February 18, 20214 yr I don’t see how when you sign a contract matters but you previously did: 🤷🏼♂️ Securing preferential access over and above all others is vaccine nationalism. It’s like a f***ing textbook definition of the practice. You’ve got China and Russia playing vaccine diplomacy by tripping over each other to „donate“ batches of jags to various nations to promote their own self-image and soft power and then you have the UK and USA playing vaccine nationalism with hoarding doses and then banging on about how amazing they are compared to others. Being the first to approve and then securing a contract with some dodgy underhand preferences isn’t „striking it lucky“ at all. What a Tory way to say „tilting the scales in your favour“. The vaccine roll out in the UK has worked for one primary reason, the f***ing NHS has done it and it’s had f*** all to do with the government. Signing a contract does not a vaccine programme make. The NHS has done what it does best and wielded it’s super power to get this done and yet people will chalk it up to the success of a government who would sell the NHS for scrap to the yanks in a heartbeat and a Party that has spend every waking moment since May 2010 draining as much life from the NHS and starving it of as much funding as they can. Sign deals, verbally agree deals it's all the same thing in legality terms I am sure. I don't think the date of signing the contract matters, as the contracts will have been verbally agreed and probably with some temporary contract before signing the full thing, especially if there is self financing. All countries are operating vaccine nationalism to some level and so are the EU. The UK and the US have been battered by covid and are two of the worst affected countries so I don't know how you can say we're hoarding doses.. once all the vulnerable have been vaccinated I completely agree it's a different story but we're not there yet. As for the second point I don't really know what context that raises. The Government played a blinder with the procurement and the NHS have done amazing (along with others) to deliver the vaccine. For once they have just not interfered and let the industry deliver, I'd call that a blinder as they haven't messed it up by deciding to give the contract to Bob's Burgers to deploy the vaccines. I really do love the EU, but they get lots of things wrong too (just probably not as much as this current UK Government).
February 18, 20214 yr The whole inter-country arguing about who is doing 'best' with the vaccine & who needs to be cancelled is so petty to me. Like. Just behave like adults can't you?
February 18, 20214 yr It looks like I’ll be spending at least one birthday in lockdown after all. I was thinking about this earlier after some of my friends who had 'normal' February bdays last year are now encountering the same situation most of us suffered last year. I'm late June so unfortunately just before hospitality reopened last year but at least had a large picnic gathering. Think anyone with a July birthday got the best deal. Barely any restrictions last year, not even quarantining after going on holiday.
February 18, 20214 yr The weekly NHS data is out and quite staggering uptake of the vaccine so far (based on 2019 population estimates from ONS): 93.4% of 80+ 99.3% of 75-79 92.3% of 70-74 94.5% of older social care residents (excluding those recovering from covid) c. 84% of the clinically extremely vulnerable
February 18, 20214 yr Lockdown in NI extended to April 1st. Schooling for children up to 7-years-old to resume on 8th March. It looks like I’ll be spending at least one birthday in lockdown after all. That’s good news about the schools. I hope England do a phased return too, though it would have been nice to see the four nations have the same starting date. I actually didn’t get a lockdown birthday. Being September, I was in work all day and just about managed to see my parents before rules changed a couple of days later.
February 18, 20214 yr The weekly NHS data is out and quite staggering uptake of the vaccine so far (based on 2019 population estimates from ONS): 93.4% of 80+ 99.3% of 75-79 92.3% of 70-74 94.5% of older social care residents (excluding those recovering from covid) c. 84% of the clinically extremely vulnerable That's a really good sign. Hopefully we'll see similar high uptake in people aged 50-70. I've noticed that the number of people getting second doses is now starting to increase. Also, from what my mum was told at the vaccination center, she will be get her second dose of the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine in 4-6 weeks which is promising.
February 18, 20214 yr My aunt and uncle living in the US are now fully vaccinated despite only being in their late 60s.
February 18, 20214 yr The weekly NHS data is out and quite staggering uptake of the vaccine so far (based on 2019 population estimates from ONS): 93.4% of 80+ 99.3% of 75-79 92.3% of 70-74 94.5% of older social care residents (excluding those recovering from covid) c. 84% of the clinically extremely vulnerable If that level of take-up continues then there wouldn't really be any need for vaccination passports within the country.
February 18, 20214 yr Sign deals, verbally agree deals it's all the same thing in legality terms I am sure. I don't think the date of signing the contract matters, as the contracts will have been verbally agreed and probably with some temporary contract before signing the full thing, especially if there is self financing. All countries are operating vaccine nationalism to some level and so are the EU. The UK and the US have been battered by covid and are two of the worst affected countries so I don't know how you can say we're hoarding doses.. once all the vulnerable have been vaccinated I completely agree it's a different story but we're not there yet. As for the second point I don't really know what context that raises. The Government played a blinder with the procurement and the NHS have done amazing (along with others) to deliver the vaccine. For once they have just not interfered and let the industry deliver, I'd call that a blinder as they haven't messed it up by deciding to give the contract to Bob's Burgers to deploy the vaccines. I really do love the EU, but they get lots of things wrong too (just probably not as much as this current UK Government). No way the EU never does anything wrong.
February 19, 20214 yr Telegraph are reporting that one shot of the vaccine is reducing transmission by two thirds - that's massive if true. Daily Fail also reporting that all over 40s will have recieved their first vaccine shot by the end of March.
February 19, 20214 yr End of March? I'm sure it was end of May a few weeks back, that's a rather large jump!
February 19, 20214 yr End of March? I'm sure it was end of May a few weeks back, that's a rather large jump! The official target is top 9 groups by the local and mayoral elections (6 May)...to help the Tories' electoral chances :rolleyes: They need to start administering second doses towards the end of March. I'll be very surprised if they keep up the current rate of first doses past March until more supply / capacity is made available. Daily Mail's prediction is based on speculation that the top 9 groups will receive their first jab by 24 March and that they'll immediately move onto 40-49 year olds. Basically clickbait journalism as per!
February 19, 20214 yr I don’t see how when you sign a contract matters but you previously did: ♂️ Securing preferential access over and above all others is vaccine nationalism. It’s like a f***ing textbook definition of the practice. You’ve got China and Russia playing vaccine diplomacy by tripping over each other to „donate“ batches of jags to various nations to promote their own self-image and soft power and then you have the UK and USA playing vaccine nationalism with hoarding doses and then banging on about how amazing they are compared to others. Being the first to approve and then securing a contract with some dodgy underhand preferences isn’t „striking it lucky“ at all. What a Tory way to say „tilting the scales in your favour“. The vaccine roll out in the UK has worked for one primary reason, the f***ing NHS has done it and it’s had f*** all to do with the government. Signing a contract does not a vaccine programme make. The NHS has done what it does best and wielded it’s super power to get this done and yet people will chalk it up to the success of a government who would sell the NHS for scrap to the yanks in a heartbeat and a Party that has spend every waking moment since May 2010 draining as much life from the NHS and starving it of as much funding as they can. NHS>>>>Privatised healthcare of course but to be fair America is doing well with their vaccine rollout so far. Edited February 19, 20214 yr by ElevenSnake
February 19, 20214 yr @1362777489018417152 Well, I thought this would be a bigger deal… Yeah but he played a blinder!!!!!1!
February 19, 20214 yr @1362777489018417152 Well, I thought this would be a bigger deal… Yeah but Salmond has agreed to go slander his successor in a fit of entitled straight white male rage and the unionist press is already having SNP Bad wet dreams, and weirdly so are the cybernats who can’t see the unionists are playing them like a fiddle - so folks are a lil distracted
February 19, 20214 yr @1362777489018417152 Well, I thought this would be a bigger deal… Yet another minister breaks the law with impunity. It is worth mentioning that the £22bn spent on the Test and Trace contract is ten times the cost of the Mars mission in the news at the moment. And the Mars mission worked.
February 19, 20214 yr Yet another minister breaks the law with impunity. It is worth mentioning that the £22bn spent on the Test and Trace contract is ten times the cost of the Mars mission in the news at the moment. And the Mars mission worked. And the BBC are leading with a non story about Harry and Meghan.
February 20, 20214 yr And the BBC are leading with a non story about Harry and Meghan. It's front page of the BBC News website now and second most read article. We'll likely see second doses ramped up in the coming weeks with significant numbers starting to be given second doses than previously (~15k/day now). Whilst the daily mail is speculation, it is entirely possible that everyone aged 40-49 would have been offered the first dose of a vaccine by the end of March at the current rate of vaccination. There are ~33 million people aged 40 and over in the UK. Current number of first dose vaccinations is currently ~16.9 million with a first dose rate of ~400k people per day. That would be another ~16 million people vaccinated by the end of March, which would bring the total to ~32.9 million. Of course not all those will be over 40s as there will be a significant number of people under the age of 40 who would've been offered the vaccine due to underlying conditions or profession (healthcare/care worker). Additionally, not everyone will accept a vaccine if offered. I do have a feeling the younger the age group, the less likely they will be to take up the vaccine.
February 20, 20214 yr Author Telegraph are reporting that one shot of the vaccine is reducing transmission by two thirds - that's massive if true. Daily Fail also reporting that all over 40s will have recieved their first vaccine shot by the end of March. John Burn-Murdoch posted some good analysis about this, assuming a further ramping up of vaccination supply/delivery (which is reasonable) you'd best case expect ALL adults to have the vaccine first dose by July and second doses by August. @1361959977116700675 @1362777489018417152 Well, I thought this would be a bigger deal… You'd like to think so wouldn't you, sadly it seems to have been largely ignored by most of the media. : (
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