Thread by @miamalan

[Thread] 1. What % of SA adults have been fully or partially vaccinated?

1. Fully vaccinated: 4.7% (Limpopo = 6.2%)
2. Partially vaccinated (1 #Pfizer dose): 9.1% (1 dose provides 94% protection @ hospitalisation as a result of infection with the #DeltaVariant)

2. Is #VaccineRollOutSA scaling up? Yes. Here’s the timeline for every 1 mil doses recorded on the #EVDS (data = @healthza dashboard):

1 mil: 28 May
2 mil: 16 Jun (19 days)
3 mil: 30 Jun (14 days)
4 mil: 8 Jul (8 days)
5 mil 16 Jul (8 days)

Graph = @mediahackza/@Bhekisisa_MG

3. What does the 1-mil timeline in the previous tweet tell us? We now take 8 days to administer 1-mil jabs. Initially we took between 14 + 19 days. If we reach #Ramaphosa’s goal of 300 000 jabs/day, we’ll get close to 1 mil jabs every 3 days (we’re now doing about 220 000/day).

4. How does SA compare to #Africa?

@mediahack shows only Morocco has done more jabs than SA (population sizes in brackets):
1. Morocco: 21, 102, 584 (37 mil)
2. SA: 5, 558, 378 (60 mil)
3. Egypt: 5, 056, 303 (104 mil)
4. Nigeria: 3, 938, 945 (211 mil)

bit.ly/3eFlBLb

5. What could make us fall behind?
1. Vaccine supply: if manufacturers = unable to deliver on schedule, we’ll vaccinate at a slower rate (this has already happened with #JnJ)
2. Unrest: if violence flares up, sites in affected areas will have to close down, as in KZN last week

6. How do we know jabs work? All #COVIDvaccine manufacturers conduct efficacy trials to measure how well their shots work and if they’re safe. But we now also have “real-world” data from the US and countries in Europe, because they've been vaccinating for +/- 8 months.

7. 99.5% of all #COVID hospitalisations and deaths in the US now occur among unvaccinated people. Jabs provide excellent protection @ falling severely ill and death. Watch this CDC press conference (10:45 onwards) for the data.

8. This is a graph from the UK government. It compares the first 50 days of their 2nd + 3rd #COVID waves. The difference? COVID deaths in the 3rd wave were minute compared to the 2nd wave. Why? A large proportion of the population had been vaccinated.

9. Summary: #COVIDVaccines can save you from dying or ending up on a ventilator. They can be the difference between living and dying from #COVID caused by the #DeltaVariant (and also other variants), which is now dominant in SA. Get vaccinated. Just do it.