COVID-19 vaccines

Where did you book it from? NHS website? Did you just ignored first page 'you're aged 40 or over' notice?

My GP sent me a text with a link to book that I followed

You are right; it is the NHS link and it does say 'you're aged 40 or over'. Why did it let me through?

Cancelled :(

Wasn't criticising, just curious... If it let you through, should be fine? I know places that have been doing sporadic walk ins for over 30s

i think if your GP sent you a link you should prob go do it. They're probably taking other stuff into account, either something on your medical record, or they know they have an abundance of vaccines in that area and they want to get them out the door.

(assuming you actually want it)

cancelled already, I will wait till I am eligible, its fine .. i guess

GP might have sent that text to ALL of their patients though. Rather than filtering by age.

when i got my second the other day, the place was full of volunteers and barely anyone turning up to get vaccinated. I think at this stage it's better for as many people as possible to get vaccinated, rather than waiting. May be a surge when it goes to over 30s. But that's just my non-informed opinion.

As others have said, if the NHS site lets you in to book then there's capacity for your age group in your area. There will still be enough slots for the older people that still haven't come forward.

Individual areas are getting through their residents faster than others and vaccine supplies need to be used rather than temporarily stockpiled whilst large parts of the country wait for the slower areas to catch up. The work to get slower areas caught up is complicated and not just as simple as allowing more people to book - it takes time to secure new venues/volunteers/staff and, in some cases, convince different communities that the vaccine is safe and acceptable.

I should say, I am Indian maybe thats why? Fuck knows.

They're probably taking other stuff into account

Ain't no GP got time for that.

If they're anything like my local practice, it's blanket messaging done by a service won by the cheapest bidder & done even cheaper

Or that.

Though I like to think my GP woke up in sweats during the middle of the night thinking, fuck, greeno's got that very mild heart condition. Let's get that man a vaccine ASAP.

it's blanket messaging done by a service

Yes, it's pretty much all automated. Hence the mid-30s guy who got notified early as his BMI was over the corresponding threshold (40).

If a human had looked at his records and made a decision they would have spotted that it was unlikely he was 6.1" tall, but the computer just calculated the BMI as 28,000, found that to be over 40 and then added him to the list of people to notify early.

It could easily be as simple as: White: Age > 40, Non-White: Age > 32, and your phone goes ping.

Different areas have completely different age profiles too, which further complicates capacity planning.

NHS vaccine booking site showing as unavailable. The optimist in me hopes this is because they are updating the criteria for eligibility. Previously when it was just that it was busy, there was a different message, not just that it was unavailable.

They had a data breach of sorts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/06/nhs-covid-jab-booking-site-leaks-peoples-vaccine-status

Hence the mid-30s guy who got notified early as his BMI was over the corresponding threshold

Bit rude to talk about @amey like that

(says the fatso who basically hasn't been able to exercise since the start of Feb. due to injury)

Here we go:
https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/07/under-40s-to-be-offered-alternative-to-astrazeneca-jab-14536465/?ito=amp-trending-2

Stay safe people.

So I got my first dose of something yesterday.

Bit of discomfort and stiffness in the injection site yesterday evening, slightly worse this morning but eased off as the day went on.

Just back from a 35 mile mixed parcours ride so it’s obviously not affecting me too much.

MrsDeth got AZ'd a couple of weeks ago, dead arm, tiredness, feeling queasy in the evening, after an 830am jab. Next day rough as arseholes, 3rd day was fine (other than sore arm)

I get microchipped on Thursday at 420, assume it is astra-zed.

I had AZ on Saturday lunchtime. Bit of a headache and feeling a bit achy on Saturday night/Sunday (admittedly I did spend the day drinking after the vaccine) but nothing too bad. Still not quite 100% but not far off.

A lot of places doing walk ins atm (at least in Manchester/Salford) usually for +40s all day or any age after the last appointment if they had drops during the day and not enough +40s walk ins (what happens regularly).

So, got the pfizer on sunday, and beside some medium to strong pain in the arm, all good.

I had AZ on Saturday lunchtime. Bit of a headache and feeling a bit achy on Saturday night/Sunday

Very similar for me too, still feeling ruff today also a bit of a dead arm.

I was looking at that Valneva trial. How are you getting on?

Fine, great even.

There’s an app I fill in every night with my temp (they supplied a thermometer) and anything like swelling, soreness, redness at the injection site which I haven’t had. I do that for a week.

They did tests on my first day for any current covid infection and for antibodies which were both negative and because of that I’ve been put in a group that gets extra blood tests done so go on Friday for that.

I have my appointment for the second dose already which is exactly 4 weeks after the first and I’ll do the app for a week again after that then there’s intermittent appointments for a year.

Just from the chat on the last page here it seems like most people getting AZ are getting knocked out by it a bit?

Wonder if that means I got valneva since I had so little reaction to it?

Just from the chat on the last page here it seems like most people getting AZ are getting knocked out by it a bit?

I had a raised resting HR for a couple of days, but otherwise nothing really from my AZ jab. And I only know about the raised resting HR as I wear a watch that monitors my HR 24/7, without that I wouldn't have known.

(44 years old, don't think I had Covid at any point in the past.)

Just from the chat on the last page here it seems like most people getting AZ are getting knocked out by it a bit?

Reporting bias. Peeps who got AZ and had no side FX are less likely to write something on here than those who were put through the wringer.