Thread by @Kit_Yates_Maths

A short thread on vaccination:
TL;DR Coverage of the total population is increasing as we vaccinate 16-17 year olds.
All home nations now have fully vaccinated coverage greater than 60%.
Vaccination rate has stayed relatively flat arresting sustained falls.
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All home nations now have fully vaccinated coverage greater than 60%. Of course this still leaves 30-40% without the full protection, but >60% is already clearly making a big difference.
The more we can vaccinate the better for reducing the spread, severe disease and death.
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Daily rates for the UK are stable at about 200K doses per day.
That has been flat or slightly increasing for a couple of weeks halting the decline of the last two months.
This is partly as a result of bringing 16-17 yos online for vaccination.
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Second dose coverage is at 76% for the adult (over 16s) population.
This might look like a fall from previous weeks, but is a result of including 16-17 yos in the denominator.
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Same slight fall from last week is apparent for the rates across the different nations of the UK.
Wales still leading the way in second doses, but flattening quicker than the other nations.
Scotland in front for fist doses (89.4%).
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First dose coverage is plateauing at a lower level for younger age groups.
The same looks to be true for second doses, although we are still going with those.
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The vaccination programme has gone well.
It stands between us and astronomically high levels of hospitals and deaths as we open up.
But, rising case numbers show that vaccines are not the whole solution.
We need to tackle covid as part of coordinated public health strategy
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Note: All adult coverage charts now use the 16+ year old population as the denominator to be consistent with the change to the COVID dashboard.

With thanks as ever to Bob Hawkins for his help preparing the data.