COVID Vaccine !

[Craig the cyclist]

271

Not even one a day then.

 

[MrGrumpy]

My letter arrived !! Next Wednesday is jab day ! No GP or community hospital for me !! Nope I’ve to go to an old Marks and Sparks store n the high street ! Well there’s CoVid vaccine and then their M&S vaccine .

 

[vickster]

My letter arrived !! Next Wednesday is jab day ! No GP or community hospital for me !! Nope I’ve to go to an old Marks and Sparks store n the high street ! Well there’s CoVid vaccine and then their M&S vaccine .

Will you get a Colin mini roll as well as a sticker upon leaving?

 

[MrGrumpy]

Colon the Caterpillar more like

 

[Unkraut]

Appointments for my age bracket were released at the beginning of this week, so I thought I'd give it a go despite the initial rush. After several attempts last night and this morning it finally worked and I have an appointment for BioNTech in Mannheim at a centre on 9th May, second jab 20th June.

Came through quicker than I thought, the campaign has started to gain some momentum.

 

[Ajax Bay]

@classic33 said "271"

Not even one a day then.

I think probability calculations suggest you only 23 Ian Smiths 'in a room' to have a better than evens chance that two will have the same birthday. So NHS Digital won't find it completely straightforward to match @IanSmithCSE with his original NHS number.
Though presumably nearly every one of those 271 'Ian Smiths' will have had interaction with the NHS this century so they can be excluded.

 

[Ajax Bay]

I have an appointment for BioNTech in Mannheim at a centre on 9th May, second jab 20th June.

So has Germany pushed out the 'gap' to 6 weeks generally?

 

[classic33]

@classic33 said "271"

I think probability calculations suggest you only 23 Ian Smiths 'in a room' to have a better than evens chance that two will have the same birthday. So NHS Digital won't find it completely straightforward to match @IanSmithCSE with his original NHS number.
Though presumably nearly every one of those 271 'Ian Smiths' will have had interaction with the NHS this century so they can be excluded.

The figure was for those aged sixty at present, in the UK. Narrow the area, even by country, and you'll reduce that figure further.

 

[Unkraut]

So has Germany pushed out the 'gap' to 6 weeks generally?

I was a bit surprised at the gap, but the general policy has changed to getting at least one injection done more quickly in order to deal with the more infectious and dangerous British mutation that has virtually taken over. I suspect the gap for AZ is even wider.

The graph showing first and second vaccinations which originally always had second doses as half the number of first doses is showing an ever greater divergence as first doses take priority.

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Daten/Impfquoten-Tab.html

The map shows the percentage for first injection (left) and both injections (right) for each Land.

The second gives the total to date at nearly 23 million.

The third which relates to what you asked shows percentage first dose in light blue and both doses in darker blue, and first doses are now 3 times the figure for both.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Wife had J2 at 8.30am this Sunday morning and then straight into emergency hair surgery at 9am.

1 x achy arm which suggests I am on cooking duties tonight - bless her!

 

[newts]

I had my 2nd AZ jab on Wednesday. Our local health centre is very well organised & there were alot of people who appeared to 40-50 age group also getting jabs. Pleased to say the that the symptoms were very minimal this time, only very mild aches for about 48 hrs.

 

[mjr]

UK vaccination opened to 44+ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/who-can-get-the-vaccine/

 

[Rezillo]

I've just been Pfizered for the second time.

Another seamless experience.

Despite @mjr's increasingly desperate attempts to criticise the programme, it continues to work wonderfully well.

My only regret is there wasn't a nice big red bus parked outside the vaccination centre.

Everything worked for me as well. Our local Facebook page is full of praise for the centre and the booking process.

I did have one problem booking an appointment but that was my fault, not the system. It wouldn't recognise my NHS number, which was out of date. I didn't know the numbers had changed to 10 digit ones years ago: I still had a NHS card from the 80s with my (shorter) number on it but it didn't work. I then found out why.

I downloaded the NHS app (not the covid one) and there was a straightforward process to retrieve my current NHS number, which then worked on the booking site. I don't think it needed a GP registration - the app only asked for one when I later linked my GP records to it. After all that, I found my "new" NHS number on a routine bowel cancer screening letter so I should have checked that in the first place.

 

[Ajax Bay]

The discharge letter does indeed have a hospital number, it is 10 digits long, are any of those digits meaningful or is it just a sequence number?
And an empty space with a NHS number label, this is probably why I am going round in circles.

Have you been vaccinated, Ian? That 10 digit number on the hospital discharge letter seems just what you need. The "NHS Number" label is to have a specific space on the letter in case 'they' have to write the number in in manuscript, btw.

 

[mjr]

Nurse-cyclists now doing house calls vaccinating shielding patients in Belgium.