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Originally Posted by Chris
That's interesting. Are they saying that vaccine supply has been the key factor in their vaccination rate so far? As of yesterday they're still vaccinating at a marginally lower rate than the UK (they're at 0.54 jabs per 100 population, we're at 0.58). They haven't exceeded our daily rate at any point in the programme except for a brief spell around the turn of the new year, although their daily rate has been accelerating slightly faster than ours for the past week or so.
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The J&J vaccine was only cleared at the weekend but J&J has experienced production difficulties. The Merck deal also enables the date to be moved from July to May which is a huge change. And it's a single-injection vaccine.