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My 80 year old brother in Cheshire had his first jab before Christmas and his second yesterday (he has no underlying health problems). His friends of the same age have all had theirs as well.
My partner's mother is 93 and lives in Coventry, the city where the first televised Pfizzer jab was given.
She has not had her first jab. She has not had an appointment. She did get a letter this morning to advertise the Birmingham mega vaccine centre - if she can get herself along there. She can't.
My mam is 89 and lives in Worcestershire with my brother. She had her first jab last week (total chaos in the Evesham surgery - long queues down the road in bad weather because there should have been 12 nurses administering jabs but there were only 4 because Covid exposure has taken the other 8 out to self isolate - and no social distancing at all once in the building).
There will be plenty of examples of good and bad vaccination experiences from England and Wales. None will tell the whole story.
By means of comparison our rate today of 2.2 puts us easily in the top countries worldwide. Yes we may be behind other UK nations, but other countries are probably looking at our roll out with envy.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Most up to date data I can get is on 'coronavirus.data.uk.gov
Daily cases for UK shown, but on left is a selection option. Click 'healthcare' and you are into much more information for UK and an option for each country. Graphs are featured but you can also select 'data' which gets into the numbers
Well worth a look.
Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board have released the first update on their vaccination statistics.
https://twitter.com/CV_UHB/status/13...272847365?s=20
I see some people are questioning doing the oldies first now. As most are in shielding anyway. Does anyone know the stats of people going into hospital currently and suffering with Covid? They seem to be younger than the first wave, 50’s and 60’s etc...is it this age group clogging up the hospitals? Should they be done first if so?
Matt Hancock said today that England are currently doing 210,000 vaccinations a day and that number is expected to increase significantly as the English NHS head towards 13.5 million by mid February
The target for Wales is everybody over 50 by the Spring
I know of many people who are too terrified to leave home, have been so for months and put themselves under self imposed house arrest. Maybe, whatever their age, they should be given priority?
I know you should believe all you see on THE WWW, but it seems that over half the population may already have the antibodies. Personally, I've had the virus, as has my wife, both my kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren all at different times. My sons family have had to isolate three times since early December, as members have developed symptoms, and were tested, at different times. Possibly herd immunity has beaten the vaccine.
I'm willing to give my shot up, but if it means we can start going to the pubs and the stadiums again, I'll roll my sleeve up now.
Yeah I do too, my mother and parents in law have barely left the house since March, my mother not once. Just talking to a nurse yesterday and it appears those ending up in hospital are younger now. I know the oldies need it more but what age group need it right now to unburden the nhs?