How many have been vaccinated so far?

[s2kjock]

Meanwhile, for viewers in Scotland, who only get invited to their vaccinations by a personal letter in a blue envelope from our glorious leader, 48 year olds have still received no notification of their appointments.

[blackmme]

My wife (41) checked and was able to book last night and get an appointment for Today!
It’s 60 miles away but for us that isn’t a consideration.

[Flooble]

blackmme said:

My wife (41) checked and was able to book last night and get an appointment for Today!
It’s 60 miles away but for us that isn’t a consideration.

Neither of you work?

[vaud]

Flooble said:

Neither of you work?

Many companies are allowing time for staff to get vaccines.

[98elise]

blackmme said:

My wife (41) checked and was able to book last night and get an appointment for Today!
It’s 60 miles away but for us that isn’t a consideration.

I'm surprised people are still having to travel. My wife was done at our GP surgery, and I was done in our nearest town 3 miles away.

Were nearer centres available if you had a later booking? Unless you live in a remote area there really should be a good spread of venues available.

[ecsrobin]

98elise said:

blackmme said:

My wife (41) checked and was able to book last night and get an appointment for Today!
It’s 60 miles away but for us that isn’t a consideration.

I'm surprised people are still having to travel. My wife was done at our GP surgery, and I was done in our nearest town 3 miles away.

Were nearer centres available if you had a later booking? Unless you live in a remote area there really should be a good spread of venues available.

Brother in law lives in a town between 2 cities and could only get an appointment out of the county. Waited around 6 hours and then got an appointment locally. So seems to be dates being constantly added.

[57 Chevy]

s2kjock said:

Meanwhile, for viewers in Scotland, who only get invited to their vaccinations by a personal letter in a blue envelope from our glorious leader, 48 year olds have still received no notification of their appointments.

Yep, I estimate Scotland is now over a month behind England. I'm 50 and not getting my jab until 9th May. Seems to be down to the control model rather than self service model in England.

[HappyMidget]

People in their 30s in England set to get Covid vaccine in mid-May as those 40 or above now eligible for jab

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/people-in-30s-covi...

[prand]

57 Chevy said:

s2kjock said:

Meanwhile, for viewers in Scotland, who only get invited to their vaccinations by a personal letter in a blue envelope from our glorious leader, 48 year olds have still received no notification of their appointments.

Yep, I estimate Scotland is now over a month behind England. I'm 50 and not getting my jab until 9th May. Seems to be down to the control model rather than self service model in England.

It's interesting this... It does seem to me that the England's (or parts of) approach is to keep the vaccinations numbers flowing and have large overlaps between each segment, so you aren't waiting to hit the dwindling numbers of say, over 55's, before opening it up to the segment below.

If scheduling was my job, where covering as much of the population as quickly as possible was a priority, this would be my approach, as well as (we have seen) giving local areas the discretion and flexibility to keep vaccinations going out the door. Which may mean either it's the volunteers friends and families being called in at the end of the day, or people from younger bands being invited in. To me if you not doing this, it's like wasting factory production capacity - each build (vaccination) slot is precious and empty slots cost money. Or in this case, empty slots means the overall vaccination targets slip. And yes, the UK's openness to online delivery and service really helps (our blase attitude to signing our data and privacy away does have some benefits!) which makes booking appointments a 30 second job. And of course, it really helps we have a lot of shots to go around.

Reading about Ireland, it seems too inflexible to me sticking strictly to age groups, and it is causing general holdups and lots of bad feeling. Germany seems to have some bonkers red tape and 20th century attitude to use of technology. Scotland I understand suffers due to the paper based system, and perhaps the issue of restricting too tightly to age group segments.

[Gareth79]

essayer said:

Over 40s now in England. Go go go!

A friend spotted last night just after midnight and booked.

Interestingly they noticed that if you select certain sites (eg. Guy's #1, St Thomas' #2) then the list of sites for booking the second dose is much more limited. He suspected that it meant those were the Pfizer sites, and so selected one of those to see what happens!

[gruffalo]

MiniMan64 said:

gruffalo said:

I get my second AZ injection at 9am tomorrow, very happy to be another statistic in this fantastic battle against this illness.

Got my second AZ Tuesday. No adverse symptoms of any kind except a dead arm.

Good.

Not even a bruise or anything for me either time so far.

Going to play golf this afternoon.

[Gareth79]

gruffalo said:

MiniMan64 said:

gruffalo said:

I get my second AZ injection at 9am tomorrow, very happy to be another statistic in this fantastic battle against this illness.

Got my second AZ Tuesday. No adverse symptoms of any kind except a dead arm.

Good.

Not even a bruise or anything for me either time so far.

Going to play golf this afternoon.

Had mine Monday, was prepared to spend the next day in bed but I did an hour's hard road cycling in the evening, and then again the next day!

[Flooble]

57 Chevy said:

Yep, I estimate Scotland is now over a month behind England. I'm 50 and not getting my jab until 9th May. Seems to be down to the control model rather than self service model in England.

What a surprise that, as has been repeatedly proven time and again, a centralised command economy doesn't work.

[Steve vRS]

Gareth79 said:

Had mine Monday, was prepared to spend the next day in bed but I did an hour's hard road cycling in the evening, and then again the next day!

I’ve got mine at teatime on Monday 10th and was planning on a long ride in the morning in case I am wiped out for a couple of days!

[Matt..]

57 Chevy said:

Yep, I estimate Scotland is now over a month behind England. I'm 50 and not getting my jab until 9th May. Seems to be down to the control model rather than self service model in England.

So how do you explain Wales leading in the UK?
Wales sends out appointment letters.

[blackmme]

Flooble said:

Neither of you work?

Both work quite hard I think.
Her appointment is at 6:30pm, my wife is driving there whilst I do work calls from the car and I'll drive her home.

[blackmme]

98elise said:

blackmme said:

My wife (41) checked and was able to book last night and get an appointment for Today!
It’s 60 miles away but for us that isn’t a consideration.

I'm surprised people are still having to travel. My wife was done at our GP surgery, and I was done in our nearest town 3 miles away.

Were nearer centres available if you had a later booking? Unless you live in a remote area there really should be a good spread of venues available.

We are up in North Norfolk so not exactly remote but not exactly a metropolis either!
Nothing for 2 weeks according to my wife so Lincolnshire it is for us.

[fido]

There doesn't seem much flexibility in moving appointments. My second is in 2 weeks Saturday and I want to move it to ANY weekday slot at short notice - could free up a few spaces if they had a short notice system.

[EddieSteadyGo]

Matt.. said:

So how do you explain Wales leading in the UK?
Wales sends out appointment letters.

Each country has received pretty much the same amount of doses, based on their population. However, there is a decision to be made about how much buffer stock to hold back for 2nd doses. Wales are running down their buffer stock to a very low level - this is why they have been able to get further ahead with 1st doses.

The suggestion is that Wales know that, if the st hit the fan and they ran out of 2nd doses for some reason, they can probably look to England to bail them out. Hence why they can be more aggressive in their attitude to running a risk with the buffer stock. Whereas England probably need to be much more prudent.

[andrewh]

s2kjock said:

Meanwhile, for viewers in Scotland, who only get invited to their vaccinations by a personal letter in a blue envelope from our glorious leader, 48 year olds have still received no notification of their appointments.

Perhaps there is considered to be a lower risk in scotland of contracting the virus so supplies are rationed accordingly?