celt262 wrote: » That's great looks like my parents will be getting the jab in the next week or two (over 70's)
ACitizenErased wrote: » I'm aware of the 80-85 band being complete already by my GP
Bubbaclaus wrote: » No point explaining it to him. He will either not get it or decide to ignore it.
by the end of March, 1.25 million vaccines will have been administered, with the three following months seeing a million doses given in each. By the end of June, 82 per cent of adults would have received at least one dose, with up to 60 per cent of adults being fully vaccinated with two doses.
Caquas wrote: » Are you reduced to gratuitous insults, or cancel culture? Let's have some facts to back up your sunny view of our vaccination programme to date. The UK has administered over 19 million first doses and continues to administer an average of almost 330,000 doses each day,bbc.com/news/health-55274833 Ireland has administered about a quarter-million first doses.https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/vaccinations So the UK have given a first dose to almost one-third of their population while we have done just one in 15 of our population. Is there any reason to think we will catch up with the UK? The Taoiseach says that This means we will administer a million vaccines in the coming month, four times more than we have managed in the two months since the vaccines first arrived. And then we will keep that pace for the following three months. I hate his fake precision about 82%, especially when he combines it with the vagueness of "up to 60 per cent" for the second dose. That means 4,070,000 first doses - not just 4,020,000 because that would be a mere 81%, a failure! - but anything approaching 3 million will do for the second dose. Does anyone know how many doses we are currently administering daily?
ingalway wrote: » I had the Astrazenica yesterday. Arm was sore and slight muscle pain to start with until 12 hours later then it really kicked off! Terrible night - freezing cold then really hot, really bad body aches and arm feels like a massive knife was stabbed into it. Almost 26 hours later still feel very tired and sore but I'm sure no where near as bad as getting Covid so well worth it long term I hope. I keep hearing that people who got the Pfizer had very little reaction to first jab but much worse on the second. I'm hoping that the second Astrazenica will be much easier. As it's a 12 week wait too soon to know yet how people are reacting. Very glad not to be working this weekend.
Gael23 wrote: » How long does it take for the Pfizer vaccine to offer protection once administered?
Doc07 wrote: » Thanks for sharing your experience. Of course individual experience will differ but of it’s any comfort the trials showed more intense reactions after 1st does of AZ so hopefully your second dose will be milder reaction or none at all. And it’s the opposite for the mRNA vaccines, more frequent and intense reactions after 2nd dose. All told though, after more than 50 million across US, UK and EU (and plenty more worldwide but don’t have much figures/info to hand) the vaccines have been very safe and early results looking good regards real world effectiveness.
ACitizenErased wrote: » Germany reconsidering it’s use of AZ in over 65shttps://twitter.com/darreneuronews/status/1365700275516952577?s=21
eigrod wrote: » My Dad is 94 and hasn’t been vaccinated yet. Rural east Cork.
gmisk wrote: » My other half got vaccine (AZ) on Friday afternoon as did some of his colleagues. He is in his 30s and works in healthcare. He really isn't great today shivering and aching all over and hasn't left bed. A few others complaining of similar things today. Hopefully he gets over it pretty quickly.
ACitizenErased wrote: » https://twitter.com/DonnellyStephen/status/1365705634352660480?s=20
Icantthinkof1 wrote: » Hope he feels better soon. The side effects I experienced (mainly nausea and muscle aches) went after around 36hours I just spent most of that time resting on the couch. My colleagues who experienced side effects were ok again- ranging from 8hours to 48 hours.
mean gene wrote: » whos next 75 to 80 year olds ?
Deleted User wrote: » The issue is not capacity to administer the vaccine, its supplies into the country. How many times do this need to be repeated?
Caquas wrote: » I'll give this one more shot, but it is galling to be constantly accused of not understanding the precise issue that I raised (at post no. 1987). Whether the delay in our vaccine rollout is due to the level of supplies coming into the country is an entirely secondary issue and it is nonsense to claim, as Embraer187 did, that "Ireland is doing exceptionally well on the vaccine roll out" because we have used almost all our available supplies. It disturbs me that so many posters here fail to understand this point. It seems that what matters to them is that blame should not attach to those administering the vaccines, even if our rollout is clearly lagging behind our nearest neighbour. Imagine a business with the hottest new product in the world. People are literally begging for the stuff. The retail manager says to the CEO "I know we have only met a fraction of the demand and our nearest competitor has sold 10 times more than us but we're really doing exceptionally well. Look - our shelves are almost empty! Or is this the normal business model of the HSE? Look at those waiting lists!
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