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6Foot2

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I don’t know about you, but I’m holding out for the Central American variation of Covid so that we can call it the Mexican Wave.

 

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mikeprice

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Is that a deliberate attempt to provoke frog worthy replies???????

 

 

anyway - ignoring the possibility of a new version spread by a new fusion cookery recipe combining Indian and far Eastern recipes - producing the Thai Dal Wave

 

 

 

 

There seems to be problems in France - numbers increasing and school to close again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56597319

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Katy

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Managed to get mine booked for Tuesday, after a long battle over whether I should be in group 6 or not (everyone I've asked says yes, except the GP surgery receptionists) - ignoring the bad asthma, I'm on methotrexate which is an immune suppressing drug so lands me quite firmly in that group. It's prescribed by the hospital on hand written green prescriptions at the moment, and the notes are hand written, so the GP receptionists can't see it on the summary record. Hopefully it won't hit me too hard assuming it's AZ that I'll be getting (although won't find out until it's done).
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I got a second dose appointment when the first was made. Didn’t you?
Nope. Out of the 10 people I know who've had a first dose only 2 were given a date for the second at the same time as the first. Maybe that's because we were all contacted rather than proactively booking online (I was called by my GP's surgery on the day I became eligible).
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I got a second dose appointment when the first was made. Didn’t you?

I've been shy to admit to a first dose as I was slightly embarrassed to be invited, but because the charity I work for is in partnership with a health care trust and working on a sizeable NHS contract, all frontline partner staff (and their support staff hence me being included) got invited to have a jab at back end of January. This effectively jumped me from Group 8 to Group 2. The booking was handled internally via the NHS trust. Whilst they didn't give a second appointment at the time, they did collect contact details and a couple of days ago I got a text and email confirmation for second jab in two weeks time. I had wondered whether second jabs were bookable online and it is interesting to see @jamk confirm that is the case. I was in the situation where I may have moved employer between jabs so had a keen interest in the possibility. What I have learnt over time is there is quite a bit of variation of who gets called up and how second appointments are manged. The really good news is that as a country we are approaching 60% vaccine rate and that's something I am hugely thankful about, for older relatives, many others including immuno-compromised friends and rather selfishly myself.

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I got a second dose appointment when the first was made. Didn’t you?

 

Same here. I didn't so much as 'book it' as 'there's your jab, and here's a business-size card with your next date on it'

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I've been shy to admit to a first dose as I was slightly embarrassed to be invited, but because the charity I work for is in partnership with a health care trust and working on a sizeable NHS contract, all frontline partner staff (and their support staff hence me being included) got invited to have a jab at back end of January...

No need to be shy or embarrassed. The charity work you do qualifies you for the injection. You were moved up because of your increased exposure (and potential increased risk)

 

If anyone feels that they should qualify 'early', they can also do charity/other work that will 'move them up the queue'

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No need to be shy or embarrassed. The charity work you do qualifies you for the injection. You were moved up because of your increased exposure (and potential increased risk)

 

If anyone feels that they should qualify 'early', they can also do charity/other work that will 'move them up the queue'

Thank you for writing this, I have had my second dose now (8 weeks after first) as I have been volunteering at the vaccine centers locally neither were bookings just spare stock at the end of the day. I feel embarrassed to even say I have been vaccinated as otherwise I would be at the very very back of the queue. I don't know a single friends as of yet who has been vaccinated and most I haven't even told.

 

Hoping to continue volunteering where I can as it is so rewarding :)

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6Foot2

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Thank you for writing this, I have had my second dose now (8 weeks after first) as I have been volunteering at the vaccine centers locally neither were bookings just spare stock at the end of the day. I feel embarrassed to even say I have been vaccinated as otherwise I would be at the very very back of the queue. I don't know a single friends as of yet who has been vaccinated and most I haven't even told.

 

Hoping to continue volunteering where I can as it is so rewarding :)

 

I posted it because it's true. The volunteer work you do exposes you to a greater risk of catching coronavirus (and from becoming an unintentional spreader)

 

Vaccinations for voluntary workers helps with the process of recovery from the epidemic while allowing volunteers to continue their work (with precautions in place)

 

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jmak

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Thank you for writing this, I have had my second dose now (8 weeks after first) as I have been volunteering at the vaccine centers locally neither were bookings just spare stock at the end of the day. I feel embarrassed to even say I have been vaccinated as otherwise I would be at the very very back of the queue. I don't know a single friends as of yet who has been vaccinated and most I haven't even told.

 

Hoping to continue volunteering where I can as it is so rewarding :)

Exactly the same principle as front line health workers who were absolutely top of the list - and it wasn't done out of generosity, it was out of the need to keep front line health services working effectively. You're part of that. It's also inevitable that when you are running a vaccination service, if you're going to ensure that you definitely don't run out of vaccine for the last appointments of the day, you need a bit of a contingency and it's far better to use it than waste it. The fact you've had yours from the contingency (that would otherwise be thrown away for safety reasons) means that they'll get through the list quicker for everyone else.
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When I got my first jab there were signs everywhere telling everyone that their next appointment would be in 12th May - same time - same place - everyone the same

 

and we got a card with this printed on it as well

 

my wife was just given a card as hers was done in a drive through (No we didn't get a free Big Mac!!)

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my wife was just given a card as hers was done in a drive through (No we didn't get a free Big Mac!!)

 

What - you mean Macdonalds are making you pay for Big Macs now? Whatever is the world coming to...

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@Katy

 

I was very concerned to hear that some of your medical notes are hand written and therefore not on your notes that a doctor or hospital could access. This is not good as it would mean that in an emergency they might not be aware of your particular drugs and things might go awry. Please speak to your specialist to resolve this if you can.

 

As for others who have had the jab early - all your reasons are very valid! And even if they werent, I have several friends who have been offered the vaccine for no discernible reason - and when they rang the docs to check, the docs said just go ahead and have it.

 

I got my second appointment on that business card sized card they gave me after the jab. mrwITch too

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mikeprice

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What - you mean Macdonalds are making you pay for Big Macs now? Whatever is the world coming to...

 

Weelllll

 

actually if you get anything from McDonalds and then use the code on the receipt on their website to doa review

then you get a free Big Mac next time

 

and another code on the receipt to use again

 

 

so - technically you can have free Big Macs for life

 

so - no McDonalds are NOT making you pay for a Big Mac

although a pedant could say that they never have MADE you pay for one - it is your choice

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sparkeh

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I found out today that if you had your first dose over 7 days ago, you can go onto the NHS website to book your second dose.

 

https://www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination

 

When I booked my first jab via Swiftqueue I was automatically given a date for the second dose. After receiving the first dose, the second dose appointment kept getting rearranged to be later and later.

 

Last week we were told that we could rebook via Swiftqueue as a lot of appointments were free, so a bunch of colleagues and I managed to get same day appointments. We were all turned away from the vaccination centre as we were “supposed to wait 12 weeks” and received an SMS with a new booking. Not sure what happened but seems mad as we were there, had an appointment and they had doses available!

 

The arrangements for the first dose were impeccable but the second dose seems to have been chaotic.

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When I booked my first jab via Swiftqueue I was automatically given a date for the second dose. After receiving the first dose, the second dose appointment kept getting rearranged to be later and later.

 

Last week we were told that we could rebook via Swiftqueue as a lot of appointments were free, so a bunch of colleagues and I managed to get same day appointments. We were all turned away from the vaccination centre as we were “supposed to wait 12 weeks” and received an SMS with a new booking. Not sure what happened but seems mad as we were there, had an appointment and they had doses available!

 

The arrangements for the first dose were impeccable but the second dose seems to have been chaotic.

 

Surely the 12 weeks is for medical reasons, rather than anything else?

sparkeh

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Surely the 12 weeks is for medical reasons, rather than anything else?

 

Of course. Not questioning the science. But my point was initially we were given a second dose appointment for 6 weeks, then rearranged for 11 weeks, we were than asked to rearrange for 6 weeks to fill the vacant appointments but turned away at the door and rearranged for 12 weeks again. Just a bit chaotic really.

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mikeprice

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Mrs mikeprice got a text yesterday saying she could bring her 2nd jab forward - just click on link etc etc

 

hmm - could be dodgy so she rang the doctor's to check and it seemed OK

 

so has been brought forward a week

 

just me now and the world is our lobster!!!!

 

as long as we don't fly - or go abroad

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