COVID Vaccine !

[johnblack]

Tonight is the night

....and you're getting the vaccine.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Zadawi has said that overall acceptance is 85% (hesitancy - refusals, unables and others therefore 15%).
Offered in the context of trying to increase the BAME uptake.

 

[PK99]

nnn

If she was that bothered, why did she peel them at all?
Just a wash would suffice.
Plenty nutrition in the skin and I've never peeled a potato in my adult life, whole spud gets eaten.

quite, we rarely peel ours - though for nice fluffy/crispy roasties or smooth mash, peeling is a must

 

[MrGrumpy]

Tonight is the night

Candles lit, bath run . Champagne on ice ?? Barry White playing in the background

 

[biggs682]

....and you're getting the vaccine.

Yes and I got the sticker for proof

 

[vickster]

I would hope not but there seems to be some issue over how left over vaccines are distributed.

I think they are being optimistic tbh but the principle is annoying - how can anyone be that selfish?

It’s unlikely they’ll even be allowed near the building

 

[biggs682]

Candles lit, bath run . Champagne on ice ?? Barry White playing in the background

Hey you should know me better than that

 

[Buck]

Ranting perfectly understandable i think spokey.
I too know of a bunch of londoners of a certain age who were popping round each others houses in groups on a merrygoround , their dodgy logic/justication being that many of them lived alone.
On a point of fact, someone who had just tagged along wouldn't be able to get a jab would they?

only if they were in one of the eligible cohorts. We’ve had a few try such as the 54 year old son who was a career for his parents in their 80s that he’d brought for their vaccines. Sorry not at this time.

Another was a HCW who came in Sunday in person to cancel their appointment (no ulterior motive there then!) and then said “oh can my mum have it instead of me?” How olds mum? “60”. Is she deemed CEV? ”no”. That’ll be a No then. “Right I’m going to take this further” she said. Daffodil.

 

[Beebo]

Seems more like 'free ice creams' at the end of the day, which couldn't be put back in the freezer, and someone didn't want to waste.
The problem with that is that it fails to give sufficient encouragement to having a cunning plan for calling in eligible (ie in the current JCVI group being vaccinated) people for their first jab, at the end of a long day. Pretty sure that 10 days ago, a clear edict went out saying 'have a stand-by list of people in the priority categories' - and make it work.
Not easy to get this right, but we can endeavour so to do.

Check out this scandal!😁
6 Chesterfield footballers were vaccinated at the Chesterfield football ground which is being used as a centre.
It was the end of the day, they had 15 minutes to find someone to inject or put it in the bin and people are issuing threats of violence against the nurses.

If they had poured it down the sink there would have been complaining too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55936490

 

[mjr]

Just mentioned on BBC News channel: another case of teachers being sent a booking link and this time it seems to have been an official mistake, not inappropriate sharing: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55943120

 

[mjr]

Switzerland declines to approve OxAZ due to lack of data. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...xfordastrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine/ar-BB1doHXq

 

[Unkraut]

As an epilogue to the EU AZ vaccine procurement, I have just watched a senior Germany Liberal MP who is a lawyer say he has read the contract with AZ and it explicitly states that liability for using the vaccine is with the user and not the company. This is hardly surprising as they are not making profit on it.

Methinks there needs to be some explanation of why refusing to take the liability was given as one of the reasons why the EU was late ordering.

 

[Pale Rider]

My jab went to plan.

I arrived bang on time and was walked straight away to the vaccinating room.

A couple of minutes later and I'd been Pfizered.

I have a little card to that effect, and was told I will get another text message in about 12 weeks inviting me to book for the second dose.

No adverse reaction, apart from a tiny bit of soreness at the needle site.

I've heard of several people locally who've had unpleasant flu-like symptoms for a couple of days after having the AZ vaccine.

The nurse who did me said taking two paracetamol before and after may reduce side effects.

She also said the job was proving satisfying because nearly every patient was turning up on time, and was suitably grateful.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Switzerland declines to approve OxAZ due to lack of data. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...xfordastrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine/ar-BB1doHXq

Since the supply of Oxford-AZ vaccine for Switzerland is “unlikely” to be available until the middle of 2021 (they have pre-bought 15M - why not at $3 a dose?), delay in regulatory approval is a perfectly reasonable approach. They have said that "des études supplémentaires étaient nécessaires avant d'autoriser le vaccin anti-Covid d'AstraZeneca."
Of course there'll be an avalanche of Oxford-AZ use data available later this month (UK first dose, and more from the 2 dose trial in USA) to provide the evidence to take a decision with assurance.
SwissMedic authorised use of the Pfizer vaccine back on 19 Dec and 3M doses are being rolled out since then.
They also authorised use of the Moderna vaccine back on 12 Jan (they expect 7.5M in the first half of this year, paying ?$29 a dose) - for its population of <9M. They have also 'bought' 5M Curevac and 6M Novatec.
Unsurprisingly, Switzerland seem to have got their vaccine procurement act together.

 

[tom73]

Think today is the day for Mrs 73 the round about way she's had to go to get this is totally stupid. Still on official word on when she can expect it.