COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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The government have informed local health authorities to create GP based vaccine centres at 1250 primary care hubs by 1 December and told to be ready to work 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm and even on bank holidays to give a minimum 975 vaccinations a week.

The GP hub with the facilities to store the vaccination in its required cold conditions will be selected in each area meaning some may have to travel to other locations than their local doctors to get it.

The GP centres will be paid about £25 per patient to administer the two doses.

The Telegraph also claims that only the over 50s will be in this first vaccination programme given the supplies likely to be available for coming months but that other vaccines might be available to them at a later date.
 
Healdplace said:
The government have informed local health authorities to create GP based vaccine centres at 1250 primary care hubs by 1 December and told to be ready to work 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm and even on bank holidays to give a minimum 975 vaccinations a week.

The GP hub with the facilities to store the vaccination in its required cold conditions will be selected in each area meaning some may have to travel to other locations than their local doctors to get it.

The GP centres will be paid about £25 per patient to administer the two doses.

The Telegraph also claims that only the over 50s will be in this first vaccination programme given the supplies likely to be available for coming months but that other vaccines might be available to them at a later date.
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So that’s approx 1,250,000 vaccinations a week, but as it’s a two dose programme, 650,000 a week.
That means a 2 year programme to vaccinate all of us.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
So that’s approx 1,250,000 vaccinations a week, but as it’s a two dose programme, 650,000 a week.
That means a 2 year programme to vaccinate all of us.
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Lets say 10 percent have had it? Work back from 60 million, 54 no immunity? Need to vaccinate 60% to get herd immunity?

Rough maths - 32 million needed - would take 25 weeks to get to the levels needed if that was the only place administering - i am sure it wont be. If we can get to 4 million a week could be done in 8 weeks?
 
denislawsbackheel said:
So that’s approx 1,250,000 vaccinations a week, but as it’s a two dose programme, 650,000 a week.
That means a 2 year programme to vaccinate all of us.
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As noted right now under 50 not in the plans. May never be except by choice.

Unless they are vulnerable to Covid.

Likely places such as Boots will offer them cheaply too for those who want to do so ahead of the priority chain of who should get these first. Nobody healthy and under 70 is likely to be seeing one much before Spring via the NHS I suspect.
 
Healdplace said:
As noted right now under 50 not in the plans. May never be except by choice.

Unless they are vulnerable to Covid.

Likely places like Boots will offer them cheaply too.
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Well we’ve only ordered 40 million doses, enough for just 20 million people.
 
That's pretty much in line with what I have been reporting from the daily data, shemnel.

Though since 5 days ago GM has been more clearly falling.
 
Ilkay Gundogan: “The first three or four days were bad. Then were the strongest symptoms. It was difficult to get back into training because the disease was still inside. We should be as careful as possible to protect the people around us.”

Ilkay Gundogan: “Before [I got] the corona disease, I didn’t take it seriously. Afterwards my thinking changed. It doesn’t only do something to you physically, but also psychologically. You worry. Everything is written in the stars...”
 
denislawsbackheel said:
It’ll be less.
One GP practice has already tweeted you’ve got to be joking!
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With the vast majority of GPs being independent contractors, who'll do most things for cash, getting £12.50 per arm stabbed they’ll almost all be doing it, as will all the pharmacies.
The hospitals will do it to their staff and the care homes will be doing it to their staff and residents.
The real problem will be storing it at -80 and the fact that it hasn’t actually been tried on the over 65’s, which might well be viewed as a problem.
 
Healdplace said:
That's pretty much in line with what I have been reporting from the daily data, shemnel.

Though since 5 days ago GM has been more clearly falling.
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aye, i hadnt bothered looking outside the NW but there are clearly other parts of the country now on the rise and might actually act as a better indicator as to whether a national lockdown has an impact (or this version of).

Manchester, Lancs and Liverpool were already well on the wane before 5th Nov so regions such as Birmingham and The Humber will be better case studies to see how the lockdown effects their cases.
 
Looks like another delay with our amazing web site. No explanation this time. Possibly still hunting for those missing Welsh results last seen heading for Abergele screaming - I'm a virus let me into here.
 
kaz7 said:
Ilkay Gundogan: “The first three or four days were bad. Then were the strongest symptoms. It was difficult to get back into training because the disease was still inside. We should be as careful as possible to protect the people around us.”

Ilkay Gundogan: “Before [I got] the corona disease, I didn’t take it seriously. Afterwards my thinking changed. It doesn’t only do something to you physically, but also psychologically. You worry. Everything is written in the stars...”
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We should all take note that a Premier League athlete was hit hard with this.

Warrington Wolves RLFC player, Tom Lineham, said it felt like he’d been hit by a bus when he had it
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk

Wire winger Lineham says coronavirus hit him like a bus

WARRINGTON Wolves winger Tom Lineham says he felt like he had been 'hit by a bus' after contracting coronavirus.
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk www.warringtonguardian.co.uk
 
kaz7 said:
Went to the drs today , my dr has been off for six months with covid and long covid , he was a mad cyclist and healthy , mid 40's, he now has post viral fatigue and heart damage , unable to return to work yet
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And yet there are also other cases where the illness is mild.
My friend's husband is in his early 70s, had a stroke a few years back and has to take lots of medication daily. He tested positive, spent a few days in bed and is now up and about again.
Another friend has a 96 year old mother in a care home. She tested positive (twice!) and is still with us.
I'm not downplaying the terrible impact it can have on some, just pointing out that even for the vulnerable it isn't necessarily a death sentence for each and every person.
I'm in Oldham, one of the worst effected areas in the country. I don't know one single person yet that has contracted it and been hospitalised.
Maybe our NHS is run on such a shocking financial tight rein by the government that any extra requirement, however small the increase, puts it under strain almost immediately and that's what we should require them to look at in the long term
 
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