88,906 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given out on the Isle of Wight, which equates to 74.24% of the Island’s 16+ population.
According to the latest NHS data, 14,765 under 45s and 5,205 45 to 49-year-olds have had at least 1 dose as the Government resumes its focus on expanding the vaccination programme to the younger generations.
558 first doses have been given out between 11th-18th April and second doses are now being distributed quickly too within the 12-week period promised.
However, data shows that nearly 1 in 5 eligible care home staff have not had a COVID vaccine on the Isle of Wight.
Latest data from the NHS shows over the course of the vaccine rollout, which started in December, of the 2,459 eligible older adult care home staff, only 1,986 took up their first dose. This means 473, or 19.2 per cent of care home staff on the Island, have not had their first vaccine.
The figures, recorded by the National Immunisation Management Service database, shows the number of care home staff being vaccinated against the virus does keep increasing, rising by 49 in the week ending 18th April.
It comes as the government introduce plans that mean care home staff will be required by law to have the vaccine but the move has provoked criticism from trade union Unison, which said mandatory vaccinations could ‘backfire’ and lead to a staffing shortage.
A 5-week consultation on mandatory jabs has been launched by the Department of Health and Social Care, following concerns about whether enough carers have been vaccinated to stop the virus spreading to residents.
Residents in older adult care homes have a vaccination rate of 92.7%, with only 106 people not yet vaccinated but 1,341 receiving at least their first dose.
That is good news …
Shame on the carers who don’t seem to have a sense of duty of care !!!
Even if our vulnerable care home residents have both jabs due to their age and frailties it could still cause problems or death ….
Thank you to those who have been vaccinated .
shame on the carers who don’t seem to have a sense of duty of care !!!
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really, for exercising their fundamental human right not to have something injected into them – how many carers do you think will quit the profession and leave those needing care, festering and starving in their own filth, if they are told to have a vaccination against their will.?
i already know a few who have said they will quit that day, if they are told to get a jab against their will, which will leave the residents of the home they work in, with no one to assist.
very debatable subject. I know it’s everyone’s choice to have the jab or not but if we don’t all go for it when will this pandemic end.
we are going to be on an ever turning wheel to nowhere maybe for years.
how much longer can we endure living with the destruction the virus is causing.
there is no such thing as ‘it will never happen to me.’