Scotland vaccination update:
1, 048, 747 First doses of vaccination given - 23% of the adult Scottish population.
63, 178 yesterday - a new record - up from 57, 447 day before
99. 9 % of older care home residents now vaccinated
97% of all over 80s living in the outside community
87% of those 75 - 79 and 54% of those 70 - 74
She did add that there is going to be a reduction in vaccination numbers in coming weeks and this is logistical.
I am guessing vaccine supply is the main issue as we seem ahead of the planned curve because this has gone much better than I think anyone dared hope.
She was clearly preparing the ground for numbers slowing in coming weeks.
I expect this will not be a Scottish issue but a UK wide one. So hopefully we will not be told in England after the media notice and report it.
I think the moderna one is now being used, at the PC yesterday they said "one of the three approved vaccines", don't think the others are MRHA approved yetI think the Pfizer supply is going to go down due to manufacturing problems. Not sure about Astrazeneca.
My questions about vaccines would be when does Moderna become available? What is happening with the Novovax and J&J vaccines. Novovax has a UK production plant in Billingham and a fortnight ago they said that their vaccine worked against the SA variant. That news seems to have been buried. It's almost as if it didn't happen.
Moderna has been approved for weeks in the UK but the first supplies are due in the ‘Spring’ but unspecified exactly when. It’s strange as although the EU approved it a few days before the UK we had placed orders before them but they are already rolling it out.I think the moderna one is now being used, at the PC yesterday they said "one of the three approved vaccines", don't think the others are MRHA approved yet
*Shudders*That's it exactly. If anyone remembers the programme the Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan it reminds me of that. Everything was provided for in the village but controlled by the state but nobody was allowed to leave. It was living but not really living.
I would argue that the vast majority of folk on this site stick to a single news source..and are still confused.ok agreed, having one single souce would be a dangerous move.
but the problem we have is so many news sources, so much social media news sources.
It's a complete minefield, it's why there is so much anger and confusion around the world.
I think the Pfizer supply is going to go down due to manufacturing problems. Not sure about Astrazeneca.
My questions about vaccines would be when does Moderna become available? What is happening with the Novovax and J&J vaccines. Novovax has a UK production plant in Billingham and a fortnight ago they said that their vaccine worked against the SA variant. That news seems to have been buried. It's almost as if it didn't happen.
If only the team at Oxford could develop a vaccine for common sense, it would solve this pandemic quicker than anything else.
Common sense has got me pretty far in life, whether that is crossing the street at night because you can see in the distance a bunch of dickheads, or knowing when to keep my mouth shut because it could come back to bite me on the arse in the future.
I have really had my eyes opened to the paucity of intelligence and common sense during Covid, certainly in the UK and US.
Perhaps it is because they are two countries with a sense of entitlement, owing to the standards of living?
Why anyone feels it is an immediate priority to establish whether they can go on holiday at this time, when so much work is still to be done, is insulting to me in the extreme.
It is the height of ignorance to even assume that others countries, no matter how much their own economies or industries will crave it, should be waiting with open arms because some infuriated twat in the Home Counties is telling the Daily Mail 'it just isn't cricket' they can't afford to now go away because the cost of quarantine is too much on top of their already booked holidays to the Seychelles.
Apparently the UK deserves a holiday?
Guess what, the whole fucking world does and, until which time we can vaccinate enough of the globe to protect it, then making do with a weekend in Skeggy might be as good as can be hoped for.
And even that might be too much.
It takes weeks to build up immunity and it’s hard to determine who actually is vulnerable, in fact we all could be without knowing.I am probably looking at this simplicity but once all the vulnerable people have been vaccinated why can’t we go back to a normal routine?
I've seen the quotes from Grant Shapps and while I think this government have been about as much use as a chocolate fireguard during most of this pandemic, he's being wildly mis-quoted on this. As far as I can see, he never said there will be no holidays this year - be it at home or abroad - and what he actually did say is don't go booking holidays at this moment in time. And why would anyone book a holiday right now when we're still in lockdown, aren't permitted to go on holiday as things stand, and don't know when restrictions will start to be lifted? Things will become clearer on that over the next few weeks or so and people just need to hold off until then before booking anything.That all sounds great but then why is that bloody Grant Sharp saying no holidays this year when we are in February and hopefully all these positive things happen? Has he got a crystal ball, or does he know no matter what happens they are keeping restrictions going? This is what is depressing people, it comes across as they are drunk on the power of it all.
What’s the x for.Right, I'm fed up with some of the clowns asking stupid questions at the daily briefings so I've submitted one of my own. Says the cabinet office will contact me within 3 days if it's chosen. Probably unlikely but you can only try.
My question was along the lines of "Why don't the government set out a plan of lifting restrictions based on case numbers rather than dates? e.g. lift restriction x when case numbers are below 5000 for 7 consecutive dates."
My daughter says that putting "x" in the question will confuse most people!
Once those determined as vulnerable all have immunity we will see the hospitalisations and deaths drop to July 2020 levels, ie a tiny amount per day, at that point we will open up.
Essentially the data will confirm when the vulnerable are immune and what you wish to happen will happen.