Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Tashyboy said:
Had a phone call off the NHS track and trace team. They were after Missis T but she was still tucked up in bed so I answered the questions.
He said “ I know it sounds a silly question but will you isolate for the duration “. “ of course we will” I said. He then said” you would be surprised how many don't”.?
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My brother has been getting around 3 calls a day from track and trace since he got tested positive.
 
Got to say that seeing the Corona cases that are being reported at the moment, couple with this new strain. Ave an horrible feeling the poo is gonna hit the fan within a week when the Xmas infection rates take effect. Hope am wrong.
 
Tashyboy said:
Got to say that seeing the Corona cases that are being reported at the moment, couple with this new strain. Ave an horrible feeling the poo is gonna hit the fan within a week when the Xmas infection rates take effect. Hope am wrong.
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Don’t think you will be. Another 55k today
 
I do view with scepticism the online vaccination calculator, referred to by some here a week or so ago. But having looked a fortnight ago and again today, some basic maths is already starting to cause me some concern.

Based on my details, when I last looked the calculator suggested a vaccination date for me some time between February and the end of March. Inputting exactly the same information now, it is saying some time between late June and mid-September. And that’s based on one million jabs a week (currently nowhere near), with me being in the priority group of recipients, as I have an underlying condition.

Early days, but if remotely accurate it would suggest some rapid acceleration of the roll out is needed if the priority categories, never mind everyone else, are going to be vaccinated by next winter.
 
Kaz said:
When I looked a week or so ago it was projecting June for me. Now looking like 2022. It's not encouraging and, as you say, the actual vaccination rate isn't even at the million/week they are basing their estimates on. :(
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Having just input some creative details ( I’ve morphed into a 95 year old care home resident who shielded because of an underlying condition), it is still saying April.

Having looked closer at it, the calculator is now indicating when people will have received BOTH doses of a two shot vaccine, so incorporates at least a 12 week delay given the current approach.

I think it’s time to sack off the calculator, sit back and simply wait to get the call. Worrying about it won’t change anything.
 
Billysboots said:
Having just input some creative details ( I’ve morphed into a 95 year old care home resident who shielded because of an underlying condition), it is still saying April.

Having looked closer at it, the calculator is now indicating when people will have received BOTH doses of a two shot vaccine, so incorporates at least a 12 week delay given the current approach.

I think it’s time to sack off the calculator, sit back and simply wait to get the call. Worrying about it won’t change anything.
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The vaccine is not really aimed at us healthy ones though - it’s more about getting those vunerable ones and health care workers etc protected in the first instance to help us start to get back to a bit more normality

I don’t think people under 50 will start to get it until late in the year
 
No room in ICU. We have every bed taken. Nowhere else to escalate to now. Not sure what the plan is other than trying to move the less seriously ill patients in the hospital to other trusts but Monday is looking like a day from hell before I get in
 
Liverpoolphil said:
The vaccine is not really aimed at us healthy ones though - it’s more about getting those vunerable ones and health care workers etc protected in the first instance to help us start to get back to a bit more normality

I don’t think people under 50 will start to get it until late in the year
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Totally agree, but I’m in the 16-64 with an underlying condition bracket, so reasonably high up the list.

The Oxford roll out will doubtless help, but this really does need to be all hands on deck to speed the process up.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
The vaccine is not really aimed at us healthy ones though - it’s more about getting those vunerable ones and health care workers etc protected in the first instance to help us start to get back to a bit more normality

I don’t think people under 50 will start to get it until late in the year
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Too right. They said recently if they vaccinate as many as they can over 50 and underlying conditions the NHs can deal with the rest if they get it
 
Trying to calm Mrs SILH down at the moment as she’s not long off the phone with a friend who has her youngest at a local private school and as he has a kid in their class whose parents are GPs her friend reckons the GPs will sort it so that the teachers at the private school get prioritised for getting vaccinated. My Mrs blew her top when her friend suggested that she was being naive to think it wouldn’t happen as money always speaks and will speak in getting the vaccine to those who have the money. My Mrs is still steaming...
 
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Trying to calm Mrs SILH down at the moment as she’s not long off the phone with a friend who has her youngest at a local private school and as he has a kid in their class whose parents are GPS her friend reckons the GPs will sort it so that the teachers at the private school get prioritised for getting vaccinated. My Mrs blew her top when her friend suggested that she was being naive to think it wouldn’t happen as money always speaks and will speak in getting the vaccine to those who have the money. My Mrs is still steaming...
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I think any GP who prioritises anyone on anything other than medical grounds will find themselves deep in the smelly stuff with the GMC.
 
Billysboots said:
I think any GP who prioritises anyone on anything other than medical grounds will find themselves deep in the smelly stuff with the GMC.
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It depends if the private sector can source the vaccine from the manufacturer.
“It dosnt take anything from the NHS.”
That’s the standard drivel when people want to use money to jump the que.
 
Billysboots said:
I think any GP who prioritises anyone on anything other than medical grounds will find themselves deep in the smelly stuff with the GMC.
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Which is what my Mrs said...but no - her friend is convinced that the GP parents will ensure the teachers at that school will get their vaccinations in advance of any wider state school teacher vaccination programme.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Which is what my Mrs said...but no - her friend is convinced that the GP parents will ensure the teachers at that school will get their vaccinations in advance of any wider state school teacher vaccination programme.
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Nothing being released into the private sector according to the manufacturer's. I'm sure some crooked people out there will try it on.
 
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