Coronavirus discussion thread

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Tim of Fife Aug 2021 7:17pm, 4 Aug 2021 3,504 posts	0 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.
Rosehip Aug 2021 8:12pm, 4 Aug 2021 22,002 posts	0 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
Rosehip Aug 2021 8:13pm, 4 Aug 2021 22,003 posts	0 Rosehip (1 = 17 above, of course)
HellsBells Aug 2021 8:21pm, 4 Aug 2021 28,174 posts	0 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
Rosehip Aug 2021 8:35pm, 4 Aug 2021 22,004 posts	0 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+
HellsBells Aug 2021 8:45pm, 4 Aug 2021 28,175 posts	0 HellsBells Does this help? blmkccg.nhs.uk
Rosehip Aug 2021 9:00pm, 4 Aug 2021 22,006 posts	0 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
DocM Aug 2021 9:15pm, 4 Aug 2021 42,670 posts	0 DocM same here you cant book the main vacc site in stevenage but you can go as a walk in
Rosehip Aug 2021 9:34pm, 4 Aug 2021 22,007 posts	0 Rosehip It's daft.
Little Miss Happy Aug 2021 6:25am, 5 Aug 2021 4,803 posts	0 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.