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the hospitals across the across the country already.
But we can also use this this vaccine in primary care.
We can take it to care homes.
It just needs normal fridge temperature rather than the minus 70 super cold storage that devise a vaccine requires eso we can.
We'll get going on this from Monday.
The number that will be ready for next week is in the hundreds of thousands on.
Then the numbers increase significantly after that.
Andan.
Once we vaccinated all of them on the over fifties at which is, you know, a significant chunk of the population.
Then we will continue to vaccinate the under fifties, even though the likelihood of dying from the disease is much lower if you're under the age of 50 because we've got enough of this vaccine on order to vaccinate the whole population, you know we've got 100 million doses on order.
Add that to the 30 million doses of Pfizer and that's enough for two doses for the entire population.
So I can now say with confidence that we can vaccinate everyone except, of course, for Children because this vaccine has not been trialed on on Children in any way Children are much, much less likely tohave have symptoms from the disease.
The strategy is to suppress the virus until the vaccine can make us safe on today's news is great news for the ability of the vaccine to make us safe and make us safe faster than we previously could have done.