UK vaccination thread started 1st May 2021

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As of Friday 30th April

34.3m first jabs
14.9m second jabs

have been given in the UK. This means that 65% of all adults have some level of protection and 28% are fully vaccinated.

Additionally evidence is currently suggesting that the vaccines are effective against the Brazilian and Indian variants 🥳

Oh lovely. Thank you ❤

www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57243400

A walk-in centre is being opened for people to receive their first Covid-19 vaccine if they live and work in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

The Bayside centre, based in the former Toys 'R' Us store in Cardiff Bay, will open to people aged 18 from Thursday.

Roughly 9.7 million first doses left then if we manage 90% of the adult population?

Ganesh Ranganathan
@ganeshran
The number of new doses administered yesterday is 574,134

England administered 484K compared to 423K last week (FD: 157K, SD: 327K)

20 million have been fully vaccinated in England

Today's estimate of #COVID19 hospital deaths - 9 (England: 6, Scotland: 2 yday, Wales: 1, NI: 0 yday)

Last Wednesday total: 8 👇

23.6m have had both according to the dashboard.

Another bumper day!

news.sky.com/story/vaccine-programme-opens-to-all-adults-in-northern-ireland-12318011

Vaccinations opening up to all over 18 in Northern Ireland

We are normally follow them by about 2 weeks don't we?

@TruelyStruttingHotpants

news.sky.com/story/vaccine-programme-opens-to-all-adults-in-northern-ireland-12318011

Vaccinations opening up to all over 18 in Northern Ireland

We are normally follow them by about 2 weeks don't we?

Fantastic! Yes I think around two weeks - NI opened online booking for 65-69 on 27 Jan, not sure when England was, but think it was a couple of weeks from memory.

Hugo is letting us down this week

Ganesh Ranganathan
@ganeshran
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The number of new doses administered yesterday is 663,577

England administered 574K compared to 544K last week (FD: 206K, SD: 368K)

he day of week record is broken for the third day in a row.

This is the highest ever count for a Wednesday (reported on Thursday)

Worrying news about the rise of cases in Bedford.... and a rise in hospitalisations on the national figures for the first time in ages.

It would be useful if they could break down the hospitalisation figures as follows:

• unvaccinated
• 2 weeks post first jab

2 weeks post second jab

.... and compare those to the % population in the same categories.

Yes - I’m getting a bit worried about the rise in cases nationally.

Jab numbers are fantastic though - 30k more than last week.

@PuzzledObserver

Worrying news about the rise of cases in Bedford.... and a rise in hospitalisations on the national figures for the first time in ages.

It would be useful if they could break down the hospitalisation figures as follows:

• unvaccinated
• 2 weeks post first jab

2 weeks post second jab

.... and compare those to the % population in the same categories.

Someone on the news this evening was saying that all the cases in hospitals were people who had not been vaccinated, unless I misheard.

In Bolton 1 in 10 covid patients were vaccinated. However we don't know how many doses or when given. Plus if they are very elderly or immune disease etc. Which makes a difference in their care and if admitted for observation.

Hospital in patients seems pretty stable at the moment. They are discharging people quickly at a guess. Which would indicate they are older vaccinated with only mild symptoms or younger healthy so less I'll because of that🤷‍♀️ We will just have to wait and see really.

We all ways know cases would go up a bit once we started to unlock. The India variant makes it seem a bit more worrying but that is leveling out in a lot of places already. Fingers crossed.

First doses in England

Second doses in England

Wales

Finally this is why we are vaccinating and how far we have come

So far only ONE overnight hospitalisation for a patient who had 2 doses out of total of 5599 sequenced cases of B.1.167.2

❤

Now that is a big flashing light sign that the vaccines work wonders after two doses. Especially because we don't know if this was a very elderly person or someone with a serious underlying condition etc.

Maybe I missed the word "fully" in what I heard: "all the cases in hospitals were people who had not been fully vaccinated" would make sense if he was for some reason not counting the one who'd had both doses? (Had covid but was actually in hospital for some other reason, maybe?)

The Janssen (J&J) vaccine has just been approved for use in the UK, breaking news on the BBC now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57283837

I don't get who we will use j&j on???

[quote nordica]The Janssen (J&J) vaccine has just been approved for use in the UK, breaking news on the BBC now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57283837[/quote]
Allelujah. It has the same clotting problems as az tho. Belgium has restricted it for over 40s only

It’s not the same risk. The CDC recorded 28 cases in 8.7 million (approx 1 in 300,000), as opposed to the 1 in 77,000 cases we have with AZ here. The German paper released yesterday on the potential cause of VITT claimed there was good scientific reasoning for this difference.

Big numbers again today.