Dr John Campbell, 54,522 views Dec 30, 2020,
Vaccination, excellent news
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I'm now joined by john campbell he's an independent health analyst an educator and joins us from carlisle in the north of england dr campbell thanks for joining us this uh pandemic is hitting your country and so many others very hard at this time how important is this new vaccine?It really is but this new vaccine is the best news we've had in the pandemic and it is going to change the situation entirely, now in the united kingdom we're going to start a mass roll out of this vaccine from the 4th of january we're going to be vaccinating a million people a week from that point and that's only going to build up as the logistics and infrastructure develops and as well as that what we're going to do is we're going to give one dose of this vaccine and then wait a full three months before we give the second dose, so that means an awful lot of people are going to start to get a fairly good level of immunity straight away without waiting for the second dose, and of course it also means we can vaccinate many more people so it really is going to change the situation in the united kingdom and in time in europe
But this this vaccine this new one oxford astrozenica vaccine is the second but we've already seen in trials that it's not as effective as the biontech Pfizer one is it good enough?It certainly is good enough anything over 50 percent is going to be efficacious but we had the managing director of pfizer making a press announcement just a few days ago saying the efficacy of this would just be as good as the pfizer and the moderna vaccine now we don't have the scientific data on that yet, but it's looking very promising and the key seems to be in the gap between the two doses, so giving a longer gap between the first and the second dose seems to increase the efficacy, so although we have efficacy figures of like 62 70 up to 90 depending on the dosing regime, what he says is we've found the right formula and we should be up there with the others
So we are expecting high levels of efficacy so yes it is good enough and we believe this vaccine is safe as well
Well that certainly sounds promising