BBC Wales are currently running a story about a Nurse who had the vaccines and then caught covid 3 weeks later like it’s a big scandal. This will happen too. She had milder symptoms than her family.

That’s how vaccines work mostly, like the flu vaccine, potentially you’ll still get the virus but it’s more survivable & less likely you’ll be in hospital. You’d have thought a nurse would know this 🤷‍♂️

Heard yesterday I’ve an appointment for first jab next Friday, cancelling my WiFi contract on Thursday as I won’t need it after the chip is activated on the 5g network 👌

Mum’s mate’s cousin in a care home died 6 days after getting the vaccine. Didn’t have any covid symptoms but 4 of her fellow residents did, and they all died.

That said, she was 89 and very frail, and it needs a couple of weeks to provide immunity they say, so tragically it appears the vaccine came just a few weeks late for them.

There’s going to be a *lot* of that I’m afraid. Not even necessarily “too late” but even 90% protection will still leave quite a lot of people dying in that sort of situation where the unvaccinated fatality rate can be over 10%. The virus is so prevalent that probably most people who have any sort of socially mixed situation (which living in a care home certainly is) is likely to be exposed over the next few weeks.

had my first jab this afternoon by chance thanks to a suggestion on here for emergency services workers to try their luck towards the end of the day if there are any left over or missed appointments.

i was just passing the local doctors surgery, saw it was a vaccine centre this weekend so thought no harm in asking. i explained that i didnt want to take a jab away from someone vulnerable, but they ushered me in, i filled in a form and had it straight away. it was set up really well with an efficient system.

i feel it was my lucky day.

STW – doing a better job of recruiting vaccinators and helping emergency services workers get a jab than the GOVERNMENT. Brilliant!

Interesting to hear some 2nd doses are going ahead, the national directive was to stop all 2nds and rebook, which we have just completed in our region today.

We desperately need more staff, but being rural staff just are not there who can jab. Our acute hospitals are also crippled with influx of patients and not enough staff.

Still we are rattling through the care homes.

Now we are just waiting for the local booking solution to crumble just as the national solution will come online and save the day 😂

My In-Laws had the 1st injection on the 17th December and their 2nd on the 7th Jan aged 80 & 81

Some friends local to them in their 90’s but registered with another practice haven’t even had a call, seems a bit random?

Mum, 88, hasn’t even had a call for her first, so seems a bit post code lottery-ish.

Ricmars- neither has my 86 year old mum or any of her friends.

But as of Friday only 25% of the over 80d had been done as reported by Johnson. I guess those whose parents have been done are posting, which is fine, good to hear it’s moving forward, but isn’t reflective of the majority yet.

It will be in area specific as well as GP centres will be get batches – there was a GP on the news yesterday saying they were not due to get any vaccines until later next week.

Not that any of that makes it less stressful waiting for to get the call or making sure she is checking got emails and text messages

Re the comments above – in England all data is submitted nationally where they can work out which cohorts are being done and are they sticking to the 75/20/5 splits.

Apparently many areas in the uk are not, but this could be for many reasons.

I myself are waiting for my elderly parents to be done, but because they some distance from current open centres they haven’t been called.

Our region is up to 600 doses per day. By next Monday that should at least 2,500 and before the end of Jan 7,000 per day

When you get vaccinated do you receive some sort of certificate or is it just added to your medical history?

So apparently every adult in UK will have been offered a vaccine by mid Sep.

Unless that offer is ‘you can get a vaccination, in January’ then I call bullshit.

By my maths they’ll require over 3 million jabs a week to hit that target once you factor in the 12 week booster.

Son and youngest daughter just back from having there’s at Stafford show ground. Said it was well organised, (Wife and eldest daughter already been done), so just me now but I suspect that will be a few years away!

Son and youngest daughter just back from having there’s at Stafford show ground. Said it was well organised, (Wife and eldest daughter already been done), so just me now but I suspect that will be a few years away!

Hang about. How have your kids managed to get the jab? (Or are they grown up kids working for nhs etc?)

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When you get vaccinated do you receive some sort of certificate or is it just added to your medical history?

You’re not a real doctor, are you? 😁
Currently it just goes into your medical record. There might well be some sort of certificate available in future, for travel etc. but there’s enough to organise already 🙂

Just had my 2nd dose of the Pfizer one,

The wife is back from her first jab (pharmacy worker).

I’ll be at the back of the queue (which is fine) unless they prioritize people that can’t work from home, then I’ll be near the back of the queue.

Whilst I don’t/won’t vote for my local MP, Huw Merriman, I’ve just received a very good email from him, linking to his website detailing all the vaccination centres in the constituency, any blank spots & what is being done to sort it.

Compare & contrast to my mums MP, Lizz Truss, who has no info, just self publicity.

It’s interesting hearing so many people say they had a very sore arm after the first injection
I’m on the novavax trial and also had a very sore arm for a few days. It’s hard not to want to speculate!

Doesn’t sound like you had the placebo then! 👍

Currently it just goes into your medical record. There might well be some sort of certificate available in future, for travel etc. but there’s enough to organise already,

We’re not getting “I’ve been a brave boy/girl stickers”? What about lollipops?

This could be a deal-breaker. 🙂

Wife and co-workers had Pfizer jab.

Anecdotally, those that have had confirmed or suspected covid (the pre testing, “thrown under bus in March” cohort) get a bit of a wallop from the first jab – even to the point of being off work.

Those who have shown no sign of covid get a sore arm.

It’s interesting hearing so many people say they had a very sore arm after the first injection
I’m on the novavax trial and also had a very sore arm for a few days. It’s hard not to want to speculate!

Wife’s arm was sore for about 12 hours, then a bit tender for a bit. A “Good immune response” they call it. I get the same from a Flu jab.

Frankly, I’ll be more sore after a day of stripping wallpaper, I wouldn’t let it put me off.

STW – doing a better job of recruiting vaccinators and helping emergency services workers get a jab than the GOVERNMENT

I’m pretty sure STW could do a better job than the government at most things, though it’s not really a high bar at the moment.

Had my video interview for the volunteer vaccinator role this morning. It seemed to go well and my referees have since been contacted and I’ve had an email pointing me toward the online training. Just waiting for a login for the e-learning site now. It seems there are a whole load of St Johns Ambulance modules to do, then some face to face training then some NHS e-learning modules. I’m not sure until I log in, how long all this will take but keen to get stuck in.

We’re not getting “I’ve been a brave boy/girl stickers”? What about lollipops?

We’ve had lots of requests for a cup of tea while people have been sitting out their 15 minutes post-jab tedium.
We told them bollox and gave them some smarties 🙂

We ran out of smarties really quickly…

Got my 5g chip injection on Tuesday, can’t wait

Got my 5g chip injection on Tuesday, can’t wait

If your mobile phone runs out of data, you can bluetooth it to yourself – built in on-board internet, what’s not to like? 🙂

It’s a win win

Ms fadda had hers yesterday – her arm was a bit sore last night, but okay today.

She’s a dental hygeinist, so in close contact with 15+ people every day, so I’m happy for her to have had it.

Just waiting for mine, but as a relatively healthy 56 y-o who works at home, I’m a bit down the list yet…

We ran out of smarties really quickly…

It’s a government run project, this is to be expected.

I really hope that this nightmare will end soon

Whilst I don’t/won’t vote for my local MP, Huw Merriman, I’ve just received a very good email from him, linking to his website detailing all the vaccination centres in the constituency, any blank spots & what is being done to sort it.

I’m a bit naughty/lazy – I never changed GP when I last moved.
I am correctly registered on the electoral roll, council tax etc though.
What is used for the purpose of vaccinations? Both the planning of, and contacting me to get?

No rush, I’m probably not going to be due until august unless I get a bit of a bump due to the nature of my job.

Had my video interview for the volunteer vaccinator role this morning. It seemed to go well and my referees have since been contacted and I’ve had an email pointing me toward the online training. Just waiting for a login for the e-learning site now. It seems there are a whole load of St Johns Ambulance modules to do, then some face to face training then some NHS e-learning modules. I’m not sure until I log in, how long all this will take but keen to get stuck in.

Well done for joining in, I assume you’re not already a Medic of some kind?

Wife has volunteered to, they call it volunteering, she’s being paid her usual salary for it.

She’s got to have an interview to make sure she’s up to it, she’s been qualified for years to give injections, but there’s a procedure. I think she’s hoping to start next weekend.

I really hope that this nightmare will end soon

I’m sure more Smarties will be available once they clear the backlog at the ports

I really hope that this nightmare will end soon

The government have all this in hand. We have a good exit strategy and clear precise objectives.

We have bought the best track and trace system in the world, done loads of structural work on schools to improve ventilation systems and make them safer and generally seem to be really learning from our mistakes and copying the examples of the countries with really low death rates.

Even if there is another mutation over the summer and we have a new strain that is resistant to current vaccines it wont be a problem.

I really hope that this nightmare will end soon

I’m a hopeless optimist, but we’re certainly nearer the end than the start.

It’s largely out of the hands of the Gov now and with the NHS. I’m got my own frustrations with the speed of the vaccine roll-out, but then people do like the sue the NHS when things go wrong so they’re sometimes cautious.

It’s frustrating when the report that we’ve ‘only’ vaccinated 3% of the population, or whatever it is now, but that’s still a staggering number and we’re not yet 2 weeks into deploying a vaccine that don’t need specialist storage etc.

I honestly believe a month from now we’ll really be seeing the effect of the vaccine in the numbers of deaths and hospital admissions, numbers *should* drop really rapidly once the over-70s are protected.

Well done for joining in, I assume you’re not already a Medic of some kind?

Wife has volunteered to, they call it volunteering, she’s being paid her usual salary for it.

She’s got to have an interview to make sure she’s up to it, she’s been qualified for years to give injections, but there’s a procedure. I think she’s hoping to start next weekend.

I have no medical qualifications at all, other than basic first aid. There are two routes into this as I understand it. One via the NHS professionals website which is aimed at people with some medical experience (though not limited to ex NHS, see earlier in the thread for airline cabin crew, fire fighters etc). I believe this is paid. It sounds as if this is the route your wife has taken.

The second route which I am following is via the St John’s Ambulance service. This does not require any prior experience and is unpaid. The e-learning is delivered by both SJA and the NHS. There is also face to face training and of course once qualified you will be part of a team with lots of experienced professionals close at hand.

There’s also this route for helping out without needing any qualifications or DBS checks or anything:

https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/i-want-to-volunteer/volunteer-roles/steward-volunteer

For those who might be interested, I got my ID check thing back for the non-clinical volunteer role in 6 days. Only needed a photo of my driving licence.

Oh and it looks like my company are going to agree to let me do some on work time!

I wish I was surprised…

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-tory-donor-lord-ashcrofts-outsourcing-firm-given-350m-vaccination-contract/

A healthcare company ultimately controlled by leading Tory donor and former party chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has received a £350m contract as part of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, openDemocracy has learned.