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Vaccination target may be inaccurate #15

Closed ThePraeceps closed 3 years ago

ThePraeceps commented 3 years ago

Sky news reports the vaccination target being very different from your current graph.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-breaks-daily-jab-record-with-more-than-660-000-vaccine-doses-administered-12250729 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55274833

In addition if they had hit the target I'd expect more of the age groups to be filled.

ChrisLane commented 3 years ago

I haven't double checked the actual % for the 15th April target but I know that the value will be different to what is reported in those articles since vaxtldr.uk is only for presenting data for England and not the UK as a whole.

I suspect the 37.4% used by this site is an estimate of the over-50s population and doesn't include the additional categories such as people with underlying health conditions.

ThePraeceps commented 3 years ago

Yeah that makes sense - the BBC article says the target is about 32 million for the priority groups - you could use the population percentage in England (84.3%) to get a target of ~27 million which should include underlying health conditions.

mishajw commented 3 years ago

Thanks for spotting that, you're right - this misses ~6 million key workers & critically vulnerable (see table 2). Fix coming up