Half the UK population has now received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose

Half the UK population has now had at least one dose of an approved, tested, safe & effective vaccination against a deadly virus none of us had heard of 15 months ago.. 

Fantastic achievement!

Congratulations to all the scientists, NHS staff, volunteers, & everyone else involved.

That includes more than 12 million people who had both of their two doses and are now fully vaccinated.

As of 24 April, 45,580,400 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been given in the UK.

Music to relax after a council meeting: "Hooked on Classics 3 - Viva Vivaldi"

Blood clot risks

This graphic shows the proportion of people who have had blood clots following one of a number of four other possible events - having the Oxford AstraZeneca jab, taking the birth control pill, smoking, or catching COVID-19.

These percentages are an indication of correlation, not causation. The lower the level of correlation the weaker the argument that there is a causal connection.

But if there is a causal connection - which is not proven - the average person has about 40,000 times more risk of getting blood clots as a catching COVID-19 as they have of getting one as a result of being vaccinated with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab.