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After the first corona vaccine was approved in Britain, vaccines can now start there. It will be a logistical challenge. An overview of how vaccines should work.
Those most at risk come first. This includes nursing home residents and their caregivers, as well as people 80 and older and healthcare workers. Thereafter, those under the age of 80 through 50 and those considered at risk for health reasons can be vaccinated in stages.
Only then should the rest of the population be vaccinated. The criteria by which this group will be classified are still open. The UK government has ordered 40 million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, enough for 20 million people. At the start of vaccination next week, 800,000 doses of vaccine are initially expected. There is no precise timetable for taking further action because it is unclear how much vaccine will be available soon.
Polls carried out in mid-November show a relatively large readiness of the British for corona vaccination. According to the survey company YouGov, 67 percent of those surveyed said they were very safe or fairly safe to get vaccinated. The Kantar company even got 76 percent. However, this survey also showed that young people have reservations or consider that vaccination is unnecessary. Because while a total of 22% of those surveyed said they definitely or probably don’t want a vaccine, the figure among 18-24 year olds was 38%.
Meanwhile, the Labor Party is calling for a law that allows social media to be prosecuted if they don’t eliminate fake news and conspiracy theories of vaccine opponents. The government and the opposition want to promote vaccination, but there will be no mandatory vaccination in Britain, Prime Minister Johnson has repeatedly emphasized. Vaccination must be free and voluntary.
According to the government, 50 hospitals across the country are already prepared to receive the vaccine. In addition, vaccination centers will be installed in the conference centers and sports stadiums, but also partly in the makeshift hospitals in Nightingale, which were installed in a very short time during the spring. In addition, general practitioners and pharmacists must be involved in the communities.
It is estimated that such a network could provide more than a million vaccines per week. However, at the moment, this is still a long way off, on the one hand because there is no vaccine available in these quantities, and on the other hand because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine must be stored at extremely low temperatures. Therefore, initially only hospitals will receive the vaccine because they can guarantee cooling. However, this should also ensure that it is not the residents of the retirement home who get vaccinated first, but the NHS employees, i.e. health workers and geriatric nurses, who can go to the hospital to get vaccinated.
It is not clear if the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine protects against infection early on, and thus also against transmission of the corona virus, but it offers up to 95 percent protection against the disease. For this protection to occur, vaccines must be administered twice every 21 days. Apparently, a certain immunity is already produced after the first vaccination, but according to experts, the full effect develops one week after the second vaccination.
