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 🥳

I agree with you @PuzzledObserver April and may has mostly brought what I need, tho I'm not planning a wedding (a friends is) so I understand some people might want more. my only thing that April and may havent brought is my family as they live abroad n an amber country, hoping to visit them in July, I can self isolate and take as many pcrs as I need so I can hug my family after over 1.5 years... so ii'm hoping vaccines stop this wave and make it tiny wave

I agree with you puzzled. A few more weeks won't hurt most people. So long as we keep what we currently have. I know businesses and some occasions like weddings are an issue. However if we were to go backwards those would suffer worse.

@EasterIssland I have a colleague in the same position as you, family abroad and she hasn't seen them in nearly two years, it must be so tough.

I care about the return of singing in church as well, as I have a special service coming up in July. But if we can't, we can't.

Keep on jabbing... that way normal lies.

Glastonbury-style’ rush for Covid vaccine by 25- to 29-year-olds in England

www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/08/glastonbury-style-rush-for-covid-vaccine-by-25--to-29-year-olds-in-england

Truly outstanding

From the bbc website:

About 8 in 10 adults in the UK had antibodies to coronavirus by 17 May, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

The figures are 83% for adults in Wales, 80% in England and Northern Ireland and a slightly lower 73% for Scotland.

They're up from 77% for Wales, 76% for England, 75% for Northern Ireland and 69% for Scotland - the week before.

Antibodies are evidence of vaccination or past infection which help the body fight illness.

Not sure if this is just for residents of Waltham Forest or is open to other London borough residents:

Anyone over 25, or in any other priority group can walk-in for their Covid-19 vaccine at Walthamstow Library this week, with no need to pre-book.

If you're eligible, attend one of the following walk-in slots and get your first or second jab (if you had your first over eight weeks ago):

Thursday and Saturday: 9am-6pm
Friday: 9am -7pm

If you are unable to travel to Walthamstow Library, there are other vaccination sites available including a pop-up clinic at Leytonstone Library for those aged forty and over. Call 0208 496 3000 or book your vaccination online for this leytonstone library.

Here are all the walk-in vaccine sites open and vaccine buses in London this month

www.cityam.com/fancy-a-covid-jab-here-are-all-the-walk-in-vaccine-sites-open-in-london-this-month/

There were 1 million bookings made on Tuesday for 25 -29 year olds.
www.england.nhs.uk/2021/06/young-people-deliver-record-breaking-day-for-nhs-covid-19-jab-bookings/

DS1 was one of them. He was at work (teacher) and I queued online for ages to get in. Got him booked for the following day, and he's done now!
I am so pleased.

Can't find today's numbers among Hugo's tweets. Can someone please tell him to stop bothering with that G7 beano to Cornwall and concentrate on the important stuff like feeding us?

interesting

yesterdays values

Evidence of vaccines working

@EasterIssland

interesting

☹ Not really what we are wanting to hear is it. I suppose we will just have to see by how much.

At least most the seconds for now are AZ. So that will continue without to much trouble.

@PuzzledObserver

Evidence of vaccines working

Looking like the graphs from Israeli in the early days

So so thrilled , both my sons , one in early 20's and one in late 20's have received their vaccination texts for the end of this month . Brilliant !😊

I know @Truely I’m still waiting for the promised 1m day

@EasterIssland

I know *@Truely* I’m still waiting for the promised 1m day

Me too

500k

After the huge number of appointments made recently for vaccinations, more volunteers are needed: nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/i-want-to-volunteer/how-the-programme-works

Data entry at today's GP hub, LOTS of dates of birth in the 1990s !

🤓

Someone I know has not been vaccinated (which she absolutely does want to be) because her GP practice deregistered her without her knowledge probably a few years ago. Her mistake was not being ill often enough, so they didn't hear from her and apparently assumed she must have left the district; what she had done was get a new flat.

She is fighting it out with them at present but it is going to take weeks for her to be re-registered, and she is spitting tin-tacks about it all.

Sorry: the point of my otherwise futile post was that she is in the born-late-eighties age bracket, and unless they get pregnant, women of that age are quite likely not to call on their GPs for anything from one year's end to the next. Her experience makes me wonder how many people of that age may not have been vaccinated not because they didn't want to be, but because their records are not with a GP and they thus couldn't book with the national website.

Presumably she could call 119

Huge queues at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre pop-up vaccine site

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57452871