Jabs now from 60+

[alcam]

Simply visit this site Link and you will see that in England as cohort 7 (over 60) you can immediately book a jab, usually within a few days. Scotland is still on cohort 6 (18 to 65 with conditions) and as I described as one in this cohort my appointment is still 2 weeks away. How this can be described as better in Scotland I fail to see.

I'm merely quoting the figures from NHS ? The link provided seems to show there is a different method used to provide vaccination . Whether that is a better way or not I've no idea . Going by posts on here [and elsewhere] where people in England are having the same problem as you there doesn't seem a perfect system

 

[mariesnowgoose]

There is no such thing as a 'perfect system'.

Vaccinating the biggest percentage of the population who are likely to die first (80% of which are in the older age groups 70+) makes good sense to me.

Arguments about who to vaccinate next are going to persist until they've injected a lot more of the population, regardless of age group.
Everybody who wants a vaccine is clamouring for one yesterday!

Thing is, we're not going to be allowed to go very far or do very much for a while yet, so it's still the same old patience, patience, patience message.

And as for vaccinating "druggies" and "lowlifes" (!) there is very good reason - they're the ones most likely to be super-spreaders, infecting more people, ergo putting more pressure on the health services, imo.

Whatever decision is made about vaccines, it will be damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Don't forget the virus affects the whole world, not just us and our little self-centred lives.
There won't be any getting it under any sort of control until a lot more of the world's population have also been vaccinated.

So anyone who is straining at the leash to get away for their "holidays" needs to consider how well the vaccination process is going in the destination countries as that could well put the kibosh on any "plans" you might be making down the line.

Holidays?! You should be so lucky! Consider yourself grateful to be alive, kicking and with a future to look forward to, even if you don't know what that is yet.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I think it's the supply of vaccine that has slowed down, Barry.

Seem to remember way back in December one of the TV news conferences - dunno whether it was JVT or one of the other specialist guys - saying that we had received x doses of pre-ordered Pfizer in the UK, but that the next batch of Pfizer wasn't due to be delivered until April.

No idea how the production and despatch of the AZ vaccine is going.
Maybe they're taking their foot off the brake a little now that the bulk of the 'most at risk' groups have been vaccinated?

Who knows

 

[colinm]

Don't forget the virus affects the whole world, not just us and our little self-centred lives.
There won't be any getting it under any sort of control until a lot more of the world's population have also been vaccinated.

So anyone who is straining at the leash to get away for their "holidays" needs to consider how well the vaccination process is going in the destination countries as that could well put the kibosh on any "plans" you might be making down the line.

Lets put this in simple terms, at the moment after a single jab, if three vans go away, two with couples and one with single person. One of the people in those vans isn't protected against hospitalisation due to CV-19. Even after two jabs, if we consider 5 vans on a Aire all with couples, there will be one person who could in up in hospital due to CV-19.

 

[Biggarmac]

The number of people getting the first jab is also slowing down as the early vaccinated ones need their second dose. There will be the same number of vaccinations being given, but a higher proportion of them will be 2nd doses.

 

[mark61]

Lets put this in simple terms, at the moment after a single jab, if three vans go away, two with couples and one with single person. One of the people in those vans isn't protected against hospitalisation due to CV-19. Even after two jabs, if we consider 5 vans on a Aire all with couples, there will be one person who could in up in hospital due to CV-19.

Don't think your meant to stay on an Air for a year.

 

[Thistle]

I had the letter on Tuesday morning this week and booked my first Jab for Wednesday afternoon.
Second jab booked for May 21st.

Swmbo didn't have to book she was called three weeks ago by our surgery, so although she is 5 years younger than me she had hers first but she does not have a date for her second one yet.

We both had mild side effects from the Astra jab the following day which I can best describe as being like a hangover with added tiredness!
I was definitely ready for an early night on Thursday but have been fine since.

 

[Deleted member 47550]

Had a text from GP to book mine in Suffolk, 64yrs. No other conditions. Have to wait till back in UK.....unless get one here but that is unlikely. Seems to have rolled out fast in Suffolk/Norfolk and Kent where most of family are. My 55yr old brother il has had his already.

Very fast in Norfolk - my surgery is doing 50+ now

 

[Deleted member 47550]

My wife at 61 has her second jab next week but she's front line nurse and is doing the main assessments and drawing up the vaccine for others to inject. She says watch this space as from this week they look to be really ramping up the numbers with new centres being opened using a different system. Where as she was doing some 400 a day last week they look shortly to be doing best part of 1,000 a day as more vaccine is now coming online.

 

[REC]

My wife at 61 has her second jab next week but she's front line nurse and is doing the main assessments and drawing up the vaccine for others to inject. She says watch this space as from this week they look to be really ramping up the numbers with new centres being opened using a different system. Where as she was doing some 400 a day last week they look shortly to be doing best part of 1,000 a day as more vaccine is now coming online.

It's great the way it has rolled out. Initially Kent were well in advance of Suffolk/Norfolk, but they caught up fast. our son had his last week in Kent ( under 40yrs old) Will still need to be in the country for mine though.....