Anyone had the jab yet?

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Sam McGoo said:
The money spent and wasted in inflated prices and costs etc in most public organisations is criminal.
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Look af the £37bn bill for the 'Track and Trace' App! Apple and Google have made an awful lot of money out of a system which is still yet to work properly. It's an outrageous waste of money TBH and peoples heads should roll. Should have bought the Singapore system.
 
Silvercat said:
Look af the £37bn bill for the 'Track and Trace' App! Apple and Google have made an awful lot of money out of a system which is still yet to work properly. It's an outrageous waste of money TBH and peoples heads should roll. Should have bought the Singapore system.
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As I understand it, it's not £37bn for the "track and trace", it's £37bn for the test, track and trace. Most of that money is going on the testing, not the tracking. Which is vital and a sensible thing to spend money on.

Had the jab this afternoon. And I'm not yet 55. :)
 
So having booked via the online portal, I have since had my GP surgery text me, inviting me to book, and then today a local medical centre rang me inviting me to go there!
 
Just got the text. Clicked on the link, had a choice of 4 places to get jabbed. Chose the most suitable at a reasonable time, so come Tuesday, I'll be a statistic, thankfully in the
right column!
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There seems to be no reason to this age thing - many of those being vaccinated at the centre where I was helping at on Thursday looked well under 50. And one who was visiting the doctor and who looked (and probably was) well over 75 had only had hers 3 weeks ago...... Mr RR (60) is having his on Tuesday - a reasonable run out to a mass vaccination center where I will be helping later in the week, but he could have picked somewhere much further (meanwhile he has also had a letter from his practice inviting him for a jab)
 
Ebenezer said:
So I'm an old b'stard now :( but also due to get mine at the end of March.... And only 2 miles away (unfortunately)
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I was booked in for mine in the middle of next week, a pleasant 20-mile drive away, but now my GP has told me to get it today in the town 5 miles away. So I have cancelled next week and am going in today. Seems odd that there are overlapping 'national' and 'local' schemes, but I'm just doing what I am told, like the sheep that I am.
 
Wanderer said:
Slightly worrying....

Waiting for my blood clot. I always suspected UK rushed these vaccines out with out due diligence probably to try and get one over the more cautious EU vaccine plan.....

www.bbc.co.uk

Covid-19: NI to keep using AstraZeneca jab after Irish suspension

The Republic of Ireland stops using the vaccine after reports of blood clotting in adults in Norway.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Apparently, there is no indication that blood clots are happening any more frequently than normal. A large number of those who are susceptible to clotting have had the AZ vaccine and the number of embolism cases is typical for this time of year.

I'm more concerned about that the reduction in physical activity caused by lock-downs will have an adverse effect on embolism cases in the future.
 
30 cases of DVT in 5 million european jabs or around 0.000006% and the Irish give up? How many of though Deep Thrombosis events were due to other conditions. Sounds Political to me.
 
RoaryRati said:
There seems to be no reason to this age thing - many of those being vaccinated at the centre where I was helping at on Thursday looked well under 50. And one who was visiting the doctor and who looked (and probably was) well over 75 had only had hers 3 weeks ago...... Mr RR (60) is having his on Tuesday - a reasonable run out to a mass vaccination center where I will be helping later in the week, but he could have picked somewhere much further (meanwhile he has also had a letter from his practice inviting him for a jab)
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Could be folk with other conditions?
I got my first jab (AstraZeneca) last Saturday, I turned 39 two days later. I’m asthmatic.

Side effect wise, I woke up the next day with muscle pains all over, felt like I’d done a proper work out the day before, something my body doesn’t recognise this side of lockdown....
 
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