Paul O Mahoney
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I would think that it's a percentage of the population who have received vaccines, the effectiveness of various vaccines might have a positive effect in the longer term .Question regarding “herd immunity”.
Say one country, which is using Pfizer only (95% effective), is said to have achieved HI when X% of the population have received (both) jabs.
Then another country, which is using J&J only (66% effective) is said to have achieved HI when Y% of the population have received (single) jabs.
Is Y greater than X because J&J is less effective?
(In both cases the people have received the “full course”, ie ignore the number of required jabs.
There were issues internally with data and the general malaise of getting GPs etc signed up, urgencies aren't in the HSE operation guidelines for anything.I never saw this as a delay of Irish making. Just a supply issue. All along we’ve been third in the EU and AFAIK this is still the case. We’re about 37% at the moment and the EU average is 25%.
TBH, I don’t know what all the fuss was about.
I just hope these vaccines are are effective against B1617.2
We are about that in first doses, but remember the EU data only include 18 and over and don't include pregnant women our population in those figures is 3.72m and I'm almost certain those aged based groups are from the 2016 census.Not sure where you are getting the 25% from...
COVID-19 Vaccine rollout overview
This report provides an overview of the progress in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in adults (aged 18 years and above) across EU/EEA countries.www.ecdc.europa.eu
I can't see why we couldn't be like them not probably as quick but certainly more accurate and focused for example the elderly.I take your point. The HSE were slow. But time is relative. There were 24 EU countries slower than us. Big countries like France and Germany were slower than us.
We were never going to have it rolled out like Israel, the U.K., or the USA.
I don’t envy countries like the USA. Yes, they’re vaccine rollout is impressive. But their Covid body count has hit 600,000. That’s a lot. That’s close to how many Americans died of Spanish Flu.
What threat does Indian Covid variant pose and do vaccines work against it?
The number of identified cases of the B.1.617.2 variant in the UK has more than doubled in a weekwww.theguardian.com
The BBC/Sky News have similar headlines this isn't a good news story.
I can't see why we couldn't be like them not probably as quick but certainly more accurate and focused for example the elderly.
The problem is we have so many "vested interests" like the nursing home association making noise but doing nothing to assist the rollout and mocking that the recording vaccines on spreadsheet while that group took many elderly from hospital without as much as a test and got paid handsomely and they don't even have a central database of clients as they are private enterprises who enjoy huge tax right offs .
But I think we have achieved a lot and hopefully it continues.
Well that's sensible. But it seems that the 50+ cohort will still be faced with a Hobson's choice.RTE reporting that for 40-49 age group, they will be given option for viral vector vaccine (AZ, J&J) if no mRNA vaccine available.
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