Re: Vaccine rollout in the UK
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:50 pm
Flag w.nker.shpalman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:26 pmMatt Hancock tweets it, like a f.cking tw.t
f.cking state of these people
Flag w.nker.shpalman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:26 pmMatt Hancock tweets it, like a f.cking tw.t
f.cking state of these people
Congratulations! Less than 1% of the population have received part-protection!shpalman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:26 pmMatt Hancock tweets it, like a f.cking tw.t
f.cking state of these people
The first dose probably has some effect (though I don't think the trials measured it very much). From a population point of view, is it more useful to have 800,000 people who have had the first dose or 400,000 who have had both? One of the factors to consider is that if you are in the first situation, and more vaccine becomes available, you get to 800,000 people fully treated faster than from the second (because the next 400,000 have to wait between doses).mediocrity511 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:41 pmSo we have 800,000 doses delivered so far and have used over half of them on first doses. Better hope there's no delays getting hold of the next batch...
In other news, some people are egocentric a..holes.Blackcountryboy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:05 pmThere was me thinking that when people didn't turn up for their jab it would go to front line staff to save it being wasted. Stupid old me.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/m ... D6IRkIOor8
Well, what happens if you're late with the second dose? Does the first dose eventually "expire"?Trinucleus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:57 amTony Blair says they're doing it wrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55410349
Jeremy Corbyn says we should have done it with some sort of anarco-collective or somethingTrinucleus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:57 amTony Blair says they're doing it wrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55410349
Don't some journals effectively ban the phrase "more research is needed"?shpalman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:02 pmWell, what happens if you're late with the second dose? Does the first dose eventually "expire"?Trinucleus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:57 amTony Blair says they're doing it wrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55410349
ministers decreeing that 75% of supplies of the Pfizer jab should be given to those over 80 and 20% to care home personnel, leaving just 5% – or 48 doses from a batch of 975 – for NHS staff.
Except of course we don't know if this vaccine stops people from passing this virus on, because we haven't checked (personally, I think it does).“Vaccines stop people from passing viruses on. We have limited vaccines available. Who is most in need of a vaccine? The people who are forced to mix with others. And those people are the frontline healthcare staff looking after Covid-19 patients, who encounter Covid-19 continually.”
Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:43 amThe Oxford vaccine just got approval but being realistic, how long is it going to take to vaccinate everyone (twice) and what happens in the meantime? I'm not expecting to get called for a jab until well into the spring.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671
Vaccinating 1 million people a week sounds like a lot but it's not enough.shpalman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:03 amOnly 25 million? That wouldn't even be enough for everyone over 40.29 NHSE&I is currently planning on the assumption that up to 25 million people could be vaccinated against COVID-19 in England throughout 2021 provided sufficient doses of vaccine are available.
That's less than half the population (England currently around 56 million) and two caveats in the same sentence: could be... provided...shpalman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 amTessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:43 amThe Oxford vaccine just got approval but being realistic, how long is it going to take to vaccinate everyone (twice) and what happens in the meantime? I'm not expecting to get called for a jab until well into the spring.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671Vaccinating 1 million people a week sounds like a lot but it's not enough.shpalman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:03 amOnly 25 million? That wouldn't even be enough for everyone over 40.29 NHSE&I is currently planning on the assumption that up to 25 million people could be vaccinated against COVID-19 in England throughout 2021 provided sufficient doses of vaccine are available.
Didn't New York manage 6 million in about 3 weeks with Smallpox Vaccine?Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:06 amThat's less than half the population (England currently around 56 million) and two caveats in the same sentence: could be... provided...shpalman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 amTessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:43 amThe Oxford vaccine just got approval but being realistic, how long is it going to take to vaccinate everyone (twice) and what happens in the meantime? I'm not expecting to get called for a jab until well into the spring.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671Vaccinating 1 million people a week sounds like a lot but it's not enough.
See the 'developing the Covid vaccine' thread.badger wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:58 amDidn't New York manage 6 million in about 3 weeks with Smallpox Vaccine?
Our local pharmacist has been looking for a local vaccination venue to operate 7 days per week/12 hour days. I guess we're going to need a lot of these very quickly! And people to staff them. NHS responder app has been sending out pleas for volunteers but it's going to be a monumental effort (if they even want to try for a properly 'game-changing moonshot' vaccination programme).
Great news re Oxford Vaccine. Have they published new results study yet? Or do we still have to take ~95% on trust?
Those 10-15% most vulnerable would be of the order of 6-9 million people. The UK has given Margaret Keenan her second dose but I still haven't seen how many first doses have been given last week. My main question would be if the ~500,000 who had their first doses in the week before that represented the whole of the available capacity which means from now on everyone will be busy giving second doses, and if/when ~1 million doses per week would be reached.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:24 amIt will be interesting to see what happens when most of the 10-15% most vulnerable people are vaccinated and so the death and hospitalisation rates drop, say by mid-February for deaths and mid-March for hospital admissions. There could be a lot less popular support for lockdown measures if the numbers of deaths fall to the "typical flu season" level. If at that point they open the pubs, you could have half a million cases a day shortly afterwards and then you'd have the same number of deaths and hospitalisations among younger people, just at the rate of 0.02% of cases instead of 5%.Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:43 amThe Oxford vaccine just got approval but being realistic, how long is it going to take to vaccinate everyone (twice) and what happens in the meantime? I'm not expecting to get called for a jab until well into the spring.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671
There may also be quite a good effect from the first dose of the vaccine. Obviously we all have to follow the protocol, but I don't think the effect of the first dose will be zero.
I find it hard to think in those terms. Consider a medium-sized town of 200,000 people -- York, Portsmouth, Peterborough, Aberdeen. Suppose you are able to process four doses a minute -- assuming a minute per dose that might be two centres with two process lines each. Assume a single shift pattern, i.e. each process line works for 7 hours a day, 20 days a month. That's six months to do half the population with two doses. If there are no manufacturing or distribution bottlenecks, I agree, that seems a decidedly unambitious level of activity. So we really ought to be able to get everyone done before summer just looking at the logistics of doing the jabbing.