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Thats study is 1 pfizer followed by 1 Moderna. Its not really relevant to todays situation.

Im waiting for Moderna to produce their study on how 3x moderna do. All ive seen from them so far is their CEO saying he doesnt think it will be effective against Omicron. And even then i'll be 2 x pfizer plus 1 x moderna, which as you say im not likely to see studys.

So far all ive seen about Omicron is Pfizer x 3 works well. Its all i have to go on for my situation.

But yes, I cant believe im thinking like this either, but I am.

So scientific or not, im willing to go 3x pfizer because there is science on it, but nothing else until there is science on it.

But my problem is that we dont know if Pfizerx2 + moderna is effective against omicron. We do know that pfizer x3 is.

So i'll wait for the pfizer x 3. Anything else is just wishful thinking.

I’m booked in on Saturday for a Moderna booster having had Pfizer 1 & 2 vaccines.... The are literally dozens of articles all over the web from medical sources that say Moderna is good against omicron and better then Pfizer x3 and others contradict saying Pfizer x3 is best...

An additional day for walk-ins tomorrow in City Hall, Cork.

Hopefully will reduce the possible queues on Saturday/Sunday.

With hour long queues reported for there today, is this just a photo op, instead of him actually queuing up?

At city hall since 9:05 and the queue is all around the block.

10:00 Half around the block, so queue time is over an hour.

10:15 at the sheltered part of the queue.

10:30 check in

10:40 Jabbed and now the wait to leave

16:00 Five hours after the Jab and feeling fine, maybe a slight raise in temp after it.

Walk-in centres with times and eligible groups.

@HSELive on Twitter gives regular updates on queues.

I'd be pretty sure that an unboosted over 70 could use a walk-in centre now.

The assumption was that the GPs who did their first vaxxes would boost or refer to an MVC.

But if they haven't been boosted yet, they'd be top priority and unlikely to be turned away.

That's just today, and probably tomorrow.

Likely to be open on Monday.

Thanks folks, I didn't realise they updated it regularly. I'll keep a eye on it

Headline on RTE.IE just now: "HSE examining ways to offer boosters to people aged 40-48 by next weekend".

Well what a surprise. We have known for a couple of weeks that as many boosters as possible should be given before Christmas. We also should have some lessons learned from the earlier mass-vaccination programme. Why does the HSE only now (apparently) start examining ways to do something urgent?

And why does everyone have to wait for NIAC to ponder over things which have been pretty well settled by other countries. Some of these decisions should take hours, not weeks.

Bring back Professor McCraith and his team.

The people overseeing the summer vaccination seem to have left the building and it feels like we're just in a mess with everything.

Why could this booster rollout not have been forseen? Are they utterly thick in the hse?

I see a headline on rte saying the government are looking into the best way to roll out the next cohort 40+. Am I missing something, but hasn't this cohort been tried, tested and been successful already? What's the difference now? Can they not copy and repeat?