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Have you had your booster jab (jag) ?

Have you ? Please change votes when you do ...

  • Not yet

    Votes: 27 9.5%
  • Yes - Pfizer

    Votes: 169 59.7%
  • Yes - Moderna

    Votes: 78 27.6%
  • Yes - Oxford / Astra Zenicac

    Votes: 4 1.4%
  • Yes - other vaccine

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Not having one

    Votes: 5 1.8%
  • comedy option ...

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Total voters
    283
  • Poll closed .
Do they need non-medical volunteers ?
I signed up right at the beginning, mostly to get my jab as early as possible but I continued to volunteer for a while as 'payback' for my vaccination. (And because I had nothing better to do.) There was some Zoom training in the beginning, they were innundated with volunteers to start with, which resulted in them putting too many people on shift. Which in turn resulted in some people (like me) getting fed up with standing around doing nothing. Now I get regular emails pleading for people to join shifts which are short staffed and there are regular induction sessions running to train up new volunteers. As I have said, I will probably sign up for a few shifts leading up to Christmas because it's looking like there is a genuine need now.

It's a highly controlled environment, masks, sanitiser etc but probably more people than you have mixed with in a while, so not sure how you will cope. Where I am, they have specific 'outdoor' shifts which could be something which might be good for you if you can stand the cold?
 
Do they need non-medical volunteers ?
Loads, when I went for my initial jabs I met Eldest Q's father-in-law, he was on internal queue marshalling stood inside pointing out to people where to queue and making sure they stood 2m apart. He was an area sales manager for a food wholesaler before retirement so his medical knowledge is on a par with mine.
Youngest Sister's husband is a retired electrician and when he volunteered they put him on car parking duty don't need a trained nurse/doctor for that either.
Mum Q was fairly poorly after her initial jabs and didn't want to go for her booster so my sister told her that my brother-in-law had pulled strings to get Mum in specially and she was keen on after that.
 
Probably a stupid question, but why is it called jag?
Listening to Nicola Sturgeon she says it, + the thread title has it (which I thought was a joke).
 
Urgh, got pretty lucky with the first two but this one has wiped me out. Hardly slept due to aching legs and fluctuating temperature.
I had the leg thing ( Pfizer though) parts were really sensitive to the touch. Had mine on the 6th and my arm is still sore to the touch. At least I can lie on it now.
 
Not too surprising since they had already indicated this was probably on the cards.

The vaccine centre I got my booster at yesterday was already doing a typical bending of the previous guidance, by saying we should stay for 'at least 10 minutes' after our jabs.

Don’t think it will affect throughput at vaccination centres where the limiting factor tends to be the number of vaccinators. Certainly will have a positive impact on pharmacies though, and that matters because the number of vaccination centres has reduced considerably since the 2nd jab rollout, whereas the number of pharmacy sites has increased by several hundred percent.
 
This NEJM study indicates degrees of growing neutralisation up to at least a month after third dose booster (here a homologous Pfizer regimen), particularly in older persons. Unfortunately few published studies provide sufficiently high enough time resolution trajectories for various immunogenic markers. Also, bear in mind that (for example) IgG evolution doesn't necessarily shed great light on mucosal IgA kinematics (which likely has a much greater bearing on efficacy to infection, and thus transmission implications); IgA has rarely been measured (outside of animal models and intranasal/oral vaccine candidate studies).
Side note really but I was wondering why IgA sounded like something I'd heard of and it's the breastmilk thing. :cool:

cific IgA and IgG antibodies in breast milk for 6 weeks after vaccination. IgA secretion was evident as early as 2 weeks after vaccination followed by a spike in IgG after 4 weeks (a week after the second vaccine). A few other studies have shown similar findings in women infected with COVID-19.5
 
Prick, kick and out the door?

Mine took about four minutes, mostly spent by the vaccinator entering stuff on the computer. My partner had their booster at a different site and was jabbed while standing up in the queue in just a few seconds. With the suspension of 15-minute waiting I guess some vaccinators will be able to aim for a higher rate.
 
Can't see that eliminating the 15 min wait will increase the vaccination rate, It's the last step and basically just needs space to store the thumb twiddlers. The place where my booster was given had three folks actually giving vaccinations and the freshly jabbed went onto some rows of chairs to wait. If those chairs weren't there there would still be only three jabbers jabbing away.
Son Q is going for his booster jab tomorrow at 1830, Pollyanna told Mrs Q last night that he had booked it on Monday morning so round here there doesn't seem to be much of a wait.
 
Can't see that eliminating the 15 min wait will increase the vaccination rate, It's the last step and basically just needs space to store the thumb twiddlers. The place where my booster was given had three folks actually giving vaccinations and the freshly jabbed went onto some rows of chairs to wait. If those chairs weren't there there would still be only three jabbers jabbing away.

But, more jabbers/shifts are becoming available, so that space can be used for them.
 
Same here. I didn’t feel dreadful after the first two, just a bit hungover. This one I had sore arm after 12 hours, which has pretty much gone now. Also felt floopy/ rough after 24 hours. This has lasted for 24 hours and is ongoing. But not dreadful.
az-az-mo for me too. had my booster yesterday. feels like somone's jabbed a needle straight into my arm...
 
I just booked mine on the NHS site for next week. Will be a little over 5 months since my 2nd. Does that make any difference to the immune response compared to 6 months??
 
Double Astra and had moderna today and it felt like a really horrible body load acid trip. Vision went shit and had to leave work early. It's the muscle pain which I can't stand. I have been swimming hard (3km on Sat and 2.5km on Sunday) over the past week or so and it was as if all the aches and pains were amplified to max. Plus nausea.

Half a bottle of decent white wine and two cans of guinness original and things are feeling a bit better. Wish I could take tomorrow off work but have a couple of guys coming in tomorrow especially so will need to be there. Will probably try to escape by lunch time. The arse is I have another deadline which I need to complete by Friday... just can't wait for Xmas oblivion. This feels like a kick from a horse to be honest.
 
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