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Have you had your [s]microchip[/s] vaccine yet?

They already are? As an asthmatic, I with 15 million others get the flu jab late autumn every year.
Wonder if they will create a combined flu/covid vaccination at some point in the future?

I was thinking more in terms of purpose built and staffed buildings.

if you are doing 65 million a year, you need to vaccinate about 180,000 people every day. GP surgeries would struggle.
 
message in lewisham (forwarded from mum-tat) -

"If you are aged over 70 and live in Lewisham and haven’t yet received your first COVID-19 vaccine, you can book via the NHS website, phone 119 or contact your GP practice directly. You no longer need an invitation letter from the NHS."

not sure if this is / soon will be the same line elsewhere
 
A person I know that has had the first dose in January received a letter today to say the 12 week delay for the second dose was being increased indefinitely!

This sounds like a monumental fuck up!!!!!

In the emergency situation we have found ourselves in. If you have one dose and two people to vaccinate, of the two, one has already had their 1st dose and the second person has yet to get a vaccine and is unprotected in any way.

While vaccine supply is limited, everyone gets one dose. Evidence is coming out of Israel, one dose is decent enough anyway.
 
In the emergency situation we have found ourselves in. If you have one dose and two people to vaccinate, of the two, one has already had their 1st dose and the second person has yet to get a vaccine and is unprotected in any way.

While vaccine supply is limited, everyone gets one dose. Evidence is coming out of Israel, one dose is decent enough anyway.

I just think we should follow the proven science, not gamble.
 
This is in Wales, from the nhs.

Sure, but from what part of the NHS, their GP, or somewhere else? I'm just mildly skeptical as it's secondhand info that's not been reported anywhere else afaik, and we're still working with the 12 week gap and there's been no rumours of it being extended. 'Happy' to be corrected if it's true, but it'd be big news I'd have thought would have much wider exposure.
 
Sure, but from what part of the NHS, their GP, or somewhere else? I'm just mildly skeptical as it's secondhand info that's not been reported anywhere else afaik, and we're still working with the 12 week gap and there's been no rumours of it being extended. 'Happy' to be corrected if it's true, but it'd be big news I'd have thought would have much wider exposure.

I heard more letters are are going out Monday. I have no reason to doubt what I heard, but I am sure we'll find out for certain next week.
 
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Yes,

Yes, they did allow me to have it.:thumbs: They asked my age (56) then nodded me through.

I'm really happy to hear this news, partly because I'd been confident it would happen for you anyway, given what you'd posted this morning, and also, I didn't want to be wrong :p

But yes, I'm so glad that your partner and you got vaccinated at the same time :) :cool:

I love good news :cool: -- and there's plenty on this thread generally, with so many Urbans getting vaccinated now or soon :)
 
I'm really happy to hear this news, partly because I'd been confident it would happen for you anyway, given what you'd posted this morning, and also, I didn't want to be wrong :p

But yes, I'm so glad that your partner and you got vaccinated at the same time :) :cool:

I love good news :cool: -- and there's plenty on this thread generally, with so many Urbans getting vaccinated now or soon :)

It shows how geriatric Urban is getting. :) Before you know it we will have a walking frame comparison thread. :eek::D:eek:
 
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Had my first Astra zenica today.
Got the call a few days ago and straight in this morning, jabbed and out before my appointment time had arrived

So that’s my second first vaccination after the sino-pharm first jab in January

hopefully they can do the second before I fuck off and get stuck in the next random country (Kurdistan)
You only need 2 jabs, not 2 of each. :eek:
 
I love good news :cool: -- and there's plenty on this thread generally, with so many Urbans getting vaccinated now or soon :)
A month back I posted on the thread that I'd taken my mother for hers, right at the end of the day, and I was told then that I could have the jab with the days spares, only to be then told they were sorry as they had miscounted and there wasn't any left. I was sat outside the cubicle with my sleeve rolled up, I was that close.:(

I was gutted when I got home, I didn't sleep that night thinking about it.

Thankfully, I didn't have to go through that disappointment twice.
 
With widespread snow and freezing temperatures forecast this week it is likely that many people who were due to have jabs will not be able to attend appointments, so it might be worthwhile to contact GP surgeries and vaccine hubs to see if there are any spare shots available. Or just try going if nearby.
 
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With widespread snow and freezing temperatures forecast this week it is likely that many people who were due to have jabs will not be able to attend appointments, so it might be worthwhile to contact GP surgeries and vaccine hubs to see if there are any spare shots available. Or just try going if nearby.

My GP sent a message out saying exactly the opposite of this

don’t turn up without appointment and don’t ring up randomly as they are balls to the wall busy with everything else as well as corona vaccinations
 
My GP sent a message out saying exactly the opposite of this
don’t turn up without appointment and don’t ring up randomly as they are balls to the wall busy with everything else as well as corona vaccinations
Mine did that initially, but things seem to be changing. We have received email saying that the local testing centre will be vaccinating too. People can book online and people under 65 will be put on waiting list for any vacant slots.
But I'm only suggesting this might be worth trying during the severe weather conditions, not otherwise.
 
I'm somewhere nearer solving the mystery of why I got called for the vaccine so early. I happened to be speaking to my GP so asked her, and oddly she didn't know either. But she thought probably because I have a history of blood clots. There is apparently a risk of clotting that goes with covid. But the system isn't granular enough to pick up that for me it's completely controlled with medication. I will probably only know for sure though if I ask when 🤞 I get jab #2.
 
I'm somewhere nearer solving the mystery of why I got called for the vaccine so early. I happened to be speaking to my GP so asked her, and oddly she didn't know either. But she thought probably because I have a history of blood clots. There is apparently a risk of clotting that goes with covid. But the system isn't granular enough to pick up that for me it's completely controlled with medication. I will probably only know for sure though if I ask when 🤞 I get jab #2.
Are you on any medication to prevent blood clots? Is that how you were selected?
 
Sure, but from what part of the NHS, their GP, or somewhere else? I'm just mildly skeptical as it's secondhand info that's not been reported anywhere else afaik, and we're still working with the 12 week gap and there's been no rumours of it being extended. 'Happy' to be corrected if it's true, but it'd be big news I'd have thought would have much wider exposure.
Vaughan Gething is in charge though in Wales. You have no idea how incompetently things can be run here
 
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I am, which is why I would discount it as a factor, but I'm pretty sure it's not how I was selected as it wasn't on the notes of the vaccinating doctor.
It's probably not the vaccinating doctor that picked you for vaccination. It's more likely a computer algorithm that does the picking.
 
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