There's a big difference between sticking yourself with insulin needles and sticking yourself with intramuscular needles. I do the former several times a day no probs, I tried doing the latter once and nearly fainted.
COVID Vaccine !
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Ajax Bay
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Over 50s, your time has come!
I have been keeping a beady eye on this webpage for bookings and they have changed the lower age limit to 'over 50s'
I said on Saturday: "I predict the NHS vaccine booking website will very soon be dropping the 'age' criterion down to 50."
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...rus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
And 'Lo, it has come to pass'.
Vaccine supply and daily vaccination rate are ramping up. There are 4.6M 50-54 year olds in UK (a percentage will have had their first dose already in JCVI Gps 2,4 or 6), and daily rates will be half a million a day. Some will find that they are getting the Moderna mRNA vaccine - very effective (and the most expensive on the planet). The UK have an advance purchase contract for 17M doses of Moderna, for supply in 2021.
I have been keeping a beady eye on this webpage for bookings and they have changed the lower age limit to 'over 50s'
I said on Saturday: "I predict the NHS vaccine booking website will very soon be dropping the 'age' criterion down to 50."
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...rus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
And 'Lo, it has come to pass'.
Vaccine supply and daily vaccination rate are ramping up. There are 4.6M 50-54 year olds in UK (a percentage will have had their first dose already in JCVI Gps 2,4 or 6), and daily rates will be half a million a day. Some will find that they are getting the Moderna mRNA vaccine - very effective (and the most expensive on the planet). The UK have an advance purchase contract for 17M doses of Moderna, for supply in 2021.
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Good news indeed, do we think over 40's will have been done before June 21st at this pace?
vickster
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Should be (at least first jab) given the aim is to do groups 1-9 by mid April
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Nice one, at least that should ease the concerns of many in that age group.Should be (at least first jab) given the aim is to do groups 1-9 by mid April
fossyant
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I used to have a rather large needle every two weeks - when I was in hospital with the broken spine, most of the nurses wouldn't touch the needle as it was rather 'large' - they got the senior nurse to do it. No longer on them as I had a massive swelling from one injection, so moved on to a 'topical' application that is every day - burns the skin, but it's better than trying to get to the GP every two weeks, especially in covid times.
Ajax Bay
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If the vaccination programme accelerates to the daily 'doses administered' rate widely suggested (4M a week) then my estimate for completing the over 40s (there are 8.4M 40-49s in UK) is 2 May. And by then nearly all the JCVI Gps 1-4 (overs 70s plus H&SCW plus CEV) will have received their second jab.
mjr
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First dose only is not completion.
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So a full Month before restrictions are fully lifted (at the earliest) the over 40's should have been jabbed, gives it time to work.
Great news for most of this Forum I would have thought?
mjr
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If they do that before general availability of second doses, I expect a court case for age discrimination. British Airways as most likely first target.
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mjr
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In the words of Roy Walker, "It's good, but it's not right" as derestricting will see cases surge in younger people, mostly asymptomatic but not all, and giving a breeding ground for new variants of concern.
We're so close to sidelining this virus. Why give up three or four months short and risk waves 4 and probably 5 and reversing back into restrictions, for the sake of indoor boozing and ents?
mjr
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Yes to both, I think, but feeling safer will probably mean increased risk-taking and the vaccines aren't certainties, so that is a danger which there does not seem to be a huge amount of emphasis in in the TV ads and so on.
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Sorry, don't understand what's 'not right'?
My opinion that it might be 'Great news for the people on this forum'?
It's only my opinion don't forget, if people on this forum don't think it's good news then I'm obviously wrong.
Everything else you've said is your opinion and your're entitled to it.
