SaintHacker
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Both jabs booked! It appears it works better if you log in with your nhs number. If you dont know it you can request it through the nhs website
Other than the pensioners the vaccine is not being doled out in age group here, more to do with what job you have (i.e front line, essential workers, public sector & public services workers etc etc)
Vaccine supplies are very limited so working in a private sector office job I’ve no idea if I’ll even get one this year (can’t blame them but with countries like the UK over-ordering for current needs I don’t see that changing too quickly either & there will be plenty countries worse off than here, so globally this is here for the long haul ready to re-enter any country that thinks it has it beat)
Lol, website overloaded. What a surprise ??
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Both jabs booked! It appears it works better if you log in with your nhs number. If you dont know it you can request it through the nhs website]
That was quick!
Has the UK actually over-ordered?
Both jabs booked! It appears it works better if you log in with your nhs number. If you dont know it you can request it through the nhs website
Has the UK actually over-ordered?
That was quick!
Both jabs booked! It appears it works better if you log in with your nhs number. If you dont know it you can request it through the nhs website
Got my dates..
@Ethan .. my wife is an NHS key worker. She got her Pfizer back in Feb in Hampshire (near where she works). But no news on 2nd one. Our (Surrey based) GP has escalated but no cigar. Now 14 weeks but no idea what to do. She called Guildford hospital but they said they can do first one but not set up to give her second dose. I can understand it but Bonkers ..
Any idea on how to deal with this?
They were covering bases. Apparently we have already shipped some to Australia, they were struggling to get some thanks to our friends across the water, and we will pass out any extra once UK citizens have been jabbed. The core of any govt is to protect their own people, you can't blame them for this.As Ridgeman says 400 million. So enough to double dose every adult 4 times over. I've no proof that represents over-ordering but it appears to be
They were covering bases. Apparently we have already shipped some to Australia, they were struggling to get some thanks to our friends across the water, and we will pass out any extra once UK citizens have been jabbed. The core of any govt is to protect their own people, you can't blame them for this.
I don't expect us to sit on vaccines once we have reached the critical point. I think the UK is pretty good on this front, I would expect us to do our part.
There is a WHO scheme set up for countries to pile excess into that will then be distributed. It just wont happen on any scale yet. I doubt countries will cancel orders, gut feeling. I think they would rather have the excess and distribute it out than cancel the orders. Keeping the orders open allows for any variations that need a tweaked vaccine this winter.Yeah absolutely (I even said that exact same thing in my post) I was just saying that vaccines are in short supply here (and other countries) so no sign of me getting jagged anytime soon, & I don't see it improving much, especially if countries have excess on order
I doubt anyone's sitting on any surplus anyway but globally it probably needs to be tackled concurrently, so plenty countries with over-orders on the books will have to start to cancel some of these
Got my dates..
@Ethan .. my wife is an NHS key worker. She got her Pfizer back in Feb in Hampshire (near where she works). But no news on 2nd one. Our (Surrey based) GP has escalated but no cigar. Now 14 weeks but no idea what to do. She called Guildford hospital but they said they can do first one but not set up to give her second dose. I can understand it but Bonkers ..
Any idea on how to deal with this?
Sod’s law.. 2 hrs after posting here, got a call from GP surgery to get a booking.
They were covering bases. Apparently we have already shipped some to Australia, they were struggling to get some thanks to our friends across the water, and we will pass out any extra once UK citizens have been jabbed. The core of any govt is to protect their own people, you can't blame them for this.
I don't expect us to sit on vaccines once we have reached the critical point. I think the UK is pretty good on this front, I would expect us to do our part.
There is a WHO scheme set up for countries to pile excess into that will then be distributed. It just wont happen on any scale yet. I doubt countries will cancel orders, gut feeling. I think they would rather have the excess and distribute it out than cancel the orders. Keeping the orders open allows for any variations that need a tweaked vaccine this winter.
On the bright side for you, you may not have a vaccine but your island seems to be pretty covid free and you have been able to play golf, go to bars, send annoyingly attractive pictures of blue sea and beaches, whilst we have been living like miserable hermits. The vaccine is the next step though, I hope it reaches you soon