Vaccine no shows

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Low n slow, Jan 13, 2021.

  1. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    It is a problem yes.

    I suspect the older generation are probably easier to accommodate - they are usually registered with their local GP.

    If they want to move at pace, I think it might be a case of banging a letter through each house, and approaching the homeless on the street at the time.
     
  2. But that doesn't deal with priority issues? Alternatively open the schools and all parents attend with their kids and parents get vaccinated using the register. Teachers and other staff get done too and we reopen the schools.
     
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  3. Like someone said I would just hang round the vaccine centre, this is to much of a life saver to bin we are lucky to be having it my concern is poorer countries who cannot afford the vaccine let alone binning it.
     
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  4. You could use it to record your Good Citizen points as well, like China :thumbsup:
     
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  5. The older generation are always in and out of the GP surgery, just inject them when they are having their corns filed and stick the paperwork to their zimmers
     
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  6. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    That's a solid shout!

    Anyone know if you get injected twice what happens?


    I'd like to think it would be something super power like - but its probably acute dysentery or stomach cramps - or indeed nothing at all.
     
  7. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    You get to sell your story to the paper and then sit back as people go incandescent over the wasteful NHS / gov’t :)
     
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  8. I doubt very much that appointments are made without confirmation my father in law had a phone call to book his appointment then a text message to confirm so the argument that it’s lack of updated details for me is a no go they contact you you accept if you then don’t turn up it’s mainly your fault except for unforeseen circumstances which that many people can all of had.
     
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  9. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Is that statement accurate for everyone everywhere?

    e.g. most people seem to be getting letters.


    It’s splendid news if it’s working as described.
     
  10. My understanding is that it will depend on the time that has elapsed between the two doses. There's a theory that if it's long enough the second dose is more effective overall as the Immune System forgets about having the first but you still have the protection from it. I don't know if the paper that I think covers this has been peer reviewed yet though.
     
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  11. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Are the doses the same?

    I.e. one dose a person gets on day x, followed by a second dose of the same thing on day y?

    Or are they two doses that complement each other, so not identical?
     
  12. I can t say as I only have one account to work on.
     
  13. Norris

    Norris Supporter

    If it's anything like my flu jab (that I'm having tomorrow), my GP contacted me to arrange it, but because it's also getting a bit late in the flu vac season I got a letter from the NHS this morning telling me to get in contact as I haven't had a jab yet

    I imagine that the covid jabs are even less organised. The central NHS list may not be fully up to date with what your GP is doing at the moment. Plus there is the added complication of arranging the jabs at short notice when the GP actually knows when they are getting a delivery and of what quantity. It's still early days and I'm sure that the logistics will improve with time
     
  14. I dint think I would get my Flu Jab through my GP so I bought one up the road at the chemist. My wife didn't buy one and eventually got contacted by the GP to get one done by them. Despite being older than my wife I have never had any call from the GP so perhaps the system works better than we think. God Bless the NHS.
     
  15. docjohn

    docjohn Supporter

    As I understand it the trials, and hence the approvals, were for two identical doses but there is some evidence that the second dose can be smaller and still effective. There is a current trial, I think, that uses the Oxford vaccine first and the Russian one as the second. That's the thing about accelerated Phase III tests, they can't cover all the variables and hence find the (near) optimum treatment. I'm not a medic, so this is only from the perspective of an interested amateur.
     
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  16. the two doses are the same.
     
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  17. Betty the Bay

    Betty the Bay Supporter

    The care home residents are sitting ducks and I'm sure someone on the premises is capable of doing the injections.
    Vaccine and associated needles arrives at home, injections done that day.
    Assuming the stocks are available, every home could be immunised in a day ... the same day.
    1st tier of at risk sorted.

    Well that's what could happened in my simplistic little mind.
     
  18. Betty the Bay

    Betty the Bay Supporter

    Bet there's a lot of no shows up North today.
    Might be worth loitering outside the doctors.
     
  19. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    northerners aren’t fazed by snow , it’s all the southern Jessie’s
     
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