Coronavirus discussion thread
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Aug 2021
7:17pm, 4 Aug 2021
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Tim of Fife
Off to Fringe Event tomorrow happily clutching our NHS LFT negative result texts. Remaining test kits will now 'dust gather' in a cupboard lol. |
Aug 2021
8:12pm, 4 Aug 2021
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Rosehip
So, 16 and 1 year olds can soon book their jabs. Has anyone else struggled with recent booking? I still can't get a local centre for youngest - who turns 18 next week. The system did offer me Stevenage for the first jab, but then couldn't find me anywhere closer than Gerrards Cross for the second. Seeing as there were two centres in Biggleswade, several in Bedford and Cambridge I'm wondering where they've all gone. HB - are you doing drop ins for 18 year olds? if so I'll bring him next week |
Aug 2021
8:13pm, 4 Aug 2021
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Rosehip
(1 = 17 above, of course)
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Aug 2021
8:21pm, 4 Aug 2021
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HellsBells
Walk ins every day for 17 and 9 months + I’m at Chesterton next Wednesday and Grafton Friday, but may have to cancel the Friday |
Aug 2021
8:35pm, 4 Aug 2021
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Rosehip
thank you - doubt he'll want it on his birthday though. Can't work out where to find out about the walk-in centres, the info for Bedford seems to have gone from the website and definitely used to say 18+ |
Aug 2021
8:45pm, 4 Aug 2021
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HellsBells
Does this help? blmkccg.nhs.uk |
Aug 2021
9:00pm, 4 Aug 2021
22,006 posts
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Rosehip
It does - I just found that to Central beds used to have that info on their website and it's gone/moved. Says 18+ but I can take him to Biggy next week - just can't book Biggy on the NHS site. Why it has to be such a muddle communications-wise I have no idea. Youngest is the only one of us who actually got the blue envelope with an invite before he's had the jab and Eldest the only one contacted by the GP |
Aug 2021
9:15pm, 4 Aug 2021
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DocM
same here you cant book the main vacc site in stevenage but you can go as a walk in
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Aug 2021
9:34pm, 4 Aug 2021
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Rosehip
It's daft.
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Aug 2021
6:25am, 5 Aug 2021
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Little Miss Happy
The guidance about needing to have paediatric life support equipment/qualified personnel and level three safeguarding onsite was proving a bit of an issue for us when it came to vaccinating younger people yesterday. It's all very well Boris saying 'you can' but if they haven't worked out the logistics of having the right people and equipment in the right place for it to happen we can't.
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Useful Links
FE accepts no responsibility for external links. Or anything, really.- BBC Radio 4 series "How to vaccinate the world", by Tim Harford
- BMJ (British Medical Journal) coronavirus hub: research and clinical guidance
- The Lancet's COVID-19 resource centre
- Covid-19 vaccine FAQ from the New England Journal of Medicine
- FAQs from the Royal Statistical Society - context around all the data on Covid-19
- UK vaccine tracker: up to date visualisations on the progress of the UK programme. Data from PHE.
- Daily summary from the UK Government
- Vaccine Knowledge Project - Covid-19 vaccines
- ONS data on Covid-19 with age and geographic breakdowns
- A guide to Covid-19 tests from the Royal College of Pathologists
- Vaccinaid: a chance to help Unicef vaccinate other nations
- Long Covid treatments: why the world is still waiting (Aug 2022)
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