UK could give two doses of COVID vaccine to all adults by September, task force says

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UK could give two doses of COVID vaccine to all adults by September, task force says

 

A woman receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine inside a bus modified into a mobile vaccination centre for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Thamesmead, London, Britain, February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom could give two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all adults by August or September, helped by its portfolio approach of buying from several different producers, the interim head of the country's vaccine taskforce told Sky News on Tuesday.

 

Britain has vaccinated 15.6 million people with a first dose and 546,165 with a second dose, the fastest roll-out per capita of any large country so far.

 

Clive Dix, leading the group which managed Britain's vaccine procurement strategy, told Sky News that more vaccines would be approved for use in the "very near future", providing enough shots in case there were any production issues from existing suppliers AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

 

Asked how long it would take the UK to give two doses of the vaccine to all adults, he replied: "We're probably talking August time or September time all done, maybe sooner if we need to."

 

"We've got to deliver just over 100 million doses of vaccine and I believe we should be able to do that. I'm not in deployment so I can't look at the numbers of when they will be. But if they need to be deployed by then, we've got the vaccine to do that."

 

(Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Bell)

 

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[Mike Rodik]

people that need the most protection are .... too old for a vaccine to work due to immune senescence ...

 

if only governments in the world, would have quarantined the old people's facilities and not this lockdown of the world and killing economies, jobs, businesses...

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1 hour ago, Mike Rodik said:

people that need the most protection are .... too old for a vaccine to work due to immune senescence ...

 

if only governments in the world, would have quarantined the old people's facilities and not this lockdown of the world and killing economies, jobs, businesses...

I'm guessing you get your information from youtube videos.

 

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Cases, hospitalizations, and critical illness have also decreased among people aged 60 years and older, which is the group that was prioritized to receive vaccinations first, said Eran Segal, PhD, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in an interview for an upcoming episode of Medscape's Medicine and the Machine podcast. The vaccination benefit is "striking" and bolsters confidence in the potency of mRNA vaccines against the B117 strain of SARS-CoV-2, which is dominant in Israel, tweeted Eric Topol, MD, Medscape's editor-in-chief and co-host of the podcast with Abraham Verghese, MD.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/945700