WHEN WILL I GET MY COVID VACCINATION?

[piglette]

This calculator gives you an estimate of when you might get your vaccine if you live in England.

omnicalculator.com/health/v...

[HeronNS]

I wonder if this will change (improve) now that the Oxford vaccine has been approved?

[piglette in reply to HeronNS]

They are assuming a million vaccines a week.

[HeronNS in reply to piglette]

Amazing really, when you think about it!

[piglette in reply to HeronNS]

They are talking about doing them in village halls.

[HeronNS in reply to piglette]

All hands on deck!

[MrsNails in reply to piglette]

Terry remembers the Emergency Clinics for Polio when he was little at the local Civic Centre......

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Doesn't matter WHERE they do them - like the Nightingale hospitals they still require qualified people to staff them!!

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

Apparently 40,000 qualified people have volunteered but are being asked to go through hoops, so are just saying forget it. One recently retired senior consultant was told he could probably help out in the car park. I also heard they were dismantling some of the Nightingale hospitals.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Some of the Nightingales were already emptied of beds and ventilators, only the one in Exeter has ever had any patients! You can't run extra hospitals of any sort without staff ...

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

I think the London one had 51 patients at one point! It seems it and the six others in England are now being readied for use with the army helping out. While the one in Manchester is currently only letting in patients who do not have Covid.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

I would have thought they might have used them for recovering patients who need less medical care and more support. Here they set up units for people with Covid who didn't need medical care as such to be isolated - to guarantee they isolated ... And in Hong Kong all incoming travellers who tested positive were isolated in hotels so they knew where they were. Not sent home on the tube/train to maybe stay at home. I saw something the other day that reckoned that compliance was only about 20%.

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

The management of the whole thing is unbelievably bad. 750,000 volunteers mostly not contacted. 40,00 professionals mostly not contacted. Interesting about compliance.

[Lonsdalelass in reply to PMRpro]

It's a bit concerning when I got a text from St John's ambulance (I did a paediatric first aid course with them a few years back due to work) asking for volunteers to help out with administering the vaccine... Even to actually GIVE the vaccine to others, they said training would be given, but........ I've never had to inject anyone before, don't think I could do it. And wouldn't the person receiving the jab expect a professional medical person to do it??? I'm afraid I would.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Lonsdalelass]

The text was probably the same for everyone and there would be some volunteers who are qualified HCPs - nurses and paramedics for example. I hope ...

[Lonsdalelass in reply to PMRpro]

Yes, I hope so too!

[Marymon in reply to HeronNS]

Scientists have told government the virus can only be controlled with 2 million a week. Not holding my breath on that one.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Marymon]

No - me neither!!!!

[Smokygirl]

My hubby is 86 and vulnerable and still hasn’t been offered a vaccine yet!

[Lonsdalelass in reply to Smokygirl]

My mum's the same, 84 and extremely vulnerable. Heard nothing as yet. My mother in law, who is 91, had her first one just before Christmas, so looks like they haven't started the 80-90 age group yet.

[herdysheep in reply to Lonsdalelass]

My mother at 96 with heart history is still waiting

[Tonylynn]

A friend who has recently turned 80 had her vaccination on Xmas eve. Said whole process was very efficient.

[piglette in reply to Tonylynn]

They say that the vaccination side is a lot more efficient than the track and trace.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Not what you'd call difficult! Not least because it is being run and set up by the NHS itself ...

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

Is that good or bad news?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

I'd say it was good ...

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

I think I agree with the media!

But hold on. We have the vaccine, yet now we need to roll it out as quickly as possible. So why are we simply handing over the programme to a lumbering, nationalised health bureaucracy, and making it a monopoly of the state? In truth, we should tap into the same energy and creativity that created the vaccine to get it injected into everyone’s arms at lightning speed. This is far too important to leave to the Government.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Ah, but the NHS is good at this bit rolling out jabs and isn't the gubmint. THEY like the private sector - and look what they did to T&T, they kept calling it NHS T&T but it wasn't ...

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

I just hope you are right.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Though it will help if they get their heads out of their anatomy about using retired healthcare professionals who WANT to help but the red tape about CPD and radicalisation checks is putting them off!

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

Looks like they are asking for the army's help which is not a bad idea.