"The tests performed here were done fortnightly, as mentioned. It is possible to have a full clinical course of COVID-19 in less than 14 days, and I’m sure it’s also possible to have an asymptomatic infection that resolves in less than 14 days."
I tend to read CT early in the morning, while finishing my first cup of coffee. As a result, reading this I thought, "Why didn't they do antibody tests to see if someone was infected?"
And then, "Oh, right, vaccinated."
'However, the really disappointing part is where gender, age, ethnicity, IMD (“index of multiple deprivation", a measure of socioeconomic status/poverty) and staff group also impacted likelihood of getting the vaccine. Basically, this tells me that societal inequality, as well as potentially a false impression of invincibility among younger people, led to disparities in vaccine uptake.'
There's also a frequently-written-about phenomenon that members of some ethnic groups simply distrust the medical system. I have no idea if the UK experiences this to the same extent as the US, with our atrocious (in the literal sense--these were atrocities) history of things like the Tuskeegee Experiment and the Doctor J. Marion Sims inventing gynecology by experimenting on slaves without anesthetic.
Another wrinkle here: everyone in this study (if I read your summary correctly) was employed by the NHS. They certainly varied by SES, but that would inevitably correlate with educational level--in the healthcare business, physicians get paid more than nurses get paid more than nurses' assistants, to name three jobs. Did they correct for that?
"The tests performed here were done fortnightly, as mentioned. It is possible to have a full clinical course of COVID-19 in less than 14 days, and I’m sure it’s also possible to have an asymptomatic infection that resolves in less than 14 days."
I tend to read CT early in the morning, while finishing my first cup of coffee. As a result, reading this I thought, "Why didn't they do antibody tests to see if someone was infected?"
And then, "Oh, right, vaccinated."
'However, the really disappointing part is where gender, age, ethnicity, IMD (“index of multiple deprivation", a measure of socioeconomic status/poverty) and staff group also impacted likelihood of getting the vaccine. Basically, this tells me that societal inequality, as well as potentially a false impression of invincibility among younger people, led to disparities in vaccine uptake.'
There's also a frequently-written-about phenomenon that members of some ethnic groups simply distrust the medical system. I have no idea if the UK experiences this to the same extent as the US, with our atrocious (in the literal sense--these were atrocities) history of things like the Tuskeegee Experiment and the Doctor J. Marion Sims inventing gynecology by experimenting on slaves without anesthetic.
Another wrinkle here: everyone in this study (if I read your summary correctly) was employed by the NHS. They certainly varied by SES, but that would inevitably correlate with educational level--in the healthcare business, physicians get paid more than nurses get paid more than nurses' assistants, to name three jobs. Did they correct for that?