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Post by mrk on Mar 23, 2021 18:18:05 GMT
I'll be 50 in July so just missed the cut off for the published timetable. I wonder am I getting it now because London is somewhat behind the rest of the country in the more prioritised cohorts and as a result might have excess doses? Maybe they just want to get it into people's arms? I know of a couple of under 50 but over 40 who got their jab in the past few days. I also know somebody who should be in a higher priority group and still hasn't got their call. I think it is down to local surpluses of doses. But that's about to change apparently.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Mar 23, 2021 18:58:37 GMT
I'll be 50 in July so just missed the cut off for the published timetable. I wonder am I getting it now because London is somewhat behind the rest of the country in the more prioritised cohorts and as a result might have excess doses? Maybe they just want to get it into people's arms? I know of a couple of under 50 but over 40 who got their jab in the past few days. I also know somebody who should be in a higher priority group and still hasn't got their call. I think it is down to local surpluses of doses. But that's about to change apparently. If someone thinks they have been missed they should contact their GP.
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Post by mrk on Mar 23, 2021 19:01:15 GMT
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Post by mrk on Mar 23, 2021 19:16:33 GMT
My family and disabled 3 year old twins are living with my wife and their mother the other side of Europe. I want to join them and possibly bring them back here. That doesn't sound like a holiday to me but its not a funeral and its not a wedding and more importantly its not clear under what rules I can leave. I've read the rules many times and it doesn't seem black and white. Perhaps its a childcare bubble. But it all reads like a bubble is formed within the UK although nowhere does it state that. I'll only really know when I turn up at Heathrow or wherever. I would think it should be covered by the following Edit: sorry, I missed james100's post that already said the same thing.
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Post by agent69 on Mar 24, 2021 10:43:51 GMT
Students in the Serbian city of Kragujevac have been offered vaccinations with the AstraZeneca drug without an appointment. But since the campaign began yesterday no-one has shown up. Officials believe bad publicity may be to blame.
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Post by registerme on Mar 24, 2021 11:41:30 GMT
Well, I just had the AZ vaccine jab. It was very efficiently organised (much easier than getting through the self-checkout in Sainsburys). Greeters outside the surgery, people filling in forms in the queue, one person using a tablet to fish out your NHS number, about ten (if I had to guess) consultancy rooms in use. Apparently they're competing to process as many as they can. The nurse (maybe a doctor, I don't know) who did mine said she was behind because she talked too much. I don't think she realises how important that is, for all sorts of reasons. It's just so nice to be able to have a quick chat with somebody! All in all it took about ten minutes from start to finish.
I was surprised to see the army there (and shouldn't have been really). Given the talk of vaccine hesitancy in some communities I was also pleasantly surprised to see lots of black people there. My sample size of a whole one may not be representative, but you can hope...
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Post by benaj on Mar 24, 2021 12:11:36 GMT
What should our world leaders do to tackle the imminent 3rd wave? What can we learn from countries which have done better in 2nd wave or prevented 2nd wave like China, Macao, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, New Zeland, Halti, Uzbekistan? It is interesting to point out borough in London like Hackney has one of the lowest vaccine take up rate and it has one of the lowest covid transmission in the UK. news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-why-cities-are-falling-behind-in-the-uks-vaccination-race-12228718
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 24, 2021 12:40:49 GMT
I believe they just don't have much previous experience in bringing new vaccines to market? They certainly weren't among the top vaccine makers anyway. I believe that the Oxford research was based on earlier work by Merck and that Oxford could have chosen Merck as a partner but for various reasons including concerns about Orange Man instead chose AZ.
yes, and I don't think that was a necessarily an OX concern: I think that was a concern of the UK govt, who were putting investment in: riskt that the Orange One might have blocked export from US Merk manufacturing site(s). Perhaps a slight irony given the current position.....
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 24, 2021 12:42:01 GMT
Surely it is the case that 1st dose is based entirely on priority and grouping but the 2nd dose is based on around 12 weeks after the 1st. I had to book my second dose at the same time as the first. we were told 'don't contact us, we'll contact you' for the 2nd dose.
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Post by r00lish67 on Mar 24, 2021 13:47:39 GMT
Poland and Ukraine's situation at the moment look horrendous. The share of tests coming back positive in Poland/Ukraine are circa 28%. For comparison, most EU countries are <8% and UK is 0.5%. Poland had 30,000 cases today with a population of 37m, so to put this in comparable terms with the UK you could call it roughly 58,000 cases if it happened here, and that itself would be a dramatic underestimate. They are apparently going to be locking down further, which is frankly essential because a) the ICU's are full and b) the Polish would otherwise definitely mostly meet up for Easter (and many still will regardless!). Easter being tremendously more observed/involved there than here.
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Post by michaelc on Mar 24, 2021 13:48:31 GMT
Students in the Serbian city of Kragujevac have been offered vaccinations with the AstraZeneca drug without an appointment. But since the campaign began yesterday no-one has shown up. Officials believe bad publicity may be to blame. Why would they? To see if they get "lucky" with the side affects? What is the up side for them? And why are they using it on 18-21 year olds ?
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Post by benaj on Mar 24, 2021 13:58:25 GMT
Poland and Ukraine's situation at the moment look horrendous. The share of tests coming back positive in Poland/Ukraine are circa 28%. For comparison, most EU countries are <8% and UK is 0.5%. Poland had 30,000 cases today with a population of 37m, so to put this in comparable terms with the UK you could call it roughly 58,000 cases if it happened here, and that itself would be a dramatic underestimate. They are apparently going to be locking down further, which is frankly essential because a) the ICU's are full and b) the Polish would otherwise definitely mostly meet up for Easter (and many still will regardless!). Easter being tremendously more observed/involved there than here. I heard a few stories regarding Poland. One of them like visiting families in Poland contracted Covid. The other one is visiting Poland by car to avoid certain restriction requirements. Worse one, buy a covid negative test certificate from a Pol
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Post by michaelc on Mar 24, 2021 14:00:32 GMT
Poland and Ukraine's situation at the moment look horrendous. The share of tests coming back positive in Poland/Ukraine are circa 28%. For comparison, most EU countries are <8% and UK is 0.5%. Poland had 30,000 cases today with a population of 37m, so to put this in comparable terms with the UK you could call it roughly 58,000 cases if it happened here, and that itself would be a dramatic underestimate. They are apparently going to be locking down further, which is frankly essential because a) the ICU's are full and b) the Polish would otherwise definitely mostly meet up for Easter (and many still will regardless!). Easter being tremendously more observed/involved there than here. Interesting and terrible but when do people typically have tests in the various countries? I can see that the percent of tests coming back positive in Poland and Ukraine both seem to have been very high regardless of where they were in the pandemic cycle. So at the end of Jan start of Feb cases were relatively low but the percent of tests coming back were high. From anecdotal evidence in Ukraine, people do not want to visit anywhere where tests are being conducted because they believe it puts them at risk of being with folk who have covid. They go there when they are pretty sure they have the disease and need the report to be admitted to hospital. Contrast that to the UK where tests are being given out like confetti (except to travellers who have to pay £840 per average family or around £1600 if needed in both directions)
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Post by Greenwood2 on Mar 24, 2021 14:03:03 GMT
Poland and Ukraine's situation at the moment look horrendous. The share of tests coming back positive in Poland/Ukraine are circa 28%. For comparison, most EU countries are <8% and UK is 0.5%. Poland had 30,000 cases today with a population of 37m, so to put this in comparable terms with the UK you could call it roughly 58,000 cases if it happened here, and that itself would be a dramatic underestimate. They are apparently going to be locking down further, which is frankly essential because a) the ICU's are full and b) the Polish would otherwise definitely mostly meet up for Easter (and many still will regardless!). Easter being tremendously more observed/involved there than here. France is also looking really bad, nearly 4,000,000 active cases (I keep having to check that because I can't quite believe it) rolling 7 day average new cases about 30,000 a day currently.
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Post by mrk on Mar 24, 2021 14:04:23 GMT
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