High vaccine uptake sees 'collapse in harm' of Covid-19

The high uptake of Covid-19 vaccines has led to a "collapse in the harm" caused by the virus in the vaccinated population "way beyond" what was expected in clinical trials, according to the HSE's Chief Clinical Officer.

He said there is compelling evidence that full vaccination gives considerable protection from serious illness and urged people to get their second vaccine dose. Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said the total vaccination programme this week will be between 310,000 and 330,000 and of that 90,000 shots will be AstraZeneca.He said the HSE gets confirmation of delivery around two weeks ahead of each vaccine supply line, adding there are very strong supply lines for the next two weeks, and after that the HSE will deal primarily with Pfizer and Moderna.

Mr Reid added that a significant number of services are coming back up following the cyber attack on the HSE last month, but there are still constraints on hospital and community services.

Be nice if they could make up their minds because only yesterday they were telling us the vaccine offers no protection against the Delta varient.

Memo

all the discussion is on antigen testing but nothing on airfiltering that kills covid. what's going on with journalists. do they work or not against delta? economic recovery affected. why not asking. if not then consumers mis-sold ? NUJofficial

So life the flaming lockdown then will you for gods sake!!!

Yet we are the only country in Europe with indoor dining closed, only country in Europe that cancelled the Euros, only country in EU with MHQ. While the world gets on with life we are trialling a sports event with less this 3% capacity this weekend. Country is an embarrassment!

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