COVID Vaccine !

[bitsandbobs]

The most interesting point to me as a complete layman (thicko!) in this kind of thing was the fact that the new vaccines being developed against corona using RNA ought to be safe from long-term effects. It (RNA) is so unstable that after injection within a very short period of time it just disappears. It survives only long enough to trigger the body's immune system and is then gone. The body, however, remembers it and reacts accordingly if it encounters the corona virus.

One of the challenges in using RNA is actually to get it to persist long enough. RNA doesn't itself trigger the immune system btw - that was another hurdle to the use of RNA vaccines - how to render it less immunogenic.

 

[oldwheels]

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.

Perhaps frightened of needles?

 

[marinyork]

The hospital where I work say it is. That's probably internal policy though.

JCVI says leave 7 days between flu jab and covid jab. So a general muttering about worried about getting flu and covid-19, is not really surprising there's promotion.

JCVI just published more or less the same list as September. The one people didn't necessarily want to read as it suggests a wait.

 

[potsy]

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.

I got to cuddle a teddy bear when I had mine at work a few years ago, and there is photographic evidence to prove it!

And no, you cannot see

 

[newfhouse]

And we get a little sweetie afterwards like we're five years old or something.

I'm getting my jab on Friday evening. I'm hoping for chips.

 

[tom73]

JCVI says leave 7 days between flu jab and covid jab. So a general muttering about worried about getting flu and covid-19, is not really surprising there's promotion.

JCVI just published more or less the same list as September. The one people didn't necessarily want to read as it suggests a wait.

Mrs 73 and co have been told in a flu jab reminder they needed it 28 before. Which maybe more to do pushing the flu jab than anything else.

 

[DCLane]

Mrs 73 and co have been told in a flu jab reminder they needed it 28 before. Which maybe more to do pushing the flu jab than anything else.

SWMBO's had the same from her NHS trust. Possibly the same as yours? (SW Mental Health & Nottingham as she works for both).

 

[mjr]

Priorities set in Belgium. Putting health/care staff first seems different to what's been discussed in the UK according to https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-covid-vaccine-thread.267960/post-6191014

 

[bitsandbobs]

Priorities set in Belgium. Putting health/care staff first seems different to what's been discussed in the UK according to https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-covid-vaccine-thread.267960/post-6191014
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Is there a point to all this reportage from Belgium?

 

[oldwheels]

Priorities set in Belgium. Putting health/care staff first seems different to what's been discussed in the UK according to https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-covid-vaccine-thread.267960/post-6191014
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It has been announced by Ms Sturgeon that it is hoped vaccination will start next Tuesday with those administering the jabs and healthcare staff first along with vulnerable groups and the ancients.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It has been announced by Ms Sturgeon that it is hoped vaccination will start next Tuesday with those administering the jabs and healthcare staff first along with vulnerable groups and the ancients.

The ancients as in the 2,000 year olds?

 

[winjim]

It has been announced by Ms Sturgeon that it is hoped vaccination will start next Tuesday with those administering the jabs ... first along with vulnerable groups and the ancients.

We're bloody well stuck then, who gives the first one?

 

[oldwheels]

We're bloody well stuck then, who gives the first one?

Good question but presumably somebody who has been tested for antibodies already in their system.

 

[tom73]

SWMBO's had the same from her NHS trust. Possibly the same as yours? (SW Mental Health & Nottingham as she works for both).

Maybe they are hoping for a more general cut off date easier to roll out than working on individual ones. Or Working to one date to get flu jabs all but done so focus can move to this one.

 

[tom73]

We're bloody well stuck then, who gives the first one?

Don't rule out Boris hosting a lottery style covid jab prime time TV live draw.