16.8 million people vaccinated already - brilliant!

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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!!!

@CaveMum

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.

❤

Are we allowed a teensy bit of politics-type comment on this thread? Because things like that study quoted above that show a long gap between doses does work make me love searching back on Twitter/MN to where people were screaming "THIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING!!! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS WITH THE LONGER GAP!!!" with great joy

See also the more historical "WE MUST JOIN THE EU VACCINATION PROJECT, WE'LL NEVER COPE ON OUR OWN!!!"

There, got it off my chest now

It’s bloody brilliant! Well done to the NHS workers and volunteers involved in this!

@HelloThereMeHearties

Are we allowed a teensy bit of politics-type comment on this thread? Because things like that study quoted above that show a long gap between doses does work make me love searching back on Twitter/MN to where people were screaming "THIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING!!! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS WITH THE LONGER GAP!!!" with great joy

See also the more historical "WE MUST JOIN THE EU VACCINATION PROJECT, WE'LL NEVER COPE ON OUR OWN!!!"

There, got it off my chest now

I think that’s permitted It’s amazing how many MNers are self-trained virologists/vaccine experts isn’t it 🤔

Had mine today . Took exactly 4 minutes from walking in the door to leaving clutching my AZ paperwork . Bloody brilliant.

I’ll give a shout out to the members of the armed forces who have helped in the vaccine rollout too. DH is ex-RAF logistics branch and this is exactly the kind of thing he would have been drafted in to help with (he actually left in January last year so literally just missed out on being involved). I know they will be working every hour god sends to keep the supply chain up and running but they really are experts in this kind of thing and I’m so glad it wasn’t outsourced to a private company.

People complain about the armed forces, but they do so much more than just “fight”, as some folk on here sadly seem to think.

I have my vaccination booked next Tuesday. Woof... I'm actually counting down... Its the first time in my life I've felt vulnerable. I worked until March last year, worked from July to November in a customer facing environment (classed as a keyworker) meeting with clients who I had no association with. I'm overwhelmed at the speed of the vaccination.. Underwhelmed at the unfairness of the postcode lottery...i don't however blame the NHS or indeed the GP practices its just the overwhelming human nature to want to protect as many people as possible. Roll on Tuesday... Its hard to define when your an older single parent how important it is too feel 'not so vulnerable'.

The whole roll out is brilliant. And weirdly, do you know what else I’m taking as good news- all the threads about queue jumping - before the roll out I thought there was a lot of rhetoric about saying the vaccines were rushed etc and lots of people saying they wouldn’t be having it. I think it’s brilliant that not only are people having it when called but that people actually do very much want it that we are quibbling over who gets it next. The take up rates so far have been amazing.

Woop!! Amazing news, what an achievement

I think I'm going to cry once my parents get the vaccine!

"I'd say so proud of our NHS. But I won't nitpick."

The NHS have been amazing but let's not pretend this would have happened without the actions of our government, whether you like them or not.

Blatantly place-marking
To think my teenage children may be vaccinated in near future and all there friends are ready and waiting ❤️

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.

Gosh, thanks for highlighting that CaveMum - 55% to 81% is a huge difference isn’t it?

@HelloThereMeHearties totally agree

@CaveMum

I’ll give a shout out to the members of the armed forces who have helped in the vaccine rollout too. DH is ex-RAF logistics branch and this is exactly the kind of thing he would have been drafted in to help with (he actually left in January last year so literally just missed out on being involved). I know they will be working every hour god sends to keep the supply chain up and running but they really are experts in this kind of thing and I’m so glad it wasn’t outsourced to a private company.

People complain about the armed forces, but they do so much more than just “fight”, as some folk on here sadly seem to think.

Really good point! Thanks to the NHS, the volunteers, the armed forces, the people who signed up for the vaccinations studies, and everyone else involved!

@CaveMum

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.

That's great. But the initial efficacy % was higher for 2 doses of the Oxford vaccine, was it not? (I'm delighted the vaccines are doing well, and I have faith in them, can I say).

Been 3 weeks since my vaccination, my brother and brother in law have had theirs this week.

I had mine on Wednesday.

Pfizer at local GP hub.

I feel so so much calmer now and am counting down to the 3 week mark after seeing in the news today that pfizer is 85% effective after 1 dose.

Maybe I can stop jumping into roads to avoid people on pavements 😂 (yes I'm one them! 🙈)

The government have done a cracking job with this. But biggest shout out to those administering the vaccine and organising the effort.

Marking place on my Mental health soother!

Thanks everyone

Brilliant work

Has anyone posted on here yet the news that the Pfizer vaccine may be safe to store in an ordinary freezer?

That would be wonderful for getting it out to more people, in different settings.

@HelloThereMeHearties

Are we allowed a teensy bit of politics-type comment on this thread? Because things like that study quoted above that show a long gap between doses does work make me love searching back on Twitter/MN to where people were screaming "THIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING!!! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS WITH THE LONGER GAP!!!" with great joy

See also the more historical "WE MUST JOIN THE EU VACCINATION PROJECT, WE'LL NEVER COPE ON OUR OWN!!!"

There, got it off my chest now

Do you then bomb spam them with the latest results. I do

(Yes I am a sad bored person at the moment but I know how to amuse myself 😂)

To be fair, ordering the vaccines is 1 thing the government has got right.

And the NHS has rolled them out pretty well.

That's great. But the initial efficacy % was higher for 2 doses of the Oxford vaccine, was it not? (I'm delighted the vaccines are doing well, and I have faith in them, can I say).

Sure you are.

@HelloThereMeHearties

Are we allowed a teensy bit of politics-type comment on this thread? Because things like that study quoted above that show a long gap between doses does work make me love searching back on Twitter/MN to where people were screaming "THIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING!!! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS WITH THE LONGER GAP!!!" with great joy

See also the more historical "WE MUST JOIN THE EU VACCINATION PROJECT, WE'LL NEVER COPE ON OUR OWN!!!"

There, got it off my chest now

Ha I know. And the rest

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

That's great. But the initial efficacy % was higher for 2 doses of the Oxford vaccine, was it not? (I'm delighted the vaccines are doing well, and I have faith in them, can I say).

Sure you are.

Yes I'm sure I am. I was ecstatic to be vaccinated. It is wonderful that we have vaccines so quickly. The vaccines are as JVT has no doubt said, the light at the end of the tunnel. Roll on the next dose.