Covoid jabs

I had mine at 10.30 today, Pfizer. I asked for strawberry flavour, but they only had vanilla.

Had my first jab (A/Z ) on Monday evening. Very organised and smooth process. The doctor who did the injecting told me that I might have a reaction - headaches, stiffness and/ or flu- like symptoms, but not to worry as this was a signal that my body was reacting to the injection by developing antibodies to the virus.

So I was quite pleased to get a headache on Tuesday! All gone now.

Rod

not to worry as this was a signal that my body was reacting to the injection by developing antibodies to the virus.

I doubt it. He was just giving the same message to everyone to try to warn of side effects while also making it look good. Let’s hope those that do not have any (noticeable) reaction do not take it as a sign that their bodies were not developing the antibodies! It’s not an instant process and takes days before there are sufficient antibodies for protection.🙂

The reason why the biontech jab has been stopped for allergic reaction sufferers (epipen carriers) was because it was producing potentially life threatening reactions, not because it was a signal of anything else.

Lots of examples of this. Those that attend for cancer diagnosis often have their thoughts diverted towards something else - lovely hair-do’s, compliments on jewellery, attire or anything they can. They are trained, I presume, to do this, it being better than referring to the issue at hand?

Have my appointment for Sat 4.30 pm at the local covid centre via phone call this morning from GP's surgery... recieved letters of covid offer to book on line ( for me & mrs ) in lunch time post ... double whammy !

George.

had mine yesterday only side affect an aching arm today

stay safe Geoff

Wife and I have just had our jabs this afternoon - the Oxford. Despite our appointments being 20 mins apart we were seen together and were in and out in 20 mins; they had about 6 or 7 stations doing the jabs, one nurse doing the talking (info flow) and the jab and an assistant writing the questionnaire responses down and inputting them into the computer system.

Just for the record our vaccination centre is working 7 days a week, today having a typical vaccination run from 08:30 to 17:30, then at least another hour and a half plus for cleaning and tidying up etc for all the staff there - and there were loads. They expect to do at least 420 jabs today, not bad for a really little country town vaccination centre. Multiply that up by the number of centres across the land, and for much larger centres, and you can see how our UK vaccination roll-out has got the numbers up and up so rapidly. Well done them all, proud of them.

Chris