10 weeks?
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- Lemon Quarter
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10 weeks?
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?
Paul
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?
Paul
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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!
So much for the notion they're prioritising older folks!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
Hmmm that seems highly rubbishy.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!
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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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: 10 weeks?
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.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!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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.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.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!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
Using the booking website swerves all that.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.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.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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).Mike4 wrote:Using the booking website swerves all that.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.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
The policy is to give second doses 12 weeks after the first, not 10.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.
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver ... s-too-long
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
12 weeks after the 20th of January is the 14th of April.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!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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.
So much for prioritising older folks.
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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).UncleEbenezer wrote: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).Mike4 wrote: Using the booking website swerves all that.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... ccination/
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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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
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.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.
It's almost certainly a local problem.
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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: 10 weeks?
Would that be the novichok vaccine then?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!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....GrahamPlatt wrote:Would that be the novichok vaccine then?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!
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- Lemon Half
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Re: 10 weeks?
Delivery by umbrella or atomizer has it's appeal!Mike4 wrote:Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....GrahamPlatt wrote: Would that be the novichok vaccine then?
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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: 10 weeks?
Wasn't it also delivery by door knob (on Sergei Skripal's front door) in Salisbury?servodude wrote:Delivery by umbrella or atomizer has it's appeal!Mike4 wrote: Probably. Its very popular around here by all accounts....
- Julian