On the Use of the EICC for Vaccines in 2022

[danieldwilliam]

Bumped in to Dad on the way back from working out this morning. We were discussing the vaccine roll-out and he wondered what was going to happen when the people who owned the Edinburgh International Conference Centre wanted it back for non vaccine related things like conferences. With a working assumption that we are going to be vaccinating approximately everyone at least annually for at least 5 years where are we going to do it?

We then went on to wonder if extreme handwashing and sanitising will continue (almost certainly), whether facemasks will persist (likely) and whether an annual COVID vaccine would increase the offering and the take up of the annual flu vaccine (very likely). Which all probably means lower levels of things like flu in the future.

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[danieldwilliam]

Aye, it's the fact that everywhere seems to have hand sanitiser stations now. So it's not a huge increase in cost to keep them topped up with alcohol gel.

I think I might go further on people staying at home when slightly sick and make it mandatory that they do so if they can do their work at home. Got a cold, stay out of the office.

Pharmacies would be the go to place for a simple proceedure like a vaccine. A quick Google suggests that there about 14,000 pharmacies in the UK for a population of about 65 million. So that's about 13 vaccinations per pharmacy per day if you do it evenly over the year. Or perhaps 50 a day (5 an hour) if you try and concentrate the vaccinations in to the run up to winter flu season. That's if you were doing everyone and that everyone who was being vaccinated was vaccinated at a pharmacy.

In reality you'd have large parts of the population done in different places; schools in their school halls, universities in their lecture theatres, GP surgeries, work places and so on.