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Obviously the “no clamour for 24/7 vaccinations” is a bullshit line to cover for a lack of infrastructure, competence and supply, but if we had the supply, would the administration be so hard?
Not to be guy-who-knows-nothing-but-asserts-a-solution, but it seems workable.
Not to be guy-who-knows-nothing-but-asserts-a-solution, but it seems workable.
There are surely some options out there. One model could be, still vaccinate the vulnerable groups first, but between 7am-10pm. No change to that capacity or to NHS focus.
But from then, open vaccine stations up 10pm to 6am for others. I’d go at 4am for a shot (twice) happily.
But from then, open vaccine stations up 10pm to 6am for others. I’d go at 4am for a shot (twice) happily.
If the issue is finding facilities, there are definitely unused buildings right now (ie bars are obviously located near centres of people, and they have space, private rooms, fridge capacity, and are desperate to get through this quick so they can open again).
To use non-NHS staff, you need some people who are needle trained, and then some others to handle admin - direct people, look for signs of reactions to alert medically trained people to. For the needle folk, pay final year (or penultimate year) student nurses, doctors, vets.
For the admin staff, ask for volunteers, even people who are currently furloughed. I’d happily give up an evening per week for a month, unpaid, to get things moving. I’m relatively privileged, not everyone could do it for free, so they should be paid. About that...
You don’t want to *charge* for the vaccine - it shouldn’t be based on who can afford to buy it - but make it that you (1) get it if you volunteer/take up a paid admin role (you’d need it for that anyway), (2) have the option to make a voluntary donation of c£10 for yours.
The donation would be optional, but for a team of one needler, one monitor and one admin/crowd control, you don’t need many people willing to donate to cover costs. Each facility could run several concurrent teams of a needler, monitor and admin. Each team doing 10(?) ppl per hr.
If 4 in 10 people were willing to donate, you could offer each voluntary worker £10 per hour, plus a cleaner per team at £10 per hour too.
You could add 250 jabs given per facility per night, outside of NHS staff or facility capacity, funded by donations from those who could.
You could add 250 jabs given per facility per night, outside of NHS staff or facility capacity, funded by donations from those who could.
For those who are convinced the lockdown is a bad idea - well, the NHS would be vaccinating the vulnerable, and separately other people would be vaccinated in parallel, getting us all out of this quicker.
All this depends on adequate supply, but is it otherwise ridiculous?
All this depends on adequate supply, but is it otherwise ridiculous?
