab with three months between doses

A three-month gap between the two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine results in higher vaccine efficacy than a six-week gap, a new study suggests.

The research indicates that with three months between the first and second dose there was an overall efficacy of 81%, compared to 55% for a six-week interval.

The first dose offered 76% protection in the three months between doses, according to the University of Oxford research published in The Lancet.

I need this thread I mean, not . Though I also need

So pleased to see people in their 50s getting their jabs. My parents are both 60 and I’m desperate for them to tell me they’ve got theirs booked.

NHS worker but not a nurse. DH got his vaccine due to being in my household. He is so thankful, but it really makes sense as theoretically I could bring the virus home to him or he could infect me so removing me from the NHS workforce.

Everyone deserves it though. Everyone, and the vaccine rollout is a huge success so we will all get there very soon.

Wow, seeing it written down like that is amazing!!!

I had my first jab today and I'm honestly really emotional about this.

I'm so incredibly proud of the way we have managed to do this - all the staff and volunteers I saw today were just fabulous. It's been organised so well and I feel really privileged to have been called in already.

@Spillanelle

So pleased to see people in their 50s getting their jabs. My parents are both 60 and I’m desperate for them to tell me they’ve got theirs booked.

Have they tried the NHS booking link? If they’re eligible now it will let them book in, they don’t need to wait for a letter/text/email.

32%. Fecking amazing [shakes head in wonder]