4 ms·

>yet its vaccine rollout is doing better the the US. The UK only has higher percentage with 1 vaccine dose. US has a higher percentage of people totally vaccin

• horsburgh 5y ago
  That does not contradict the parent. The UK has a better vaccine roll out strategy than the US since the figure of merit is not the number of people with two doses. The big gains are from the first dose so the UK has prioritized getting those into as many arms as possible. So, while the number of doses given per capita is almost exactly the same in the US and the UK, the UK has a significantly better level of protection. In addition the UK has very strongly prioritized the most vulnerable. The net result is that I expect the UK to have an entire day without Covid deaths within the next two weeks, something which would have been unimaginable during the peak in mid-January. In more or less every other respect the UK government has done a terrible job of managing the pandemic but the vaccine rollout has been very well thought out and implemented.