High Hopes For Oxford/AstraZeneca Jab

Of all the Coronavirus vacinnes being rolled out, i have my hopes up for the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab which is expected to be given the green light by the MHRA this week for meeting their standards of quality, safety and effectiveness.  
The reason i am hoping that the UK made immunisation takes top polling is not out of some jingostic flag waving, but because it is being sold for £3 a dose, the cost to manufacture it, compared to some of the massive mark-ups some other profiteering companies are charging, which means that the vaccine is affordable for nations without the deep pockets of the West and as it does not need to be stored at temperatures as low as the other vaccines, it makes it much easier to store and distribute.
As the Government's chief scientific adviser has warned that with a new Coronavirus variant which is 70% more transmissible, an even more stringent lock-down will be required in January and a Tier 4+ or Tier 5 is being mooted which will pretty much put us back into where we were in March with extensive stay at home orders with only an hour outside for exercise each day so a vaccine cannot come soon enough.
With some of the other vacinnes showing an efficacy rate of 90%-95%, the 62% rate of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was a little underwhelming but it was a happy accident that showed if the first dose is half a dose and then that is followed by a full dose 21 days later, the efficacy rate is 90% which must come as a relief to the government which has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.
The issue now, assuming that it will be green lighted this week, is the logistics of actually getting it into peoples arms, since 6 December 600,000 people have been given the first dose which breaks down to approximately 27,300 a day and with a population of 65 million to inject, it would take 2,380 days or 198 months or 16 years to immunise everyone at the current rate 1.8 million a week so to achieve the protection by April as the Government are stating, they will need to find a way to jab 5.4 million of us a week so with this UK Government showing they are the Kings of over-promising, i wouldn't be booking that Summer Holiday in June just yet.