Had mine earlier tonight (they kindly did my wife at the same time as they had some spare vaccine). Had the Pfizer one, back for the follow up in 11 weeks. The queue outside went around the block. Got out an hour and 20 minutes after the appointment time.
Feel happier now that I’m developing some antibodies though it will take a few weeks yet!
Anyone else? Which vaccine did you have?
I had my first one in mid December and the second on 6th January.
Not that I am bragging or anything. It is just that I am worth it!!
It took 30 minutes including the 15 minutes observation time.
Mind you the north of England is usually ahead. While they talk about it in London, round here they just do it.
Eric in Burnley
S3SE DHC
The wife and received a call this morning and we are booked in for Friday evening .
Ed
I had a Pfizer one about 10 days ago.
I have redoubled my kombucha and fester production, & my horse and pig prosciutto are fine. Doubt anyone under 85 out of a nursing home has any chance of getting the vaccine this year in BC. Looks like the East of Canada is in trouble, so they may get it first.
Pfizer, yesterday. Had to drive 90 miles to get it.
Our Daughter had her first one in mid Dec and second one about the 10th Jan. My wife had the first jab 10days ago but no timescale atm for the second. Both are front line medics. I’m not, so not expecting mine any time soon. Based on my age it’ll be around the end of next month if the rollout goes according to plan
Age 72.
Text message Monday morning last week.
Vaccination last Thursday at local Council Offices - Astra Zeneca vaccine used.
Plenty of parking, no queues, no waiting, in out in 2 minutes!
But . . . no indication of when I get the second dose.
Nope. Too young at 48. Possibly by the end of the year but who knows.
With the Pfizer vaccine the recommendation is three weeks between injections (which was the gap between my daughter’s two jabs). With the Astra Zeneca one it’s a bit more complicated. There’s an interview in this week’s British Medical Journal with the leader of the Ox-AZ vaccine trials in which he says a longer interval gives a better immune response after the second dose. They tested up to three months and it seems that having the second dose too early can result in a ‘smaller response’. So, up to three months anyway, it would seem the longer the gap the better.
I’ve had both jabs but then as I’m running the clinic I managed to get the dregs to save wastage.
My wife is 1B and I’m 1C in our state (educator and essential finance). She should be in queue any day and I’m slated for my first shot in March.
Seems to be a huge disparity between stateside and U.K. so far. Was your vaccine privately funded or part of local healthcare scheme? Seems to be a long way to have to travel (but worth it?).
My wife and I got our first Pfizer shots this week. Many of our friends have been, or are about to get, vaccinated.
Seems to be working here. We were contacted by our medical/hospital group, a private company. Others have got theirs via the county administration.
Although my wife and I are over 65 and registered on-line with the New Jersey Department of Health for COVID-19 vaccine we don’t seem to be able to get one.
We received an email last week saying we were approved to be vaccinated and given authorization to schedule our date. After more than an hour of trying unsuccessfully to confirm appointment we just gave up. Seems there isn’t enough supply for everyone approved.
Decided we will continue to stay at home and wait until the supply chain can actually deliver.
Unfortunately I doubt the world will have enough people vaccinated by the end of 2021 for this virus to be controlled by herd immunity. We will be into 2022 and possibly beyond before global effect is seen. Masks and vaccine “travel passports” will be a way of life for the foreseen future.
Quite a lot of disparity within USA too, with every state on their own to make a plan. I live in Georgia which is somewhere around Number 48-50 for vaccine distribution. Under the 4-tier system often cited over here I think I’m in the 4th tier: I am not a first responder, not a healthcare worker, not a resident of a care facility, not over age 65. In theory I’m an ‘essential worker’ but not even all that urgently. That said, my work requires A LOT of travel and so this does put me at risk both for catching it and for spreading it, but that doesn’t seem to factor into how anybody has planned the distribution.
And due to differences in how states do things, I have heard cases of people traveling thousands of miles to try to get it! I’m in Los Angeles most of this week and last night’s news had a story of a SoCal couple who drove all the way to Florida to try to game the system to get their shots.
My step-father is in his 70s and a 1B person. They had a mass vaccination event for in-state reservation holders at the DMV and he said there were thousands of out-of-state plates waiting in line. Not sure how they got on the “list.”
We have a Covid vaccination centre in our town as well as Doctors surgeries dispensing, so I was a bit surprised when my wife received her letter from the NHS inviting her to make an online appointment for her first vaccination ( I’m her toy boy so I didn’t get the letter). So we went online to make the appointment and were directed to the nearest centre approximately 16 miles away in Sevenoaks. That’s not far away in real terms, but the centre where my Wife’s sister went for her vaccination is walking distance from our home.
The letter did state that if the online suggested centre was too far away then just wait for your doctors surgery to contact for a more local service.
The vaccine roll out in the UK is phenomenal, there are no doubt a few glitches here and there, no complaints…
I as I am not in high risk group, home working none essential worker I’d be surprised if I get mine in the next 6 months. I certainly expect to be at the very end, unless they prioritize parents with school age kids.
Personally I fine with that as if things are done sensibly opening back up will be done more on infection rates and hospital loads, which I doubt they are going to massively improve until the vaccine roll out has almost completed. So whether you have the vaccine or not is just about your personal risk of catching it (low) and having a bad infection (low).
It not like anyone who has the vaccine is suddenly allowed to do things which other can’t. (Which if they let happen is going to create a real mess.) So even if I got the vaccine the impact on my life would be minimal. The impact of everyone else, especially the higher risk populations, getting it will be more significant and that will slow the spread and start triggering relaxation of the rules.
