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I read/heard somewhere that the key item to bump you up the list was "hospitalised due to asthma", on which I would possibly qualify having had that once in my life (albeit more than 30 years ago, and before my asthma cleared up and I smoked 20+/day for more than 10 years, etc, etc).
As I've said before, I don't need early access to the vaccine, there are millions of people my age or younger who deserve/need the vaccine before I should eventually get it.
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I think it's a combination of a number of factors, hospitalised and the way you manage it. My brother has been in hospital twice in the recent past but manages with inhalers - so is not priority. I think if you were managing it with oral steroids you would be in a priority group. If in the past you have ended up in hospital and you have been diagnosed with severe asthma (whether or not you actually have it) you would be in a priority group.
rj
My wife (who manages her asthma with steroidal inhaler - the pink one and the brown one, fnarrrr etc) was told by our GP that she isn't considered high risk so isn't any higher in the vaccine queue than her age would suggest. GP said that "severe" asthma doesn't automatically put you in a higher risk bracket, but they do look at patients who have not been able to manage their asthma - so number of trips to the doctor/hospital. We will both sit tight and wait for our jabs, as and when we can have them