Booster Jabs

[Therunaround11]

Apologies if this has been done to death but I haven't landed on this board for sometime now. With regards to the booster jabs, will group 6 still be allegable? I'm under 50.

[twinkly29]

Groups 1-9 are supposed to all being offered boosters but not until 6 months after the date of the second dose.

[Claire_ALUK Partner ALUK Asthma Nurse]

Hi Therunaround11, this is taken from our website:

Booster vaccine

Who can get the booster vaccine?

The government has announced a COVID-19 vaccine booster programme this autumn to give those at higher risk extra protection this winter.

The following people will be eligible for a single dose of the booster vaccine:

Older adults living in residential care homes

Everyone over the age of 50

Frontline health and social care workers

People aged 16 to 49 with an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk of severe COVID-19

Adult carers

People aged 16 and over who live someone who is immunosuppressed.

Some people with asthma will fall into the priority groups for the booster vaccine. For example, if you are over 50 or a frontline health and social care worker.

You will also be eligible if your asthma is poorly controlled.

What does poorly controlled asthma mean?

The British Thoracic Society defines poorly controlled asthma in adults and children 12 and over as:

Two or more courses of steroid tablets in the last 24 months OR

Taking steroid tablets every day for asthma OR

One or more hospital admission for asthma in the last 24 months.

If you’re eligible, you will be invited for a booster jab at least six months after your second COVID-19 vaccine. Boosters will be given in order or priority ( groups 1 – 9).

Most people will have the Pfizer vaccine for the booster (regardless of which vaccine they had for your first and second doses). A half dose of the Moderna vaccine has also been approved for use.

[Therunaround11]

Many thanks to you both.

[Naturesvalley]

I think you have to wait and see if you receive an invitation from the nhs or your gp regarding the booster. I got mine from my gp. But also got a text from the nhs saying I was on the priority list.