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Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

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  • #4502
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,500 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Boots booking page won’t load for me ?


  • #4503
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,623 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    km79 wrote: »
    Boots booking page won’t load for me ?

    Lots of people trying to get on, keep trying refresh


  • #4504
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,440 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Booked in for July 21st in Jervis.

    Entered all of my details truthfully and didn't pretend to be over 50. If they cancel, so be it. But I don't think they will after the announcements of this morning.


  • #4505
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    airy fairy wrote: »
    I've went into all the nearby Boots and it's still reading over 50, fair enough. But I go ahead with the yes' and it brings me to appointments.
    No appointments available for July.
    Local chemists taking names, but have no idea of supply.

    Was this announcement a peace offering for the indoor dining fiasco during the week?
    Is there a huge delivery of J&J or is it simply getting rid of the surplus from chemists we've read about all week?
    It came from NIAC before the NPHET letter, the HSE have been asking them about it. The CMO claims he asked too, not actually his job mind, but he still asked!


  • #4506
    JP100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭JP100


    funnydoggy wrote: »
    Best try again Monday maybe but keep registering in other pharmacies like me! I've registered with at least 4 now (29).

    Mother of God!


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  • #4507
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    fun loving criminal wrote: »
    Completely agree. Should be mandatory isolation facilities for positive cases and their close contacts as well.
    Yeah, just as well you're nowhere near any decision making, every hotel in the country would be full.


  • #4508
    fun loving criminal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    Jammyd wrote: »
    Sorry I’m confused still plenty of people who haven’t gotten appointments myself included 35 and from next week 18-34 can essentially Walk into a pharmacy and get the 1 dose shot, you couldn’t make this s$$t up

    They shouldn't put an age on it. Should be anyone over 18. I'd gladly take the j&j next week if I could and just be done with the whole thing. But I already got my first shot of Pfizer last week.


  • #4509
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Prisoner6409 wrote: »
    I despair, here we are going into a 4th wave with this India Varient, when are we going to get serious about this Pandemic. You can forgive the 1st wave and maybe the second but the Govt could have done more to stop the 3rd and 4th wave. While most of use were staying in and following rules people were flying in and out of this country willy nilly and afaics it is still happenning. We are an Island, how can it be so hard to keep varients we know about that originated abroad out of the country.
    While you're despairing you might want to reflect on how other people are not obliged to act and think like you.


  • #4510
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 939 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    funnydoggy wrote: »
    I went through my list and saw I booked 4, but said I'd stop as it's not fair.

    If you want to be fair, cancel 3 of them.


  • #4511
    theguzman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭theguzman


    fun loving criminal wrote: »
    They shouldn't put an age on it. Should be anyone over 18. I'd gladly take the j&j next week if I could and just be done with the whole thing. But I already got my first shot of Pfizer last week.

    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.


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  • #4512
    BringBackMick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭BringBackMick


    I wonder if you walked door to door pharmacies in Dublin CC would you be sorted Monday


  • #4513
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    funnydoggy wrote: »
    I think stephenjmcd is right in terms of them trying to get some stuff sorted given the short notice. Best try again Monday maybe but keep registering in other pharmacies like me! I've registered with at least 4 now (29). Gonna stop though in all fairness.

    EDIT: Just saw Stephen's post above -- https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=117568833&postcount=4525
    Not really inclined to judge how people have dealt with this but this is poor form to suggest this. You're exploiting small systems that can't track this in ways that the portal would never let you and J&J will be limited anyway.


  • #4514
    irishlad123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭irishlad123456


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.

    We’ll still get to heard immunity at 66% including the other vaccines you plum, most vaccines in the world for other diseases are only this effective


  • #4515
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,861 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.

    I disagree, they should be rolled out and a heterologous booster should be scheduled. Abandoning them would be to abandon any effectiveness they produce. There is not an immediate surplus of Pfizer or MOderna.


  • #4516
    fun loving criminal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.

    If there's only 66% efficacy, would it be better the younger people get it? They are better at fighting off the infection if they catch it. I don't know, that's my thinking anyways.


  • #4517
    irishlad.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭irishlad.


    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUZy6AMCwuA2zhtRuKK7cqMVgmhdDsGsZrFWJTkw9DY/edit#gid=1673823757

    We're back in business


  • #4518
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.
    Both are effective against all variants so will be used.


  • #4519
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Not really inclined to judge how people have dealt with this but this is poor form to suggest this. You're exploiting small systems that can't track this in ways that the portal would never let you and J&J will be limited anyway.

    It's just registrations of interest rather than bookings. It'd be different making bookings and not showing up or something.

    Can't see most of the pharmacies having enough stock anyway.


  • #4520
    Ferris_Bueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭Ferris_Bueller


    Walked up to my local boots this morning at 9.30 and the staff behind the till didn't have much of a clue what way it was going to work, they said they had not received any HSE guidelines yet so weren't taking names which is fair enough.

    Then went to another chemist nearby and they took my name and contact details in a book and said I should hear from them in the next two weeks regarding an appointment.

    Happy with that considering I didn't expect to be getting a vaccine until mid August probably. Are all of these pharmacy based ones going to be a one shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine?


  • #4521
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.

    That's a ridiculous thing to say.

    The trails showed 66% efficacy against mild infection, but 100% efficacy against hospitalisation and death. Which is the whole point!

    Spreading this kind of ill-informed nonsense is dangerous.


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  • #4522
    fun loving criminal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    Mr.S wrote: »
    205k doses of Janssen due here in July, and 285k in August, they'll fly through the younger groups.

    That's great to hear. More people vaccinated and quicker.


  • #4523
    minty81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭minty81


    40 and no text yet, rang HSE this morn and just told to be patient.. many more at this age range waiting on a text?


  • #4524
    Apogee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭Apogee


    irishlad. wrote: »
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUZy6AMCwuA2zhtRuKK7cqMVgmhdDsGsZrFWJTkw9DY/edit#gid=1673823757

    We're back in business


    Welcome back!!


  • #4525
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭elefant


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have only 5 days to go until my second dose of Pfizer already, I'm in my early thirties but got it earlier it due to being in cohort 7. There will be stampede for the J&J vaccine and I think it is ridiculous since it only has a 66% efficiency, like everything else in Ireland we do it half-assed, one third of the J&J lads may as well have taken nothing and covid will still be around a long time with such an ineffective vaccine. The Govt should have dropped AZ and J&J a long time ago.
    Flying Fox wrote: »
    That's a ridiculous thing to say.

    The trails showed 66% efficacy against mild infection, but 100% efficacy against hospitalisation and death. Which is the whole point!

    Spreading this kind of ill-informed nonsense is dangerous.

    Not to mention that 66% efficacy doesn't mean that one third of people who have it may well have had nothing.


  • #4526
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    irishlad. wrote: »
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUZy6AMCwuA2zhtRuKK7cqMVgmhdDsGsZrFWJTkw9DY/edit#gid=1673823757

    We're back in business

    Thanks, I missed it!

    A bit disappointed in the cohort 7 numbers, is the cohort size wrong? I would assume by now 99% of people there would be vaccinated, from what the gov said plus stories of GPs vaccinating almost everyone now.


  • #4527
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Apart from Boots, all they are doing is registering interest, they aren't taking up doses or someones space. If contacted and they are already vaxed, it will go to the next person - the demand is 100% there that it won't go to waste.
    It's still not the type of behaviour we should be encouraging. It also adds completely unnecessary administration to very small operations. Pick one and wait.


  • #4528
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,500 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Got in but there are no times available in any of the Galway stores :(
    Or Castlebar


  • #4529
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Question - if someone is are a close contact and is on restricted movement, do you need to postpone your Vaccine appointment?


  • #4530
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    minty81 wrote: »
    40 and no text yet, rang HSE this morn and just told to be patient.. many more at this age range waiting on a text?
    This happened with the 50s as well. There's a rush on second dose AZ at present, which should begin to ease off soon enough.


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  • #4531
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    JP100 wrote: »
    Mother of God!


    I went back to my list and to be fair, two pharmacies I contacted were the same branch, a 5 minute walk away. I'd be one vaccine patient between the two.


    I realised I was being a bit.. eager, so I stopped!


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