Thread by @john_actuary

Thu🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿booster/3rd primary update:

695k reported today, up just 11%, but after last week's 84% increase it still means it's more than double the figure of two weeks ago.

Total is now 26.6m, being 71% of those eligible by the year end.

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The low % increase today means a flattening of the previous steep curve over the last 10 days, which isn't at all surprising.

Whilst we haven't quite hit the target to get 90% done, in practice I doubt take-up will be that high, particularly amongst younger adults.

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Next the age-banded analysis, with the dark purple showing progress since the accelerated campaign started. Pale blue bars now sum to just over 10.5m, or just under 7m if 90% come forward in aggregate.

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Here are current take-up proportions. We've done 87% of the Over 50s and 92% over aged 65. A bit more progress further down over the rest of the year would be very welcome though, although the large number of positive tests will mean some can't come forward unfortunately.

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Next progress over the last month.

Although most of the activity is lower down, I was pleased to see 70-79 nudge up to 94% today and 80+ is still going up by around 0.3% a day so should get to 90% in due course.

50-59 hit 80% today too with a remarkably linear line.

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So in summary, some great protection now for the oldest most vulnerable age groups, thanks to a herculean effort by all those involved. Thanks as ever to all involved from the top down to all those involved in the vax centres up and down the country.

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