Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Got a text saying it’s my turn to get the vaccine... a bit anxious about it really... might need to hold off for a couple of weeks after a potential job interview...

Coincidentally I stumbled across this article suggesting that Covid 19 might induce shingles flare ups in some people. Possibly due to raising stress levels.

“It seems that COVID‐19 infection, as an acute illness with its associated physical and emotional stress, might represent the triggering factor for the development of HZO in our patients,”

I'd assume you would be able to find a list of observed aide effects from the Pfizer trials somewhere. Not sure where to look though. No idea whether Covid vaccines have been found to trigger flare ups in shingles patients.

https://www.drugtopics.com/view/covid-19-and-herpes-zoster-co-infections-identified

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not a medical type. Just happened upon that article when reading about something else.

What is your anxiety around?

The potential side effects. I don’t respond well with a lot of meds etc. I know they are temporary, which is why I want to wait until I hear from a job app so I don’t end up “being ill” for an interview (If I am lucky).

But I am glad I get the offer now, I have been reading up about when asthmatics will get the vaccines and there seem to have been some changes that if your asthma isn’t extremely severe then you are not a at risk group anymore, because we are not at any higher risk than a health person. I am 1 hospital stay away from having to shield because I have been careful... so maybe my GP did some work at the background?

Also the meds we take apparently might offer some protection? I don’t know... I am all confused. So will be masking up and not going out much every after the vaccine and lockdown is over...

Your job interview is unlikely to be as important as getting your vaccine. I'd also hope the company would be amenable to delaying your interview for 24 hours should you feel a bit rotten like some people do.

Anecdotally, my friend who got covid very badly ~3 months ago and was knocked sideways is currently dealing with a horrible shingles flare-up.

I don’t respond well with a lot of meds

Just think of the potential response to actual Covid and the meds they would have to give you if you became more than mildly ill. I understand your medical anxiety, a lot of family members are the same way. But this is one case where there has to be a lesser of two evils.

Also, if you are felling rubbish, as @Stonehedge says, any company that wouldn't entertain delaying the interview is not one that I would want to work for.

My mum, 64, is sole carer for my Dad. She is terrified of the vaccine knocking her out for a day as she thinks she needs to be 100% to make sure my Dad eats, or she can help him if he has a fall. We've told her she is not solely responsible, we'd work something out if she does need to take a few days, but this is her anxiety. She is even more terrified of catching Covid, for the same reasons but the potential impact being greater, so she is sitting by the phone waiting for her call and checking the NI webiste every day. She has been offered slots, but the other side of the country. If she could drive herself, she would be there in a heartbeat. But my Dad just cannot drive that far due to his condition.

She is not calling up trying to queue jump and she is not bitter about others getting theirs before her.

If you are offered a vaccine and you are going/can take it, then take it. We do not have (or we should not think we have) the luxury of being able to pick and chose when it happens (barring exepction circumstances, of course. A job interview is not this). This must be a hard enough task for those trying to organise without having to move people around. If you're not going to take it, that's another discussion, but don't waste their time when they could be pulling more people in who desperately want it.

This might sound overly harsh and it is not intended as a sole attack, but my piss is boiled more generally. For example, the NI booking site, for my Mum's age group, she is not actually eligible. But if she selects that she is a carer (which she is), then all of a sudden she can book. There are no checks for this, so everyone else in her age group has suddenly become a carer, is more tech savvy than her and has booked up all the slots.

Nearly 700k swabs tested by PHE in last seven weeks to survey prevalence of respiratory diseases in the population found exactly nil/zero/no positive tests for influenza and only 1 in the week before that.

Also, if you are felling rubbish, as @Stonehedge says, any company that wouldn't entertain delaying the interview is not one that I would want to work for.

I kind of agree with you but some jobs have an interview date specified on the advert as that is when the interview panel are available so delaying it isn't possible. Tends to be for more senior roles.

I have been reading up about when asthmatics will get the vaccines and there seem to have been some changes that if your asthma isn’t extremely severe then you are not a at risk group anymore, because we are not at any higher risk than a health person.

I got my invite yesterday and am booked for my first jab next Thursday. The only possible reason I got one is my non-severe asthma, so if that's true it hasn't taken effect yet.

On your vaccine-related anxiety, worth remembering that about 18 million people have had it now. As far as I'm aware they're all essentially fine. Anecdotally all I've heard of so far is feeling crap/tired for a few days.

Our neighbour in his 60s had no tiredness or any reaction to it.

Flu shot was worse for him he said.

Still waiting here, my partner's asthma seems to be "not bad enough" he had his flu shot already.

That is interesting, but I take it with a pinch of salt without knowing who did the testing and looked at the result, but be interesting to find out why this happened.

Is it the hand washing, hand gel regime or masks.

Anecdotal: all of the nursery staff at my little fellah's day home had their first jab last week - sounds like about half felt a bit off the following 24h or so, but none severely enough to not manage a day with a roomful of empathy-lacking maniacs.

Parents have also had their first session confirmed for next Friday which is a huge relief. Both mid to late 60s.

I’ve had some older (I’d better not say elderly or Mum will kill me) relatives get the vaccine (both types) and I’ve not heard of any adverse reactions, thankfully.
My wife is NHS and had hers (AZ) a fortnight ago, she felt completely fine apart from the night of the jab c. 16h later, when she had a couple of hours of intense sweats and chills - woke up the next morning absolutely normal and almost thought it was a dream (I could confirm it wasn’t as she woke me up at the time!!). She’s since heard of one similar reaction, again, totally ok afterwards.

What is wrong with you?

The pinch of salt comment? Experience of test and trace, Dido Harding need I go on?

Or the interested to know why this has occurred?

I said Public Health England

You literally said result from the PHE is to be taken with a pinch of salt, as if they’re QAnon theorists.

Any one had a letter postmarked Par agon cust omer comms (my mispoolings to avoid search hits to this thread) about a covid prevention study about if you have been exposed to someone that has tested positive in the last five days.

Letter sent with address only no name.

From the public health England wiki page:

A reorganisation of public health protection in England was announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, on 18 August 2020. PHE would be combined with NHS Test and Trace to form the National Institute for Health Protection, under a new leadership structure headed by Conservative peer Dido Harding as interim CEO.[16] Michael Brodie, current CEO of the NHS Business Services Authority, was appointed as interim PHE CEO, replacing Duncan Selbie.[17]

The new NIHP would focus on infectious disease control, particularly the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Options for PHE's other roles, such as preventing ill health and reducing health inequalities, were to be discussed

Hence pinch of salt.

LooK I Do My OWn rEseArch

And ignored.

No, read what I have written.

Me, myself and I take it with a pinch of salt with out more information. Maybe a pier reviewed study.

I don't know why it took your example for me to do to likewise.