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 🥳

Thank you very much, BigWoollyJumpers and MRex. Encouraging news.

I volunteer in a vaccine centre and we have a lot of people begging for 2nd doses after 4 or even 3 weeks as 'other countries do'. Most of them seem to want to complete the course to show fully vaccinated status for travel, rather than concerning themselves with maximum protection. We are not allowed in our centre to shorten the gap below 8 weeks, but a few people find that very hard to accept. I have no say in the decisions but will be more confident in supporting those who do in their 'discussions' with the public, specially as far as AZ is concerned.

OTOH, a few people have delayed beyond 12 weeks for various reasons and are very worried. The staff reassure them but people often turn to the stewards for support while they wait and I shall feel happy about encouraging them about the professionals' message.

Your timing was excellent as yesterday evening I had the pleasure of having it carefully mansplained to me that protection from immunity definitely doesn't last beyond 6 months. He has no scientific background!

Your timing was excellent as yesterday evening I had the pleasure of having it carefully mansplained to me that protection from immunity definitely doesn't last beyond 6 months. He has no scientific background!

I sincerely hope you sent him off to do more extensive reading!

@amicissimma

Thank you very much, BigWoollyJumpers and MRex. Encouraging news.

I volunteer in a vaccine centre and we have a lot of people begging for 2nd doses after 4 or even 3 weeks as 'other countries do'. Most of them seem to want to complete the course to show fully vaccinated status for travel, rather than concerning themselves with maximum protection. We are not allowed in our centre to shorten the gap below 8 weeks, but a few people find that very hard to accept. I have no say in the decisions but will be more confident in supporting those who do in their 'discussions' with the public, specially as far as AZ is concerned.

OTOH, a few people have delayed beyond 12 weeks for various reasons and are very worried. The staff reassure them but people often turn to the stewards for support while they wait and I shall feel happy about encouraging them about the professionals' message.

Your timing was excellent as yesterday evening I had the pleasure of having it carefully mansplained to me that protection from immunity definitely doesn't last beyond 6 months. He has no scientific background!

Ah that's interesting. DS is desperate to get his 2nd dose asap. He's a teacher in a school where they have more cases than at any time before. No plans to travel, just wants protection. He was planning to go round all the pop up sites and try his luck.

Good day for 2nd jabs today, I wasn't expecting that! Two more squares filled in today on blocky and only 3 squares (approximately 1.5 million jabs) off the final row for 1st doses, wahoo!

getting there

Hugo is “retiring”

We've reached 89% for first doses, seems to have taken a long time to get there from 88%.

And 74.8% second doses.

Covid-19: More than 75% of UK adults now double-jabbed

covidvax has it as 58.64% of entire population.

This thread has been as slow as the recent vaccine rates :-)

Do you reckon we will get to 90%? I was initially thinking 92%, but I’m not so sure now. Then again, they’re going to offer it to 16 and 17 year olds, which will mess up the metrics somewhat.

"Then again, they’re going to offer it to 16 and 17 year olds, which will mess up the metrics somewhat."

It will make it look better than it really is. Ourworldindata doesn't distinguish by adult population, but by total population.

ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=GBR~FRA~DEU~GRC~ITA

We're doing OK by that as well, on par with/slightly ahead of our European neighbours.

I’m desperately hoping to get to the last row of blocky for 1st doses - so close now!

@Imfedupwithallofthis

"Then again, they’re going to offer it to 16 and 17 year olds, which will mess up the metrics somewhat."

It will make it look better than it really is. Ourworldindata doesn't distinguish by adult population, but by total population.

ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=GBR~FRA~DEU~GRC~ITA

We're doing OK by that as well, on par with/slightly ahead of our European neighbours.

I was thinking of Blocky, which counts adults only. Will they change Blocky to count % of over 16’s, or leave it as adults only, I was wondering.

Puzzled. I was getting a bit confused 😕

I was thinking that vaccine centres would be reporting total doses given, regardless of age, though blocky says specifically people aged 18 or over.
So blocky should remain the same.

There again, what about the 17yr 9mth who are allowed vaccines as 18 yr olds, which category do they go in?

Vaccination rates, including blocky, now refer to "the number of people of all ages who have received a Covid‐19 vaccination"
Blocky says "The denominator is the 2020 mid-year population estimate for those aged 16 and over."

So I would fully expect us to reach a figure higher than 90% for first doses.

I’m pessimistic now about us reaching over 90% on blocky. We were almost there with over 18’s, but I don’t expect take up among 16 and 17 year olds to be as high, so that will drag the overall percentage down a bit.

However, there will be more people vaccinated overall, so happy days.

Interesting you think the rate of 16/17 year olds will be low puzzledover as DD and her friends are all chomping at the bit.
A couple of questions please…

1. what gap is required between an overseas holiday and 1st vaccine (Pfizer) - I was asked about hols when I had mine but haven’t read anything. DD(16) back from hol and wants hers. She’ll be doing the PCR at 2 days obviously.
2. what gap is required between Pfizer and flu vax? this is for DD(18) and second vax

I posted a separate thread on this but thought you knowledgeable people might be able to help me

Does this paper suggest that the individual absolute risk reduction following vaccination is less than 2%? I gather from MRex that this might be impacted by transmission rates but I'm not sure what the paper actually concludes - anyone willing to help me out?

Sorry, this paper

go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext

@NotDonna I’m just going by the reporting that uptake has been lower in younger than older age groups and assumed that will continue, but freely admit that could be completely wrong.

Re your questions - last Autumn they were saying 28 days gap between flu and COVID jabs, but that was evidently precautionary. They are planning the booster jabs to be administered at the same time as flu, so they must have decided it’s safe and effective. Don’t know about holiday gap, sorry.

covidvax.live/location/gbr

According to this Wales has reached 70% of population completely vaccinated.

I know DD1 frinds in 16 and 17 age braket many have had letters in last few days invited for vaccines satrting next week- not DD1 yet as she's just turning 16- and all are keen to have it. They've had most of their GCSE years disrupted I think they all want their next courses to be as disruption free as possible.

I know Wales is only part of UK with rising rates

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58280710

It seems to be in 17-24 group that's DH students ages and DD1 friends ages - while they have started socializing going places I more I wonder if it's more that many/most have started public facing jobs - shops, bars etc ect so I wonder if it's that age group picking up summer/p/t jobs.

Just to say my 17 year old and his gf got vaccinated at a festival two weeks ago. Pzifer. No problems and a lot of there friends have already had vaccination ❤️

Blocky now showing percentage of children/adults over the age of 12 who have been vaccinated. Makes the 90% more difficult to achieve, but hopefully we will get there.
Figures up until 6 Oct -

78.4% double vaccinated
85.3% single vaccinated

@Imfedupwithallofthis. Just seen locally where I live in Woking Borough the updated vaccination figured shows 1,25O which is great as there are no walkins around here at the moment, so hope it’s the 12-15 age group which are getting the vaccine.

Not sure if it was there yesterday or not.
Blocky has now got a 3rd colour - very dark green/black for boosters.

So far 6,706,468 boosters have been given.