We will answer those questions in this 212th corona update. Whether it is your turn quickly depends, among other things, on your age. In general, the older you are, the sooner you will be vaccinated.
Below are the start dates of the different age groups of elderly living at home. You can also see how many injections will be done in the next two months:
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Younger elderly sometimes earlier
In some cases the fact that the oldest elderly are vaccinated first is not the case. For example, questioner AC Klerx noted: “How is it possible that my husband’s sister, who has just turned 60, has already been vaccinated, and neither of us is 71 years old?”
There may be several reasons why some younger elderly people are vaccinated earlier than older elderly people.
First, some groups are known to be prioritized. For example, the healthcare workers who are in direct contact with corona patients. Almost all of those 40,000 people have now received a first and second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
There are even more groups that get priority. Below you can see the latest RIVM figures about the groups that are now being vaccinated:
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As you can see, different groups are vaccinated in parallel. For example, an 80-year-old may have already been vaccinated twice and a 90-year-old has not yet. This has to do with logistics, but also with a number of other issues.
Geography plays a role, for example: GPs in Zeeland started vaccinating earlier than GPs in Groningen. The National General Practitioners Association, together with the Ministry and RIVM, has opted for a ‘phased, regional rollout’. The main reason for this is the limited availability of the AstraZeneca vaccine. “The RIVM determines the order of the regions on pragmatic grounds. The starting point is to work from the bottom left in the Netherlands (Zeeland) to the top right”, says a work instruction.
AstraZeneca not for people over 65
Speaking of AstraZeneca, this vaccine is only given to people under the age of 65. On the advice of the Health Council, the group of 60 to 64-year-olds is now vaccinated with it. This is because it is unclear whether people over 65 produce enough immune substances against corona after vaccination.
For example, it could well be that someone aged 60 has already been vaccinated (with AstraZeneca), but someone aged 71 has not yet. This 71-year-old, like other people over 65, gets the vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer and there are not enough of them yet.
Conclusion: if you are 65 or slightly older, you should wait until your turn for the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. At least that is the status of this week, nothing is as changeable as the vaccination schedule.
Are you making some progress already?
The largest group, people aged 16 to 60 years without a medical indication, must also be patient. But how long do you have to wait? And are things progressing a bit with the vaccination of the elderly? In the table above you could have already seen how many people have already received a first and a second vaccination. But beware: there is also a group of over-80s waiting for the first shot. Watch:
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Incidentally, there are few vaccine refusers among these over-80s. The vast majority do want to be vaccinated: 93.6 percent of the over-70s, according to the latest research into the willingness to vaccinate of the Dutch.
This week started with two new groups
The next group to be vaccinated are those who live at home from the age of 65 who cannot come to the injection site or the GP. Here too it goes from old to young. They receive the Moderna vaccine from a mobile GP team. These vaccinations started this week.
This week also started with the vaccination of the group of 18 to 59-year-olds with a medical indication. They will receive one of the three available vaccines.
The rest will follow in May
At the moment it is estimated that in May a start can be made with the large group of people without medical medication. The 50 to 59 year olds will be the first to act. And so we continue from old to young.
How fast it goes after that depends very much on the deliveries of the vaccines. At the moment, we can only actually determine how many vaccines will arrive at us in the coming weeks. How much is still to come after that? We do not know yet.
The Ministry of Health has made an estimate for the coming months. By the end of June, we would be on 21 million deliveries and by that time 18 million injections would have been taken. If we put those numbers in a graph, it looks like this:
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Optimism about vaccine deliveries
For the people who want to be vaccinated quickly, that looks quite hopeful. Minister Hugo de Jonge is even more optimistic. If the deliveries go as agreed now, everyone who wants to be vaccinated will have at least one shot by 1 July, he said at Op1 last night. According to the minister, two-thirds of the people who want it will have been fully vaccinated around that time.
The Minister’s optimism stems from stable deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. In the near future, 200,000 Pfizer vaccines will be delivered weekly. From April, deliveries will be further increased and from July, deliveries of other vaccines such as those from Sanofi, Janssen and Curevac are expected. And then it can go fast.
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