To InfiniTier and beyond ....

[dancemom]

Tiers, tiers and more tears ....

That means I don’t get it, not an instruction not to get the vaccine 😃

Agree that if the issue was supply of the vaccine, all four parts of the UK would be performing at the same rate. Scotland being behind is SO frustrating.

Looking at the travelling tabby graph it's clear - we had an absolutely storming week mid-Feb, with almost 60k people vaccinated four days in a row. That's dropped significantly to around half of that, less on the weekends. As the figures are for total vaccinations it doesn;t even matter that a lot of people are now going back for 2nd doses, it's just absolute numbers. -

The only thing I can think of is that we are on second doses and that initial roll out was slow for some age groups (over 80s) as some areas were done by GPs with varying distribution issues from the warehouse. If this is the cause then it will be very frustrating as they should have done a lessons learnt in order to avoid it with second dose!

Is it still part of the knock on effect of doing all care homes first? I mean, we are demonstrably not really much behind England in terms of % vaccinated, but we are lagging per age group it seems. So is it just that we'll always have that delayed effect, because our first group was so slow in getting completed?

We are an extra 0.5% behind since last week though, and if we do have a supply issue this week...

I think it just adds to the feeling that England are passing us by, as we remain locked up without hope.

Yeah I guess you're right.

Surely the SG should explain why we are so behind England

I think they'd give the explanation I mentioned above tbh @anon444877

Maybe a journalist will ask today! Not sure I have high hopes though.

@user1487194234

Surely the SG should explain why we are so behind England

They will probably blame supply issues which there is a bit of but doesn't explain forecasting a month behind the other nations as well. Reality is probably the care homes done without simultaneously doing the next group and over 80s approach in some areas

@Scottishskifun, how can they blame supply issues, Scotland is getting the exactly the same number of vaccines per head as the rUK.
But I've no doubt they will be full of excuses regardless. NS will never stand on her soapbox and admit they screwed up not getting the vast vaccine centres up and running quickly enough.

It's very frustrating, it's the one thing they can control in this pandemic so to be falling behind their targets at this stage is really unacceptable

SG better get their finger out, it will be really embarrassing for them to be noticeably behind again.

@Lockdownbear because its easy for them to blame Westminster distribution activities rather than admit its down to them!

It looked like supply availability of vaccine had dropped week before last. If I remember correctly it was something like 300000 available last week. Be interesting to see what it shows this week.
Also the care home role out took forever so Scotland had a huge lag in seeing the effects of the vaccine take effect. I guess given the 12 week time frame the care homes will be up for receiving their second doses, so I wonder if there will be a delay again.
Also in England people are being asked to make an appointment for their vaccine, I wonder if uptake is higher when you get given an appointment rather than making your own. We are hearing anecdotally of younger folk in England getting their vaccine, but we naturally are not hearing of all those that haven’t who are enabling those that want it to get it.

@tiredoftiers I did see some stats somewhere showing that uptake is really high

Isn’t uptake really high all the UK so she can’t use that as an excuse why people in Scotland are going to have to wait at the least a month longer than others in the UK.

I can’t believe we are a whole month behind that is outrageous

Just saw this update for Fife which shows where we are.

I've just heard John swinney saying Glasgow is counting cases differently now?? Why now??

I picked up on that as well @frasersmummy? What is that all about?

Twice weekly testing for all secondary pupils

501 cases (5% of tests coming back positive)

654 in hospital (up 26)
59 in ICU (down 2)

1 death

@fluffyugg

Twice weekly testing for all secondary pupils

No testing is compulsory though is it how will they force the kids to take the tests?

Not compulsory no.

Strongly encouraged he said