Online calculator estimates how quickly you’ll be likely to receive the coronavirus vaccine

18 December 2020, 13:55 | Updated: December 18, 2020, 2:11 PM

An online calculator has been launched that assesses when people are likely to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid vaccine.

With the coronavirus vaccine rolled out across the UK and the news, more than 137,000 people in the UK had received the first dose of Pfizer vaccine in the first week of the “biggest vaccination program in history British “, many wondered when it would. their turn to receive the jab?

The Omni Calculator asks a series of questions about your age, health, and circumstances to determine where you might be in the queue to receive the jab.

The calculator then shows the user where they stand in terms of vaccination.

It should be noted that the calculator is not an official product of the NHS and is not linked to the vaccine deployment program.

Hundreds of Covid-19 vaccination centers run by local doctors started opening across England this week.

General practitioners’ offices in more than 100 sites had the vaccine delivered on Monday, with some opening their clinics later in the afternoon.

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The majority will start providing immunization services to their local community within days, NHS England and NHS Improvement said.

NHS staff, including nurses and pharmacists, will work alongside GPs to vaccinate people aged 80 and over, as well as care home workers and residents.

Vaccination centers will operate out of existing medical offices or community centers in villages, towns and cities across the country, with patients encouraged to receive the vaccine.

Lord Bethell told Peers on Thursday it would take at least until spring for all high-risk groups to be offered a shot.

While prominent scientists have warned that it would take nearly a year to vaccinate the entire UK population against Covid-19, even without disruption of vaccine supply.

Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which advises ministers, said the rapid development of vaccines in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a “remarkable achievement”.

But with Professor Tim Cook, consultant in anesthesia and intensive care medicine at the University of Bristol, Sir Jeremy warned that there was still a long way to go.