COVID publications from the PHE are now issued by the UKHSA

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Public Health England is being replaced by the Health Security Agency, with recent publications reflecting a similar format to PHE. Current vaccine uptake data indicates that a significant number of adults remain unvaccinated, with detailed statistics available in the latest reports. Despite concerns, there have been no vaccine shortages in the UK, and the government has committed to donating 100 million vaccine doses to developing countries without impacting domestic vaccination efforts. The vaccination rate data may be underestimated due to issues with the National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS), which can count individuals multiple times if they change addresses. An alternative database, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reportedly produces higher vaccination rates, sometimes exceeding 100%. The UK government also employs a sampling and modeling method that suggests a population immunity rate exceeding 90% and a vaccination rate of around 98% among those aged 60 and over. Further discussions on these topics are ongoing, with notable contributions from figures like John Burn-Murdoch and James Ward.
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Latest vaccine data now issued by the UKHSA
Public Health England are being/are replaced by Health Security agency

Latest publication below. Very similar format to PHE

https://assets.publishing.service.g...849/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_40.pdf

Vaccine uptake by age is below (page 9 of the above) and vaccine UK by day uptake is below that from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

I used dose one as dose 2 is slightly lower

We have not at any point had vaccine shortages to my knowledge, in fact we have 1M jabs that have been pledged to the third world without derailing our current program https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ccine-doses-to-poorer-countries-within-a-year

Each band represents about 4 million people so we are looking at significant numbers of adults unvaccinated. Page 13 gives the deaths between week 36-39.

These publications include variant distribution so I will post that when it is released.

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pinball1970 said:
Vaccine uptake by age is below (page 9 of the above)
That uses NIMS. It underestimates the vaccination rate, as people are counted more than once in that database if they changed addresses without notifying the authority. I think they use NIMS for work, since it's better to make sure they've reached everyone if they have an important message. There's another database ONS which is supposedly more accurate but apparently produces vaccintation rates above 100%.

The UK government has a third method which is to sample and model, and that produces a population immunity (by infection and vaccination) of over 90% and a vaccination rate of ~98% in ages 60+:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...ntibodyandvaccinationdatafortheuk/4august2021

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