COVID Vaccine !
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DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
SWMBO's been told to be ready for her first vaccine injection. It could be as soon as tomorrow, but it's in the next week. She's frontline with Covid patients and has tests twice-weekly.
vickster
Legendary Member
Indeed, flu jabs aren't mandatory outside healthcare settings AFAIK
Under 50s are more likely to get a free Covid jab than a free flu jab (it's hard enough to find one privately at the moment)
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kingrollo
Guru
Flu jabs standalone aren't mandatory in the trust I work for. However they are stating that you must have had a flu jab before you get a COVID Jab.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Same principle as Pfizer and Moderna, but claimed much better stability- refrigerated cold chain.
https://www.curevac.com/en/covid-19/
winjim
Smash the cistern
They've been encouraging us to get the flu jab since September simply so that if and when the Covid vaccine arrives we'll have had the required 28 days between them.
vickster
Legendary Member
Not even for clinicians? Or patient facing staff?
winjim
Smash the cistern
Entirely voluntary at our trust although we are being incentivised.
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Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I was reading an article yesterday, can't remember where now, that said that there was actually a very high percentage of health care staff that didn't take the flu jab.
winjim
Smash the cistern
The interesting thing about our incentive (prize draw, win a Samsung tablet) is that you have to either have the jab, inform them you've had it elsewhere, or officially decline it. I guess that firstly they're hoping that by reminding and incentivising people, more will accept than decline, and secondly ensuring they don't fall foul of discrimination legislation by not offering the incentive to those who are unable to have the vaccine.
Trust management is being leaned on very heavily this year to ensure maximum takeup of the flu jab.
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Sometimes it's not about actively not wanting something but it being low down the list of priorities. Our HR offers free flu jabs to all staff. They used to have nurses come into school on a couple of days and staff would go and get their jab. Uptake was high. Then they changed over to a system where they issued a voucher for staff to take to a pharmacy and arrange their own jab. Lots of people didn't bother.
How ever great the news is today for most of use it's going to be some time before we can let our guard down. From today the real work starts. We need to let the NHS get on with this and not end up in a massive bun fight. If the government really want this to work. They very quickly need to stop the mixed messages and start going what ones who really know how to do this tell them. If the total mess like over the weekend with vaccine passports continues much of this or other vaccines will not get past the factory gate. The 5 O'clock Boris show today is not a great start. A lot of people still need to be empowered with simple and clear information to move from I'm not sure to yes I'm up for this jab.
winjim
Smash the cistern
They actually send the flu nurses round to our department now rather than having us go to them. And we get a little sweetie afterwards like we're five years old or something. And a sticker.
vickster
Legendary Member
I asked the nurse for a sticker when I had my ‘pre-school’ MMR jab a couple of years ago before going Mexico (endemic measles)....she laughed...I mean jabs can be ouchy for 46 year olds too
