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Have you had your first Covid jab?

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Epona said:
He's getting it now rather than later because he's been admitted to hospital multiple times in the last 12 months due to severe asthma :eek: I will have to wait as I am too healthy.
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Yeah, the reason my OH is 2 cats above me is respiratory condition related...but still I got called before her!

e2a; she's looked at how useless & mopey I've been today and is now not looking forward to her AZ as much as she was! :D
 
That was a very impressive and slick operation. You get a text, you click on the link and it takes to you a page where you can choose a centre and a list of dates and times.
Then you get another text telling you where and when and a reminder text on the day.

Tucked away in the car park of a van hire place is a well-oiled machine for injecting vaccinations into peoples arms.

Took 20min total. Feel fine, will see tomorrow how I get on. I'm told the Pfizer vaccine can make you feel really shit for a day and extra shit second dose.
 
I've come to the conclusion it's pretty random as to who gets called, depending on where you live and which practice you attend. I know people way younger than me, with significantly milder asthma, who have been vaccinated, and people older than me and with more health conditions who haven't. Particularly with asthmatics, govt. advice to doctors was to de-prioritise them and move them tout of group 6 - some have done this, some haven't. Some are vaccinating their flu jab list, others aren't.
 
moose said:
I've come to the conclusion it's pretty random as to who gets called, depending on where you live and which practice you attend. I know people way younger than me, with significantly milder asthma, who have been vaccinated, and people older than me and with more health conditions who haven't. Particularly with asthmatics, govt. advice to doctors was to de-prioritise them and move them tout of group 6 - some have done this, some haven't. Some are vaccinating their flu jab list, others aren't.
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Yeah, different GPs are getting through their list at different speeds depending on how many patients they have registered and how many of those are in each category. Smaller PCNs (a number of GP surgeries working together) in areas with a younger demographic are moving quicker than large PCNs in areas with higher percentage of older people living for example. Also depends on their ability to run regular vaccine clinics on top of all their other work, and vaccine supplies, etc. Medical records are also very patchy tbh, and all sorts of things will be at play with them, as well as the human variables such as where they're drawing the line for certain conditions.

On top of that some people are getting it through work, which can be confusing to some getting it through the GP route.

Short version is it doesn't really matter what exact order people get done it, just that they get done. I see it as a social duty to get the vaccine as soon as you're offered it.
 
moose said:
I've come to the conclusion it's pretty random as to who gets called, depending on where you live and which practice you attend. I know people way younger than me, with significantly milder asthma, who have been vaccinated, and people older than me and with more health conditions who haven't. Particularly with asthmatics, govt. advice to doctors was to de-prioritise them and move them tout of group 6 - some have done this, some haven't. Some are vaccinating their flu jab list, others aren't.
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I agree it does seem a bit random. Where I live the GP surgery covers an area with a lot of deprivation and consequent illness, but it looks like they've been contacting their flu list to invite people, rather than targeting it, at least as far as I can tell.
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Yeah, different GPs are getting through their list at different speeds depending on how many patients they have registered and how many of those are in each category. Smaller PCNs (a number of GP surgeries working together) in areas with a younger demographic are moving quicker than large PCNs in areas with higher percentage of older people living for example. Also depends on their ability to run regular vaccine clinics on top of all their other work, and vaccine supplies, etc. Medical records are also very patchy tbh, and all sorts of things will be at play with them, as well as the human variables such as where they're drawing the line for certain conditions.

On top of that some people are getting it through work, which can be confusing to some getting it through the GP route.

Short version is it doesn't really matter what exact order people get done it, just that they get done. I see it as a social duty to get the vaccine as soon as you're offered it.
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Yeah, I'm not sure that it is even being handled at a GP level around here, OH got a text yesterday early evening telling him to turn up at ExCel between 10 and 4 today for a vaccination, there wasn't a system to book an appointment slot or anything.

(It kind of made me wonder if they had leftover vaccine that needed to be used today so sent a text out to locals near the top of the current priority list or something).
 
Seems to be a complete clusterfuck, OH has been queuing for 3 hours now, people are being told to go home - so he might not get a vaccination today after all. :(
 
colacubes said:
I’m not in a priority group so not for some time. But I know a few others round here who’ve already been called in who aren’t either so it’s not a complete anomaly. I think they seem to be moving quite quickly.
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Got to admit, despite being under 50 with no known pre-existing vulnerabilities to covid, my heart has started beating a little faster every time I get a text message. :D So far it's only ever been Virgin mobile offers though (5g pun initially not intended...)
 
Epona said:
Seems to be a complete clusterfuck, OH has been queuing for 3 hours now, people are being told to go home - so he might not get a vaccination today after all. :(
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That makes no sense. Everyone gets a specific time. Did lots of people turn up at the wrong time?

There were 5 people b4 me in the queue yesterday
 
Sunray said:
That makes no sense. Everyone gets a specific time. Did lots of people turn up at the wrong time?

There were 5 people b4 me in the queue yesterday
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No, there was no appointment booked, he just got a text yesterday at about 17:30 telling him to turn up today between 10 am and 4 pm for a vaccination, apparently so did a lot of other people - makes me wonder if our GP has fucked it up or something.
 
I should add that neither of us were aware of the booking system - he said that the text said that he'd been moved up a priority group due to recent hospital admission, I haven't actually seen the text myself though so am not sure whether it came from the GP or what.
 
When I went for mine, I was offered and I booked a specific 10 min slot. I booked the first of the day (9am) and when I turned up at 8.55am there was already a really long queue. However, it went down really quickly and I was jabbed at 9.10am.
 
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