Covid Vaccine - Temporarily locked
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OH got her Vaccination offer by text, I got mine by a direct phone call, both from our doctor's surgery, so things seem to be working ok here. I also heard that some in both Blackburn and Huddersfield have had their second round of the vaccine.
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This warning has been issued by our council, take care.
"As the vaccination programme is being rolled out across the country, criminals are using this as a way to create new scams.
We have been made aware scammers are sending fake texts messages claiming to be from the NHS offering the Covid-19 vaccine. The link that accompanies the fake text message takes you to a fake NHS website which requests personal and financial details.
Please do NOT click the link if you receive a fake text message and please note that the NHS will NEVER ask you for personal information, or for your financial details for the vaccination.
The vaccine is only available from the NHS and your GP will contact you when it is your turn.
Suspicious text messages should be forwarded to 7726 (which spells “SPAM” on the keypad). This free-of-charge short code enables your service provider to investigate the origin of the text and take action, if found to be malicious"
peedee
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I am Spartacus😊
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Thanks Rufs. Pharmacy2U apparently won't discuss the plans at the moment which could mean this is not going to happen very quickly, maybe when the first priority groups have gone through? I also noted that there will be home visits for some who can't leave home.
By the way I did check your news!
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Hi PD, it’s no wonder people are confused when yo have your situation!
I asked-What prompted you to call?
You said-Because they were asking qualifing people to do so and I live in their wider catchment area.
Now they are telling you-The vaccine is only available from the NHS and your GP will contact you when it is your turn.
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Re-Morrisons drive through, at first I had visions of hundreds of cars queuing up, but of course it will still be an appointment system and there'll be the 15 min wait after each vaccination.
Moulesy I think it's fair to say that one challenge on here can produce another. Holding to account is something most of us do whilst recognising that we do indeed have a democracy and we are free to state our opinions...but they will get challenged!
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Great news that a third vaccine has been approved for use in the UK
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I think our local Health Authority (Milton Keynes) was just ahead of the game in the absence of any predetermined national programme which now looks as if it is being put into place. Personally I would prefer to book my own appointment direct as I am less than confident that local surgeries will be as quick off the mark. Maybe I need to reserve judgement but as I always have to take the initiative with the flu jab I am a bit cautious on how it will pan out.
David
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I am wondering how mass vaccinations will be done here where we live. The initial round, for very frail vulnerable, but not in care homes, appeared to go very well. Local leisure centre, big car park, big dry sheltered socially distanced hall, with chairs that were sanitised between sit downs. Appointees moved along in batches of seven at a time, so there was little waiting.
We had our flu jabs at a drive in centre set up in our old leisure centre car park, with the jabbers under canvas marquees, the cars just drove through. At the time, staff there said it was a trial run for the mass Covid jabs, so it might happen this way for latter groups. It did work well, no waiting, or big queues.
Good that there’s another vaccine been approved.👍
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That should give you a bit of relief M, we certainly are thankful Mum has had her first dose.
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I wrote to our Assembly Member, except I didn't as I got the two local ones mixed up, asking why when our Health Board has 22% of the population of Wales they had only given 11% of the total vaccines given on the figures provided.
Received a prompt reply and even though he is not my AM he contacted the board and obtained bang up to date figures. They have now improved to 16% but the interesting thing was that of the total figures given in the chart up to yesterday only 3 vaccines using the OAZ had been given in the whole of North Wales, or at least recorded as being given. I don't know what time lapse there is in collating the information.
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Dunno. I only put the link there so folk like you could read it to gain information.
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According to report in Guardian, we might be waiting to get the Moderna vaccine a bit longer.
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MIL been in hospital since before Christmas, been covid positive for approx 3 weeks now, caught in Hospital but she is asymptomatic, (tough old bird 94), she is in Stoke Mandeville hospital, they wanted to move her to a community hospital, and even though she is Covid positive this is possible within the Bucks HA, however, she actually lives in Hertfordshire who say no way can she be moved, so stuck in SM for the time being, but best place for her just now, in a bubble with 3 others, she gets fed and watered and we shipped in a mobile phone so we can speak to her.
Her son checked her flat yesterday and in the mail was an appointment for covid vaccine for next week, might just turn up for that and get in early.......joking of course
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As I type this my wife is at the door talking to a friend, at the end of the path some 4m away, who had her second vaccination yesterday.
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17m doses due in the spring.
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They, the BBC, said that they have ordered a further 10 million doses, but the rollout of them won't start till mid March.....or that's what I think they said as OH was talking to me at the time
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I got a phone call late on Wednesday from the doctors saying they had had a batch of vaccine delivered unexpectedly and could I make an appointment next day.
So yesterday I had my first injection of the Pfizer vaccine.
The leaflet which I was given asked me to report any side effects. I gave it some thought and decided that the tiredness was a result of me getting up an hour and a half early to ensure I would be at the vaccination centre on time, the sore arm was not worth reporting and I wasn't sure they would understand if I told them I was also feeling a bit yonderly
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interesting though, are pharmacy2u buying their own supply of the vaccine ???
and will they be selling it on ?
