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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 15, 2021 11:09:07 GMT
I know someone who is 6 months and 3 weeks after their second jab and has not heard a thing. Then tell them to call 119 and they can book. The message and link I just booked on said that you can contact them after 6months 1 week so they should be able to book. I will. It needs to be advertised as I have never heard the 6 weeks + 1 week rule. |
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Post by longinthetooth on Oct 15, 2021 14:48:40 GMT
I had my second jab on 1st April and haven't heard a thing.
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Post by lynette on Oct 15, 2021 15:34:54 GMT
People saying they haven’t heard : try phoning where you had last jab, they usually send a phone number with the confirmation of the appointment or go online. Or ask your GP who to call. Sometimes you have to prod..
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Post by olliebean on Oct 15, 2021 21:50:47 GMT
Impressed with the booster service. When you call 119 you get a recorded message saying that you will be contacted 6 months and 1 week after 2nd jab and, sure enough, text just came through. Offered me several locations and appointments available from as soon as tomorrow. Booked my local site for Tuesday so very pleased. When the booster programme was originally announced, wasn't it supposed to be 6 months after the second jab? If it's now 6 months and 1 week, does that mean they're falling behind? Is it going to slip, as time goes on, to 6 months and 2 weeks, then 3 weeks, etc.? (Genuinely asking, as it seems rather odd otherwise to specify that you will be contacted a week after 6 months, especially as for my second jab I was contacted a week before it was due.) |
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Post by lynette on Oct 15, 2021 22:38:49 GMT
I don't know about the + one week. I was told six months but times will vary because they make appointments and you can choose time.
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 16, 2021 6:57:52 GMT
I know some of the people who regularly follow and tweet about the vaccination data are concerned that the pace of the booster rollout is too slow and that many people will be well past six months after their second dose before they get it.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 16, 2021 9:25:36 GMT
My interpretation of the 6 months and 1 week is that they don't want people contacting them literally on the day that the 6 months runs out. I think they want people to wait a week to give them time to contact those people who are at 6 months and then if they haven't heard anything after that week then you can call 119 to book.
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Post by nick on Oct 16, 2021 13:50:58 GMT
My experience of booking a booster:
Tried to book online on the 6 month anniversary of second jab - wasn't allowed.
Got a text the day after from GP - went online and booked for a few days later.
Meanwhile received a text from St Thomas' (where I had my original vaccines) asking me to phone and book.
Chose to stick with the GP booking as they were doing the flu jab as well but St Thomas' weren't.
Personally I'd always try booking online because:
1/ no waiting for the phone to be answered
2/ not wasting anyone's time
3/ easy to see the options for different centres
4/ can try even when you haven't been contacted
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 18, 2021 10:42:12 GMT
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 18, 2021 14:56:50 GMT
And with the pace of the booster and school rollouts it’s easily foreseeable that deaths and hospitalisations by Christmas will be scarely close to last year. |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 15:49:28 GMT
And with the pace of the booster and school rollouts it’s easily foreseeable that deaths and hospitalisations by Christmas will be scarely close to last year. There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures |
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 18, 2021 16:03:00 GMT
And with the pace of the booster and school rollouts it’s easily foreseeable that deaths and hospitalisations by Christmas will be scarely close to last year. There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures If booster jabs don’t speed up the evidence from Israel suggest they might well get close. |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 16:21:13 GMT
There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures If booster jabs don’t speed up the evidence from Israel suggest they might well get close. That's not what the evidence from Israel says. Things may get worse than they are now but we won't be getting 35,000 people in the hospital because of covid. |
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Post by nick on Oct 18, 2021 17:59:53 GMT
If booster jabs don’t speed up the evidence from Israel suggest they might well get close. That's not what the evidence from Israel says. Things may get worse than they are now but we won't be getting 35,000 people in the hospital because of covid. That’s true but higher numbers increases the chance of a vaccine-busting variant. Let’s hope not. I’m making my plans for a “Survivors”’type situation (not really). |
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 19, 2021 9:18:50 GMT
Another day and another person - this time women in her late 50’s- says they will refuse the booster due the symptoms they had during the second dose. It’s starting to become a trend. Boosters might end up only being taken up by the perople who accept the flu jab every year. To get the numbers higher incentives will be needed. Quite possibly that will be international travel but maybe Vaccine passports will be needed to get those numbers up.
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Post by lynette on Oct 19, 2021 11:07:50 GMT
Another day and another person - this time women in her late 50’s- says they will refuse the booster due the symptoms they had during the second dose. It’s starting to become a trend. Boosters might end up only being taken up by the perople who accept the flu jab every year. To get the numbers higher incentives will be needed. Quite possibly that will be international travel but maybe Vaccine passports will be needed to get those numbers up. Yep you are right. Travel passports might make those who want to go to Spain this winter have the booster but is the booster required for European countries or anywhere else in the world? I thought they just want double jabbed. And tbh all my pals have rushed to get the boosters so I don't know who on earth is refusing it except this silly woman you mention. I mean what did she suffer after second jab? Sore arm, feeling tired? She is still here. |
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Post by Mark on Oct 19, 2021 11:17:55 GMT
Where does that leave those of us not eligible for the booster? I’m not against having a booster but I do question having to mandate something. I understand the hesitation because it does seem the effectiveness of the first two doses went down very quickly.
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 19, 2021 14:46:42 GMT
Another day and another person - this time women in her late 50’s- says they will refuse the booster due the symptoms they had during the second dose. It’s starting to become a trend. Boosters might end up only being taken up by the perople who accept the flu jab every year. To get the numbers higher incentives will be needed. Quite possibly that will be international travel but maybe Vaccine passports will be needed to get those numbers up. Yep you are right. Travel passports might make those who want to go to Spain this winter have the booster but is the booster required for European countries or anywhere else in the world? I thought they just want double jabbed. And tbh all my pals have rushed to get the boosters so I don't know who on earth is refusing it except this silly woman you mention. I mean what did she suffer after second jab? Sore arm, feeling tired? She is still here. It is in Croatia and Austria I think. And in Israel the green pass only works for those who had their last jab within the last six months. |
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Post by alece10 on Oct 19, 2021 15:43:06 GMT
I had my booster today and the flu jab last week so I'm all set for what the winter throws at me.
It was very well organised and no long queues like the first one. I'm expecting a bit if stiff arm tomorrow, same as last time but hopefully that's all.
Added benefit of having it done at Leyton Orient football ground so nice view of the pitch whilst it's being done.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 19, 2021 16:09:05 GMT
Andrew Lloyd Webber's team that, alece10. ⚽️ Was he there? |
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 19, 2021 16:55:03 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Oct 19, 2021 17:34:04 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase and looks like it will be going down more when more boosters are done. It's the tail end of the pandemic. Winter won't be great but as long as you get a booster and flu shot, should fingers crossed be ok |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 19, 2021 17:46:31 GMT
Intrigued by when daily deaths become significant enough to change behaviour and will be studied for years to come on how people quantify risk.
Currently daily average is equivalent to around one 737 falling out of the sky every day and is considered acceptable.
This is not a criticism , I am living my life more or less as normal and in the Theatre 3 times this week and in the office twice.
Where will the pivot point be, I have numbers of cases and deaths in mind that will change my behaviour and we are creeping ever nearer.
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 19, 2021 19:04:06 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase and looks like it will be going down more when more boosters are done. It's the tail end of the pandemic. Winter won't be great but as long as you get a booster and flu shot, should fingers crossed be ok And it is becoming apparent that there will be a fair amount of even the over 70’s - maybe as high as 20% or so- that won’t have a booster or a flu jab. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2021 19:36:50 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase There's no such thing as "just" when it comes to exponential growth. 10% increase per week is 50% per month or 144 times as many (14400%) per year. Don't take my word for it. Work it out.
And yes, I know there are people reading this who are thinking "Ridiculous; it can't possibly get that bad", but that's the problem. Mathematically it can get that bad, and in fact mathematically it must. Exponential growth doesn't stop by itself. The only choice we have is to take action to stop it or to let it be stopped by running out of people. There's no magic that will come along and fix things for us.
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