Yes, but they've only opened boosters to over 30s.
My question is if you're under 30, but had your second dose over 6 months ago - can you get your booster now? Or we'll just get it whenever it opens for the age group.
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Yes, but they've only opened boosters to over 30s.
My question is if you're under 30, but had your second dose over 6 months ago - can you get your booster now? Or we'll just get it whenever it opens for the age group.
Ah sorry, shouldn’t post when I’ve just woken up (some people would say I shouldn’t post at all).
I don’t think it will be available for under 30s just yet, but it may be worth trying to book on the NHS website as it may let you. Allowed me to book mine yesterday (31) even though the site says it was only available for over 40s.
Surely it was always available to over 30s... If they live with someone vulnerable (thats what its said on the website when ive checked multiple times).
Im not booking booster until it officially lets me
I’ve tried before and it hasn’t let me.
Apparently it is opening up to over 30s this week.
Some walk-in centres apparently will do anybody over 6 months and any over 40 who's past 3 months. It seems to depend where you are - the Reddit group https://www.reddit.com/r/GetJabbed?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share lists several London sites this weekend, plus others in cities like Manchester, Southampton and even Harrogate.
Vaccine busses are often good bets as well if there's one local.
I think it's all a bit hit or miss though. If the queue isn't too big, if there's a doctor or someone on site who can override the computer checklist, if they've got jabs waiting that they need to get through by the end of the day then they do it.
I’m starting to get cautiously optimistic about omicron. The data out of South Africa is getting more and more reassuring.
Exactly. I’m going to really struggle to bite my tongue any more when I hear people spouting utter shit.
It really brings it home when you see the hospitalisation numbers each day and think that all those people have families that are going through everything we’ve dealt with the last 24 hours. And that’s happening on a daily basis, yet people still can’t bother to wear a mask for 5 minutes in a shop.
Got my booster this morning after seeing the post from @jojojo yesterday. Moderna after my two AZ at the beginning of the year. Haven’t seen any studies on efficacy for those but assuming broadly similar to the AZ and Pfizer study
Seen suggestions that appears to suggest in some regions in SA the variant has peaked and deaths are tracking at 25x lower than at similar time in curve with Delta
Jesus if that’s true that would be incredible. We still need to manage the curve so hospitals aren’t overwhelmed and can treat those who do get sick but at 25x less deadly it would be much less dangerous than your average flu.
I’m getting cautiously optimistic about it now.
Covid-19 and the Common Cold had a baby, and now the baby is spreading peace and joy and runny noses across the world. It's a Chris Armas miracle.
There's a bit of caution needed in interpreting the SA numbers. A lot of them are using "reporting date" not specimen date - which means the data is prone to sudden leaps and drops as batches of results from labs, hospitals etc come in. The central database has been going through some upgrades as well to deal with IT problems.
That said, there's data coming from individual hospitals and regional hospital boards that suggest that fewer people hospitalised for covid are going on to die from it. Again though, there's a need for caution - most cases and admissions there are in younger people right now. There's also a question mark about which of the listed patients are in hospital because of covid and which ones are there for a different reason, but have covid (in some hospitals this is the bigger group).
It is good news so far though (at least for anyone who is either vaxxed or had a previous infection) so we can only hope it stays that way. There are now lots of covid cases in lots of countries - we'll soon know a lot more about it.
Interesting. How long after reporting data does specimen data come through?
In the UK it takes between 1 and 3 days for almost all cases to appear, and there's a fairly predictable pattern of how many cases are missing each day. SA is similar but the predictability is worse at the moment because the numbers have been moving too fast, and they've been adding lots of extra test capacity.
News from SA is reassuring though.
This is one of the attempts to use specimen date data and scale it for later arrival of results based on typical reporting lags:
Cases do seem to be stabilising and hospitalisations don't seem to be as common or as long as were needed for Delta. It may be good news for other countries with a lot of immunity already in the population - whether through past infection or vaccination. The UK is in that category.
It might not look mild at all if you haven't had it and haven't been vaxxed.
You won’t be able to book online until your age group (under 30’s) opens up.
It might be worth calling your GP and seeing whether they can fit you in now though.
Omicron? I hardly knew her!
I've been eating mackerel and salmon every day since 2016 for Omega 3. Since the pandemic started I haven't had so much as a cold. I am unvaccinated. I have heard people talk about Vitamin D. Recently I googled Vitamin D food sources and found this on NHS
Sources include:
Does this mean anything at all? Have I got a good immune system? Or am I just really lucky?
If Omicron is mild and becomes the dominant variant, please explain why people still want me to be vaccinated?
Sources include:
- oily fish – such as salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel
- red meat
- liver
- egg yolks
- fortified foods – such as some fat spreads and breakfast cereals
Does this mean anything at all? Have I got a good immune system? Or am I just really lucky?
If Omicron is mild and becomes the dominant variant, please explain why people still want me to be vaccinated?
not potentially dying from covid is one of the main plus points
Don't be daft, the fish meat makes him immune.
For me it boils down to 3 things.
1) Stops me getting sick or potentially severely sick even though I’m a young healthy person.
2) Stops me picking it up and spreading it to people that would be in deep shit if they caught it.
3) I do my bit in stopping new variants developing because that happens when transmission is high and vaccination combats that transmission.
Please anyone set me straight if I’m off the mark on the third point.
It means nothing.
You’re not even particularly lucky. Social distancing completely suppressed the usual colds and flus last winter. They’re coming back this time round but mainly spreading in schools. So unless you have kids/hang out with kids then you’re probably avoiding them again. People have got pretty good about not coming into work or going out on the piss with a heavy cold so chances are we’ll all have much fewer viral illnesses from now on.
As for covid, even though cases have been extremely high for a while now it doesn’t take much luck to avoid coming in contact with it. We’re still just about at the stage where you would be considered unlucky to end up in close proximity with a covid case.
Because you’re not vaccinated your luck will be seriously tested if/when you do come in contact with covid. It’s a hell of a lot more likely to put you in intensive care than someone who is vaccinated. Even if they’ve never had an omega 3 or vitamin D supplement in their life.
On balance it’s probably a tick for the positive column
Do or do not, covid is no lie.
I’ve driven a lot but have never been involved in a car crash. I too wondered if I was fortunate, or whether the risk of car crashes was just good ol’ media hysteria, but I then realised it all comes down to my spectacular eyesight fortified by all of the essential vitamins I take. I now feel emboldened to take as many risks on the road as I feel like because I’m practically superhuman.
Fingers crossed.
I did a parachute jump once and didn’t die. Either the MSM are lying about the risk of jumping out of aeroplanes or the full Irish breakfast I had that morning has powerful life saving properties.
The news coming out of South Africa is getting more and more encouraging every day. They may even have already reached the peak of their omicron wave.
Confused Manchester Yoda is
Trust the good old Irish sausages!
I did a parachute jump once and didn’t die. Either the MSM are lying about the risk of jumping out of aeroplanes or the full Irish breakfast I had that morning has powerful life saving properties.
Humanity has been extremely fortunate that this appears to be heading towards natural herd immunity through mass infection with mild disease. It could have been so much worse
If he bangs a high-vis vest on as well, he'll outlive us all!
To be fair, I think he's overlooked the built-in social distancing effect oily fish-breath has.
There is a queue to book/ manage an appointment online in the UK:
Would be really good news to start off 2022 with, let's hope so but a few weeks behind them of course.
That doesn't apply to Wales though does it? We've been told to wait to be called.
He must be stuck on one of the quiz questions and needs help from the public in the Q&A
Ha - I'm booked in for the 30th but my brother is this week and younger than me - I had covid 30 odd days ago mind so that might explain it. I'd just get it as soon as possible that's all if it were available.Natural sheep reponse
Keep well people.
Sky saying it's just about booster rollout as the alert level has been raised.
No other restrictions