Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:19 pm
#1819707
@Propwash Surely it's not that an individual gets 62% protection, it's 62% of the population that gets protection and 38% don't?
Mathematically, it must be better to have 62% of 90% of the population covered this year instead of 95% of 20%. Made up numbers, but expanding on Jim's point about actually getting hold of the stuff in the first place.
There are various stories emerging that the EU vaccine scheme is a basketcase. They don't have any date for approving the OxAZ drug, they won't have enough supplies for a couple of years, Germany has been doing their own thing all along, France has scraped together 50k doses for this week, Poland is feeling betrayed by the whole scheme, Hungary is talking to Russia and Cyprus is asking Israel if they can buy vaccine from them.
The UK seems to be doing very well on the vaccination front which is just as well since it's the only exit strategy on offer while governments continue with ineffective and probably counter-productive lockdowns.
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