In England, the current pandemic strategy relies on vaccine protection to minimise the impacts of COVID infections. But vaccine uptake is not as good as it could be. As of October 23 2022, although 80% of adults had received two doses, only 66% had received a third.
Vaccine uptake is lower in men compared with women, and while more than 90% of people over the age of 70 have had at least three doses, uptake in younger age groups falls progressively to just one-third of 18-to-20-year-olds.
