I came across this app for estimating when you’ll be jabbed. When the weekly vaccination numbers and the uptake rate become clearer the parameters can be fine tuned.
I haven’t heard that, surely they will have tested it on the people most likely to have and need it? They are talking about rolling it out to care homes on 4th January so that’s a bit pointless if it doesn’t work on over 55s?
I tried the queue app thingy - mine comes out as mid June to mid July. (I am over 50 but have no other 'factors'). Which is telling, in terms of the whole 'we'll all be out of this by the Spring' narrative. I guess the AZ one may speed things up I don't think I'll make plans for Easter holidays
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We’ve got a holiday booked for June ... moved from last year. According to the queue thingummy I should have my jab in March so I’ll be ok, but OH isn’t due for his until July 🙄. Hopefully the new jab will change that. 🤞
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Given that the time interval between first and second jabs will now be as much as 12 weeks rather than three, it follows that the protection afforded by the first vaccination will come sooner than the app predicts but almost complete protection from having both jabs will be up to a couple of months later than you might have hoped.
Ultimately though, we can't really feel 'safe' until the vaccine has been rolled out worldwide. Wherever there are large numbers of infections, it follows that mutations and new variants are likely to happen that could undermine the efficacy of the vaccines we have. So the numbers need to come down internationally.
I realise there is confidence that the vaccine platforms can be adapted as new strains of the virus arise, but as we're seeing at he moment, it gets ahead of us quite quickly when it changes its behaviour, even a little, and vaccination of large parts of the population is always going to take weeks. The prospect of mini-lockdowns and short term travel bans doesn't recede until the virus prevalence is much, much lower everywhere.
I certainly wouldn't be planning foreign holidays next year
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https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I realise there is confidence that the vaccine platforms can be adapted as new strains of the virus arise, but as we're seeing at he moment, it gets ahead of us quite quickly when it changes its behaviour, even a little, and vaccination of large parts of the population is always going to take weeks. The prospect of mini-lockdowns and short term travel bans doesn't recede until the virus prevalence is much, much lower everywhere.
I certainly wouldn't be planning foreign holidays next year
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”