England’s Covid vaccine programme could slow sharply, Sage warns

[Northerner]

The pace of England’s vaccination programme could be squeezed to 2.7m a week until the end of July, meaning there would be little surplus for first doses until tens of millions of second doses had been administered.

The latest modelling paper, produced for the Sage scientific advisory committee, said that “the central rollout scenario” provided to academics by the Cabinet Office was “considerably slower” than previously used.

That, the document added, amounted to “an average of 2.7m doses per week in England until the end of July (2m thereafter)” which was compared with “3.2m per week in the previous iteration (3.9m thereafter)”.

England’s Covid vaccine programme could slow sharply, Sage says

Scientific committee forecasts drop to 2.7m jabs a week until July with little available for first doses

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[Bruce Stephens]

As the article says, that's slower than they've been saying. I wonder if they're anticipating not being able to use so many Oxford/AZ doses now?

 

[mikeyB]

There are new vaccines coming on stream now, so I don’t anticipate any great slow down. Scotland has a million Moderna vaccines lined up.