krissovo wrote: » Turn up at your vaccination center, take proof of being group 7 and there is a good chance they will sort you out. There is a growing list on here who have done the same and have been vaccinated.
Wesser wrote: » Id be careful about doing that. Your DOB will be recorded incorrectly in the covax system and therefore wint march your passport so you wont have a valid e certificate to travel abroad. Also the data wont match your GPs system so will bounce back so your gp wont know you are vaccinated. The civax system is enroling a new age group every day, ie moving down one year every day. For the sake of waiting one day, not worth it.
fun loving criminal wrote: » Oh no. I don't think I can change my details once registered and reading someone else's reply on boards, I don't think I can cancel and start over... Unless I can use a different email and phone number but not sure if they will take my ppsn as that's already registered.
Celmullet wrote: » I've a lung disease that requires daily steroids. Was going between my GP and my lung specialist for weeks to find out where I when I was going to get vaccinated but they kept passing me back and forth. Today, I got to book it in the portal with my age :rolleyes:
speckle wrote: » If in a MVC ..tell them your cohort..have the above letters/info and see can you not hang around too long in a general age queue.
brendanwalsh wrote: » Father in his 60s had cancer a year ago and still can’t get anyone to give him a MRNA vaccine. Disgraceful. GP says he has none
Marine Layer wrote: » A cohort 7 is as much at risk as at anytime Arguably higher now that a laissez-faire attitude is creeping in amongst the unvaccinated, which younger cohort 7's and 4's also unvaccinated are more likely to encounter
Beanybabog wrote: » I know a few people who got vaccines who didn’t think they would fall under cohort 7 (asthma etc) but they got a call out of the blue from their GP. I know a carer of a child with special needs who got called and I didn’t think that was still included in the priority list. I’m very happy for them all and wouldn’t begrudge them getting it but it seems terribly unfair that it seems to be whatever GP you happen to be registered with determines whether you get it if you’re in cohort 4 or 7. I also know my GP was on over 70s still when the MvCs were flying through my he 60s. The GP element of the rollout doesn't seem to be as good
crazy 88 wrote: » I have asthma and thought I qualified as per the "continuous use of corticosteroids" in cohort 7 criteria. Contacted my GP and they said I would have had to have been on oxygen to qualify... which sounds more like cohort 4 to me. GPs seem to be making their own interpretation of the criteria. I have heard of some giving it to adults who got an asthma diagnosis as a child but haven't taken any inhalers or suffered any symptoms since. The other GPs refusing to do cohort 7 at all are a disgrace. They have a duty of care to their patients.
Vulnerable patients angered by delayed access to vaccines
Addressing the Oireachtas health committee, Irish Cancer Society chief executive officer Averil Power said “many people” in this group are still waiting for vaccination. However, Dr Denis McCauley GP, chair for the Irish Medical Organisation, told the committee this is changing.“The vast majority of Cohort 7 have had their first vaccine, but not their second vaccine,” he said.
ShineOn7 wrote: » https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40304420.html Lol @ that last part What?! :pac:
Wesser wrote: » What percentage of cohort 7 have been vaccinated?
is_that_so wrote: » It is actually unknown. There are some very frustrated people here and in other parts of social media but they are small samples. As the portal moves down through the age groups it is also slowly reducing. If, as the HSE claim, they have a defined pathway for Group 7, once it's up and running the group should be done pretty quickly.
iamwhoiam wrote: » We have no clue how many seriously upset people are out there . Many are not vocal on social media But the fact remains clear as day that cohort 7 was let down and were not organised early enough They were group 7 , deemed at higher risk after 6 and before 8 and 9 and 10 but now many are simply abandoned by GPs and the HSE and have to slot into their age group That leaves a young chronically ill 20 year old till last behind a healthy fit 30 year old and it quite simply is wrong . It should not have happened . We have been hearing about the HSE plan for weeks now and still that group sit upset and anxious and seriously frustrated . I absolutely cannot blame them and sympathise with them My own daughter is in cohort 7 , she had a vaccine a fee weeks ago via her hospital consultant . We are grateful for that but there are many who were not so lucky She is also on her GPs list and has heard nothing at all from her yet by the way The vaccine rollout was a huge undertaking and I admire how it ran and I think it was run exceptionally well in the whole . But we must accept a major flaw with the at risk 4 and 7 and learn from it . It should have been set in motion last year and lists organised before we ever had a vaccine so it could be well sorted by then Flaws happened in this rollout , some understandable some not so . We must learn from it and have a system in place if this ever happens again and get it right next time . Having cancer sufferers waiting for a vaccine while healthy people get it is not acceptable and shouldn’t be accepted by those who organise this system . They need to step up and accept that and fix it
is_that_so wrote: » The suggestion is that the plan was underway when the ransomware attack. As that unwinds we'll see if it in any fit state to be rapidly implemented. The only real alternative until that happens is portal by age.
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