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16.8 million people vaccinated already - brilliant!

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buttery81 · 19/02/2021 19:19

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!!!

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buttery81 · 05/03/2021 21:57

Fabulous numbers today - we’re over 40%, wahooo! What was the 2nd doses total yesterday, does anyone know? It seems to be ramping up quite considerably doesn’t it?

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EasterIssland · 05/03/2021 22:19

@EasterIssland

todays seconds doses are higher than yesterday! 68k
@buttery81
Lindy2 · 05/03/2021 22:21

My mum had her second Pfizer yesterday and is feeling fine.

I've booked to have mine next weekend. I've been eligible for a few weeks but I've had to wait until I'd fully recovered from actually having Covid in January before booking my date. I'm hoping to be super immune after the jab!

Motorina · 05/03/2021 22:33

By moving into the 50-59 cohorts we’re now well into the working age population. (I know many 60+ are still working, but not all.). We now know this vaccine impedes transmission so vaccinating this cohort should, one hopes, have a real impact on spread. Great news!

NannyElle · 05/03/2021 23:47

I just put in his details and it worked. The age range on the front page isn't always up to date

NannyElle · 05/03/2021 23:48

He's a total technophobe!

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buttery81 · 06/03/2021 07:07

Can’t wait to get to 22 million Grin

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Blockedoff · 06/03/2021 07:14

I'm joining the vaccinated on Friday! 💉 Smile

knittingaddict · 06/03/2021 08:18

I had the long awaited text from my gp yesterday and was able to book an appointment for the first jab. It's next Saturday. I'm 57, not officially in any vulnerable groups and live in Somerset. The relief is immense.

That means that by next week my parents, my husband, my son in law (immunosuppressed) and I will have had our first doses.

knittingaddict · 06/03/2021 08:23

Forgot to say that the vaccine isn't being given at the gp surgery. It's in a large building in our city.

PuzzledObserver · 06/03/2021 11:30

@NannyElle

He's a total technophobe!
Just goes to show age isn’t everything. My mum, 85, is never off her tablet - though the she needs a bit of coaching from time to time. She’s game for anything, though.
FannyCann · 06/03/2021 11:32

I had the long awaited text from my gp yesterday and was able to book an appointment for the first jab. It's next Saturday. I'm 57, not officially in any vulnerable groups and live in Somerset. The relief is immense.

Ooh. We're North Somerset and I can't wait for DH to have his. He's not quite 55 so has to wait for the next age band.

FannyCann · 06/03/2021 11:36

I don;t quit understand, because surely it's a national website, and I am getting "if you are 56 or over" still.

I looked for DH yesterday and it said over 60 but today it is 56 and over so I will be looking every day for DH now.

DD and I were both done in January as NHS. I can't wait for the whole family to be done.

Except DD1 who is working in Spain. Don't know when she will get a vaccine there and travelling home for it doesn't look like a likely possibility for a long time. Sad

16.8 million people vaccinated already - brilliant!
WombatChocolate · 06/03/2021 11:55

2 booking systems and delivery systems running.
One is the main NHS booking site which uses the website and 119 and mostly directs people to the mass vacc centres. You can often book on there a day or 2 before the front page updates to lower the age which is eligible. The national system sends out letters with invitation to book, but they arrive about 7-10 days after it is possible to book online so by the time people get their personal invitation many have already booked and had it. Just bin letter. Others are not keeping track of website and so only look to book once they get letter.

Concurrently the GP led service is running. It contacts people usually via text or call and might book them in directly (not to the national system) or give them a text link to the local (not national) booking system which GPs use to allocate slots at their local vaccination hubs..reps rely in surgeries but often community cerntres etc and used by more than one surgery working together. They usually give appointments to the very elderly, housebound, CEV or CV groups and also those who haven’t taken up the invitation to book on the national site and who might need several chasing ups.

At the moment group 6 (CV) have mostly been done via GPs but can also now book on national system as long as they are correctly flagged as group6.

Mass hubs particularly can expand services to cover the increase in need for 1st and 2nd jabs which is coming by the end of the month, although not at big scale until April. I guess they will mostly deliver first jabs as most of the 2nd will first go to the elderly and vulnerable which the GPs will most likely be asked to deliver.
Those who booked via the national site already have their 2nd scheduled with a location...also at the mass centres, although not always the same one.

Loads and loads of people don’t seem to know which group they are or which age groups are now vaccinating and large numbers would be eligible now who do t realise, but they will she. Their letters come...so the keenies track down ahead-of-the -game info first, which helps manage demand too.

If people spread the word to their friends and relatives who are 56+ and to those 50+ to try inputting g their data from perhaps within 4-5 days, it keeps people moving through. Lots of people have never looked at the booking website as they imagine their slot must be many months off....plus, lots are just far more relaxed about all things in life and this too.

MyBossIsATwat · 06/03/2021 13:12

I’m going to be in the numbers for today, I’m currently in the waiting room at the hub after just being jabbed with Pfizer. I feel all emotional I think I have something in my eye.

TheLoneRager · 06/03/2021 13:39

Excellent explanation WombatChocolate
Thanks.

EasterIssland · 06/03/2021 13:47

@MyBossIsATwat

I’m going to be in the numbers for today, I’m currently in the waiting room at the hub after just being jabbed with Pfizer. I feel all emotional I think I have something in my eye.
That’s how I feel! Did some volunteering in my local gp. I asked whether there were spares and I got a jab at the end ! So happy!!
Mumoftwoinprimary · 06/03/2021 14:43

Latest numbers from Hugo Gye:-

422,916 additional vaccine doses registered in Flag of England yesterday (385,681 1st doses, 37,235 2nd doses)

32,081 in Flag of Scotland
29,721 in Flag of Wales

So we’ll over 400k first doses and nearly half a million second doses. Good numbers!

ScribblingPixie · 06/03/2021 15:21

So chuffed to add to the figures by getting my jab today. In and out in 6 minutes, passed through the hands of eight cheery volunteers and two vaccinators. Lots of happy eye contact with other jabees. Altogether it was my first real contact with a big group of Brits in almost a year & it felt absolutely brilliant. Managed not to cry but only just!

EasterIssland · 06/03/2021 16:07

Really good numbers !
1st 437k
2nd 50k

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21.7m and nearly 1.1m

gingeristhenewblack43 · 06/03/2021 16:41

Fantastic numbers today 🎉 well done to all involved!

🤞🏻 we can reach the 22 mill point for 1st doses tomorrow!

Mumoftwoinprimary · 06/03/2021 17:04

If we hit 22.2m tomorrow then that will be 1/3 of the entire British population.

nordica · 06/03/2021 17:23

Stupid question probably but as there's 32 million in the phase 1 groups, does that mean we're only 10 million away from moving to the 40s and 30s? I guess it all depends on uptake as well but at the current speed does that mean we are ahead of the April 15th target?

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buttery81 · 06/03/2021 17:28

Stupid question probably but as there's 32 million in the phase 1 groups, does that mean we're only 10 million away from moving to the 40s and 30s?

Good point nordica - I think it must do! I can’t believe how close we are to that point - how exciting!

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EasterIssland · 06/03/2021 17:31

@nordica

Stupid question probably but as there's 32 million in the phase 1 groups, does that mean we're only 10 million away from moving to the 40s and 30s? I guess it all depends on uptake as well but at the current speed does that mean we are ahead of the April 15th target?
Not so much as at the end I.e I’ve had it today only because there were spares , my bil has had it because he works for the hospital (diy) and they had spares etc. So many will have had them when it wasn’t really their turn. Also some of the 40/50 might have already had it cuz of being in the cev/cv/essential lists so ... So I’d not say it’s 10m who are ahead of 10m more unknown. However I think by end of March they’ll be calling those that are in their 40s as they started yesterday asking for 56+
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