Vaccinated Scarborough residents urged to continue sticking to rules
People who receive the vaccine in Scarborough are being urged to continue social distancing and other rules.
People who receive the vaccine in Scarborough are being urged to continue social distancing and other rules.
It is as the first of two doses of the jab have been given out this week at a number of GP practices in North Yorkshire.
The county's Clinicial Commissioning Group says patients will be contacted for an appointment.
Dr. Philip Gould, Virologist at Coventry University, which has a campus in Scarborough, said:
"No single manufacturer can make enough doses of the vaccine to cover the world. So what's key is multiple manufacturers and companies have developed vaccines is great news.
"It takes one month for strong immunity to be gained from that first injection and it's really important you go back for your second booster. So in order to get full protection, and this has been shown in the clinical trials, you have to have both injections within the time periods.
"It's really important that during that month, you still practice social distancing and all the other routines we go through; but even after that, it's good practice to carry on with what we now know as the new norm.
"95 percent is pretty much unprecedented; that's really, really high. Often the influenza vaccine may only be 50 or 60 percent protection. So the real key thing is that 95 percent means that 95 people out of 100 are protected
"If you were that small minority, those five people out of 100 where the vaccine didn't work with you, the chances of you meeting someone else in that five percent who also has the virus is remote.
"The more people who take the vaccine, and the vaccine works, the less likely the virus will then circulate. Even if you've had the vaccine, and for the small minority where it hasn't worked, it still offers protection because the majority of people the vaccine has worked for.
"Everything has been done correctly. There's been such a massive global effort to get this whole process done quickly and efficiently. The clinical trials have all been done correctly and those volunteers have come forward really quickly which enabled it to be done really fast and smoothly."