A million jabs a day?

Casdon the take up in England from older people ( for vaccinations including the booster) is very high.Possibly anyone who doesn’t want to be vaccinated and is in that older age group may want to think again, but mainly they have already had theirs.
It was 40 and over, but is now 18 and over.Since younger people socialise more closely with each other, it does make sense to stop the transmission by offering boosters now.

Casdon

Given there is no way everybody will be vaccinated by the end of December, it does seem a mad system in England to me, surely it’s better to offer boosters to the most vulnerable first? I’m all in favour of walk in centres, but by age band would seem more sensible as older people are most likely to end up in hospital.

By the end of November over 80% of over 60s had taken the booster vaccine.

So the vulnerable older age groups were done first.

Just over 500,000 had their boosters yesterday according to gov.uk figures, I have just seen on Twitter.

Not bad in just under 24 hours from Mr.Johnson’s tv broadcast.

My DD is going to the walk-in vaccine bus in our city on Friday. Remains to be seen if she's able to get her booster there or if there'll be a huge queue.

When I had my booster I had to sit for 15 minutes afterwards apparently as a 'necessary precaution'. Heard on the news today that this has been abandoned.

lemongrove sorry, I didn’t make what I was saying clear, what I meant was that by offering the vaccine to all age groups at the same time, people in their forties, fifties and sixties are competing with younger people for slots, which will mean some people in those older age groups will get their vaccines later although they are more vulnerable. Let’s hope the hospitalisation rate is low so it won’t matter.

So Johnson has written to all NHS workers to thank them. Wasn’t too keen to give them a pay rise though, was he?

DD's friend was asked to help with vaccinations. She turned it down because she felt he skill set as an ICU doctor would be more useful for treating Covid patients.

GrannyGravy13 not sure what you mean, as the daily vaccination numbers have averaged over 450,000 for the last week? It needs to be stepped up dramatically to achieve what they need to by 31st December. I do feel so sorry for the staff who are having to give up their holidays and being redeployed to achieve as near as possible to the target.

Teacheranne

I’ve just had a text from my GP surgery saying that, in view of the announcement about GPs getting more involved with booster jabs, we are not to phone them for appointments but use 111 instead! It sounds like they are closing down! Bit drastic?

A friend of mine was told by the surgery today that after tomorrow there will be no appointments at all …just vaccinations

OTOH. My son and daughter in law age 37 and 39 have managed to book boosters for this week hooray

MayBee70

So Johnson has written to all NHS workers to thank them. Wasn’t too keen to give them a pay rise though, was he?

Good point

DD was waiting outside our local clinic to see if she could get a walk-in this morning (she is 28). She had her booster as she was the second one in the walk-in line.

The very nice lady on the door explained they have a capacity for walk-ins for vaccination, once the number has been reached that’s it until the end of the day when any unused vaccine’s are allocated to the waiting list which has been compiled from the walk-ins , these folks are then rang to see if they can get to the clinic there and then.

Seems like a good system to me.

My family have all been boosted except son number two and his partner. They have booked for early Saturday morning and so we’re doing grandparent duty then, looking after their nine year old. There doesn’t seem to have been any problems for any of them. Son number one and his wife used the walk in facility last weekend.

Slots are being released by age group in Wales, but thankfully they are now romping through appointments, where I am at least. My son had a text last last night to tell him his turn was up so he could book. He did it straight away, and managed to get an appointment this morning. He’s 24. One thing that’s made a big difference is not having to wait for 15 minutes after your booster is given. The waiting space previously limited the number of people who could be done at a time, it seemed much more efficient without that limiting factor today.

I am concerned about them scrapping the 15 minute waiting time post vaccine. We always insisted on that when people had their flu jabs. Some people can feel a bit dizzy afterwards.

Never had a wait after my flu jab MayBee

I live close to a very well organised pharmacy and had my booster and flu jabs a few weeks ago without any waiting.

MayBee70

I am concerned about them scrapping the 15 minute waiting time post vaccine. We always insisted on that when people had their flu jabs. Some people can feel a bit dizzy afterwards.

When getting the flu jab at our GP surgery, it was like a conveyor belt, in one door, roll up your sleeve, jabbed no straight out the other door, no waiting for any amount of time.

This was pre-Covid, which is why I opt to go to my local pharmacy for flu vaccines at a time that suits me.

As the 15 minute wait is a limiting factor even if a few people feel a bit dizzy after the vaccination, surely it’s better to warn them not to drive for 15 minutes (which they did to my son today), but vaccinate another 3 people in the time they would have been holding up the waiting space though Maybee70 - exceptional measures for exceptional times. I’m sure if somebody did feel unwell they would look after them, but the vast majority don’t.

Yes, I agree about warning people not to drive.

MayBee70

I am concerned about them scrapping the 15 minute waiting time post vaccine. We always insisted on that when people had their flu jabs. Some people can feel a bit dizzy afterwards.

Immediate allergic reactions to all vaccines have been less than 1 in 100,000 so it was a Chief Medical Officer decision that the greater good was to get as many vaccines done as possible.

Anyone with a history of previous allergic reactions is asked to wait.

All Covid vaccines

Sarnia

Boris is clutching at any straw to win himself some Brownie points. I don't know what other GN's experience has been of vaccine jabs but I have found the booster roll-out has not been as efficient as the first 2 jabs.

Ours certainly wasn’t. Three quarters of an hour queuing in the freezing cold, huge queue, no social distancing, little mask wearing and then another hour to wait. Walk-ins were mixed up with appointments (like us) and I was cross as DH cannot stand for too long without severe pain in his back.

This was 6 weeks ago and felt like a shambles then so I’m sorry for all those with appointments right now. Walk in and appointments should be separated but fat chance of that.

DD has booster appointment for Monday but won’t hang about because of the risk of being infected. I feel sorry for those trying to give the boosters.

Mine was very quick, arrived 5 mins before time given, temp taken, checks, in jabbed 15 mins post jab wait, then off home, within 25 mins, lucky a very efficient practice, and never any long waits. Well staffed, and plenty of volunteers doing a great job.

A fantastic effort is being made at the Vaccination Centres and even if a million jabs a day is a bit of a pipe dream however many are achieved daily is a great result.
OH is one of the workers at our local Vacc Hub and is willing to double his amount of weekly shifts to get the Jabs into arms a.s.a.p. (He retired from work 2 years ago and is still very active).