3rd or booster

[Belfastbees]

I am chasing up my status regarding 3rd + booster or just 2 + booster. I had 2 AZ early 2022 and a pfizer 'booster' on 1/11. I didn't care so much what they called it as I understood the dose was the same, and further that yes its a half dose for moderna booster over moderna 3rd primary dose. So my haematology dept got in touch today and this lady said she wasn't sure could I now get a booster as I'd already had it, and that it was a reduced dose.

I think she's wrong, no offence to the lady but I'd expect her to know so please put me right.

Is there a distinction between the Pfizer when administered as a 3rd dose or as a booster?

She is checking with the hospital vaccination coordinator where I can get a fresh shot. As I told her, and have said here, I'm more concerned that I am recorded correctly for WHEN I become infected more than getting the 4th shot/ booster.

What I'm experiencing suggests I may not be.

[JigFettler Volunteer]

Admin issue. (Not our admin team of course!)

Pfizer 3rd dose = Pfizer booster.

If you call yr 3rd jab a dose, you can have a booster.

I had AZ x 2

Pfizer x 2

Infact Pfizer is used in cases where its uncertain whether a 3rd dose or booster needed. As in cases of drug induced immune impairment and that is dose of drug depending (nightmare - 1000s going thru vacc centres)

Moderna clearly would be problematic in this case.

Your GP or Haematologist can override and fix this for you.

Jig

[Belfastbees in reply to JigFettler]

Thanks, just as I understood then.

[cllady01 Former Volunteer]

See the following link: (scroll to September 22, "The difference between a booster jab and the third dose") which may help you, or still confuse the issue:

news.cancerresearchuk.org/2...

[Annie1920]

As I understand it we are eligible for 4th dose.. But nhs database for vaccines doesn't have the facility to record 3rd dose as such only as a boosterI took a note from my gp to say I needed a 4th dose to a walk in centre when it was due and I had no problems getting a full dose Pfizer jab.. Which BTW wad recorded as a second booster on the computer!! Try your gp for a note I have found hematology aren't that up to date with Covid ins nd outs

[Fran57]

Hi. I feel your frustration! We were in the same situation for my husband .He was due a 4th jab at the end of December, but his records showed he had already had the booster 🤦‍♀️.

It took me a few weeks of asking, but eventually our GP practice was able to book him in for a 4th.

I get the impression that so many people had been asking that they now understood, or maybe instructions were filtering through at last…

Good luck!

I am now fighting to try to get him a priority Covid test to keep at home and am praying that he will be able to access the antibodies if it becomes necessary.

Stay safe,

Fran 😷

[Belfastbees]

Things do seem to be coming together, but like so many on here, I've had to chase after it. Its necessary of course but I feel these are busy people and this shouldnt need to be done if it was done right in the first place.

I have receieved notification that my PCR kit is due to be delivered today. I'll update as to what it is. I will be very surprised if its identified as a priority test but at least I will have a kit.

I feel fortunate and still hope I will fair OK but that its foolhardy not to have things in place.

I feel great empathy to those who may not be so clinically in as good a position and still struggling to get this addressed.

Best of luck to all.

EDIT::::

PCR kit has arrived, initially optomistic as it was in a purple bag but have found nothing to say it is a priotity kit. Still so long as the testing isnt overwhelmed I guess I wont see a delay in getting a result.

[Annie1920 in reply to Belfastbees]

Same as mine was too.. Think the purple bag may be for standard tests to keep by just in case.. They promised me a priority test but it was a preregistered test in a purple bag that turned up sadly

[SERVrider]

I've been very lucky; I had 1st and 2nd O-AZ last year. Then I got an e-mail from NHS England calling me for a 3rd primary which was Pfizer-Biontech in October. Then three months and one day after my 3rd Primary, I got a 'phone call offering me my 4th so I had it a day later and this one was also Pfizer-Biontech. My record showed all 3 previous vaccinations and 2 days after the 4th, my NHS vaccination passport showed all 4 with batch numbers and doses.

[Peggy4]

Have had all 4 shots. Each full dose Pfizer.Peggy

[sun_flower in reply to Peggy4]

Managed to get my 4th booked for tomorrow,and red PCR test kit delivered yesterday 🙌

[Peggy4 in reply to sun_flower]

That’s great! 🎉