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63 and still awaiting the call/letter/text/email here in the west midlands, won't be long though (I hope) next 14 days perhaps.
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We had our letters last week for 65 to 70 group,which was to start today. Due to,availability they started earlier.
We were able to book online and had the AZ vaccination on Saturday. Very quick and efficient. We both had a bit of the shivers and tiredness that evening and mild headaches. Fine now.
Our second ones were booked at the same time.
My wife is a retired nurse and was happy to volunteer but having seen the nausea you have to wade through decided against it.
We were able to book online and had the AZ vaccination on Saturday. Very quick and efficient. We both had a bit of the shivers and tiredness that evening and mild headaches. Fine now.
Our second ones were booked at the same time.
My wife is a retired nurse and was happy to volunteer but having seen the nausea you have to wade through decided against it.
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You don't need one - you've just put yourself on your own celebrity death list!
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Whilst bashing the keyboard literally just been phoned by the surgery jab appointment booked for 16:50 Wednesday and a only a 10 minute drive away winner winner.
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Sounds promising.... I'm only 61 & our area is a bit behind the curve compared to the rest of the country but fingers crossed for a DNA manipulating, microchip introducing, GPS tracking, sexuality changing (Ermm, don't really fancy that last bit.... but i suppose life is full of new experiences
....) pain in the arm soon....
....) pain in the arm soon....
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I get my Pfizer No.2 in about 35 mins plus waiting time (it's 14:15 as I type) . You don't get many advantages being in the NHS but this has got to be a good one. Hasn't it?
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Done and dusted. I'm sure the tracking screens have my every movement tracked now. Comforting to know that the Lizzards are keeping an eye on me
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One of my work colleagues is getting the jab tomorrow - she only turned 50 last June and hasnt got health issues.
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Could be a registered carer.
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Had my first jab yesterday (Pfizer version) slick, professional, well organised vaccination centre. There is mandated 15 minutes wait in a designated departure room post jab. From front door to sitting in the departure room around 3 minutes total. Temperature check and questions at the front door, on to reception to confirm name and address, into cubicle a few more medical questions from nurse and then jabbed up. Jab is painless like bumping into a butterfly. Time in the departure room was not wasted but used to confirm next appointment date and time, post jab leaflet to read etc. Today the day after the jab no side effects at all just a little ache at the injection site similar to the feeling post the annual flu jab. Go get it folks, old TB's back on May 12th for part two.
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Ive spoken with her and she isnt. She's utterly confused as to why, but she now has a sore(ish) left arm courtesty of Oxford/Astrazenica.
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There does appear to be the odd anomaly. A lady I know who is 43 with no under lying health issues has had the jab not because she teaches in a secondary school (she does) but because she is a charity volunteer who helps out in at least two different food banks locally and devotes many hours a week to the food bank effort. I have no issues with her getting the jab she comes into contact with all manner of folk in the course of her food bank work.
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I had a phone call on Saturday 8th Feb to have my injection on the Monday, I asked when my wife would have hers and they said that would be fine and confirmed she would be done at the same time, not long after mine was cancelled as there was only one appointment for our household at the time and one of us would have jumped the queue which was ok by us.
Wife had hers at a well run and organised local surgery (not our normal one) and other than a sore arm like others have noted, is fine. I waited a week after I got the formal letter saying I was now to book a jab, phoned and an appointment was made at the same place as before and had it yesterday afternoon, just a mild sore arm today but other than that I am also good to go, we are going to be called back for the second dose in about 12 weeks time.
Wife had AZ and I had Pfizer.
Wife had hers at a well run and organised local surgery (not our normal one) and other than a sore arm like others have noted, is fine. I waited a week after I got the formal letter saying I was now to book a jab, phoned and an appointment was made at the same place as before and had it yesterday afternoon, just a mild sore arm today but other than that I am also good to go, we are going to be called back for the second dose in about 12 weeks time.
Wife had AZ and I had Pfizer.
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Much chatter in the media in recent days around the thorny topic of moving groups up the vaccination list, teachers, postmen, special needs adults, shop workers etc etc. Whilst I am sure there are cases to made for each group to move up if they do move up obviously someone has to have been moved down. So who would you move down the list to accommodate the upwards movement of some else. Who should be disadvantaged for someone else's benefit?? Asthmatics, diabetics, armourers ??
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Let the medical experts decide who should go next, they’ve been told to prioritise reducing deaths and pressure on the NHS, seems to be working so far.
Pretty certain I read somewhere that over 90% of deaths have been concentrated in the highest groups.
As you get down the priority list the vaccine‘s impact on the reduction in deaths and NHS pressure is diminished, the graph is a bit logarithmic, so it gets less important about who goes next once you get beyond the upper levels.
Pretty certain I read somewhere that over 90% of deaths have been concentrated in the highest groups.
As you get down the priority list the vaccine‘s impact on the reduction in deaths and NHS pressure is diminished, the graph is a bit logarithmic, so it gets less important about who goes next once you get beyond the upper levels.
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True but.... the levels of deaths are measured 2 different ways by different bodies (PHE & ONS) and at least one of them overstates the deaths.
A case in point is if you read Bel Mooney's piece in last Saturday's Daily Mail. Her father was >90 with COPD and living in a care home. He got a bit chesty (it happens at that age & with COPD) & was tested twice in 10 days for Covid-19, both times coming back negative. Nevertheless he died; he never tested positive for Covid-19 yet his death certificate gives that as his cause of death because (according to the Dr who signed it off) C-19 was present in other residents in the home.
I still wonder whether age (stopping deaths) should have been the primary factor in prioritisation - stopping the spread of disease amongst the population who are necessarily exposed to more people (teachers, emergency services, shop & transport workers etc) might have been a better option - stop the illness moving around (and into settings such as care homes) whilst helping to get the economy working better again. But it's too late to change track now.
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A death is a death and whilst the exact number will never be known it is pretty certain that plenty of folk within the high risk groups will have had COVID as a contributor in one way or another, whether or not they would have died around then just due to their age.
As far as I am aware the prioritisation has focused on age, then medical condition, mainly if you are immunosuppressed, more likely to catch it, or other serious health issues that multiply the impact on your body.
Luckily Ive not had first hand impact of a family death or long COVID, however, I do know directly of a couple of high risk vaccinated individuals who have caught COVID, and whilst they still had the initial symptoms, similar to a really bad flu, it has only taken their bodies a couple of days to recover and return to normal And they haven’t slipped into the bad, deadly, second stage of the illness.
The risk of dying from COVID for the lowest risk groups is tiny and whilst some are championing certain groups of being twice, triple or even six times more likely to die, this is against a minuscule starting point so remains a relatively low risk, and is nothing compared to the almost certain likelihood of dying that existed in the highest groups, everything needs to be understood in the wider context.
As far as I am aware the prioritisation has focused on age, then medical condition, mainly if you are immunosuppressed, more likely to catch it, or other serious health issues that multiply the impact on your body.
Luckily Ive not had first hand impact of a family death or long COVID, however, I do know directly of a couple of high risk vaccinated individuals who have caught COVID, and whilst they still had the initial symptoms, similar to a really bad flu, it has only taken their bodies a couple of days to recover and return to normal And they haven’t slipped into the bad, deadly, second stage of the illness.
The risk of dying from COVID for the lowest risk groups is tiny and whilst some are championing certain groups of being twice, triple or even six times more likely to die, this is against a minuscule starting point so remains a relatively low risk, and is nothing compared to the almost certain likelihood of dying that existed in the highest groups, everything needs to be understood in the wider context.