Your questions answered | When can I get a coronavirus vaccine in the UK?

Your questions answered | When can I get a coronavirus vaccine in the UK

All questions about the speed at which scientists have been able to produce the vaccine and further questions about the precise timetable vaccinating millions of people are our health correspondent Catherine burns. 

There's no such thing as a vaccine that is 100 percent effective for every single person research is trying to find a vaccine for coronavirus was set to target to make it at least 50 percent effective this Oxford vaccine averages out about 70 percent so we've done that and then some so how does it stack up against other vaccines well there's a range flu tends to be about 40 to 60 percent effective at the other end of the scale chickenpox is about 98 percent effective for children the important thing to remember is that this vaccine has been shown to be highly effective. Some people asking how can scientists be so confident in the vaccine they've come up with in less than a year a lot of it comes down to cash there's been a huge global effort with massive amounts of money but also brainpower these vaccines that we're seeing now have been through all the usual processes just streamlined and remember this isn't from a standing start with dealing with a coronavirus scientists have been studying them for years I knew what the possible weak spots could pay. More than 10000 people have had this vaccine so far none has had any serious issues there is the kind of side effects you might expect after vaccine a soul may be a headache temperature or feeling a bit flew away for a few days the team behind this points out that normally vaccines that are regulated in Europe might have safety data on 3 to 5000 people and they have thousands more than that and I've been following them for months. So far we've had a few teams of scientists assessing how effective that vaccines are in other words how good it they as stopping people from getting sick with corona virus well we don't know yet is how long the offer that protection full another unknown is how good the bay at stopping the virus spreading for example if someone is infected doesn't have any symptoms but could still pass it on to other people there are some early positive signs on this from the Oxford trial day if you want to pick which vaccine you'll be given the source hands that is not the slightly longer answer is that the UK government has ordered 100000000 doses of the Oxford faxing more than any other so it's most likely you'd get this one the next question is when well first of all it's got to be approved by the regulator once that happens there were about $4000000 is it ready to be shipped out so we could see some of them before Christmas realistically that's fast does is it going to go to the most vulnerable probably people in care homes over AT and health workers after that ill get rolled out across the rest of the winter and spring. I'm not too is that my colleague Catherine burns a health correspondent on a string just some of the questions that you've been sending in during the course of the day.