08-10-2021, 06:49 PM
(08-10-2021, 05:57 PM)JOK Wrote: Following on from the previous and highly inaccurate outlandish statement about us falling behind in vaccinating the population compared to our peers.
“The U.K. leading the rest of Europe.
in terms of the absolute number of vaccinations, Germany and the United Kingdom -- which approved its first COVID 19 vaccine on December 2 nearly three weeks before the EU -- are racing ahead with immunising their people.”
And still only Canada, Denmark and Belgium (of our peers ) have double jabbed more of their population.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/06/covid-19-vaccinations-in-europe-which-countries-are-leading-the-way
With Hospital admissions falling, and the death rate per infection massively down (1 one in 1,000 compared to one in 60 last winter) can’t we just allow ourselves a little bit of respite from the droning of constant misery, gnashing of teeth and scare mongering we have been bombarded with on here? Accentuate the positives , as somebody once sang, for sanity’s sake.
Here’s an updated stats from the FT which gives a broader set of statistics.
FT Vaccine