Got mine saturday morning, 1st part anyway.
That's great news. I just hope they don't go the same way with vaccine roll out as they did with test and trace, that being putting capacity over actual delivery. Having a 1000 or 1000's of vaccine sites with trained personal is pointless unless you've actually got the stuff to put in the syringe and a guaranteed supply for further doses required. I've also read there's a world shortage of viles the vaccine goes in, it's also worth mentioning about all the others items required to manufacture. The world has got to ramp up to unpresented levels of production something we in the UK aren't scaled for and will take time, months not weeks or we stop making something else! We make very little of our own pharma these days most is made in Eastern Europe, India or the Far East, to max profit.
My other concern is they'll go hell for leather to get the numbers, e.g. extending the interval between doses from 28 days to 12 wks, then won't have enough vaccine supply to hit the 12 wk second dose. Don't get me wrong the former makes sense based on the science they'll telling us, but only if you've got guaranteed supply. What happens if you don't get the second in 12, 13, 14wks or whatever, do you have to start from scratch or do you just get reduced protection. My guess is it's reduced but to what and if that is low it could render it much less effective? So far no one from the government is confirming actual supply figures just it will ramp up to pie in the sky numbers, where have we heard that before
Personally, I think we're are on track for yet another over promise, under deliver situation and yet another gamble, hope I'm wrong. I'm well down the list, so this situation will have little impact on me personally, but those in the at risk groups it could be serious, as it's their second dose that's going to be used to hit the bigger initial numbers!