COVID Vaccine !

[Craig the cyclist]

Next clinic running Tuesday 17th August so will drop by tomorrow. After that it's Thursday. Wonder why not every day? Perhaps don't want unwanted vaccine to go off.

Depends on the type of site. Some sites as @vickster says are used for other things. Staff are shared around. Amount of vaccine in different sites. People not there to unlock (don't laugh, you would be surprised). If everyone was still doing vaccines then no-one would be doing the everyday stuff, and you would be surprised how behind things are.

Also, volunteers are 'drying up' a bit, people who returned from retirement during the early days are going back in to retirement.

And then there are the upcoming boosters, which will also take up capacity, as well as still trying to catch the people from 1-9 who haven't come forward to get dose 1 yet. Having clinics with multiple cohorts can be confusing too, plus the safeguarding issues, and some of the training done by staff vaccinating adults isn't the right training if they are working with younger people.

Shall I go on?

 

[midlife]

Availability of vaccines
If you’ve already had your 1st dose, you need to have the same vaccine for your 2nd dose.

Availability of vaccine types

Vaccine type	Availability
AstraZeneca - Dose 1	Available
Pfizer - Dose 1	Available
Moderna - Dose 1	Available
AstraZeneca - Dose 2	Available
Pfizer - Dose 2	Available
Moderna - Dose 2	Available

See above, it seems like a pretty major vaccine hub doing all the jabs for quite a large geographical area. I was just being curious so there is no need to go on...

 

[Craig the cyclist]

Next clinic running Tuesday 17th August so will drop by tomorrow. After that it's Thursday. Wonder why not every day? Perhaps don't want unwanted vaccine to go off.

Did it all go ok?

 

[Milkfloat]

My wife got a text from the GP today telling her that she will be getting a Flu & COVID booster booking sent to her in the next few weeks. I was unaware that this had been fully decided yet. She is on a vulnerable list, I would not have thought too vulnerable though, certainly not to get notifications this early. I assume the booking will be for late autumn.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

My wife got a text from the GP today telling her that she will be getting a Flu & COVID booster booking sent to her in the next few weeks. I was unaware that this had been fully decided yet. She is on a vulnerable list, I would not have thought too vulnerable though, certainly not to get notifications this early. I assume the booking will be for late autumn.

No, the booster programme will start at some point in September. Possibly as early as the 6th, but more likely around the 20th.

 

[Johnno260]

My wife got a text from the GP today telling her that she will be getting a Flu & COVID booster booking sent to her in the next few weeks. I was unaware that this had been fully decided yet. She is on a vulnerable list, I would not have thought too vulnerable though, certainly not to get notifications this early. I assume the booking will be for late autumn.

My wife has got a message advising her she will be getting a booster soon, she is a nurse so double jabbed for a long time now.

 

[newfhouse]

My wife got a text from the GP today telling her that she will be getting a Flu & COVID booster booking sent to her in the next few weeks. I was unaware that this had been fully decided yet. She is on a vulnerable list, I would not have thought too vulnerable though, certainly not to get notifications this early. I assume the booking will be for late autumn.

My wife and I have had similar texts. 58, no relevant health conditions, Croydon area.

 

[midlife]

Did it all go ok?

Yep, rocked up at the walk in centre. 16 Yr old had Pfizer jab no issues. To keep footfall inside to a minimum as instructed I waited outside.

Place was deserted, someone turned up about every 7 minutes. Interestingly has been given a QR code to book a second a.

I wonder if NHS staff will be given booster or only the older cohort of staff?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

No, the booster programme will start at some point in September. Possibly as early as the 6th, but more likely around the 20th.

There was someone from JCVI on the Today programme today saying they were meeting today to decide and implied boosters would most probably be limited to the extremely vulnerable (immunocompromised etc), no general rollout.

Sounds at odds to what you know and what other posters on here are being communicated too.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

I wonder if NHS staff will be given booster

Yes, the roll out of boosters will most likely follow the roll out of the first phase, exact details still being worked on thogh, as @roubaixtuesday has mentioned. Expect to roll up both sleeves though!

Sounds at odds to what you know

Still working on the details is pretty accurate. Although I obviously know what we have been asked to plan for.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Is there a scientific basis for giving JCVI Gps 1-4 booster jabs. Is there a measure/estimate of waning (eg % protection from +14 days of dose 2 level)?

 

[Julia9054]

I wonder if NHS staff will be given booster

I was wondering that with regards to my son. He was working as a carer so was double jabbed by the beginning of February. He is no longer working in care so I guess they won't offer him a booster

 

[Buck]

All front line staff will be offered the booster. IF your son is no longer working in the service then he won't be eligible for the booster at this time.

Current plans are: -

Stage 1

Stage 2

 

[Ajax Bay]

Public Health England (PHE) estimates the COVID-19 vaccination programme in England has so far prevented:

• More than 82,100 hospitalisations in those aged 65 and over
• 95,200 deaths
• 23,957,000 COVID-19 infections
  

Medscape

England figures First dose total=34,511,819; Second dose total=39,859,148 (@ 20 Aug)
These figures do seem to imply that PHE think that even with zero to the 40M fully vaccinated, and ADDITIONAL 24M would have been infected in the last 8 months. Seems extraordinarily high.
Cases have in any case averaged 18k per day for 243 days and multiply by 2 (case number (+ve test) is roughly half actual infections) (= 9M total). Add to that 24M which suggests that, without the vaccines, we would have had 33+M cases. Add about 5M infections from 1 Mar - 20 Dec 2020 and that's 38M infections in a population of 60M. Seems high, compared to the proportion of the population that caught COVID-19 in 2020, in England.
Have I failed logically or arithmetically here?

 

[Johnno260]

Edit: Fixed link.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pfi...ok.com&utm_campaign=sf-insider-main&r=US&IR=T

FDA have approved Pfizer vaccine, it’s not just approved under emergency use.