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Pfizer vaccine approved for use next week in UK.

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The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.

British regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up to 95% protection against Covid-19 illness, is safe for rollout next week.

Immunisations could start within days for those who need it the most, such as elderly, vulnerable patients.

The UK has already ordered 40m doses - enough to vaccinate 20m people.

Around 10m doses should be available soon, with the first 800,000 arriving in the UK in the coming days.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696

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peege

Exciting news!

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Aingeful

Great news, the sooner we can get back to some sort of normality the better !!

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watergazer

Bit of a nightmare though as a lot of places don't have the correct fridge temps to store it and apparently it doesn't come in individual doses but in a large tank so has to be made up and can only be moved 5 times - according to my GP son x Fingers crossed for the others to be passed in the near future x

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Hacienda

Brilliant News, Watched Piers Morgan talking to Matt on This Morning. He was gentle with him, for a change. It is a Great Future for everyone. xxxx 👍

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flo1

Freedom!

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Croydonia

Our friend Matt sounded really upbeat on the radio this morning. He must be very relieved that we’re on the way out of this dreadful year, as we all are.

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Kristicats

🎉🎉🎉🕺🍾🥂🥳🥳😃🤪😷🤞🤞🤞👌👍💃🕺💃🕺Back to work in a few months ??🥳🤞🤞🤞

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HungryHufflepuff

This is great news. I wonder why no other country has approved the vaccine yet though. This has been a very strange and stressful year, let’s hope 2021will be much better all round .

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MoyB

My consultant asked me this week how I felt about having the vaccine. I was hesitant as I remember Thalidomide and I admitted that to him.We chatted then for a bit about the flu jab which I have every year. He didn't argue the point at all about the COVID vaccine, he just said that he would be one of the first in the queue for it and felt it was a really good thing. So that started to help me think more positively about it.

Then yesterday, I read something on Facebook that was supposed to have been written by a doctor involved in medical research. They said that the reason most vaccines take years to reach us isn't because of many years of testing, it's because of all the hoops they have to jump through before it gets approved. I can't remember it all, but it was all admin stuff eg getting the proposal approved in the first place, then the funding, finding the facilities and everything that is needed, and the people to do the job and so it went on. There were heaps of things they said they had to go through - lots of red tape. They said that the reason that the COVID vaccine has been developed so quickly is due to the fact that it was made possible to cut through that red tape and the funding and facilities were made available straight away.

Now, of course, there's a lot of stuff on Facebook that is utter rubbish so we have to be careful what we believe, but it did make me think.

So thanks to the consultant and the anonymous researcher, I have made up my mind to have the vaccine and my consultant will have to move swiftly aside as I now intend to be the first in the queue instead!!

xx Moy

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Despite the very strong evidence that I have natural immunity, from infection, I will still be accepting the vaccine. As you say the speed that it has arrived is because of cutting the red tape, the funding and enormous response for trials volunteers.

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Aingeful in reply to MoyB

I saw that about the red tape etc yesterday.They have worked night and day for 9 months and cut out all unnecessary procedures. I don't know if you watch Good Morning Britain but Piers Morgan and Matt Hancock ( health Minister)offered to have the vaccine live on air. I will have it as soon as it is offered!

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The vaccine is now in the country and on its way to certain hospitals. The hospitals chosen to receive it have freezers that go down to -75 degrees. Permission to split the 900 dose packs has not yet been given, so there is still the problem of getting it out to care homes to solve.

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