The Vaccine

Yes yes yes

Like a shot!! Anything that will get life back to normal ASAP.

HAZBEEN

Yes thats another thing, with Essential Thrombocythemia I can't have a live vaccine as the shingles one is. So I suppose that means the need to check.

As far as I’m aware none of the vaccines are live.
I will also be leading the queue. I volunteered to be a guinea pig for any testing but haven’t been called. I feel it’s part of my social duty to help to stop the spread of the disease.
Slightly off topic, but has anyone had to deal with a friend - eminently qualified and intelligent - who has suddenly come out as a rabid anti vaxxer? I’d she tells me once more that the vaccine is only being given as a form of governmental mind control then she may not survive to have the option of getting one !

@Trusher my daughter has been recruited, was a first aider in her previous job, but has to have six days full time training so I think they will have done a bit more than stick a needle into an orange, which is all the training I got for self and colleague administering Atropine in the case of a biological war in the Navy in the sixties

By not having it youre not only putting yourself at risk, but still risking others- the scientists still dont know how long it will last anyway,as its not been around for long- so you could still pass it on to someone who'se jab is wearing off in a few months time!

Absolutely! I would love the Oxford jab, but will take what I’m given.

Yes without a doubt I will be having the Vaccine and I hate needles but this is vital.

I’m shortly to start a job in a care home so I think I may be one of the first phase. Bring it on!

I will take whatever they offer me very gratefully. I am fed up of not seeing my dd or dgc. I am fed up about not being able to go on holiday. I just want to start living my life in full again. The vaccine will enable that. Also it would worry my DC if I did not have it.

I have no hesitation in getting the vaccine as soon as it is offered. I am in my early 70’s,lost my husband to Cancer in late 2019, and feel as if my life has been permanently on hold since then. I want to be able to travel freely again , meet friends, go swimming, just enjoy life. Can’t understand why anyone would want to cower indoors when they are being given the opportunity to live again.

So if you have already been vaccinated with one of the several trial vaccines around, does that mean you can or can't have the Oxford vaccine?

Will be happy if it gets to higher in the protective percentage stakes but yes ill be having it- in fact i wish they would hurry up and make all vacs compulsory! And i dont see why this one certainly shouldnt be when the virus is so deadly!

Yes, both DH & I will have it.

We really need to have it or our lives will be forever lived in fear. We won’t get a choice about which vaccine we have - have the first that’s offered abs try and trust that the scientists know a
lot more than we do.

Aimed at the eloquently named EEJit, obviously.

Why would ANYONE not have the vaccine ?

Thalidomide isn't a vaccine.

Thalidomide happened over 50 years ago and led to enhanced safety standards.

There has been enough testing, they haven't had to wait for funding and volunteers the way other drugs have had to in the past.

But I'm sure you're right and all the scientists and medics are wrong.

I'm in the 4th group and will have it as soon as I can.

I'll certainly have the vaccine, whichever version it happens to be. The chances of side effects will have been taken into consideration and I certainly don't consider that I know more about medicine than the professionals who have researched, produced and cleared it. I find it hard to understand why anybody not medically trained would consider refusing it, provided they are considered suitable for vaccination.
I'm "only" 68 but my husband is well over 70 and has health problems so I regard it as critical that everybody recommended to have the vaccination agrees to it.

My husband and I are 71 and joined the Novavax trial, second injection soon. no effects as yet. It seems the only way forward and they are dead vaccines, so we will be pleased to have the jabs and be able to be a lot freer. More normal would be lovely. We always had our family vaccinated, polio etc, so won't suddenly say no to this, bring them on.

I do think it would be irresponsible and selfish not to have the vaccine. Those who don't will still expect to access NHS hospital and doctor services, go to the dentist, shop in the shops that we all do and generally participate in society. Even if you think you'd rather take your chance on not getting it, its actually not all about you, its about everyone else around you. There will be enough people who are unable to tolerate the vaccine, or are recomended not to have it because of health conditions without others opting out. As someone else has said there is a lot of information on the BBC about vaccines in general and the development of these Covid vaccines specifically- do your research and then have it.

We won't be having any of the Covid vaccines this year. As far as we are concerned there hasn't been anywhere near enough testing. These things normally take years, not weeks.

Rember Thalidomide.

Anyone who doesn't have the vaccine may find their world shrinking. Qantas have announced that they aren't going to allow anyone on their planes who hasn't been vaccinated, and I'm sure others will follow.

I can’t see any reason not to have to have the vaccine. I think it’s an amazing opportunity to release the whole world from the shackles of this terrible disease.

Yes. I will have it