Klonker wrote: » Is there any chance the government could look to take some other EU countries AZ/Oxford vaccines if they are struggling to get people to take them? It's great to see uptake so high here. I know we like to call our country backwards a lot (and rightly so sometimes) but everyone seems keen to get any vaccine they can get. I listen to some American podcasts and theres a lot of 'which vaccine did you get? Oh that's the good one, the others don't protect against the variants' Thankfully our non fussiness is working in our favour :pac:
anplaya27 wrote: » I got the az vaccination 1st dose Tuesday. Was initially grand then sick as anything. 2nd dose in 12 weeks.
Freaky wrote: » I got the astrazeneca jab on tuesday in Kerry (healthcare worker). The vaccination centre was extremely well operated and lovely staff who seemed as excited as I was that vaccinations were finally possible. Felt fine afterwards (got it at 4pm) but woke up at 1am feeling dreadful-- high fever but felt very cold, sweating, headache, couldnt sleep for the rest of the night. This continued for the following day, was improved with paracetamol and loads of water. Still couldnt get out of bed a lot of the next day and had no appetite, like a bad flu felt quite dizzy and zoned out. Side effects left as quickly as they arrived and felt 90 per cent normal by 5pm the next day. Now my arm just hurts a little when I lift it. I was told that i will recieve an appointment for my second jab between 4-12 weeks. I'm not describing these symptoms to put anyone off and I hope it doesnt. I couldnt have worked the next day so I suggest perhaps having a back up plan for childcare/work etc the next day in case you have similar symptoms. Even though they were unpleasant I was also a bit fascinated by symptoms at the time, a bit like when I was pregnant-- it is amazing what the body can do! I would have no hesitation about recieving the vaccine and feel so lucky to have recieved it this early.
WoollyRedHat wrote: » I have noticed a really interesting trend, this thread now has a high prevalence of posts that are upbeat and informative while the main Covid thread has become full of posts of despair, franticness and anxiety. Fascinating parallels from a socialogical perspective. There should be a public holiday in honour of scientists and health care workers when the dust settles. Imagine how grim it would be if this thread could not exist in its current form if vaccines did not yet exist or had failed and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Good thing we don't have to live with that prospect. Thank the scientists we don't have to. Also thank you for all the knowledgeable posters in this thread that scour the internet and interpret the data and then share it for our convenience. This thread has been amazing for people who are desperate for hope. They can believe again.
irishlad. wrote: » This is the only thread I post in now. We need to start looking forward....some would rather not to though!
Miike wrote: » Identical experience and timeline to yourself with AZ vaccine. Id go through it all again a thousand times, if it meant getting some level of protection. While unpleasant, it wasn't a huge deal. I just took to the bed with paracetamol and a book
WoollyRedHat wrote: » I have noticed a really interesting trend, this thread now has a high prevalence of posts that are upbeat and informative while the main Covid thread has become full of posts of despair, franticness and anxiety. Fascinating parallels from a socialogical perspective.
NeuralNetwork wrote: » A relative of mine got the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine yesterday and has had absolutely no side effects at all - not even a mild headache or a sore arm. She actually reckoned it was a lot easier on her than the flu vaccine last year.
PhoenixParker wrote: » It's usually the second vaccine that has side effects for pfizer.
ixoy wrote: » I was thinking very much the same thing. It's the only one worth reading - informative and positive. The amount of despair and anger on the other ones is depressing but here, there's hope. Best of all it's not baseless hope - it's hope grounded in science, in actual data. It's hope founded on reason, built on the bedrock of scientists doing extraordinary work.
ingo1984 wrote: » There was nothing murky about Denmarks acquisition of extra supplies. Greece and Portugal stated that they had excess supply. Hungary, Denmark, and Germany said they would take the extra supply off their hands. Our government still with their heads up their arses.
ACitizenErased wrote: » Fantastic for the US
Leftwaffe wrote: » I hear lots of talk about the vaccine rollout being a disaster amongst people. I thought that this would be the case but is it actually true? Are we hitting targets we’ve set? How is it really going? Could anyone sum it up in a sentence or two please
titan18 wrote: » Article here saying we've only used 36% of the AZ vaccines we've got.https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40234520.html Theres about 80k or so vaccines there from that article not done.
NeuralNetwork wrote: » The ECDC dashboard has been wildly out of date for a while. They said they were sorting that out but, if they don't it will start spinning up angry stories about lagging vaccines as it's a source of data that seems to be solid. They were reporting a few days ago with figures that made it look like Ireland had only received a very small number of doses, which was just totally inaccurate. Not sure what the point of putting the data up is if it's not correct.
Wolf359f wrote: » I'm sorry but Journalists should be reporting the truth, you don't just pull info from a single source, even worse if they know it's unreliable.
NeuralNetwork wrote: » I agree, they should check but one would also assume that a source like the ECDC is extremely accurate. It is meant to be an EU health agency. This is meant to be what they do... It will get worse if you start getting tweeters and bloggers jumping to conclusions based on data that's only being updated very sporadically. Cue outrage on Twitter - some seriously angry responses.https://twitter.com/FergalBowers/status/1365434866750390273?s=20
