Covoid jabs

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Hear hear br, Well said indeed.

I had mine Friday (Pfizer) with no after effects save a slight soreness on the Saturday. As you say extremely well organised and accomplished.

Tug

France is in lethargic mode, run out of vaccine and have been advised to try again in 7 weeks time !!

When looking on-line, my local centre is booked to do 165 injections over the next 28 days! (one per hour).

Our local hospital is doing well, they have 4 or 5 stations for the injections and are booked to do 1212 in 28 days (20 week days) so that is about 13 injections for each doctor per day - you could break out into a sweat over that !

Bob

Got my 1st jab today (Astra Zenica). Well impressed with the organisation, marshals in the car park, marshals for the queue, booked in jabbed and out within about 10minutes. Not even asked to sit and wait for 15minutes. All booked on-line through the NHS. It is good to know that when push comes to shove this country can actually do things.

John

I get my first jab on Wednesday, at a small disused surgery which has been re opened for CO19 innoculating. The car park is only about 12 cars capacity, so I won't know exactly what to expect.

I think that police, firefighters, refuse collectors and all NHS staff should be given priority, now that the over eighties have been vaccinated.

I took my wife down for hers a little while ago and yes have to agree our surgery was well organized only allowing 7 or eight into the waiting room with some chairs suitably spaced as one became empty another person allowed in also a second set of chairs so people could wait for the 15minutes after the injection each being given an egg timer set for that time. There was also two marques outside for those waiting to go in again with some well spaced chairs.

All very well done by the staff and those who helped

I too was impressed with the organisation of my jab recently, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one impressed. As others have said, marshals in the car park, marshals inside who directed me to a particular chair, then almost immediately called into a room where there was a GP, a nurse, and someone on the computer. Back out and then round a separate route to get back outside. I would have been in and out in 5 minutes or so were it not for having to visit the inhouse pharmacy (nowt to do with Covid). As it was 15 mins at most for both.

So, well done Cockermouth & Derwent Surgery.

In respect of the 15 mins post-jab wait, if you came with a driver, then there was no wait, otherwise if on your own, you were asked to wait the requisite 15 mins.

And mine was Astra-Zenica.

Peter G. Shaw

No different than the last flu jab really (apart from more details needed, apparently?). Our local surgery had at least 4, possibly 6 stations on the go, one Saturday. We went in together and the time for both of us was less than 5 minutes in the building. No 10 minute wait afterwards, as had been usual in previous years, but covid precautions were in force with all patients socially distanced.

Dunno how many they did in the day, but a lot. Car parking was atrocious as the adjacent hospital carpark could not be used - as it was being dug up that day (good organisation!). I expect ours will be the Oxford jab as other half carries an epipen.

getting mine tomorrow 10 past 2 great news my wife is a care worker had her jab 4 weeks ago covid went through the home like a dose of salts cares all falling ill including my wife we all isolated for the ten days thank god myself and my son did not get it sadly the home lost 5 residents brings it home

stay safe Geoff

I had mine last week & her in doors had hers Saturday. No side effects at all.

Still only go out once a week to supermarket though.

Steve.

It's hard for me to be positive about my experience of taking two parents with advanced dementia for their vaccinations a fortnight ago.

My mother was refused admission by three separate staff members because she was not wearing a mask [they insisted we try putting one on her; it stayed on for two seconds, as we said it would].

A supervisor finally allowed us to enter but my mother was immediately wheeled off for treatment in a separate area because she was unmasked. This was in spite of our telling them it was almost certain they'd be unable to get her to understand any of their questions or instructions.

Inevitably, ten minutes later they wheeled her back still unvaccinated and asked us to intervene to persuade her to disrobe. You can't persuade her to disrobe; you have to do it for her. They stood by as we did so.

We warned them it would need at least one of us to restrain my mother while the jab was administered but they said restraint was unethical and they couldn't allow it. This then started a long discussion about "consent" and whether the jabs could go ahead at all because neither parent was able to give informed consent. [My father had already got things off to a bad start when, on being asked "when is your birthday" by a nurse whose first language was not English, he wished her "happy birthday!" in reply.]

We finally got them to see that sometimes consent should play second fiddle to what is in the patient's best interests.

At last they started to give my mother the jab, but had to stop half way through, leaving the needle still sticking out of her arm while she flailed it indignantly in the air; this was the inevitable outcome of them refusing our offer to provide restraint.

So my mother ended up having not one but one and a half doses of the vaccine, and she ended up being restrained after all.

Though this was one of the biggest vaccination centres in the country, I can only conclude from the obvious bewilderment of most of the staff that patients in an advanced state of dementia are not typically going to vaccination centres for their jabs at all, but having them in the more dementia-sensitive environment of care homes.

Edited By Bill Phinn on 01/02/2021 18:39:55

We had a phone call from our surgery on the 19th Jan. Would we go to the vaccination centre tomorrow at 12:00.on the 20th Jan.

It was well organised. Marshals for everything even quickly supplied a wheel chair for my wife. We did have to stay for the waiting period but that area was well organized as well.

It would be impossible to better the experience. Looking forward to the same for the second jab although we weren't given a date for that one.

Dave

Can I assume that you are over 80 then

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 01/02/2021 21:17:06

I think that police, firefighters, refuse collectors and all NHS staff should be given priority, now that the over eighties have been vaccinated.

My wife, not only carries an epipen but has also effectively been shielding since the outbreak started. She is not even over 70 but is at severe risk should she become infected. So I disagree with you.

Going for my jab this afternoon, but the paperwork I have says the vaccine is not recommended for people with 'allergies which require you to use an epi-pen'

We had our first jabs yesterday morning.

Both of us had an absolutely horrendous reaction, a punching headache, shivers and severe body ache all over. Got so bad early hours of this morning I had to take a paracetamol, couldn't stand it any longer.

Slowly recovering, brace yourself guys it could be you as well.

We booked the test on Sunday, on Monday p.m. received a text from my doctor inviting me to book an appointment for the first jab. This morning we had a letter from the NHS inviting us to book the first jab? So you could/can book before receiving an invite?

Geoff

Geoff - did you have Pfizer or the Oxford stuff ?

Rik

Oxford, Rik.

Feeling a lot better now, just had a big bowl of plum porridge which has perked me up.

Good luck to all who have the jab, guess we were just unlucky.

Rik my daughter who is a key worker had the Pfizer jab, she had rough time for 24 hours, had to take a day off work?

Geoff

Going for my jab this afternoon, but the paperwork I have says the vaccine is not recommended for people with 'allergies which require you to use an epi-pen'

That was for the biontec version? Well documented since the early roll-out for that version.