COVID Vaccine !

[Ajax Bay]

Vaccination booking now opened to 56 and over as of this morning. Looks to be 11 days after it opened for 60 and over. So 50 and over from 17th March?
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...rus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

Anyone know why the previous established groups (75 to 80, 70 to 75, 65 to 70, 60 to 65, 55 to 60 etc etc) has somehow become 56+ and not 55+ ?

From the link MtM shared:
Who can use this service
You can only use this service if any of the following apply:

• you are aged 55 or over

JCVI Groups:
6. all individuals aged 16 years[footnote 2] to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality[footnote 3]
7 all those 60 years of age and over
8 all those 55 years of age and over
9 all those 50 years of age and over

 

[Deleted User]

Many thanks @Ajax Bay , just booked myself in for March 13th. 55 and over as you say.

 

[cookiemonster]

Just booked my two jabs here in HK as teachers are now able to book as a priority group. First one 30/3 with the second on 20/4. Getting the BioNtech one.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Reuters: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday (8 Mar).
"Blood taken from people who had been given the vaccine neutralized an engineered version of the virus that contained the same mutations carried on the spike portion of the highly contagious P.1 variant first identified in Brazil, the study conducted by scientists from the companies and the University of Texas Medical Branch found."
Paper published in NEJM.
They also tested against the B.1.351 (SA) and B.1.1.7 (Kent) variants. Compared with neutralization of the 'original' (prevalent in USA in April) variant, "neutralization of B.1.1.7-spike and P.1-spike viruses was roughly equivalent, and neutralization of B.1.351-spike virus was robust but lower."
Good news!

 

[DCLane]

Vaccination booked for Saturday. Given I'm well under 55, but may be classed as a 'vulnerable adult' for health reasons, the notification's earlier than I thought it'd be.

 

[numbnuts]

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[marzjennings]

Getting my vaccination today after registering on about 10 different sites. Getting your shot over here is something of a crap shoot and I'm only getting mine today because a neighbour happened to be on a local pharmacy website midnight last week when the site posted they had available appointments. My daughter who's 16 has already had both of her shots, and my wife hopes to get hers next month.

There's no central planning for vaccine role out, just a bunch of distributors (hospitals, ER's, pharmacies, city hall, etc) you have to call to register for a shot.

 

[Bazzer]

Eldest daughter had the AZ on Saturday morning. 24 hours after the jab she was feeling very smug, as her Mum, sister and myself had all felt rough at some stage in the post 24 hour period. Then wallop and laid up in bed for 8 hours.

 

[fossyant]

Son's is effectively Group 6, Type 1 diabetic, no sign yet, but he's unlikely to be poorly if he get's covid.

 

[C R]

Son's is effectively Group 6, Type 1 diabetic, no sign yet, but he's unlikely to be poorly if he get's covid.

You should chase that up, every single type 1 I know were contacted by their GP and offered an appointment on the third week of February.

 

[Mtbsensa]

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Good for you! As a young person i have completely given up all hope for the near future, but i'm happy to see some people are getting it!

 

[Ajax Bay]

One thing gleaned from the SPI-M paper effectively commissioned by the UK Goverment to inform the best way of easing lockdown (linked and commented on in the main C19 thread) is the vaccine rollout they were asked/told to assume:
"Rollout assumptions are significantly quicker: a large increase from current rates [as at paper's 7 Feb when they were ~3M a week] to 4m doses per week from 22 March." This has been heralded previously but this is the first time I've seen it quantified. If the programme can achieve 4M per week, that means the 40s (7M) will get their first jab early than they expect. Here's my graph on that basis (NB 32M = JCVI Gps 1-9 complete, 53M = all adults O/18):

This will then allow us to vaccinate all those of school age (~11M) before the start of [edited for clarity] the autumn term, if the trials already under way go OK.

 

[classic33]

One thing gleaned from the SPI-M paper effectively commissioned by the UK Goverment to inform the best way of easing lockdown (linked and commented on in the main C19 thread) is the vaccine rollout they were asked/told to assume:
"Rollout assumptions are significantly quicker: a large increase from current rates [as at paper's 7 Feb when they were ~3M a week] to 4m doses per week from 22 March." This has been heralded previously but this is the first time I've seen it quantified. If the programme can achieve 4M per week, that means the 40s (7M) will get their first jab early than they expect. Here's my graph on that basis (NB 32M = JCVI Gps 1-9 complete, 53M = all adults O/18):
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This will then allow us to vaccinate all those of school age (~11M) before the start of term, if the trials already under way go OK.

Most schools started going back yesterday, for the current term.

 

[fossyant]

You should chase that up, every single type 1 I know were contacted by their GP and offered an appointment on the third week of February.

Well he might have had a text, or even a letter - not that he tells us anything. He has a doc's appointment by phone shortly, I'll get him to ask.

 

[johnblack]

Getting my vaccination today after registering on about 10 different sites. Getting your shot over here is something of a crap shoot and I'm only getting mine today because a neighbour happened to be on a local pharmacy website midnight last week when the site posted they had available appointments. My daughter who's 16 has already had both of her shots, and my wife hopes to get hers next month.

There's no central planning for vaccine role out, just a bunch of distributors (hospitals, ER's, pharmacies, city hall, etc) you have to call to register for a shot.

I mentioned it on here a couple of weeks ago, my Aunt and Uncle are in Manhattan, 70 & 65, both in cancer remission and are finding it almost impossible to get vaccinated. Having to register with different websites and distributors, they can't believe it is so chaotic and when I explained the process here they were impressed.