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    Had my Covid jab on Friday.

    Got called in to my Dr's and had the Astra Zeneca jab on Friday evening - follow up in 12 weeks.

    Hopefully by the summer we can get back to something approaching normal as the speed of vaccinations in England seems to be going well.

    Anyone else had theirs yet?
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    Mats had a bears a few weeks back, nil side effects bar a dead arm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Middo View Post
    Mats had a bears a few weeks back, nil side effects bar a dead arm
    Eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Middo View Post
    Mats had a bears a few weeks back, nil side effects bar a dead arm
    And is still shotting in teh woods, but is arms aok.

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    My mum had the astra Zeneca yesterday also - just hope the vaccines can handle mutations. Would be a disaster if the vaccines ended up being impotent

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    Quote Originally Posted by RustyBin5 View Post
    My mum had the astra Zeneca yesterday also - just hope the vaccines can handle mutations. Would be a disaster if the vaccines ended up being impotent
    I have read the Astra Zeneca can deal with the new mutations so hopefully all's well.
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    I should be up in a fortnight or so. The rate they are dishing them out is a credit to all concerned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hilly10 View Post
    I should be up in a fortnight or so. The rate they are dishing them out is a credit to all concerned.
    Yes indeed.
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    I've got the attestation stating that I'm high priority, but you can't get a jab on this side of the channel (NW France) for love nor money. You can't even book an appointment at the moment due to the lack of vaccines (and possibly the capacity to get the jabs administered).

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    Both my parents got theirs last week. I know it’s not a magic cure but the relief was immeasurable. I’m late thirties so don’t expect mine anytime soon. And I’m fine with that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by catflem View Post
    I've got the attestation stating that I'm high priority, but you can't get a jab on this side of the channel (NW France) for love nor money. You can't even book an appointment at the moment due to the lack of vaccines (and possibly the capacity to get the jabs administered).
    Sorry to hear that mate.

    Have heard that vaccinations are far slower on most of the continent.

    Hope you get fixed up soon.
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    My moan today in the pit

    “Poxy NHS
    Had my first Covid vaccination booked for 12.00 today it’s blowing a blizzard but i dig the car out i am looking like a reject from Scott’s expedition but i soldier on get to the Hospital find the unit and some tosser emerges and says we are closed
    What i say have you never heard of communications? e mail, phone or text all on my records and on my confirmation of this appointment.”

    Got home and rebooked for Friday SWMBO had hers last Friday and all good so far 2nd April 23rd.
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    Quote Originally Posted by catflem View Post
    I've got the attestation stating that I'm high priority, but you can't get a jab on this side of the channel (NW France) for love nor money. You can't even book an appointment at the moment due to the lack of vaccines (and possibly the capacity to get the jabs administered).
    You gotta love that Mr. Macron....

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    Quote Originally Posted by hilly10 View Post
    I should be up in a fortnight or so. The rate they are dishing them out is a credit to all concerned.
    They did promise a world leading vaccination programme and it is heartening to see it being delivered. What an amazing effort by all and my appreciation to the volunteers, staff, services & all concerned is beyond words.

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    We had our first Pfizer shot on Wednesday and had a sore arm for about 36 hours.
    Our second shot booked for 11 weeks time.

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    Had mine tonight - Oxford AZ. I'm awaiting the illness through the night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil.C View Post
    Got called in to my Dr's and had the Astra Zeneca jab on Friday evening - follow up in 12 weeks.

    Hopefully by the summer we can get back to something approaching normal as the speed of vaccinations in England seems to be going well.

    Anyone else had theirs yet?
    My old man had his, same jab, on Friday. He’s had a continuously runny nose from yesterday afternoon and is starting to feel a little run down, but otherwise fine. He’s already booked in for his 2nd. Here we are sticking to the 3 to 4 weeks between the 1st and 2nd jabs.
    It's just a matter of time...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Omegamanic View Post
    My old man had his, same jab, on Friday. He’s had a continuously runny nose from yesterday afternoon and is starting to feel a little run down, but otherwise fine. He’s already booked in for his 2nd. Here we are sticking to the 3 to 4 weeks between the 1st and 2nd jabs.
    Glad to hear it.

    No side effects here apart from a mild arm ache.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil.C View Post

    No side effects here apart from a mild arm ache.
    Excellent - hopefully the second will be similar and without anything adverse. Sounds like most people are absolutely fine. A work colleague that also works at the local hospital had his last week, and he had to take a day off feeling unwell and severe headaches (he’s never usually ill) - but seemed to have settled down quickly, and nothing more than those symptoms.

    Ms O can call and have hers anytime, as priority one, working in the overall surgical dept at the local hospital.

    I’m not sure on the rest of the roll out, and I’m probably unlikely to be offered anything in the first half of this year.
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    It's just a matter of time...

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    High priority due to COPD I'm due to have my first vaccination on Friday, lots of hard working volunteers so I hear at the local surgery have also erected temporary after jab waiting room too.

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    A couple of my old school buddies (age 63) with no health issues have had theirs already, one in Scunthorpe and one in Birmingham. A friend in her late 60s has been called locally, so I’m looking forward to getting the call myself.......... sooner the better!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walkerwek1958 View Post
    A couple of my old school buddies (age 63) with no health issues have had theirs already, one in Scunthorpe and one in Birmingham. A friend in her late 60s has been called locally, so I’m looking forward to getting the call myself.......... sooner the better!
    63 with no health issues. My mother is 75 with bad asthma and other health issues and not had it yet.

    But we are in Wales so that is no shock, everything here is behind unless you happen to live in Cardiff.

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    Had mine 10 days ago. Very uplifting. Pfizer.

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    I had the Pfizer-BioNTech jab just over 3 weeks ago. 80 of us had an appointment at 2.30 and we were out before 3. They’d vaccinated 1200 already that day. Very slick and a credit to the NHS.

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    I am in mid Wales and I registered on the local health board site for a short notice appointment on 3rd February, late evening I got email asking if I could go next day.

    Arrived at the site 9am. Left at 11-50am with a puncture wound in my left arm. Slept most of the afternoon got up and ate food went back to sleep for a couple of hours. Arm ok but very achy body for next 24 hours.

    I had the Pfizer one.

    All fine now.

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    Mum had hers yesterday (Astrazeneca). Incidentally whilst it protects against the initial Kent strain it provides minimal protection against the South African Strain and the new mutated-mutated British strain with a further gene deletion (although should provide some protection against severe disease). Seems Pfizer provides a bit more protection so might be an idea to get that one if there is a choice before AstraZeneca have the revised Oxford vaccine after summer to deal with the new strains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Mum had hers yesterday (Astrazeneca). Incidentally whilst it protects against the initial Kent strain it provides minimal protection against the South African Strain and the new mutated-mutated British strain with a further gene deletion (although should provide some protection against severe disease). Seems Pfizer provides a bit more protection so might be an idea to get that one if there is a choice before AstraZeneca have the revised Oxford vaccine after summer to deal with the new strains.

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    Reuters piece on this here:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-h...fa87000190d7e4

    Brief version: AZ believes that their vaccine provides less defence against mild illness caused by the SA variant, but that it "could protect against severe disease, given that the neutralising antibody activity was equivalent to that of other COVID-19 vaccines that have demonstrated protection against severe disease."

    So: a good chance that it will keep SA variant-infected people out of hospital, but not necessarily prevent them spreading the disease to others.

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    Got my jab yesterday: AstraZeneca. Feel non specific lousy today but very pleased and grateful to have got it.

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    I had a text from my GP surgery last Thursday inviting me to phone.
    Got in touch immediately and secured an appointment for the AZ jab for Saturday.

    It was at a local school about 300 yards away.

    Very efficiently run.
    No pain from the injection these days.
    Elected my right arm being left handed.

    No second appointment offered.

    No side effects that day. No arm pain at all.
    Mild headache the following afternoon.

    Still had a mild headache the following day, so took two paracetamol. Headache gone in a few hours and not returned.

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    Our little lads best mate came over today for lunch, he got his first Pfizer last week due to being on the disabled/risk register, 16 years old, he didn't feel a thing he said, but that's youth for you I suppose. Follow up jab 21 days later.
    We'd suspected he'd have got the AZ one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rinaldo1711 View Post
    Got my jab yesterday: AstraZeneca. Feel non specific lousy today but very pleased and grateful to have got it.

    Just to add that within 24 hours I was right as rain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by monogroover View Post
    Reuters piece on this here:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-h...fa87000190d7e4

    Brief version: AZ believes that their vaccine provides less defence against mild illness caused by the SA variant, but that it "could protect against severe disease, given that the neutralising antibody activity was equivalent to that of other COVID-19 vaccines that have demonstrated protection against severe disease."

    So: a good chance that it will keep SA variant-infected people out of hospital, but not necessarily prevent them spreading the disease to others.
    Have the manufacturers of any of the other vaccines run and reported on similar trials?

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    Quote Originally Posted by monogroover View Post
    Reuters piece on this here:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-h...fa87000190d7e4

    Brief version: AZ believes that their vaccine provides less defence against mild illness caused by the SA variant, but that it "could protect against severe disease, given that the neutralising antibody activity was equivalent to that of other COVID-19 vaccines that have demonstrated protection against severe disease."

    So: a good chance that it will keep SA variant-infected people out of hospital, but not necessarily prevent them spreading the disease to others.
    Quote Originally Posted by PickleB View Post
    Have the manufacturers of any of the other vaccines run and reported on similar trials?
    They have now.

    Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have reduced effectiveness against South African variant:

    The two coronavirus vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna appear to be highly effective against the more transmissible variant of the virus first detected in Britain, according to new reports in the New England Journal of Medicine, in a potential boost to vaccination efforts around the globe.

    The vaccines, however, showed a decreased ability to neutralize the strain now dominant in South Africa, worrying some researchers and prompting Pfizer to announce it was taking necessary steps to develop a booster shot or updated vaccine.

    The new findings add to wider concerns about the South Africa variant, which recently showed significant resistance to the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University in a small-scale trial. Those results spurred South Africa’s government to scrap the vaccine in favor of the single-dose shot produced by Johnson & Johnson.

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    Just spotted this on BBC news and it made me smile:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-56111209

    "It really made me rethink what I was going to do for pancake night."

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    Be interesting to see if the Pfizer 2nd doses are held up for 12 weeks or come a little quicker say 4 to 6 weeks, this is what I'm hoping for...i've noticed one or two members refer to a first jab AND seond jab dates when contacted for AZ version..my folks and an aunt and uncle got Pfzer shots 3 weeks ago next Wednesday iirc, they are waiting to be contacted re 2nd shot...has anyone else noticed or have experience of this...It sounds as if Pfizer offers a little more protection crucially against the Saffer version. Perhaps be the pragmatic policy to move forward 2nd doses especially for oldster and vulnerables ON THE pfizer regimen to gain max benefit according or getting more in line with, to the manufacturers testing data and re3ccomended schedule for maximum efficacy., be guided as it were by the science, move adroitly to outflank the invisible mugger.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Passenger View Post
    Be interesting to see if the Pfizer 2nd doses are held up for 12 weeks or come a little quicker say 4 to 6 weeks, this is what I'm hoping for...i've noticed one or two members refer to a first jab AND seond jab dates when contacted for AZ version..my folks and an aunt and uncle got Pfzer shots 3 weeks ago next Wednesday iirc, they are waiting to be contacter re 2nd shot...has anyone else noticed or have experience of this...
    2nd Pfizer jab booked in at time of the first appointment round here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dejjl View Post
    2nd Pfizer jab booked in at time of the first appointment round here.
    Interesting and how long until 2nd out of interest...spoke to my Dad today, they're in Lincs, and they're definitely waitying to hear regards the following shot...

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    Wife had the Pfizer so i presume i will have the same when i go on this Friday both of our second shots are already in the system/ calendar working at around 12 weeks between them.
    I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE

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    Quote Originally Posted by mart broad View Post
    Wife had the Pfizer so i presume i will have the same when i go on this Friday both of our second shots are already in the system/ calendar working at around 12 weeks between them.
    Just out of curiosity has Mrs mb been fine..my folks haven't reported any even mild sypmtoms form their first shots, Pfizer...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Passenger View Post
    Be interesting to see if the Pfizer 2nd doses are held up for 12 weeks or come a little quicker say 4 to 6 weeks, this is what I'm hoping for...i've noticed one or two members refer to a first jab AND seond jab dates when contacted for AZ version..my folks and an aunt and uncle got Pfzer shots 3 weeks ago next Wednesday iirc, they are waiting to be contacted re 2nd shot...has anyone else noticed or have experience of this...It sounds as if Pfizer offers a little more protection crucially against the Saffer version. Perhaps be the pragmatic policy to move forward 2nd doses especially for oldster and vulnerables ON THE pfizer regimen to gain max benefit according or getting more in line with, to the manufacturers testing data and re3ccomended schedule for maximum efficacy., be guided as it were by the science.
    My parents & the inlaws have all had their Pfizer jabs & none have had a date for the 2nd jab - all informed it would be 12 weeks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENES View Post
    My parents & the inlaws have all had their Pfizer jabs & none have had a date for the 2nd jab - all informed it would be 12 weeks.
    OK thanks, so all we can say is there are some discrepancies which may well be, most likely are just down to the usual patchwork quilt set u.

    Any jabs has to be better than no jab though. Top work by all the folks delivering the vaccine.

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    AZ for me.

    First night woke up around 1am shaking uncontrollably with cold. Got up for a piss, but had to put a fleece on to make it. Left the fleece on when back in bed, but woke up roasting at 4.

    Back to normal now.

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    Having had both Pfizer Jabs and seen thousands done I wouldn’t hesitate if you are that way inclined but sadly this isn’t going away this year I’m afraid
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    When the booster dose of Pfizer is administered correctly, so 21 days after the first, it reportedly gives 80 per cent efficacy against even the Saffer strain.

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    Had mine yesterday way ahead of my expectations - Very good progress here in the NW. (mRNA Pfizer Vacc)

    Thanks to the med students from Liverpool Uni., The doctors and the volunteers that disinfected the seats and surrounds etc.


    Most impressed

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    Both over 80’s parents vaccinated with the Astrazeneca vaccine, five days later and no side affects.
    I live in Egham Surrey and the council is mass home testing all households to try to track the possible spread of the South African variant of Covid 19, we will get the results in 24 hours apparently!


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    Cheering me up reading most of these. Keep on jabbing people 😊

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    Got my 1st on Friday because I have been volunteering as a marshal at the local vaccination hub. Felt pretty lousy the following morning with no appetite, mild headache and tiredness. Oxford. I've heard some people get no reaction at all, and also that a reaction might mean you've seen the virus in a mild form previously, without necessarily knowing it. I don't know if there's any science in that.

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    January 11th my wife and I had the Pfizer, my wife and a few of the people including the staff who gave and received the vaccination where unwell for the next couple of days with mild covid symptom's.

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