COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Fred_Quimby]

Please God don't f..k this up as well.

 

[blueparrot]

Will be interesting to see how many NHS staff can be vaccinated in the coming month(s). I appreciate the U.K. will have low stocks, but there will surely be a need to protect those workers facing the predicted wave in January.

My daughter has been told she should be done by Christmas.(first dose at least)

 

[Northernstorirs]

The government have got lots wrong during this pandemic but I suspect things wouldn't have been hugely different regardless of who was in charge as the UK is a very ill disciplined country. That is something for the politics thread. However, they have done a great job of identifying the best potential vaccines and ensuring the risk was spread by pre ordering different ones. We do a good job of distributing the flu vaccine annually via GP surgeries, pharmacies etc (I had my first ever flu jab recently) so I expect that with the extra resources that will be allotted the mass vaccination programme will be far quicker than many expect.

That is very true, we would probably have seen a similar outcome with a Labour government. The UK public are also very selfish, rules have constantly been broken and not everybody has played ball.

Corruption from the tories is sickening. Whopping PPE contracts to tory pals owning tin pot companies and certain tory owned businesses being allowed to remain open during lockdown and receive govt aid need to be looked in to.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Woohoo

brilliant this is great news.

A good morning.

Playing golf as well today

 

[inchy14]

Please God don't f..k this up as well.

The wagon carrying the vaccines will get stuck at Kent due to them not getting the Brexit deal sorted in time...
Or fall down a huge pothole due to the state of British roads...
Or they’ll open it up to find it’s all been stolen in liverpool...

 

[Baggins.mcfc]

The roll out will involve people with expertise from the annual flu vaccine plus the military, who have a successful track record distributing PPE.

The main issue with PPE was letting stocks deplete and then being faced with unprecedented demand. The vaccines will have a phased distribution which is more doable logistically. There may be the odd hiccup but things are definitely moving in the right direction.

Where i work, we was one of 5 north west companies to store a shit load of ppe, till the NHS found a warehouse of there own. All got took away a few months ago. And i do mean a shit load. Pallet after pallet with boxes piled high. Unlikely they will run out this time imo.

 

[worsleyweb]

The UK the 1st country in the world to have a clinically approved vaccine - what amazing news.

Well done Hancock and all involved - a great achievement.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

 

[Keith Moncrieff]

Having a frothy coffee to celebrate chin chin

 

[ganganvince]

From twitter so take that into account.