How many have been vaccinated so far?

How many have been vaccinated so far?

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chip*

1,004 posts

227 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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basherX said:
Mrs B has lost her vaccination card. What’s the drill in that case? A quick Google didn’t help me so asking the assembled wise company. Ta.
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.
Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

114 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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frisbee

4,956 posts

109 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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basherX said:
Mrs B has lost her vaccination card. What’s the drill in that case? A quick Google didn’t help me so asking the assembled wise company. Ta.
Prison and repeated beatings!

basherX

2,463 posts

160 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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chip* said:
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.
Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
Thank you.

basherX

2,463 posts

160 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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frisbee said:
Prison and repeated beatings!
I think that’s reserved for me...

chip*

1,004 posts

227 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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frisbee said:
basherX said:
Mrs B has lost her vaccination card. What’s the drill in that case? A quick Google didn’t help me so asking the assembled wise company. Ta.
Prison and repeated beatings!
When I am checking the punters in for the 2nd jabs, my usual 'punishment' lines to those who forgot / losted their vaccination card are:

1- we will have to give you 2 jabs to make up the 'losted' vaccination.
2- I am afraid all the nurses with the steady hands are fully booked, but the cubicle with the trainee vaccinator is free...
smile

The vaccination card isn't critical, but it's a quick useful check during the 2nd jab to identify the punters who are booked in for the wrong vaccine (rare, but it does happen) or those who turned up on the wrong day / wrong vaccine (very common).


snuffy

9,660 posts

283 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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chip* said:
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.
Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
Ah, so it does, thanks.

It's under GP Records -> Medicines -> Acute (short term) medicines, and there it is, complete with date of poke in arm.

Maximus_Meridius101

1,222 posts

36 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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oyster said:
Your comparisons between various diseases is utterly out of context - and a bit rude actually.
And bubonic plague is caused by a bacteria and not a virus. So also comparing bacteriology with virology.

Maximus_Meridius101

1,222 posts

36 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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ukwill said:
I think it's clear why lots of money has been spent on this virus, in comparison to other viruses. Thankfully, a direct consequence of this focused spending will be benefits seen in numerous other areas of scientific study; so the spending is not only helping the planet resolve it's Covid issue.

IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
The curve ball(s) is / are going to be mutations / variants that develop escape mutations. The Bengal SARS-CoV-2 variant is being closely studied as we speak because it has 2 potential escape mutations.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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Maximus_Meridius101 said:
ukwill said:
I think it's clear why lots of money has been spent on this virus, in comparison to other viruses. Thankfully, a direct consequence of this focused spending will be benefits seen in numerous other areas of scientific study; so the spending is not only helping the planet resolve it's Covid issue.

IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
The curve ball(s) is / are going to be mutations / variants that develop escape mutations. The Bengal SARS-CoV-2 variant is being closely studied as we speak because it has 2 potential escape mutations.
It’s you being so cheerful that keeps us all going wink

What is the death rate/population in India?

vaud

50,285 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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To be fair he is right. It may be an issue, it may not be. He isn't saying "DOOM it will kill us all".

Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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Because that's how science works... Hypothesis, confirmed or refuted by data.

When we have the capability of unpicking the genome pretty quickly, we have the ability to determine reasonable hypotheses that we can then track/monitor/develop conclusions via data as it comes.

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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The reporting might "suit the politics" (although frankly I don't ascribe with the conspiracy theories, we've a roadmap it's happening, sweet) - but this sort of scienctific review and hypothesis is constant (and in all 'directions').

Vaccine escape mutations are real, and any potential identified example needs to be pursued... It's not the scientist's fault if media pick up on it - or that people cannot notice the qualifiers and get scared...

After all, it didn't work on you... You can see it's a hypothesis thanks to the qualifiers used.

turbobloke

103,736 posts

259 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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Yes indeed - unfortunately.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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At the risk of wandering off the topic of vaccination again - surface transmission - we know now that while it is a factor in Covid transmission, it's not a major one in most situations and that most transmission is airborne. We did not know that then, we were working on best guesses based on viruses we thought were similar, which is why we were focusing on handwashing and disinfection of surfaces and not initially on masks, ventilation and avoiding indoor spaces.

It seemed less likely that it was primarily airborne on the evidence available at the time - I wonder what the awkward squad would have made of measures against airborne transmission being introduced at that point on a purely precautionary basis? They made enough of a fuss when those measures were introduced with evidence to back them.



trails

3,623 posts

148 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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anonymous said:
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Chuck agrees.

Harrison Bergeron

5,444 posts

221 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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vaud said:
To be fair he is right. It may be an issue, it may not be. He isn't saying "DOOM it will kill us all".

Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
There was a great caption on one of the dailymail scare stories about India. It was along the lines of “there are 150 ICU beds for 29 million people in Delhi”

Now I can see some slight differences in the health service in India versus the UK, can you?
I’m not worried.

Jinx

11,344 posts

259 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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otolith said:
At the risk of wandering off the topic of vaccination again - surface transmission - we know now that while it is a factor in Covid transmission, it's not a major one in most situations and that most transmission is airborne. We did not know that then, we were working on best guesses based on viruses we thought were similar, which is why we were focusing on handwashing and disinfection of surfaces and not initially on masks, ventilation and avoiding indoor spaces.

It seemed less likely that it was primarily airborne on the evidence available at the time - I wonder what the awkward squad would have made of measures against airborne transmission being introduced at that point on a purely precautionary basis? They made enough of a fuss when those measures were introduced with evidence to back them.
The airborne vector was discussed on this forum very early on (and there was an open letter published by many medics on the frontline wanting the airborne nature of Covid-19 given more consideration). The speed of global transmission made the droplet/surface vector spread less likely without additional considerations (asymptomatic spreaders anyone?) unless all the global travellers spent their flights licking all the surfaces? This has been airborne since day 1 - and therefore a single ply cloth mask does nothing to reduce the spread.

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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Harrison Bergeron said:
vaud said:
To be fair he is right. It may be an issue, it may not be. He isn't saying "DOOM it will kill us all".

Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
There was a great caption on one of the dailymail scare stories about India. It was along the lines of “there are 150 ICU beds for 29 million people in Delhi”

Now I can see some slight differences in the health service in India versus the UK, can you?
I’m not worried.
There's quite a lot of people in the UK who really do care about what's happening in India right now, and how prepared their health service is (as we now that when systems like that get overloaded, they collapse utterly and end up causing the things they're implemented to prevent)...

I'll let you figure out what that reason may be.

If you can, perhaps you might then realise that it's not a report to strike fear in the UK, as yes, things are a bit different here in terms of healthcare capacities.

Harrison Bergeron

5,444 posts

221 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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Sway said:
There's quite a lot of people in the UK who really do care about what's happening in India right now, and how prepared their health service is (as we now that when systems like that get overloaded, they collapse utterly and end up causing the things they're implemented to prevent)...

I'll let you figure out what that reason may be.

If you can, perhaps you might then realise that it's not a report to strike fear in the UK, as yes, things are a bit different here in terms of healthcare capacities.
That’s like comparing two methods of storing petrol.
One is a barrel with holes in it and a book of lit matches nearby and the other is the standard 10000litre tank with bunds and fire suppression.

Can you work out which country goes where in this analogy?