Covid vaccination winter 2025

Our surgery is starting on 1st October. Flu and Covid , one in each arm I suspect. They usually do those with a medical history first and then by age…though they do try to do partners together. They rang us last week to make our appointments.

Good gosh!
No need to be so touchy!

I have had long covid fwiw.

I heard about the covid couple, 3rd hand.
I am always sceptical about anything I hear 3rd hand.
Anything at all.
Hence the ""
I have heard people do chinese whispers with things, even 2nd hand.
Let alone 3rd.

And "quite poorly" means different things to different people.

fancythat

Oh should have said, they were "quite poorly" with it. Apparently.

Oh you do sound sceptical
“Apparently” -?
- yes, if they felt like me there’s no “apparently “ about it!
“Quite poorly?” - I’ll say.
You have no idea - or perhaps you do - how hurtful it sounds to be so —smug— and dismissive.

I think it’s going to be a false economy not giving younger people the vaccine. Thankfully we can afford to pay @ £100 but it makes the NHS a two tier system imo. I hope health workers take up the free vaccine ( which I assume they are entitled to?). When I worked for the NHS I was one of the few people, other than the doctors, who had the flu vaccine every year.

My Dad is 94 and currently in hospital after a fall at home on Tuesday.

He's been poorly since last weekend with a temperature, cough and streaming nose.
He was visited at home last Saturday by a nurse from the CRIS team.
She said Covid was doing the rounds again and at my request she took a test for him which we found out on Monday was positive.
Even so she said they're not routinely testing.

He's kindly past it on to me and my son's girlfriend, we'd spent Saturday keeping him company before we knew his diagnosis.

It's the first time I've had it, I've managed to avoid it up to now 😷

Lots of covid recently in NW where I am...I'm NHS...we have 3 staff off with it at moment in my team

Babs03

Will book it at Boots.
Might not be so paranoid about Covid but my husband who is very unwell has to spend at least a couple of weeks in Oct/Nov in hospital and possibly more than that, and most covid deaths now occur in hospitals.

My partner is going to do the same.....he's 67 and healthy...but he had flu once ( before he was eligible for vaccine) and it floored him...was ill for a month....he says 95 quid is worth paying....I will get mine thru work ( I'm nhs)
Its a fair amount of money but not out of a lot of peoples reach .....its because the covid vaccine is still with the patent protection limits ....so can't be manufactured generically ....still under specific brands ...that makes it more expensive ...hope you both get sorted OK

BlueBelle

I don’t know anyone whose had Covid recently it’s no longer talked about around here

I do. My DIL had covid three weeks ago and she was very ill with it. She tested so there was no doubt about what was wrong with her. Fortunately she was able to self isolate and didn't pass it on to the family.

Will book it at Boots.
Might not be so paranoid about Covid but my husband who is very unwell has to spend at least a couple of weeks in Oct/Nov in hospital and possibly more than that, and most covid deaths now occur in hospitals.

We have been offered a combined flu and Covid jab by our GP. Both 75+ so having to decide.

Mrsluckhurst

Hi everyone, apologies if there's already a thread about this. I've just seen that this year's covid jab is only for over 75s, (plus the other usual groups). As I am under that i feel quite concerned. Apparently we will be able to buy one but it could cost between £75-100. I can't understand why they would do this when the flu jab is the same as usual.

Its 95 quid to get it at Boots

BlueBelle

I don’t know anyone whose had Covid recently it’s no longer talked about around here

Not my experience.
The choir that I sing with were wiped out with Covid a couple of weeks ago.
Some are 'back on their feet' but others still very poorly.
I am 'too young' for an NHS freebie vaccination so I intend to pay for one, I acknowledge just how lucky I am to be able to afford to do so.

GrannyIvy

TBH I think if covid was a big threat the covid vaccine would be rolled out quickly to everyone who wanted it so my advice is have the flu one and don’t worry.

Based on what medical experience?

Yes, have the flu one it protects you from flu but this is a different virus and while the Covid jab won’t stop you catching it, it mitigates the symptoms and the effects of COVID.
“Not worrying” has never been proven as an immunological precaution IMO

BlueBelle

I don’t know anyone whose had Covid recently it’s no longer talked about around here

Well I do!
Me!
And it seems I passed it on (without knowing, as I’d thought it only a “summer cold”, )to my D, SIL and 75 year old sister in law.
The “young ones” have more or less bounced back but I’m still coughing nearly 4 weeks on and was wiped out for a good two weeks.
I’ve had all my jabs, am otherwise in excellent health and somehow seem to have swerved it up till now.
I tested when I got back from holiday, but would not have thought of it if I had not been due for day surgery at our local hospital but I thought better safe than sorry . Just as well I did.
There is a new strain going the rounds, called Stratus, has two variants, XFG and XFG.3, with XFG.3 accounting for 40 per cent of cases in England as of June this year. The strain is surging, with distinctive early warning indicators.
The variant carries with it an initial symptom that individuals might dismiss rather than recognising it as an ailment. Stratus' most frequent early warning indicator is a hoarse or gravelly voice, which subsequently gives way to the typical Covid signs like a temperature or a cough.
One reason it is spreading is that people think it has gone away- it hasn’t.

We spoke to someone we knew on the phone last night who said he hadn’t been round to see us as his whole family had just had covid again, so it’s still around.

TBH I think if covid was a big threat the covid vaccine would be rolled out quickly to everyone who wanted it so my advice is have the flu one and don’t worry.

I don’t know anyone whose had Covid recently it’s no longer talked about around here

Oh should have said, they were "quite poorly" with it. Apparently.

A frined of mine[not as old] had the covid jab privately a couple of weeks ago. Paid nearly £100 she said.
There were a number of reasons for her having the jab.

fwiw, so far this Autumn, I have only heard of two people[a couple] having had covid so far.

Oh I'm so sorry, babs, it seems so heartless (although not unsurprising) to cut vulnerable people off like that.

The website says he has to either be immunosuppressed or in a care home.

I would have thought he would be eligible I went on the NHS website to try to book ahead, it says you can do this, but asked several questions about him that were ‘no’.
Then couldn’t proceed. Apparently are very specific health issues, and if you don’t have them you don’t get a jab. My DD will get one because she has coeliac disease, and she is finding it hard to weigh her possible risk as a healthy young woman thank God, against the risks to my DH.
I suppose it just is what it is.

I would hope they would make an exception for your husband, babs, and for yourself in your circumstances, it's quite worrying. I daresay there will be people who can't afford such a sum who will now be at risk.

Apparently there is a lot of covid around.

Covid jab due from 1 Oct for those of us who qualify.

babs3 I thought people at high risk were given it?

I know one of my GSs is called.

Am wondering if they will stagger it as they have done before and do over 75s first then over 65s.
My DH is 74 and has had a stroke and several bleeds on the brain this year, he has already contracted pneumonia in hospital that very nearly saw him off. But he won’t be called for a covid jab, nor will I at 68 and am his full time carer.
Am supposing we will have to pay.