COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker (News and Updates) (Poll added)

[ed360123]

Have enough who, fda, EU or UK approved vaccines been produced to vaccinate the over 7 billion humans on earth?

Probably not, especially with most vaccines requiring two doses. Would have to be 14 billion+ doses produced.

[Mmoney607]

Have enough who, fda, EU or UK approved vaccines been produced to vaccinate the over 7 billion humans on earth?

Probably not, especially with most vaccines requiring two doses. Would have to be 14 billion+ doses produced.

So why people complaining about people be anti Vax. Even if everyone wanted to take the vaccine, they don't even have enough. So by the time the making more, according to vaccine blind loyalists, unvaccinated people, who don't have any vaccine available to them, would be creating variants.

[Mmoney607]

When we fully vacc. 800,000 ppl.. what would happen to rest ? crapaud smoke yuh pipe?

Well the prime Minister and the CMO said 1 million adults would result in herd immunity.

[aaron17]

When we fully vacc. 800,000 ppl.. what would happen to rest ? crapaud smoke yuh pipe?

Well the prime Minister and the CMO said 1 million adults would result in herd immunity.

Data keeps on changing ...so i expect them to say something else.

[Dohplaydat]

When we fully vacc. 800,000 ppl.. what would happen to rest ? crapaud smoke yuh pipe?

Well the prime Minister and the CMO said 1 million adults would result in herd immunity.

Data keeps on changing ...so i expect them to say something else.

Data doesn't actually change, it's just more of it comes in that tells us what's really happening. Analysis of this data is where you need good experienced biostatisticians and data scientists to step in. Not doctors.

[j.o.e]

Have enough who, fda, EU or UK approved vaccines been produced to vaccinate the over 7 billion humans on earth?

Probably not, especially with most vaccines requiring two doses. Would have to be 14 billion+ doses produced.

So why people complaining about people be anti Vax. Even if everyone wanted to take the vaccine, they don't even have enough. So by the time the making more, according to vaccine blind loyalists, unvaccinated people, who don't have any vaccine available to them, would be creating variants.

You understand that If those who can access vaccines take them that it will limit spread, deaths and variants ?

[abducted]

Have enough who, fda, EU or UK approved vaccines been produced to vaccinate the over 7 billion humans on earth?

Probably not, especially with most vaccines requiring two doses. Would have to be 14 billion+ doses produced.

So why people complaining about people be anti Vax. Even if everyone wanted to take the vaccine, they don't even have enough. So by the time the making more, according to vaccine blind loyalists, unvaccinated people, who don't have any vaccine available to them, would be creating variants.

Did you go to school in August only?

Have enough who, fda, EU or UK approved vaccines been produced to vaccinate the over 7 billion humans on earth?

Probably not, especially with most vaccines requiring two doses. Would have to be 14 billion+ doses produced.

So why people complaining about people be anti Vax. Even if everyone wanted to take the vaccine, they don't even have enough. So by the time the making more, according to vaccine blind loyalists, unvaccinated people, who don't have any vaccine available to them, would be creating variants.

You understand that If those who can access vaccines take them that it will limit spread, deaths and variants ?

He does not seem to understand anything

[Dohplaydat]

FYI

The death rate from breakthrough infections is 0.0005%

Your chance of dying from a lightning strike is 0.0007%, from a seasonal flu is 0.1% and from covid if unvaccinated is 1%.

So if you remain unvaccinated your 2000 times more likely to die.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Persons are only considered fully vaccinated 2 weeks after their second dose of the vaccine

[Rovin]

[timothymcdavid]

Politicians like to hide the truth there is no herd immunity to be had with delta variant and these vaccines we are currently deploying ... Lambda variant is causing real bacchanal in Peru and they have primarily Sinopharm their health professionals are crying out for them to get Pfizer.

https://www.republicworld.com/world-new ... shots.html

[shake d livin wake d dead]

24 hr update on AZ second shot for my folks:

No side effects, all is well!!!

[aaron17]

There will be thousands of variants to come.

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24 hr update on AZ second shot for my folks:

No side effects, all is well!!!

Glad to hear man.Fun times ahead

[PariaMan]

‘A rush to get shots’

Vaccine holdouts in coronavirus hot spots including Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri are rolling up their sleeves as the delta variant

They were unmoved by the urgings of President Biden to get vaccinated. They’ve spurned calls from the nation’s leading doctors, as well as from sports heroes and movie stars. But one thing is finally grabbing the attention of millions of unvaccinated Americans — the invasion of the hyper-contagious delta variant of the coronavirus.

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“My friend works at the hospital, and she told me there’s 18-year-olds on ventilators. That scared me,” said Tyler Sprenkle, a recent high school graduate in Goodman, Mo., who got a shot this month.

In nearby Bella Vista, Ark., 25-year-old Chelsah Skaggs said she had been avoiding the shots, citing false reports that they might cause infertility.

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But as the delta variant hit her area, she did her own research and became convinced she should get vaccinated. “Skepticism is a good thing,” she said. “But to be ignorant is a different issue. My only regret is not doing it sooner.”

The delta variant has become the dominant strain of coronavirus in the United States, resulting in a rise in infections and hospitalizations. (John Farrell/The Washington Post)

More than 4.7 million newly vaccinated Americans have made similar calculations in the past two weeks, as misgivings about the shots based on ideology, apathy or fear have taken a back seat to the desire to protect themselves and their loved ones.

More than 856,000 doses were administered Friday, the highest daily figure since July 3, according to The Washington Post’s vaccine tracker. This was the third week that states with the highest numbers of coronavirus cases also had the highest vaccination numbers, deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Friday.

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Vaccine-hesitant pockets of the country turned hot spots, are at the vanguard, including Louisiana, which experienced a 114 percent increase in uptake, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Arkansas recorded a 96 percent increase, Alabama, 65 percent, and Missouri, 49 percent.

Tracking vaccinations, state by state

Texas last week reported its highest single-day vaccine administration in a month; the numbers, while still far from the peak earlier this year, are more than 25 percent higher than a month ago.

“There’s a rush to get shots that correlates with delta’s rise and hospitalizations,” said Tesha Montgomery, who runs vaccine clinics for Houston Methodist Hospital. During the week of July 12, the system was giving first shots to about 400 people a day, she said. The week of July 19, that number jumped to 600 a day, and by this Monday, it was up to 1,000 a day.

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Unfortunately, Montgomery added, some people do not make their decision until they have had personal encounters with the virus — “family members and other loved ones who have gone through illness, hospitalizations and even death.”

In Arkansas, where the governor on Thursday reimposed a state of emergency and reported that all pediatric ICU beds were full, the number of vaccine doses being administered over the past month has gone from 27,000 a week on average, to 70,000 on average now.

“We have had to bring in more vaccine. For the first time in two and a half months, we are making a new large-scale order, said Col. Robert Ator, who heads the state’s vaccine effort. “People are scared.”

Nationwide, 67 percent of the eligible U.S. population ages 12 and over has had at least one shot, with 57.7 percent fully vaccinated, as of this week. But in some parts of the country as few as 20 to 30 percent of people have been immunized.

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Meanwhile, as the early promise of a coronavirus-free summer has given way to new mask mandates and other restrictions, public hostility toward vaccine holdouts has spurred accusations of political grandstanding, ignorance and selfishness. This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) blamed low vaccination rates in some areas on misinformation by a “‘right-wing echo chamber,” naming individuals including Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

But the reality among those still trying to decide on vaccines is often more nuanced. Several of those in line for shots this week said they had taken a wait-and-see approach, and now that the vaccines had been taken by millions, they were willing to roll up their sleeves. Others said they were newly concerned about exposing parents or grandparents, or young children, to the virus. A few got the vaccine shots to keep their jobs.

President Biden on July 29 urged local governments to pay people $100 to get vaccinated as the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges nationwide. (Reuters)

The boost in interest may also be driven in part by new incentive programs and campaigns by prominent conservative leaders. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) wrote in an opinion piece this week that those “pushing fake news and conspiracy theories about this vaccine are reckless and causing great harm.” In Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has traveled the state to combat the idea that the shots are a “bioweapon.”

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) is preparing ads to run on more than 100 radio stations in his home state of Kentucky.

“These shots need to get in everybody’s arms as rapidly as possible, or we’re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for — that we went through last year,” McConnell has said. “This is not complicated.”

Miami

On Tuesday morning, a half-dozen vehicles idled in the 15-minute observation area of the drive-up vaccination site in Tropical Park near South Miami. Among those who had just received a shot was 19-year-old Annette Gonzalez.

“I believe in the science, but I didn’t want to be one of the first in line. …” she said. “I felt now was like a good time to get vaccinated.”

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Nelson Torres, a 54-year-old who got his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, shared Gonzalez’s anxiety and had planned to wait even longer. But with cases surging in Florida, he decided he should get it over with. “You have too many young people getting together in crowded places,” he said.

Madison Carballos, 18, said she wanted to get the vaccine now because she spends a lot of time with her grandparents and works as a youth camp counselor with children who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated. “It’s getting a little scary out here with the delta variant,” she said.

Los Angeles

On the other side of the country in Los Angeles, Hector Medina, 28, said he hadn’t been particularly worried about covid-19 during the height of the pandemic because he knew he was young and healthy, and friends who had been infected with the coronavirus had recovered. But Medina’s parents, whom he sees about once a week, were vaccinated earlier this year and had been pressing him to do the same.

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“Every time we go visit them, they are like, ‘Did you get your vaccine already?’ ” he said after he got his second dose at a Kaiser Permanente walk-up clinic in Hollywood. “So that pushed me.”

Anador Velazco, 66, and his wife, Marta Silva, 67, left the walk-up clinic in good spirits after getting their second shots. It meant they were one step closer to visiting their families in Mexico and El Salvador. Silva’s three sons in El Salvador all contracted the virus and survived. Velazco’s younger brother also got it, although he was supposed to be the healthy one.

Velazco said he and his wife delayed getting the shots because she had heard friends complain of feeling sick afterward. “We’ve been kinda uncomfortable with that, so that’s why we waited until almost the last minute.”

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Twelve-year-old Shanuan Alcantar also was unsure she wanted to get the vaccine, largely because of the baseless reports she saw online that it would make her arm magnetic.

“I was really scared seeing all of those TikToks of the metal spoons and the magnets” hanging from people’s arms, she said as she visited a clinic in East Los Angeles with her mother, Bellanira Reyes. “I was pretty scared of it, but I decided whatever happens, happens.”

Now that she’s fully vaccinated, she’s excited to be able to go back to school, see her friends and do fun things again. “I want to go back to normality, go see my friends and all of that,” Alcantar said. “It’s been really hard, not having friends, not talking to anyone.”

Philadelphia

In North Philadelphia, 49-year-old Shonda Finley said she was getting vaccinated because she had to do so for her job at a public health organization.

“I never had the time earlier during the pandemic to get the shot twice, and I didn’t trust getting the ‘one and done’ from Johnson & Johnson,” she said.

Finley said she “wouldn’t have gotten it anywhere else” but at the Black Doctors Covid Consortium, a vaccination clinic in a Black church that has seen a major increase in community interest. “I felt more comfortable being taken care of by people of color,” she said.

Daniel Turner, 31, an artist, said he came there to get a shot because “my grandmother told me that I couldn’t come see her if I wasn’t vaxxed.”

“I kept trying to dodge getting one ’cause I hate shots,” he said. “But this time, she was dead serious about me coming around. I’m here for her.”

Brenda Cunningham, 54, a caregiver who got her second Moderna shot, said she thought that the coronavirus “could never get me until I lost someone last month.”

“I felt like, ‘Hey, I can’t control how I go, but I don’t want to be the reason why I go.’ So far, so good with this shot,” she said. “I can’t complain.”

Southwest Missouri

When Tyler Sprenkle, 18, announced his new vaccination status to his friends on Facebook this week, he made sure to include the reassurance that he was still a Republican.

“I was afraid people would look down on me, say I was turning into a liberal or a raging Democrat,” he said. “But I’d still rather take that chance than get put on a ventilator and dying.”

Some friends still gave him a hard time, but others were inspired. His parents, younger brother and a high school friend received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine the day after he did.

Vaccination rates hover around 20 percent to 40 percent in rural southwest Missouri, but demand is increasing. Sprenkle said he believes in vaccines but had felt the development of the coronavirus vaccines was rushed. He is against making vaccines mandatory, saying people will choose the shots once they get correct information.

Sprenkle graduated from high school in May and has been working at his family’s tire shop while studying to be an auctioneer and taking care of his grandparents. He said thinking of them and his own future made him finally decide to get the shots.

“I would feel really bad if I brought it to them,” he said. “Even me being so stubborn, I finally did it.”

In the town of Neosho, population 11,000, an hour from Springfield, about 100 people a day are lining up to get vaccine shots from a local pharmacist. That includes Tim Booyer, 57, a welder who had fretted for months about worrisome Facebook posts detailing the vaccines’ purported side effects.

Although Booyer dismissed reports that the vaccines contained microchips that could be used to track people as absurd, he wasn’t sure what to make of the other allegations of bad side effects. Then, three weeks ago, the delta variant killed a close childhood friend.

Booyer, a metal artist whose work is commissioned by Bass Pro Shop, said he had fabricated his friend’s cremation urn.

“This morning, I had to seal her in a box, weld that shut over her ashes,” he said. “It was rough. Then I made my mind up: I’m gonna get that shot.”

He said he has been sharing his changed thinking with several unvaccinated friends.

“We should have had covid knocked in the head if there weren’t so many hardheaded people like me,” he reflected. “I think we could have saved more than a few lives.”

Hansen reported from Neosho, Mo. Francisco Alvarado in Miami, Miranda Green in Los Angeles and Ernest Owens in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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Hardheads ignoring their responsibility as humans to support the narcissistic need to have "freedom of choice"
Dear woke folks, Covid doesn't care about politics,race or religion, or whichever makes you feel like you are superior to everyone else.It will firetruck you up and the people that you come into contact with.You ain't special.

[De Dragon]

Hardheads ignoring their responsibility as humans to support the narcissistic need to have "freedom of choice"
Dear woke folks, Covid doesn't care about politics,race or religion, or whichever makes you feel like you are superior to everyone else.It will firetruck you up and the people that you come into contact with.You ain't special.

And even if they make vaccination mandatory, all these anti vax gangsters will bubble down like bhagi and roll up their sleeves.

[Dohplaydat]

A guy who used to play football with us 3 years ago just passed away from covid. He was 48, perfect health as well, absolutely no comorbidities but was unvaccinated. I'm very shocked at his death too, he was a good guy.

[Dohplaydat]

Hardheads ignoring their responsibility as humans to support the narcissistic need to have "freedom of choice"
Dear woke folks, Covid doesn't care about politics,race or religion, or whichever makes you feel like you are superior to everyone else.It will firetruck you up and the people that you come into contact with.You ain't special.

And even if they make vaccination mandatory, all these anti vax gangsters will bubble down like bhagi and roll up their sleeves.

I honestly don't get thier fear, you've been taking vaccines all your life. We don't even have the experimental mRNA vaccines here so the fear of the unknown shouldn't be there.

All vaccines are new at some point and approval from FDA and WHO under emergency use does mean it's safe for 99.999% of persons, regardless of what some Facebook quack says.

[Kenjo]

A guy who used to play football with us 3 years ago just passed away from covid. He was 48, perfect health as well, absolutely no comorbidities but was unvaccinated. I'm very shocked at his death too, he was a good guy.

Have the stories of ‘ normal ‘ people that died dried up in the press ?

[elec2020]

Out of all the vaccines I have had in my life (tetanus, small pox, measles, polio, TB, etc.) I have never seen so much wishy washi-ness over a vaccine that says I have to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated. That I could still contract and spread the virus even when fully vaccinated. I was never bribed by establishments to take a vaccine. Nor have my livelihood (job, schooling, etc) threatened if i did not take it. I have never seen ever changing narratives about a vaccine. That one day it is good to mix and match or good for certain age groups and the other day it is not. Nor one that allows a 12 year old's consent supersede his/her parent's consent (that one blows me away). This is one powerful vaccine.

[Dohplaydat]

Out of all the vaccines I have had in my life (tetanus, small pox, measles, polio, TB, etc.) I have never seen so much wishy washi-ness over a vaccine that says I have to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated. That I could still contract and spread the virus even when fully vaccinated. I was never bribed by establishments to take a vaccine. Nor have my livelihood (job, schooling, etc) threatened if i did not take it. I have never seen ever changing narratives about a vaccine. That one day it is good to mix and match or good for certain age groups and the other day it is not. Nor one that allows a 12 year old's consent supersede his/her parent's consent (that one blows me away). This is one powerful vaccine.

There was a lot of wish washiness in the past, you and social media just wasn't around to witness it. There was huge anti vax movements against the polio vaccine and others.

https://ftp.historyofvaccines.org/multi ... -movements

History repeats itself and in every generation we have idiots. But this time we have social medias which gives idiots a platform to grow and feel some belonging and weird vindication everytime science updates itself.

[Dohplaydat]

Out of all the vaccines I have had in my life (tetanus, small pox, measles, polio, TB, etc.) I have never seen so much wishy washi-ness over a vaccine that says I have to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated. That I could still contract and spread the virus even when fully vaccinated. I was never bribed by establishments to take a vaccine. Nor have my livelihood (job, schooling, etc) threatened if i did not take it. I have never seen ever changing narratives about a vaccine. That one day it is good to mix and match or good for certain age groups and the other day it is not. Nor one that allows a 12 year old's consent supersede his/her parent's consent (that one blows me away). This is one powerful vaccine.

There was a lot of wish washiness in the past, you and social media just wasn't around to witness it. There was huge anti vax movements against the polio vaccine and others.

https://ftp.historyofvaccines.org/multi ... -movements

History repeats itself and in every generation we have idiots. But this time we have social medias which gives idiots a platform to grow and feel some belonging and weird vindication everytime science updates itself.

[Dohplaydat]

“Having half the population vaccinated and half unvaccinated and
unprotected — that is the exact experiment I would design if I were a
devil and trying to design a vaccine-busting virus.”

Dr William Hassertine, former harvard medicla professor who helped design treatment for HIV/AIDs

https://khn.org/news/article/unraveling ... virus-yet/

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Hardheads ignoring their responsibility as humans to support the narcissistic need to have "freedom of choice"
Dear woke folks, Covid doesn't care about politics,race or religion, or whichever makes you feel like you are superior to everyone else.It will firetruck you up and the people that you come into contact with.You ain't special.

And even if they make vaccination mandatory, all these anti vax gangsters will bubble down like bhagi and roll up their sleeves.

I honestly don't get thier fear, you've been taking vaccines all your life. We don't even have the experimental mRNA vaccines here so the fear of the unknown shouldn't be there.

All vaccines are new at some point and approval from FDA and WHO under emergency use does mean it's safe for 99.999% of persons, regardless of what some Facebook quack says.

Basically is people that can "scientifically" compare apples and grapes.An idiot with a shred of knowledge is a dangerous idiot.They don't even know how idiotic they are.At least I understand my Vene neighbor,if he shows up to a center without ID, he fears that they will deport him .Legit reason.
My friend has an issue with clotting- legit issue.
I read somewhere on the internet that is a fake vaccine,it violating my rights etc - you on sheit

[Dohplaydat]

Well clotting is a rare risk associated with only the AZ and J&J vaccine, but I get that, I know a few women who were concerned but still weighed the pros and cons and took that risk. That was when we only had AZ.

[adnj]

Well clotting is a rare risk associated with only the AZ and J&J vaccine, but I get that, I know a few women who were concerned but still weighed the pros and cons and took that risk. That was when we only had AZ.

If a person is susceptible, they can be observed by their physician.

AstraZeneca and Jansen seem to cause clotting no more than Pfizer, according to newest studies.

The Covid-19 virus by itself causes far more blood clotting.

"Patients developed blood clotting conditions after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a "similar" rate to those who received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab, say researchers.

A team of researchers from Spain, the UK and the Netherlands compared data from over 1.3 million people vaccinated against COVID in Catalonia, looking for evidence of blood clotting conditions that developed after they received their vaccinations.

"In this study including 1,372,213 people vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, similar safety profiles were seen for both vaccines," the researchers wrote in their pre-print paper, which has not been peer-reviewed.

Crucially, the study authors found that people who had been infected with COVID-19 developed blood clots at a far higher rate than those who had received either of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines.

The early stage findings come after a challenging period for the AstraZeneca vaccine. In April The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said there was a "possible link" between the vaccine and "very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets". Following the discovery, many countries around the world imposed restrictions on its use."

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/2 ... tudy-finds

[Mmoney607]

“Having half the population vaccinated and half unvaccinated and
unprotected — that is the exact experiment I would design if I were a
devil and trying to design a vaccine-busting virus.”

Dr William Hassertine, former harvard medicla professor who helped design treatment for HIV/AIDs

https://khn.org/news/article/unraveling ... virus-yet/

So he contributing to make more vaccines as he spews that nonsense? Because we don't have enough vaccines to vaccinate the global population

[adnj]

Coronavirus transmission among vaccinated people could raise the risk of an even more dangerous variant

The best way to stop coronavirus deaths and severe illness is to roll out vaccines quickly. However, the researchers concluded that the chance a vaccine-resistant strain will emerge is highest in a scenario that combines three conditions: First, a large portion of a population is vaccinated, but not everyone. Second, there's a lot of virus circulating. And third, no measures are in place to curb potential viral transmission from vaccinated people. Sound familiar?

[Researchers] found if a chunk of people are vaccinated but many unvaccinated people remain, a variant that can either evade or partially evade vaccine-induced immune defenses has a competitive advantage over other versions of the virus. So over time, those less fit strains — which can't infect  vaccinated hosts — die out, leaving vaccine-resistant ones to dominate the viral landscape. Then if viral transmission goes unchecked — lots of people partying maskless, say — those newly dominant variants can easily spread and further evolve.

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEA ... id=US%3Aen

[FrankChag]

This is very worrying.

tldr: if i'm reading this correctly --> a vaccine-resistant strain can emerge at the tail end of everyone being vaccinated IF we start to reduce mask-wearing, and open up too soon. We should therefore continue until everyone is vaccinated to avoid the emergence of something more deadly and contagious.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3
Published: 30 July 2021

Abstract

Vaccines are thought to be the best available solution for controlling the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, the emergence of vaccine-resistant strains may come too rapidly for current vaccine developments to alleviate the health, economic and social consequences of the pandemic. To quantify and characterize the risk of such a scenario, we created a SIR-derived model with initial stochastic dynamics of the vaccine-resistant strain to study the probability of its emergence and establishment. Using parameters realistically resembling SARS-CoV-2 transmission, we model a wave-like pattern of the pandemic and consider the impact of the rate of vaccination and the strength of non-pharmaceutical intervention measures on the probability of emergence of a resistant strain. As expected, we found that a fast rate of vaccination decreases the probability of emergence of a resistant strain. Counterintuitively, when a relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions happened at a time when most individuals of the population have already been vaccinated the probability of emergence of a resistant strain was greatly increased. Consequently, we show that a period of transmission reduction close to the end of the vaccination campaign can substantially reduce the probability of resistant strain establishment. Our results suggest that policymakers and individuals should consider maintaining non-pharmaceutical interventions and transmission-reducing behaviours throughout the entire vaccination period.