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Ended up having the Pfizer vaccine last night, second dose due on Good Friday. Although a choice was promised, it never materialised. However I had decided I was going to have the Pfizer due to it being the most effective (allegedly). I've got a little bit of a aching arm this morning but that's all.
When I got my flu jab in December, the nurse said patient's had been asking 'what's in it'. I joked that I wouldn't mind a 5G chip then could make calls on my hand and not use my phone !!
Some right nutters out there. Any will do for me, the sooner we get back to 'new normal' the better. My wife might get to hug her mum !
I'm not convinced the healthy under 50s population will get either vaccine this year. By the time the vulnerable categories have had their second doses we will be well into the summer and stockpiling any further doses for the next winter.
I imagine our world getting vaccination task force can’t actually keep tabs on who it has jabbed with what.
Just like all medications and vaccines prescribed by your GP funnily enough they are.
I got my Pfizer one yesterday slightly sore arm last night but that’s it.
Am I right in thinking that GPs IT is standalone rather than country wide? Normally your doc has all your records. How will it work when we have roving teams and mega centres?
I have trust in the NHS, but not the so called Task force led by Zahawi and Bingham.
vaccination task force can’t actually keep tabs on who it has jabbed with what.
Wife got a nice little credit card sized bit of card with her Pfizer vaccine details on and was told not to lose it. Promptly put it on the dashboard of the car and now it's safely stored somewhere down the back of it 🙁
There was a doctor on TV last night, apparently he'd had several people (assuming elderly or high risk of covid complications, possibly both) turning up for a vaccine jab and asking which one it would be? When told it was the Pfizer/BioNtech version they refused the jab as it is made in Germany/Belgium and would only come back when the English vaccine was available. No question about rushed development or lack of testing, or even crazy mind controlling 5g microchips, but no chance they're going to have a vaccine that isn't made in the UK. The mind boggles at the stupidity of some people
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Am I right in thinking that GPs IT is standalone rather than country wide?
In Scotland anyway the systems the GP practices use talk to other systems. For example When GPs working for the Out of Hours Service get a call sent to the laptop in the car there is amongst other info a list of medicines prescribed for that patient by their GP.
AS I don't use them I can't tell you all the info on them but I would be amazed if something like Covid vaccination wasn't on a national database as well. When I got my jag yesterday the nurse doing it looked me up on a tablet and had my medical record there. Thi
I got the Pfizer. Slight tenderness in the arm otherwise nothing so far for side effects.
Hopefully my cynicism is misplaced.
The moderna one received approval today (10m doses ordered) with the single shot J&J vaccine like to be approved in 5 weeks.
I think that gives the U.K. around 130m doses by the end of June.
A quick scan of the European broadsheets suggests that leaders in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Netherlands are all getting slated for their perceived failings with vaccine rollout - which would suggest it’s harder to get right than the armchair critics would have us believe.
Am I right in thinking that GPs IT is standalone rather than country wide? Normally your doc has all your records. How will it work when we have roving teams and mega centres?
It's going fine. There's not much point giving more detail, but the vaccination records being input are flowing through to the GP systems.
And then into my reports 🙂
Thanks Rob - good to know.
When told it was the Pfizer/BioNtech version they refused the jab as it is made in Germany/Belgium and would only come back when the English vaccine was available.
I read that as well. My instance reaction was ' well they should be put right at back of queue then, and if they die between now and then, xxxx em'
Harsh perhaps, but we shouldn't be pandering to the views of some old ignorant racists, whilst the rest of the country bends over backwards to keep them safe
I’m not convinced the healthy under 50s population will get either vaccine this year. By the time the vulnerable categories have had their second doses we will be well into the summer and stockpiling any further doses for the next winter.
I'm not convinced they should either, it should go to the developing worlds vulnerable.
An expecting that business travel anywhere will require a vaccine though.
So there will be an amount of under 50's vaccinated
An expecting that business travel anywhere will require a vaccine though.
So there will be an amount of under 50’s vaccinated
Given you can't really distinguish between business and leisure travel, that boils down to all travel requiring a vaccine, and that in turn boils down to sufficient vaccine being available for people to be able to privately pay for it. I don't doubt that Musk and Bezos can get the vaccine immediately if they want it, but for normal people?
Agreed, I have no idea how it would be regulated for most.
Considering at the moment there is no plan to vaccinate pilots & cabin crew, nobody will be going very far anyway!
What kind of vaccine is the single shot J&J?
Scotland have committed to vaccinating all adults. The only 2 folks I personally know whom have had covid have bother really suffered, one 3 months to get back to semi normal, 1 still off work. Both no underlying conditions.
I'm apparently at greater risk due to my asthma, but not sure if I'll even be included in a priority group. So I'm pretty keen to get a dose at some point with rest of the under 50s, as at 44 with asthma, it's definitely not a virus I want to pick up.
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When told it was the Pfizer/BioNtech version they refused the jab as it is made in Germany/Belgium and would only come back when the English vaccine was available.
I read that as well. My instance reaction was ‘ well they should be put right at back of queue then, and if they die between now and then, xxxx em’
Harsh perhaps, but we shouldn’t be pandering to the views of some old ignorant racists, whilst the rest of the country bends over backwards to keep them safe
Not harsh at all. My reaction, if the story is true, was a lot more severe.
'Dr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE', I'll have whatever this bloke's armed with.
I would have the pfizer one as I live in a city and thus leaving the easier to store one for those in rural areas
In Scotland anyway the systems the GP practices use talk to other systems.
Not very well. gp systems do not talk to hospital systems. You do get a key information summary but not the full recordsd. Its OK but not what it should be. some stuff is still sent by snail mail and then manually inputted I think
Why GPs do not have TRAK I do not know
Johnson has promised all english care home residents will have it by the end of the month. anyone want to bet on this? My guess is 70%
I am also in the Pfizer ‘MRNA is cool’ club. But frankly any. And soon.
I’m not at risk (48 and fit) but my dad died over Christmas and I want to be able to see my mum and my brother and sister and have a memorial service in Germany for him.
There’s no way I would travel at the moment because it is just not right to. But, despite telling myself that everyone is in the same boat - and indeed that he couldn’t be there for his mum or attend her funeral 40 years ago because of being on the other side of the Iron Curtain, it’s still very hard.
I want the newest one with the new quad-core microchip instead of the outdated pentium core 2 duo in the first vaccine.
My guess is 70%
In the words of Top Gear. Ambitious, but rubbish.
I'd say lucky to reach 50%.
My Mum's vaccination is definitely in her GPs records, and although it was given in a vaccination centre the nurse who did it was from her own surgery 25 miles away.
Sorry to hear about your Dad clover.
Re the computer systems, we're having to use two different systems that GPs don't normally use to both book patients and record the details of vaccines. The information does flow back to GP systems but the transfer isn't reliable presently, but at least it'll be in one place. In England (depending on sharing agreements), Trusts can access records for local patients normally (so a Manchester hospital can see a Manchester GPs patient data, for example) although it varies widely.