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Who is the first person on GN to get vaccinated?

(268 Posts)
Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Dec-20 11:03:26

Congratulations!! Whoever you are???

Applegran Sun 13-Dec-20 12:16:38

I've just had a phone call from my GP surgery - I have an appointment on 16 December for my first Covid vaccine injection ! I am so so happy and know how lucky I am! I hope others who are waiting eagerly to get this news soon.

Lucretzia Sun 13-Dec-20 12:17:27

Congratulations, Bellanonna!

Bellanonna Sun 13-Dec-20 21:33:21

Thank you for the kind comments. After a few setbacks I’m hoping DH will be home tomorrow.

Puzzler61 Sun 13-Dec-20 22:31:04

That will be marvellous Bellanonna. He’ll be looking forward to it too.

Marydoll Sun 13-Dec-20 23:08:50

Bellanonna, fantastic news. You both must be so relieved.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 14-Dec-20 06:59:47

Well! I’ve only just seen this. How did I miss it.

Bellanonna you are awarded the pioneer medal of GN stardom. You will go down in GN history as the one who lead the way with courage and determination.

Congratulations!
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westendgirl Mon 14-Dec-20 13:14:14

Congratulations Bellanonna.

No news at all in North west London. I checked with the surgery when I was making another appointment and they have had no information. Keep waiting !

MargaretinNorthant Mon 14-Dec-20 17:11:51

Yes!! I am 83, attending hospital for my Glaucoma check tomorrow and they have just rung to ask if I would like my Covid vaccination done too> Would I ever????!!!! [grin}

welbeck Mon 14-Dec-20 18:23:01

big up, Bellanonna !

welbeck Mon 14-Dec-20 19:11:03

there is a photo in the Guardian of a woman in a care home in Hamilton getting the vaccine.
so some of it must have made its way up there.
www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2020/dec/14/st-pauls-choir-and-shopping-in--43c-mondays-best-photos
scroll down to third pic.

Marydoll Mon 14-Dec-20 19:29:14

These are the priority groups in Scotland. The vaccination programme started today. That's why the lady in the care home was vaccinated.
The first minister said Scotland's share of the UK's vaccine supply equates to its 8.2% share of the UK population.

Those delivering the vaccination programme
Frontline health and social care staff
Older residents in care homes
Care home staff
All those aged 80 and over
Unpaid carers and personal assistants.

Urmstongran Mon 14-Dec-20 19:34:58

My stepfather’s brother aged 95y had his vaccination today in Birmingham. Second dose 4th January.
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mokryna Mon 14-Dec-20 20:07:56

Congratulations Bellanonna and everyone else.
I’ll have to wait till about March before I get called in France but one piece of cheerful news is that I don’t have to have a signed paper to go out now and it is not timed. I can be out all day but must be home by 7pm.

Chameleon007 Tue 15-Dec-20 08:14:28

A very elderly relative had a call to go for the vaccine. Turns out its fare distance away and the vaccine will be given outside in a carpark. No mention how they are supposed to get there. I've suggested they cancel the appointment until they can have vaccine nearer home and given indoors, especially in this cold weather.

millymouge Wed 16-Dec-20 10:03:18

In west Suffolk. Just been with DH to have our first dose of the vaccine. Not at our usual practice, but at a medical centre. All done with military precision. Already had an appointment time, straight in and given all necessary information, have the injection. You are then given a little timer and go to sit in an area until times beeps (15 mins), then you can go. Next appointment 6th January. Onwards and upwards hopefully!!!

Mimi22 Wed 16-Dec-20 11:16:36

Callistemon

Mimi22

Callistemon - read Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology
by Ethel D. Hume (Author)?

Surely you cannot be taking your anti-vaccination views from a discredited book published nearly 100 years ago?

My question was whether you had read it Callistemon? Regardless of agreeing on it's content or not, perhaps even to reinforce your own point of view. Or have you dismissed the idea of reading it from what others have to say about it?

I tend to read as open and extreme as is available in order to come to my own experience and viewpoint. I don't take what anyone else has to say as true on anything, how can anyone ever truly know?

Questions. Questions and then more Questions.

It's blindly following what others say that is not for me.

Callistemon Wed 16-Dec-20 17:13:38

I read the science, Mimi 22, it has advanced in recent years.