COVID Spring booster

DG45

After looking all through the charts I found out that the NHS think that because I had Radiotherapy after having cancer in
January this year I'm classed as immunosuppressed - I must say
I don't know why?

Radiotherapy can damage your body's lymphatic system, which is a network of channels and glands that form part of your immune system (the body's defence against illness).

This morning I got two texts to my mobile from our doctor's. One for my husband and one for his brother. Five minutes later I'd booked them consecutive appointments online for their jabs.

Delia22

I,m not sure these 'boosters 'ARE necessary. The flu vaccine is annual so why should covid be any different? I had my appointment booked for me by the nhs.It's at the beginning of June. I will have it but hope it's the last spring booster.

An annual booster against flu seems to be often enough to catch any new variant. Covid variants appear more frequently, so the vaccine is updated more often.

I got my invitation yesterday and have booked. There are still many cases of Covid around and I am vulnerable, so will do all I can to stay safe.

I've had an online invitation to book this morning, so I've responded and have an appointment for next week. I'm glad these vaccinations are still available.

I had a call from a local pharmacy who has taken over from the NHS in doing the mobility impaired patients at the GP. Someone is coming tomorrow to do it.

I've just had covid for the third time after travelling to Spain. It was pretty unpleasant but would have been a lot worse without the vaccine. I shall have mine as soon as I return to the UK.

Here’s the link for online booking, for anyone who’ll be 75 before the end of June. I’m way too young but I’ll be having the vaccine if I become eligible - our young neighbours have just had Covid and were very poorly.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/getting-a-covid-19-vaccine/

I’m going to have mine today. I usually feel unwell for a day or two - my immune system must be pretty good!
I have every vaccination offered. They are given to us for a reason. I also want to help boost the herd immunity, for those who are unable to have whichever vaccine offered.

I will also take what is offered, I look at it this way, if they didn't think it was necessary, they wouldn't spend all that money on producing it.

Both having ours on Monday

Have any of you, or anyone you know, experienced any lasting side effects, or unexplained illness since having the shots?
A friends superfit husband suddenly had a heart attack after his first booster and had to have a stent fitted. Another friend was diagnosed with sudden advanced bowel cancer after her first, another with Lymphoma after her fourth shot. Im reading of so many suddenly dropping and hearing of immune systems being severely compromised. Anyone else?

Thank you for your input Robin202...
Advanced bowel cancer and Lymphoma do not suddenly appear after a vaccine, they are progressive diseases.
I'm sure some people have after effects after any administered medicines, im on my 7th covid vaccination and have only had an odd day feeling under the weather afterwards, think of the lives saved with this vaccine.

Robin22 I recommend a good beginners course in statistics where you can major on studying probability.

I think you would find it so much use to you when surfing the net.

How many people have had these shots? What percentage of them have reported these extreme events after the shots? Which of the shots did they take?

How many people don't discover their bowel cancer until it gets large enough to cause obvious rectal bleeding? Or their lymphoma until they feel bad enough to get medical attention? Superfit people get heart attacks like the rest of us, they are not immortal - though any vaccination (like many other things) has a very slight risk of triggering anaphylaxis, (an acute allergic reaction - which may be to any of the ingredients, including non-medical ones, in the mixture) which could cause inflammation of the heart muscle

Don't forget that diseases can occur after some other event without being caused by that event, and that when we are struck down by a sudden illness, we at once start to wonder what caused it - and we remember anything unusual that happened just before it struck, like getting a vaccination. However, if we are diagnosed with gallstones the day after we buy a yellow car, we don't blame the colour of the car for our pain.

I would have thought that advanced bowel cancer would have taken a while to reach that stage,

Some spurious correlations - www.datasciencecentral.com/spurious-correlations-15-examples/

The divorce rate in Maine went down at the same rate as the consumption of margarine in the US - does that mean that you can easily avoid divorce, even if you spend all the housekeeping money on drink, gambling and fast women, cheat on your partner, and beat her black and blue when she objects. just by refusing to eat I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter? Don't count on it, mister!!

Any vaccination may be accompanied by a small rise in one or two other illnesses, but this has to be measured against the number of people whose lives are saved by having the vaccination.

The figures for the death of children from diseases like whoopig cough, measles and mups is known and measured. Compare that with the figures now. Then look at figures for those harmed by the vaccinations. Far more children were saved by the vaccination than suffered any ill effects.

I've never had covid either. Despite working with the public throughout. Only had first 2 jabs and that's because I needed them to travel. Keep getting hassled to have endless boosters though. Possibly as was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago but don't see the need

Bridie totally agree you can’t get heart attacks or cancer from having an injection Robin

Robin202

Have any of you, or anyone you know, experienced any lasting side effects, or unexplained illness since having the shots?
A friends superfit husband suddenly had a heart attack after his first booster and had to have a stent fitted. Another friend was diagnosed with sudden advanced bowel cancer after her first, another with Lymphoma after her fourth shot. Im reading of so many suddenly dropping and hearing of immune systems being severely compromised. Anyone else?

I'm sorry to hear about your friends but illnesses don't appear out of the blue and lifestyles, eating and drinking habits, etc - often ongoing for years - play a big part in leading up to illnesses. eg. Advanced bowel cancer is not an overnight condition.

Elegran

Some spurious correlations - www.datasciencecentral.com/spurious-correlations-15-examples/

The divorce rate in Maine went down at the same rate as the consumption of margarine in the US - does that mean that you can easily avoid divorce, even if you spend all the housekeeping money on drink, gambling and fast women, cheat on your partner, and beat her black and blue when she objects. just by refusing to eat I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter? Don't count on it, mister!!

Love it!

There have been large payouts for harm (deaths or serous disability) caused by Covid vaccines, so it can’t be denied that there are risks involved in having them, however small. The threshold for receiving a payment is high, it has to be proved on the balance of probabilities that the death or disability was caused by the vaccine.

If you or your loved one is affected, it’s no comfort that the jab has saved countless other lives and you were just unlucky. Everyone has to weigh up the risk of vaccine harm and their perceived risk of harm from catching covid, and make their own decision.

nightowl, can you give us some evidence, please? Comments like this need to be backed by evidence.

With every medication or vaccine, there are risks. I had a heart attack after taking only one R.A drug,which it turned out I was allergic to, but I would never have considered suing my consultant, nor the drug company.

I am allergic to pennicillin. If I was given it without checcking it could kill me and I am sure some people have died in such circumstances, how many millions of people's lives have been saved by pennicillin.

Nothing in life is 100% guaranteed. Eating a slice of bread can choke ayou nd kill you. Every year people die when food gets stuck in their throats. Should we stop eating?

I booked mine this morning for next Tuesday. I read the book Vaxxers by the ladies who created the Astra Zeneca vaccine and they quoted the highly publicised case of a man who collapsed with a stroke after the vaccine. It all sounded very dramatic until it turned out that the collapse had happened while he was waiting to be vaccinated! You have to be very thorough checking some of the facts.