>> Slightly odd report/poll, it says 35% unlikely to take it but then later states 20%
>> unlikely to take it if it were available.
I understand the fear of vaccination but it's hard to image a scenario in which the danger from the vaccine is anywhere near the risk of catching COVID and its consequences, even if that is quite low for some groups.
However - the benefit of vaccination with reference to deaths only is very concentrated in identifiable high risk groups. Around two thirds of the UK COVID-attributed deaths have been either people in care homes or people not in care homes but over 80.
Source - More or Less podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p090hlp7 (this is only 9 minutes if you want to listen yourself)
It's fair to say that for vaccination to work in suppressing the disease a high level of take-up is required, but it does make me wonder how much economic and social damage we could have saved had we (a) known this was going to be the case, and (b) strategised to protect those people from the off.
If we really had found a way to protect the care homes the early death count would have been much lower (and should be in the future if the dry tinder stays out of the way).
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