Boris Promises To Jab 13 Million People In Six Weeks.

Sunk | 00:04 Fri 08th Jan 2021 | News

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Hope he does.
That is 2 million plus a week until mid February.
It is Boris’s own goal, no one has told him to do this.

I can’t help but think this is over ambitious. I’d love that to happen, but I would be surprise if they managed to do it. 8 or 9 million if we are lucky.

This happened in April when Johnson kept saying there would be so many test in a month, and he was always miles off the target.

Why doesn’t Johnson just give an achievable realistic prediction and do it.
The worst thing anyone can do is over promise, and under deliver. But Boris keeps doing that.

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diddlydo

Well said riptide. It would be interesting to know if the anti-Europe TTT would accept the EU vaccine!

weecalf

Does it not actually count on how many vacs you’ve got to give ?

Ken4155

TTT, editing my post to make your point does you no favours whatsoever.

andres

I wouldn't have Boris's job for 'all the tea in China'. The vaccination process must be a mammoth operation to organise.
Even in our small town it is chaotic. So what must it be like to set millions of vaccinations up and running. As for the numbers are they taking into account that we have to have two jabs not one.

ToraToraTora

diddly; "Well said riptide. It would be interesting to know if the anti-Europe TTT would accept the EU vaccine! " - do they have a vaccine? anyway I am NOT anti Europe, I love Europe it's the anti European EUSSR that I despise as should every good European.

ToraToraTora

ken, I did not edit your post, I cut out the relevant part, I changed nothing.

sevenOP

"The NASUWT has presented evidence showing that staff working in both secondary and primary schools are far more likely to be infected than the wider community, with rates of virus prevalence amongst school staff between three and four times higher than the prevalence rate for adults."

Teachers,police, bus drivers, essential shopkeepers, etc. and all those key workers who have no choice but mixing with the population as a necessity of their job, should also be given priority to vaccination.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/teachers-union-wants-school-staff-to-be-at-front-of-queue-for-covid-19-vaccine-39943124.html

Ken4155

TTT, the 'relevant' part of my post was that we are not in a race against other countries, but against time. You appear to believe otherwise because it fits in with your hatred of the EU. An hatred which makes you look a tad 'rabid' on occasions.

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TTT

BioNTech short for Biopharmaceutical New Technologies) is a German biotechnology company based in Mainz.

ToraToraTora

great if it's approved and offered I'll have it.

Spicerack

Germany can't get vaccines, though, can they. They are 'tied in' to the EU effort.

ToraToraTora

you mean they are held up by and unelected bureaucracy spice? Heaven Forfend!

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// Germany can't get vaccines, though, can they. //

Germany have jabbed 420,000. The vaccine was approved a fortnight later in Germany, so they are rolling it out at a similar rate to the UK, they are where we were 2 weeks ago.

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For the record.

In 5 weeks the UK have jabbed 1,500,000.
Boris announced 13 million jabs over the next 6 weeks.
I Hope the roll out is scalable and that we can hit the target, but it appears overly ambitious.

(In 3 weeks the USA have jabbed 6,000,000).

Spicerack

And Germany only have 3m available out of 100m needed. Next batch coming in 3 months.

woofgang

sevenOP "The NASUWT has presented evidence showing that staff working in both secondary and primary schools are far more likely to be infected than the wider community, with rates of virus prevalence amongst school staff between three and four times higher than the prevalence rate for adults."

Teachers,police, bus drivers, essential shopkeepers, etc. and all those key workers who have no choice but mixing with the population as a necessity of their job, should also be given priority to vaccination.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/teachers-union-wants-school-staff-to-be-at-front-of-queue-for-covid-19-vaccine-39943124.html

How many more times? They are not the people who are most likely to get the disease seriously, to end up in hospital, to end up in ITU, to end up dead! Would any of these people go and look their own parents or grandparents in the eye and say "I am having vaccine instead of you because I am more important"

bobbinwales

Teachers and others are allready being lined up for priority in phase 2 seven OP

phase 1 is based on age and underlying health. It goes down agewise to the over 50s. Makes sense as woofgang says altho maybe they should stop at over 60s??

Phase 2 according to gov.uk-
The next phase – further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services
As the first phase of the programme is rolled out in the UK, additional data will become available on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. These data will provide the basis for consideration of vaccination in groups that are at lower risk of mortality from COVID-19.

The committee is currently of the view that the key focus for the second phase of vaccination could be on further preventing hospitalisation.

Vaccination of those at increased risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 due to their occupation could also be a priority in the next phase. This could include:

first responders
the military
those involved in the justice system
teachers
transport workers
public servants essential to the pandemic response.