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Similar span for those in the UK I was hearing. There strategy, from what I understand, was mainly get the 1st dose in most of the population and move onto the
by mgr86 5y ago
Similar span for those in the UK I was hearing. There strategy, from what I understand, was mainly get the 1st dose in most of the population and move onto the second dose. I believe those in high risk groups may have been prioritized, but I'm not sure. (just what I am remembering from a side conversation on a zoom call with a colleague in the UK)
- lampington 5y agoIn the UK here. You're pretty much right; the goal as stated was to get a first dose into all of the clinically vulnerable people (long term illness, diabetic, severely asthmatic, etc) and those over 50 before moving on to second doses. IIRC those groups accounted for about 99% of deaths from covid. In other words, the supply was enough to make sure that all of those people could get one dose in twelve weeks, so that's the dose interval that was set. That goal (quickly vaccinate all of the at risk population with one dose) was pretty much achieved. I guess it remains to be seen whether it was the right goal, but early indications (deaths/day down from 1,000 to 10 or so) are positive. (Obviously correlation is not causation and so on, and there undoubtedly a ton of confounders.)