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Have you had your first Covid jab?

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bimble said:
How do you get contacted when it’s your turn in the vaccine queue? Is it a text or a letter or a phonecall or does it vary?
Not expecting it to be my turn for months but would be good to know.
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A text from my GP with a link to book a slot online. At least in my area one big primary care centre is doing the jabs for patients from over a dozen GP surgeries.
 
Hyperdark said:
WTF is going on?, there are still over 70s and not vaccinated and this place seems full of well youngsters and self inflicted fat twats getting jabbed, pissing me off
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Charming. Look at the guidance on the vaccine roll-out, it's nothing unusual and they're just moving through the cohorts now they've largely done the older and extremely vulnerable groups.
 
i hope i get a text, when the time comes. am crap at answering the phone & remembering to walk to letterbox.
 
Winot said:
Got a text today. Vaccine appointment booked for Wednesday. I’m 49 and pretty healthy. A few others of my age in Brixton area have got texts too.
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Don't want to be a nosy parker but are you saying you are getting a vaccination despite not being in any of the priority categories outlined by the JCVI?
I mean I know sometimes areas have extra vaccine/slots and don't want to waste them but seems weird that any area has got far enough through all the priority groups that they are offering it to people outside those groups.
 
That cost me two SMS's - seems I have to walk a mile to a health centre I didn't know existed ...

EDIT:- no, I can go to my usual one.

EDIT:- Saturday .

So I'm definitely still regarded as "diabetic"
 
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redsquirrel said:
Don't want to be a nosy parker but are you saying you are getting a vaccination despite not being in any of the priority categories outlined by the JCVI?
I mean I know sometimes areas have extra vaccine/slots and don't want to waste them but seems weird that any area has got far enough through all the priority groups that they are offering it to people outside those groups.
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Correct - there is no good reason for me to get a vaccine ahead of others. It doesn’t seem to be a mistake though (ie an admin error) as there are a number of people in the area that have also been contacted.

Apparently some local schools were called last week and asked to send in teachers as there was spare vaccine.

I will ask what is going on when I go in for the jab. I’m quite happy to take my place in the queue but equally if I have been called in will go.
 
I know one person, in his mid 30s, no health issues, not in a face to face job, lives in hackney, who got his first jab last week because the local vaccination place (maybe Gp I don’t know) let it be known in a Very informal way that they had spare that would have to be binned unless people came to get it that day. He has no plan for his second dose is the only problem I can see.
 
I would hopefully volunteer my dose for someone who really needed it - though I need the dentist fairly soon, and even the thought of taking delivery of building materials with two adult males hauling stuff off a lorry and into the house is mildly worrying
 
I made an inquiry last week about my status on the list as I have neutropenia (low immune system).
The doctor called this morning to say that yes I should totally be on the list for a level 6 shot, but I'm not. She is unsure why and is raising the subject today as potentially thousands of people in the area will have been left off and they don't know what the reason for this is.

I'd also just like to mention that my neutropenia was only discovered by chance. It does not affect my day to day life in any way and can happen at anyone at any time (mine kicked in somewhere around my early 30s). It's an underlying health condition that would mean getting severely fucked by covid, but you wouldn't know. The idea that things will be safe once 'most' of the vulnerable have had their first shot (not even the second - which may come too late anyway) is a joke. Those figures are still suggesting there is an acceptable level of death in exchange for a pub dinner and trip to top shop.
 
Got a text last week from GP that as I'm registered as a carer on their records (for my daughter who was in a nasty car crash) then I qualified at this stage for a vaccination even tho I'm only (only :D) early 60s.
I was worried before that a lot of asthmatics (and other disabilities) might possibly be overlooked as priorities during this rollout.

As for the jab I hate needles but didnt feel a thing and havent had any bad side effects (pfeizer).
 
gentlegreen said:
So I'm definitely still regarded as "diabetic"
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Once you have hit the HbA1c threshold for Type 2 Diabetes you will be listed on the Diabetes Register. There are some advantages in that you should get at least annual blood check, eye check and feet check.
Your GP can take you off the register if you have 3 consecutive annual HbA1c blood results in the non-diabetic range, when you are regarded as 'in remission'.
 
StoneRoad said:
3 out of the 4 adults in this household are currently over 65 (and one will be 70 in August) so priority 5, but as I'm just under 65 (September) so that puts me in group 7.

Current expectations are for them to get first jabs by end Feb / early March and mine should be late April / early May.

My SiL had her first jab around the mid/late December time (if not earlier), I must find out about her second ...
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Well, the other three had their first jabs yesterday (14th), travelling to the local market town for them [1 off Pfizer & 2 off OxfordAstraZeneca]
That's a couple / three weeks earlier than expected.
Amusingly, they got phone calls Thursday for making Sunday appointments ... and two invitation to apply for appointment" letters arrived in the post today.

I'm still waiting as I'm not over 65 until later in the year. But at the speed the rollout is going around here, I don't expect that wait to be much more than another three to four weeks - OH reckons maybe two weeks at the most.
 
tony.c said:
Once you have hit the HbA1c threshold for Type 2 Diabetes you will be listed on the Diabetes Register. There are some advantages in that you should get at least annual blood check, eye check and feet check.
Your GP can take you off the register if you have 3 consecutive annual HbA1c blood results in the non-diabetic range, when you are regarded as 'in remission'.
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I was misdiagnosed in the first place.
One Hba1c test of 7.7/61 following months of post-viral nonsense (ironically) and straight down the rabbithole. (though technically it may have only been regular exercise keeping me safe as I was obese).
I immediately changed practices mostly because of that - And 3 months later when the new practice tested me, I'd lost 10KG and was back on my bike, so I tested back to my "normal" of 5.5/34 and was immediately taken off metformin and not asked to return for more tests.
I had the eye test anyway as it was already booked. I was asked to keep a look out at my own feet.

The new practice is more concerned with getting me on statins (in spite of a near perfect cholesterol score) as "diabetes" and a BP of 130/80 tips me over the "heart health" threshold.

My hope is I can present myself there in 2022 when I'm due a 5 year check-up, down at my fighting weight and with lower BP and get myself fully signed-off as in 2023 I am likely to need private health insurance and then present myself to the French health system in perfect health.
 
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