The UK is now running the fastest vaccination programme in the world

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We have got a lot of things wrong but thanks to our scientists we are now leading on the way out of this

Matt Hancock's Commons statement to MPs

Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is making a statement to MPs about Covid.

He says today marks 12 weeks since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive a clinically approved vaccine.

He says the UK is now running the fastest vaccination programme in the world.

He says the halving time for hospital admissions (ie, the amount of time it takes for them to go down by half) is 18 days.

Among the over-80s it is falling every 12 days, he says.

Hancock says two more pieces of research show the impact the vaccination programme is having.

@Bluethrough

So in short, well done Boris and co - on THIS occasion you struck gold. It makes up somewhat for the previous ballsups. But please don't make any more ballsups, like rushing the exit from lockdown, else all this good work will go to waste

These "ballsups" have led to 121k and counting, deaths, one of the highest per capita in the world.

So no, its not Well Done Boris.

The poster literally made a point to say they were referring to just the vaccine rollout. I swear people either don't bother reading posts or just fancy picking am argument.

@Haffiana

UK have fully vaccinated approx 1.2% of the population.

Israel have fully vaccinated 40% of the population.

There are many other countries that have fully vaccinated a greater percentage than the UK.

This is such a stupid comment.. the whole "not fully vaccinated" theory.... one dose gives much better protection than the flu jab... do we go about saying that people who have the flu jab are only partly protected?

This is such a stupid comment.. the whole "not fully vaccinated" theory.... one dose gives much better protection than the flu jab... do we go about saying that people who have the flu jab are only partly protected?

Good grief.

It’s excellent. Well done Boris!

@BruceAndNosh

I think Israel was the fastest. but I've no complaints about the roll out in the UK

They also only have 9.5 million people !

I don’t care how many we’ve done. I’ve been vaccinating today from 8am-8.15pm. Each person I’ve vaccinated I think at least someone is more protected now.
Thank you to all the volunteers who help me do my job .

@WombatChocolate

Having delivered 20 million jabs is impressive. Some people can’t seem to bring themselves to say that or acknowledge it.

The small Israeli population meant they could cover everyone with 2 does in less time. Our decision was based in a much bigger population who would have been left unprotected if we had gone for 2 does 3 weeks apart.

The 2 are not directly comparable, but surely we can agree that things are going very well on this. Sadly lots of people on various threads calling it a shit show and a disaster because they haven’t personally been called yet and know someone younger who has, but the big picture stuff is seriously impressive. And it is the big picture stuff that will reduce transmission and save lives in a. Country of our size, which is why the approach chosen has been used.

Totally agree

Yes, it was. Let's just forget about £billions paid to tory cronies to provide (or not) services that do not work properly.
Matt Hancock has been told he broke the law handing out those contracts.
No one cares.
Until the tax rises hit to pay for those contracts of course

Oddly, I can keep all these things in my head at the same time as being pleased that the vaccine rollout is going well.

Go me.

@minchinfin love your statistics on how many countries have vaccinated over 20% of their populations. Interesting that 11 out of 18 on that list will have been U.K. supplied (10 if excluding double-counting U.K. itself)

Amazing work. So very well done, everyone involved. Including the general public, who've been rolling their sleeves up and getting the vax. The UK has one of the highest rates of vaccine acceptance in the world as well.

It shows what what can be achieved when you let the nhs run it. Instead of private companies like with test and trace. Strange that the latter was incorrectly branded as nhs while the government take credit for the vaccines.

Well done scientists and well done nhs.
M

Really happy about this! Looking forward to the day the whole family is done!
Also, the effects on transmission are looking good. This could be very well the end of the pandemic, as soon as everyone is vaccinated

@Haffiana

This is such a stupid comment.. the whole "not fully vaccinated" theory.... one dose gives much better protection than the flu jab... do we go about saying that people who have the flu jab are only partly protected?

Good grief.

An example you may understand

HildegardNightingale Thank you.

An example you may understand

Do you understand the concept that different vaccines work in different ways?

The covid vacines made by Pfizer and AstraZenica are two dose vaccines.

That is set by the vaccine manufacturers. Sage, WHO, UK Government and rest of world all understand that, because er, that is what it is.

Wtf has a random measles vaccine schedule got to do with anything, apart from having 'vaccine' in the name?

Seriously, what is the point of your posting? What are you actually trying to prove? What have you got against what I have posted? Is it just jingoism, or what?

Brilliant

Our vaccine rollout I think will start to slow down, the EU seem to have stopped exports from The Hague, even though they haven’t authorised this site for vaccines yet, on top of that they’re not being used and just sitting in fridges being wasted

www.politico.eu/article/breton-no-astrazeneca-jabs-exported-from-netherlands-after-eu-export-controls/

@Haffiana

An example you may understand

Do you understand the concept that different vaccines work in different ways?

The covid vacines made by Pfizer and AstraZenica are two dose vaccines.

That is set by the vaccine manufacturers. Sage, WHO, UK Government and rest of world all understand that, because er, that is what it is.

Wtf has a random measles vaccine schedule got to do with anything, apart from having 'vaccine' in the name?

Seriously, what is the point of your posting? What are you actually trying to prove? What have you got against what I have posted? Is it just jingoism, or what?

www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-dose-idUSL2N2L20LN

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
What has that got to do with the subject of this thread which is the speed of the UK vaccination program?

It reminds me of people who answer exam questions by throwing everything they can think of into the answer without answering the actual question whatsoever.

I honestly didnt realise how much of the infrastructure of the Vaccination programme was based on unpaid volunteers. That's absolutely amazing. Well done everyone who gives up their time to contribute

A friend is involved with the vaccine roll out and they are planning on massively increasing the number of doses administered from next week. If all goes to plan they definitely won't be slowing down, they'll be speeding up.

@Sunshinegirl82 that’s such good news 😊

I think it’s bloomin’ fantastic and well done to all those involved - NHS, unpaid volunteers and everyone having the jab.

I don’t care about who’s fastEST, we’re still fast and that’s making us all safer, faster. For now 1 jab is good enough and I always agreed with the strategy.

Light is at the end of what’s been a long dark tunnel and no one is bursting my balloon with their negativity and pedantics.

Go vaccinators!!

Decent numbers today

mobile.twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1367475267720142854

Depends how you count. In my opinion you need to look at percentage of a country's population that have had the second vaccine. If you look at that, the UK is not doing so well at all