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10 weeks?

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Postby DrFfybes » April 9th, 2021, 9:48 am

Just looking at the cumulative figures on
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

10 weeks ago on 28 Jan we'd given 7.9m 1st jabs in the UK, 6.8m in England.
Yesterday it was 6.1m total, 4.9m of which are in England.

So we are running about 2 million behind the curve at the moment. Obviously with the elderly being done first there will be some deaths since then, and Easter hit the numbers, but it is looking like 10 will become 11, then 12.

Does it make much difference though?

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 9th, 2021, 10:07 am

My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Mike4 » April 9th, 2021, 10:27 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!


Hmmm that seems highly rubbishy.

I had my first on 29th Jan and after that, silence for the NHS. I got a 2nd jab appointment by going on line and finding one 35 miles away, 7 days from today. Has your dad tried looking on the NHS site for a second appointment?

Just a suggestion and I can see the possible difficulties, but I try to avoid making assumptions. Don't always manage it.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Gerry557 » April 9th, 2021, 10:40 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!


Book it for him, it might be a mistake. I tried for one of my relatives, got a message to book via GP. I was due to visit the next day anyway but they got a text to book that morning anyway.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 9th, 2021, 10:49 am

Gerry557 wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote:My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!


Book it for him, it might be a mistake. I tried for one of my relatives, got a message to book via GP. I was due to visit the next day anyway but they got a text to book that morning anyway.


I've offered to try, but he dislikes making a fuss. He did try last week, and got told to wait to be contacted, and frankly I doubt I'd do any better.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Mike4 » April 9th, 2021, 10:54 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
Gerry557 wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote:My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!


Book it for him, it might be a mistake. I tried for one of my relatives, got a message to book via GP. I was due to visit the next day anyway but they got a text to book that morning anyway.


I've offered to try, but he dislikes making a fuss. He did try last week, and got told to wait to be contacted, and frankly I doubt I'd do any better.


Using the booking website swerves all that.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 9th, 2021, 10:57 am

Mike4 wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote:
Gerry557 wrote:
Book it for him, it might be a mistake. I tried for one of my relatives, got a message to book via GP. I was due to visit the next day anyway but they got a text to book that morning anyway.


I've offered to try, but he dislikes making a fuss. He did try last week, and got told to wait to be contacted, and frankly I doubt I'd do any better.


Using the booking website swerves all that.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/


It doesn't swerve the "you are not eligible to book through this service ..." message (which - best guess - may be down to having received a first jab through a different administrative process).

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby mc2fool » April 9th, 2021, 11:00 am

DrFfybes wrote:10 weeks ago on 28 Jan we'd given 7.9m 1st jabs in the UK, 6.8m in England.
Yesterday it was 6.1m total, 4.9m of which are in England.

The policy is to give second doses 12 weeks after the first, not 10.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/feb/21/is-12-weeks-between-covid-jabs-too-long

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby mc2fool » April 9th, 2021, 11:03 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:My dad - age 95 - is still waiting for his second jab. His first was Jan. 20th.

So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!

12 weeks after the 20th of January is the 14th of April.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 9th, 2021, 11:06 am

The gov stats say six million people have had the second jab. That's ten times the total number of over-90s (let alone 95s) in Blighty.

So much for prioritising older folks.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Mike4 » April 9th, 2021, 11:08 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote:
I've offered to try, but he dislikes making a fuss. He did try last week, and got told to wait to be contacted, and frankly I doubt I'd do any better.


Using the booking website swerves all that.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/


It doesn't swerve the "you are not eligible to book through this service ..." message (which - best guess - may be down to having received a first jab through a different administrative process).


True, but I received my first jab through the same "different administrative process" you mention (they called me to see if I could step in and take a cancelled appointment and I got it without appearing on ANY computer records at the time).

I got that same "you are not eligible" message until the ten week mark, then it changed to offering me a second jab in a choice of dodgy-sounding chemist shops in rough bits of south London.

Then a few days ago it offered me one in a nice-sounding vaccination centre in posh Salisbury city so I booked it, more or less 12 weeks after my first although I haven't counted the diary pages!

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby mc2fool » April 9th, 2021, 11:35 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:The gov stats say six million people have had the second jab. That's ten times the total number of over-90s (let alone 95s) in Blighty.

So much for prioritising older folks.

2nd jabs isn't the issue for your dad, the issue is that he got the first jab late for a 90+ -- five million people had their first jab by 20th Jan.

It's almost certainly a local problem.

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby GrahamPlatt » April 9th, 2021, 12:05 pm

Mike4 wrote:Then a few days ago it offered me one in a nice-sounding vaccination centre in posh Salisbury city so I booked it, more or less 12 weeks after my first although I haven't counted the diary pages!

Would that be the novichok vaccine then?

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Mike4 » April 9th, 2021, 12:08 pm

GrahamPlatt wrote:
Mike4 wrote:Then a few days ago it offered me one in a nice-sounding vaccination centre in posh Salisbury city so I booked it, more or less 12 weeks after my first although I haven't counted the diary pages!

Would that be the novichok vaccine then?


Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby servodude » April 9th, 2021, 12:43 pm

Mike4 wrote:
GrahamPlatt wrote:
Mike4 wrote:Then a few days ago it offered me one in a nice-sounding vaccination centre in posh Salisbury city so I booked it, more or less 12 weeks after my first although I haven't counted the diary pages!

Would that be the novichok vaccine then?


Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....


Delivery by umbrella or atomizer has it's appeal!

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Re: 10 weeks?

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Postby Julian » April 9th, 2021, 1:09 pm

servodude wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
GrahamPlatt wrote:Would that be the novichok vaccine then?


Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....


Delivery by umbrella or atomizer has it's appeal!

Wasn't it also delivery by door knob (on Sergei Skripal's front door) in Salisbury?

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