COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 3 - Read OP

Elessar · 05-04-2021 05:39PM

Does anyone know the effectiveness of one dose of the AZ vaccine?

Micky 32 · 05-04-2021 05:43PM

https://twitter.com/donnellystephen/status/1379048373425147904?s=21

Varadkar: “”a lot of people might feel like they are never going to be vaccinated but we are going to surprise you.””

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 05:45PM

Micky 32 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/donnellystephen/status/1379048373425147904?s=21

Varadkar: “”a lot of people might feel like they are never going to be vaccinated but we are going to surprise you.””

Nice sunny news but seeing is believing!

higster · 05-04-2021 05:52PM

Well I got a text (very high risk, diabetes). Text says “suitable for people aged 18-69 years”. This mean AstraZeneca? Not bothered to be honest. Just curious.

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 05:54PM

higster wrote: »

Well I got a text (very high risk, diabetes). Text says “suitable for people aged 18-69 years”. This mean AstraZeneca? Not bothered to be honest. Just curious.

They have 100K+ of it on hand so probably.

Hilzabeaatch · 05-04-2021 06:04PM

crossman47 wrote: »

Exactly. Its not always going to be perfect. In Germany they're trying to be so perfect they're throwing away vaccines if the designated people don't show.

If that is the case, must be extremely rare. Have you a source?

MrStuffins · 05-04-2021 06:12PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

I'm sure you'd be calm if you were that GP or a patient who had gone to the clinic only be be sent home? People who accept mediocrity get mediocrity. Looks like you're happy with shoddy service like that. Not everyone is.

I would have definitely demanded to see the manager!

ddarcy · 05-04-2021 06:15PM

higster wrote: »

Well I got a text (very high risk, diabetes). Text says “suitable for people aged 18-69 years”. This mean AstraZeneca? Not bothered to be honest. Just curious.

The text I got specifically stated I’d be getting AstraZenica. That was two weeks ago so they may have changed it up if people are mass declining it

namloc1980 · 05-04-2021 06:22PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

I would have definitely demanded to see the manager!

Yeah it's hilarious that old and vulnerable people were left waiting hours. Comical isn't it?

GT89 · 05-04-2021 06:32PM

I know someone who works in a chemist who's got the shot makes no sense how is working in a chemist any different to any other shop. Working in a chemist is retail not healthcare surely.

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 06:34PM

GT89 wrote: »

I know someone who works in a chemist who's got the shot makes no sense how is working in a chemist any different to any other shop. Working in a chemist is retail not healthcare surely.

They should do as they are part of the mass vaccinations plan.

salmocab · 05-04-2021 06:36PM

GT89 wrote: »

I know someone who works in a chemist who's got the shot makes no sense how is working in a chemist any different to any other shop. Working in a chemist is retail not healthcare surely.

Sick people go to chemists so someone not feeling the best might go in for something before realising it’s possibly Covid?

MrStuffins · 05-04-2021 06:46PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Yeah it's hilarious that old and vulnerable people were left waiting hours. Comical isn't it?

These people deserve justice and it must be swift! Heads should roll for this!

GT89 · 05-04-2021 06:52PM

is_that_so wrote: »

They should do as they are part of the mass vaccinations plan.

Yeah but ordinary staff wouldn't be administering the vaccine that'd be done by the pharmacist

iamwhoiam · 05-04-2021 06:55PM

GT89 wrote: »

Yeah but ordinary staff wouldn't be administering the vaccine that'd be done by the pharmacist

Boots staff who are on the perfume counter got the vaccine too . I would be pissed off if I was their 74 year old nana waiting for a vaccine

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 06:56PM

GT89 wrote: »

Yeah but ordinary staff wouldn't be administering the vaccine that'd be done by the pharmacist

Who knows here. Let's vaccinate all of them makes more logistical sense than "not the perfume people".

GeorgeBailey · 05-04-2021 06:56PM

GT89 wrote: »

Yeah but ordinary staff wouldn't be administering the vaccine that'd be done by the pharmacist

I think conversations like this is another plus point to the age-based approach. There'll be less "what about that subsection of a priority group. surely they don't merit special treatment."

iamwhoiam · 05-04-2021 06:57PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Who knows here. Let's vaccinate all of them makes more logistical sense than "not the perfume people".

Surely there are pharmacy counter staff and non pharmacy counter staff in Boots ?I cant be that hard to separate them

GT89 · 05-04-2021 06:59PM

salmocab wrote: »

Sick people go to chemists so someone not feeling the best might go in for something before realising it’s possibly Covid?

I could go into my local Spar feeling unwell to buy paracetamol and could have covid. Sure apparently we could all be asymptomatic anyway.

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 07:00PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Surely their are pharmacy counter staff and non pharmacy counter staff in Boots ?

Now you're just looking for things to get angry about! We don't know how these people will be deployed at times of vaccination and they well be part of it some way. That's Group 6. Also a fully vaccinated store is potentially safe for everyone.

iamwhoiam · 05-04-2021 07:02PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Now you're just looking for things to get angry about! We don't know how these people will be deployed at times of vaccination and they well be part of it some way. That's Group 6.

We are allowed different opinions here you know !
At what stage did I say I was angry ? But to be fair its a bit rich vaccinating perfume counter staff while their parents could be waiting . No ?

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 07:05PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

At what stage did I say I was angry ? But to be fair its a bit rich vaccinating perfume counter staff while their parents could be waiting . No ?

This nit picking is what I'm talking about. They will be vaccination centres and workers in vaccination centres need to be vaccinated.

iamwhoiam · 05-04-2021 07:07PM

is_that_so wrote: »

This nit picking is what I'm talking about. They will be vaccination centres and workers in vaccination centres need to be vaccinated.

You see it as nit picking , I see it as young perfume counter staff vaccinated while my sister who has serious heart condition age 74 is waiting .
We can agree to differ but its my opinion
Everyone had different issues that annoy them , this bizzare world is not easy for any of us . I will be annoyed by one thing , you by another .,I hope I don’t dismiss you as nit picking when you have something that irritated you on a given day

salmocab · 05-04-2021 07:10PM

GT89 wrote: »

I could go into by local Spar feeling unwell to buy paracetamol and could have covid. Sure apparently we could all be asymptomatic anyway.

Well yes but generally unwell people look for something for it, a pharmacy is a very likely place to go as there is a health professional in there at work.

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 07:11PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

You see it as nit picking , I see it as young perfume counter staff vaccinated while my sister who has serious heart condition age 74 is waiting .
We can agree to differ but its my opinion

It's far easier to say that all pharmacies in Dublin City Centre have been done, than we need to go back to loads of them later. That latter seems to be what you want and that's fine but it's just not terribly efficient nor practical.

iamwhoiam · 05-04-2021 07:14PM

is_that_so wrote: »

It's far easier to say that all pharmacies in Dublin City Centre have been done, than we need to go back to loads of them later. That latter seems to be what you want and that's fine but it's just not terribly efficient nor practical.

Boots is as such not a pharmacy , its a large shop with a pharmacy counter
Huge difference between your local pharmacy and Boots in Liffey Valley

is_that_so · 05-04-2021 07:19PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Boots is as such not a pharmacy , its a large shop with a pharmacy counter
Huge difference between your local pharmacy and Boots in Liffey Valley

But they will still be part of the mass vaccination. I see it as a very sensible approach and allowable. I have no issues with it.

lbj666 · 05-04-2021 07:19PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

3 hours late. I'm guessing you think that's acceptable.

If the bookings were organised for the day after delivery just to be sure they are arrived there would be people whining about not administering them straight away. You cant win.

We see a handful of these stories a week out of the hundreds of clinics that are giving out jabs all who are doing stellar work not to mind the delivery crews tearing around the country as we speak.

Seems people want speed and perfection, hard to guarantee both without compromising the other.

Lucas Hood · 05-04-2021 07:22PM

Micky 32 wrote: »

Varadkar: “”a lot of people might feel like they are never going to be vaccinated but we are going to surprise you.””

Leo threatening to inject into people who don't want the vaccine.

trellheim · 05-04-2021 07:28PM

We should cross the million doses administered mark on Wednesday or thereabouts. First 500,000 was reached 5 march. Second 500,000 7th april, with things scheduled to go even faster after that.

COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 3 - Read OP

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