COVID Vaccine !

[PK99]

I note the announcement of "booster/3rd" jabs for certain clinically vulnerable groups.

I have a vested interest in that happening in the next 3 weeks.

Do any with an inside track, know how/when the extra jabs will be rolled out?

No speculation please, just hard info.

 

[Milkfloat]

There are also some people who are up for getting doses 4 or even 5, not many, but the programme is certainly doing those doses for some people, who may those people be?

People from an early trial?

 

[Johnno260]

All (well nearly all) first and second doses will be administered to Under 40s, so that excludes the use of AZ Vaxzevria. I guess it will continue in use for the catch-up of the very small percentage of the over 40s who decided not to take the vaccine when offered months ago or who didn't come for their second dose when asked / on time. Is that right Craig?
I suspect you haven't an insight into the planned usage (or not) outside the purview of NHSE, so just declaring "not true" lacks nuance.

My wife has asked questions on this, she is in healthcare and has been told the trust is going to give workers a 3rd/booster.

She has been told she can’t have the Pfizer due to reaction concerns, she has epilepsy and suffered anaphylaxis where the route cause was never diagnosed, for these reasons she was told AZ was the only one they would use.

PS: Sorry I posted that link the a report that had already been discussed, I had missed it when I looked back and was hoping to add before the forum was locked.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

Do any with an inside track, know how/when the extra jabs will be rolled out?

The plan was that this would start on the 6th, the most likely looking date is now the 20th of September. It will be a re-run of the phase one. So if you had an early jab, then expect an earlyish recall.

People from an early trial?

Good shout, but not quite right.

My wife has asked questions on this, she is in healthcare and has been told the trust is going to give workers a 3rd/booster.

Her info is probably correct, there is work ongoing to get hospital sites back up and running, but this time round the hospital sites won't just be doing health staff.

She has been told she can’t have the Pfizer due to reaction concerns, she has epilepsy and suffered anaphylaxis where the route cause was never diagnosed, for these reasons she was told AZ was the only one they would use.

Which is why AZ remains available for all vaccination sites that are assured for AZ use. There is also plenty sloshing about in the system, it just won't be used in such large quantities as previously.

 

[Ajax Bay]

JCVI Doesn't Recommend COVID-19 Jabs for All 12 to 15-year-olds
However, it is widening the limited roll out to at-risk groups. Children with chronic major heart, lung, kidney, liver, and neurological conditions will now be offered vaccination. Around 200,000 more children will be invited for jabs.
JCVI: "The health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15-year-olds at this time.
"It is not within the JCVI’s remit to consider the wider societal impacts of vaccination, including educational benefits. The Government may wish to seek further views on the wider societal and educational impacts from the Chief Medical Officers of the UK four nations."
The JCVI is under strict remit. The MHRA have cleared specific vaccines for use in 12-15s. I guess the government is grappling with the judgement calls (as flagged by JCVI above) of vaccinating 12-15s (and the implications for sufficient supply as a 'third dose' programme rolls out nationwide) without the support of a JCVI recommendation.
So it'll be down to CMOs x 4 to consider the societal benefits of having children vaccinated, and focus on areas outside the JCVI’s remit: including lost education time due to COVID-related absences (either infection or proximity-driven rustication).

 

[Andy in Germany]

Apparently from November people without a vaccination here will no longer get state assistance if they have to isolate. The vaccination rate will probably be about 65-70% by then.

I'm not sure it makes scientific sense, but I can see how it makes political and economic sense.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Ireland has reached 90% of 18+ fully vaccinated. The UK is currently at 80% of 16+

Ireland is at 56% for 12-15s and 75% for 16/17s (first doses)

 

[mjr]

UK cancels contract with Valneva for their in-development vaccine claiming Valneva breached obligations https://www.france24.com/en/europe/...ab-contract-with-franco-austrian-firm-valneva

French medicines regulator ANSM reports a “significant number of failures of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine” (the single-dose one). Recipients are being offered a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna https://www.connexionfrance.com/Fre...oncerns-over-Johnson-Johnson-vaccine-failures

 

[Pale Rider]

I note the announcement of "booster/3rd" jabs for certain clinically vulnerable groups.

I have a vested interest in that happening in the next 3 weeks.

Do any with an inside track, know how/when the extra jabs will be rolled out?

No speculation please, just hard info.

I've been told I will get a booster jab in the next week or two, although this time it will be at the hospital clinic I attend regularly rather than at a 'public' vaccination centre.

Hospital staff I speak to are also expecting boosters sooner rather than later.

 

[classic33]

The third jab has been given to some people already, over the last two weeks.

 

[Buck]

I’ve now had my booster and also my flu vaccine. No side effects except a slight headache today.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To add to your list of totally bat s**t crazy theories - here is a good one
https://www.indy100.com/news/trump-michael-flynn-salad-dressing-b1925607


Won't impact me - but if they add it to Heinze Ketchup I will have to check the overdose points

 

[MartinQ]

To add to your list of totally bat s**t crazy theories - here is a good one
https://www.indy100.com/news/trump-michael-flynn-salad-dressing-b1925607


Won't impact me - but if they add it to Heinze Ketchup I will have to check the overdose points

Make sure you spread it on a llama steak
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58628689

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Make sure you spread it on a llama steak
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58628689

I can't eat FiFi!!!!!!


and anyway - what if she has tuberculosis
or was that something else

 

[MartinQ]

I can't eat FiFi!!!!!!


and anyway - what if she has tuberculosis
or was that something else

They're all alien killers anyway

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBLv71E3bw