Details of local Covid vaccination plans?

I know three over 85 year olds that will be receiving the vaccine tomorrow.

One will be receiving it at East Dulwich Grove tomorrow evening and is being taken by car by a neighbour.

The other couple are being taken by car by my other half tomorrow afternoon for an appointment at King's.

It's a way off yet for a lot of us...

https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk#atrisk

Two informed sources indicate that the vaccination centres are unable to achieve their quota and doses are going to waste. This is because they are being rigidly held to the over 80's group.

They are not being allowed to contact any others outside that group so that the doses can be used before being wasted.

There must be lots of over 70's who would jump at the chance if offered it and most of them could present within 30 minutes of getting an alert.

Waste not, want not.

> Two informed sources indicate that the

> vaccination centres are unable to achieve

> their quota and doses are going to waste.

Known personally to you? What do you mean by indicate? How long after after dilution and storage have doses been discarded, and how many? When and where has this happened? To whom has any interdiction been communicated, in what terms and context, and by whom?

ianr Wrote:

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> > Two informed sources indicate that the

> > vaccination centres are unable to achieve

> > their quota and doses are going to waste.

>

> Known personally to you? What do you mean by

> indicate? How long after after dilution and

> storage have doses been discarded, and how many?

> When and where has this happened? To whom has any

> interdiction been communicated, in what terms and

> context, and by whom?

Yes, known to me personally and both members of our closest circle of friends. Both are at a senior level at two separate London hospitals. As for your statistical queries, I do not have that type of granular detail and I fully appreciate your right to challenge the assertion made.

SmitN Wrote:

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> Has somebody tried the new vaccine already?

? How do you feel? Is it working?

Do you have any purpose in joining this forum other than to plant SEO links?

I can't see any links in their posts - can you explain where the SEO links are?

ianr Wrote:

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> SmitN Wrote:

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> > Has somebody tried the new vaccine already?

> ? How do you feel? Is it working?

>

> Do you have any purpose in joining this forum

> other than to plant SEO links?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advice-from-the-jcvi-2-december-2020/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advice-from-the-jcvi-2-december-2020

Scroll down a bit and you will see the priority groups to be vaccinated.

Trinnydad Wrote:

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> Two informed sources indicate that the vaccination

> centres are unable to achieve their quota and

> doses are going to waste. This is because they are

> being rigidly held to the over 80's group.

> They are not being allowed to contact any others

> outside that group so that the doses can be used

> before being wasted.

>

> There must be lots of over 70's who would jump at

> the chance if offered it and most of them could

> present within 30 minutes of getting an alert.

>

> Waste not, want not.

It is my understanding that any left-over vaccines are being taken by NHS staff and their families. A call goes out that there are residue vaccines that day and they queue up to get them. Considering the proximity of many NHS staff to Covid patients, I do not consider this a waste. Moreover, this enables a really quick response and take-up, rather than offering it to the next group down which would involved a lot of ringing round. I hope that once NHS staff have completed their take up, they start to offer left-overs to teachers, who are the cannon fodder of this pandemic.