Every day the vaccine rolls out

[Chick A Saw]

By way of a weekly update and up to the end of Sunday,

Vaccine Allocated by Public Health England, 1,763,400 (1,618,320) 145,080 allocated this week.
Vaccine Delivered to NHS Scotland, 1,635,450 (1,520,690) 114,760 delivered this week.
People vaccinated up to yesterday, 1,445,488 (1,412,643) first dose, 37,342 (33,473) second does, total 1,482,830 (1,446,116).

That is 127,950 or 5 days supply sitting doon sooth, 189,962 or 7 days in stock minus the 19,753 first and 5,861 second doses administered yesterday.

Cohort info is from figures published today.
Cohort 1.1, Older residents in care homes - estimate exceeded,
Cohort 1.2, Older care home carers 92%.
Cohort 2.1, Over 80s - estimate exceeded,
Cohort 2.2, Frontline NHS and Social Care workers - Estimate exceeded.
Also within the above 2, 97% (95) of adults and 82% (81) of staff in all care homes were also vaccinated.
Cohort 3, 75-79 yo - estimate exceeded,
Cohort 4.1, People aged 70-74 - 97%,
Cohort 4.2, Clinically Extremely vulnerable - 87% (86)
Cohort 5, People aged 65-69 82% (81) To be complete by early March to this point.
Cohort 6, 16-64 with underlying health is progressing.
Cohort 7, 60-64 i believe is progressing based on ensuring minimal waste.

Someone alluded to the fact that a third of all adults in the NHS Tayside area have now been vaccinated, but its doesnt actually mean anything as its a figure that varies area to area based on the age demographic. It is something to be applauded as it is mirroring the achievement of a third of all adults in Scotland have had their first doses.

With the numbers involved in Cohort 6, that will mean when we get to the end of that, we will be pushing on for having vaccinated half of the Scottish adult population. After a wee bit of doom and gloom over vaccine deliveries, SG and UK.Gov seem to be delivering a more up beat message on supplies increasing very soon, and that to me is is the brightest light in the tunnel of hope!

[Chick A Saw]

Surely the lower league teams could now get back into the action? Might have to go down to an 18 game season though, but they are willing to have testing as part of their return.

[JamesMcClean]

Overall, yesterday I was expecting the likely outcome was going to be re-entering the tier systems (into Level 3 country-wide initially) from maybe the first or at a push, second week of April and then shift through the tiers at the three week review points thereafter. The end of April instead feels ridiculously harsh and unnecessary. She has used up a lot of brownie points on this one.

[jjaflup22]

Have to be careful here as someone will say im just looking for an argument, but i get more hope from what Nic said today than the buffoon yesterday!

I may seem to be a Nic sympathizer, and yes the SNP is where my allegiance is and always will be, but the data that i look at without having any expert knowledge whatsoever in this field, or the list of advisors behind me that Nic has access to, really makes sense that the way we are heading is mostly correct.

You have to consider that the Kent strain, the one that pushed us into this lockdown, in 2 weeks set off the alarm bells doon sooth, then once it got a hold up here, more than doubled new infection figures in 2 weeks. It was soon the dominant strain of this virus at 67% of new cases, and now exceeds 80% of all new infections. Another thing to be cautious about is we were seeing case 7 day averages dropping by around 300 Monday to Monday at the beginning of Feb, slowing to 150 and 100, then up again yesterday. I do expect that is a blip because of mass community testing and hope figures do come down again this week.

I go back to what i said at the start of this post and say that i think Boris gave everyone big headline dates that we will do this, that and the next thing at this point, only to go on and role back dates once they realise that infections are still too widespread, current 7 day average at 10,885!

Seen as i am convinced that schools and hospitals were the transmission driver before Christmas, i think schools should not be back to the levels they are just now, but testing is now part of that return so at least there are mitigations.

What gives me hope is in 3 weeks i might get up to see my maw n paw, just in time for Easter, a route to normality appears at my work and i might manage to escape my local area to see more of my beautiful country. I hopefully will then get my first dose and be able to get out for a meal. Back that up with the growing evidence that vaccines are stopping transmission means there is enough to look forward to if you can be patient enough! Just dinnae book a holiday this year!

100% mate. The really funny thing is that people on here have constantly said that the FM does these things for political gain and to get one up on Boris. Yesterday certainly blows that nonsense out of the water. She is being cautious and rightly so. Every time in the past the blonde buffoon has over promised and under delivered so why should this be any different. The FM has put public safety and the NHS above politics just before a crucial election.

[TerryTheTerror]

Yesterday certainly blows that nonsense out of the water.

Definitely NOT! Cynical maybe (it's hard not to be when politicians are involved) but it appears the relaxing of lock-down is going to coincide nicely with the run up to the election in May. IMHO, hence the reason we are having a 2 month delay now.

[PT_Arab]

Honestly quite surprised by what I'm reading on here from a lot of people. The English government have made colossal phuck ups at every turn since this whole thing started - why are people suddenly so assured that Boris has made the correct call now, and that Sturgeon is wrong?

I get that the Scottish government announcement is not what any of us wanted to hear, but do you honestly think the virus gives a phuck what any of us want?

How about reserving judgement until we see how things go? If England relax their restrictions and everything goes as planned then great - good for them. I live in England so that would suit me fine. Then we can all say that the Scottish government were too cautious. But if the English start opening things up, only to see an increase in cases and deaths (let's be honest - not unlikely) then we're right back in lockdown again and some folk on here are going to feel pretty stupid.

Daily new infections are still at around 10,000 - the numbers are coming down but not rapidly by any stretch. The tier system was only moderately successful - it slowed the spread a little bit but numbers continued to rise and then lost control completely. People quoting low numbers as a reason for bringing back the tiers - maybe we need to see these low numbers sustained for a period of time before we can be confident in that approach.

What people have to remember is, this is a virus. You are trying to negotiate with a virus.

[TerryTheTerror]

Honestly quite surprised by what I'm reading on here from a lot of people. The English government have made colossal phuck ups at every turn since this whole thing started - why are people suddenly so assured that Boris has made the correct call now, and that Sturgeon is wrong?

Boris is an utter idiot. The complaints about lock-down for another 9 weeks is nothing to do with him, it's all to do with the 'justification' (has one even been presented with data and facts?) for this action and the removing of hope from a population that's been extremely compliant so far.

[GFLower]

Isn't it about following the science, stop the spread contain the virus?

[offshore_arab83]

Isn't it about following the science, stop the spread contain the virus?

Ah yes follow the science, wash yer hands and sing happy birthday, masks are no use, wear masks, air ports can stay open, travel here from abroad and dont bother isolating, stay at home, all non essential shops to close apart fae the Range, B&M and Home bargains, go to work, eat out to help out, ah f uck we've a new strain a'body back in 2 week lockdown, weeks and weeks later still in lockdown but you get christmas aff, back in lockdoon, vaccines going well, go abroad come back and do 10 days isolation, infection rates dropping, deaths dropping the blubbering idiot gives a route map and a glimmer of hope for the english chunts and we get another 8 weeks lockdown rammed right up us then going into tier 3 which is effectively the same as this current lockdown except more shops open.

Yes, following the science has served us well.

[ballumbie_arab]

Definitely NOT! Cynical maybe (it's hard not to be when politicians are involved) but it appears the relaxing of lock-down is going to coincide nicely with the run up to the election in May. IMHO, hence the reason we are having a 2 month delay now.

Absolutely spot on TTT!!!