Coronavirus (2021) thread

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Thus far, just 50% of the rate. Desperately needs to accelerate.

It’s actually not as bad as you think at the minute. The 6 month thing is far from exact (between 6-8 months has been the working assumption for a while) and 190 days is effectively the timeframe being used.
That takes us to April 23 by which time just over 10 million people had had 2 jabs. We are currently at 6.7 million which is 67% of all those who are eligible. Out of the remaining ones, some will sadly be dead, so will have moved house and May still be waiting to be contacted, as the website had told them to, some will not have had chance or been able to book an appointment and some will still be deciding, so I do think it’s better than you suggest.
Many local pharmacies have now joined in and more and more are coming on stream every day

Finally, for the systems that were very good at the start, their numbers being added to the total will start to fall in November, which will start to make the task much easier.

 

[Healdplace]

Not planning to publish tables of Pop Scores for Greater Manchester again but there were some significant changes today worth mentioning. So I will only refer to these numbers when something big changes like this.

Oldham took over as the best in GM on 270 now Manchester is rising and Bury took over from both Trafford and Stockport after two or three weeks with them way ahead of the rest.

Bury has clocked up some high numbers in recent days to become the worst in GM and now above both those two. The media will likely notice this in a few days on the 5 day old numbers they use.

Perhaps the chancellor should have checked Blue Moon before going to Bury Market Friday and then telling the cameras he was in the famous Burnley Market.

Bury now easily the one going up the most in GM at the moment and on 467 - just topping the falling Traffords 465. Stockport's 455 & Tameside's 452.

A big change to the huge gap between Trafford and the rest 2 weeks ago.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Thus far, just 50% of the rate. Desperately needs to accelerate.

It seems to be getting going now. 390,000 booster/third doses yesterday and going by my experience, people getting contacted just before the 182 day gap to book in. As mentioned, mine on Tuesday is my first eligible day.

 

[Eccles Blue]

I had to wait 15 after each , but not the flu jab,England.

I had to wait 30 because of my allergy history Manchester (which is the best City in the UK!) :-)

 

[vincent]

FFS, can we have that other thread back please.

 

[Eccles Blue]

There were a lot of under 16s getting jabs today. Two separate sections. One for 12 to 16 yr olds and one for others.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Covid booster jabs available at walk-in sites in England

The NHS hopes to bolster uptake ahead of a "challenging" winter, with hundreds of sites available.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[frothy]

The boosters are harder to do as they require a 15 minute wait afterwards so limit the numbers they can do in one go inside a centre I expect. Am told there have been long waits outside for your appointment which will deter some by word of mouth.

This never happened with either of my AZ jabs in February and April but I have been told will be the case next week with Pfizer as a booster. So it is something you cannot easily plan around.

It also means I cannot walk to the facility and have to travel some distance (several miles) by bus or taxi to the only option within miles caused by the Pfizer strorage limitations and do not have a mobile and have to call them tomorrow to find out if they will book a return cab for me. As I cannot ask the cab to wait an unknown time and the centre is in a fairly out of the way spot off main roads to flag one down.

This makes it much more of a problem I suspect for those who would find this even harder than I do to plan around.

I would say so far getting this has invoved about 3 times as much effort as either of the other two or the flu jab because of its special needs. I will do what it takes as I have the time but very possibly some will think they will just wait until it is more wodely available. Though it may never be.

Also not sure about the dfference between Pfizer and Moderna as both seem to be being used.

So I can understand some will be a little more reticent this time around as it looks like more of a faff than last time.

Took my mum who is 90 for her third jab on Friday afternoon her appointment was at 2.35pm, it was absolutely pissing it down, you have to wait outside under a plastic cover for your turn, they were just letting one or two people at a time in, after waiting 20 minutes outside I ask the security guy what the hold up was, he said its because everyone has to stay seated for 15 minutes after the jab wouldnt have been bothered if was me waiting outside in really bad conditions, but to have a frail 90 year old and other elderly people waiting outside was out of order, especially as the building has loads of empty rooms

 

[BlueMoonday]

Are the 3rd "booster jabs" mandatory for your vaccine certificate to be valid (having had the first 2)?

I'm assuming at some point they will be once fully rolled out but just checking...

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Are the 3rd "booster jabs" mandatory for your vaccine certificate to be valid (having had the first 2)?

I'm assuming at some point they will be once fully rolled out but just checking...

I wouldn't have thought so as they are only offered to the over 50s currently.