Birmingham only 57% uptake on vaccine in over 80’s *edited by MNHQ to point out that this headline is misleading in the extreme*

[Baileysforchristmas]

So if people don’t want the vaccine will this stop the end of lockdown?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/uk-thinktank-calls-door-to-door-covid-jabs-tackle-vaccine-disparities

No surprise. You can't make them!

No you can’t make them but will the rest of us be put back in lockdown if numbers go up?

Luckily not everywhere is like that. My area has had over 90% uptake from all categories so far.

Same as my area thank goodness, London is on the lower side though, even so our vaccine uptake is far better than the government has expected which is good news

I wondered if london was worse because

• Maybe some people moved or died or have other homes and the surgery doesnt know.

Could be some gps sellig on vaxs so might find more younger people there vaxxed with no reason for it. Or giving vaxs to their friends. Maybe more elderly had it already but mildly So are the people actually being made contact and rejecting or are they not making contact. Maybe large scale benefits fraud. Certainly i know 2 people who have moved abroad but still have uk gp. So wouldnt take up a uk vax. Maybe they are all in spain/usa etc

My area is 98% uptake

Your OP title is entirely false. The 57% uptake isn't for Birmingham. It's for two small wards in the area.

...In Birmingham’s Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East,

You're being extremely goady.

@HSHorror that’s an interesting thought, a lot of people in London have second homes, could be one reason.

I really do think once most the population is vaccinated, anyone coming into the UK should have to have the jab on arrival or as they arrive then quarantined for a week until immune system kicks in but I can’t see that happening

Given we know that vaccine uptake is lower in BAME communities, I would have thought the reason that London is lower is due to a more ethnically diverse population. I would guess (don't know the area) taht the same holds true for those areas in Birmingham with low uptake.

Ten days ago the rate of vaccination takeup in Birmingham was 85%. I can't find more recent stats.

Most of the population of those areas of Birmingham are BAME, that's where the issue lies with low vaccine uptake. It doesn't matter whether it's Birmingham or London. This is an issue that needs to be addressed, otherwise we are still going to have big outbreaks in these areas.

How many big outbreaks will it take before people change their mind fo you think?

It’s interesting how things will progress with vaccines, I hope it’s proven you are less likely to spread the virus if vaccinated, it will open up so much freedom for people who are.

The article doesn't say what your OP states . It refers to one ward in Birmingham where there is a high percentage of people from BAME backgrounds , and compares with another ward where there is a majority of people from white backgrounds, where vaccine take up is 90%.

@Baileysforchristmas

I really do think once most the population is vaccinated, anyone coming into the UK should have to have the jab on arrival or as they arrive then quarantined for a week until immune system kicks in but I can’t see that happening

It takes at least 2 weeks to 'kick in' and possibly up to 3 weeks, not a week.

That ridiculous thread title is a lie!!

It is a tiny part of the City that has a low uptake of the vaccine.

The majority of Birmingham has a high uptake.

Most Brummies are taking up the vaccine. As for the foolish people who refuse.... Their choice, I suppose. Just as long as the vaccine refusers understand that the rest of us are NOT going to continue following restrictions to protect them.

The article is totally misrepresented by the OP.

There's PHE data that show over all uptake is much higher in all Brum, close to 90% for whole area for this age group -- I dunno about two individual wards.

Uptake seems to be very high in some other ethnicly diverse cities, like Leicester, Bradford, Leeds...

@Baileysforchristmas

I really do think once most the population is vaccinated, anyone coming into the UK should have to have the jab on arrival or as they arrive then quarantined for a week until immune system kicks in but I can’t see that happening

yes thats a brilliant idea and next you will be suggesting that those of us uk residents who dont want it are barricaded into our houses until we give in and have it as well !

Thanks MNHQ, for editing the title. It was infuriating as it stood, and the OP refused to address the many people who pointed that out.

Sparkbrook is pretty much entirely a BAME population which is known to have a lower take up. This needs to be tackled on a local level.

So even in a remarkably low-uptake area, uptake is still over 50%.

Glass half full (or 57% full).

The uptake rate is on the bbc website along with the diversity of the city, ward by ward. There's almost a direct correlation between higher rates of bame and lower uptake. Doesn't make any sense, here my gp (only ones in town) said the uptake was over 95% and our rates have been far lower throughout.

It's not religious madness in this case, it's pure cultural madness.

And I don't give a shiny shit who is offended if I say if that's your "culture" you can keep it.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-55752056

A mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.

The Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.

The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.

NHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.

(contd)

This should go with that frankly fruitloop thread about there being something vaguely demonic about the vaccine or something (I'll admit I don't always read threads as closely as I should).