How embarrassing!

GDB2222

I don’t regard myself as old - I am second half 60s. And reasonably fit. I’ll happily go for a ten mile walk and think nothing of it. If as occasionally happens a younger person offers me a seat on the bus, I will thank them nicely and decline their kind offer. 

But, now the NHS has offered me a Covid vaccination. Why? What does their computer think about me? I thought that they were still working their way through care home residents and my turn wasn’t due for months?  

Are there any other people in my age group, reasonably healthy, who have been offered a seat on the vaccine bus? 

 

Grumpy_chap

If you've been offered the vaccine and are going to accept it when offered, just take the opportunity.

This is a very complex process and the vaccine is being offered out with some variations between regions - even working down different GP surgeries, your surgery might just be a bit ahead.

Also, the vaccine centres need to be fully utilised and not waste either staff resource or parts of vaccine batches.  I understand once a vaccine batch is opened, it has to be used in a certain time limit.  Maybe, the local service has a batch of "priority" people booked in for a certain day but other limitations, such as transport, mean that cannot all be taken by "priority" individuals, so the system then goes down the list to more mobile people to fill those slots rather than waste.  (This happened to my FiL.)

poppy12345

Yup, my daughters MIL had hers about 10 days ago and she's 64 and not CEV. They even came to her home to do it.

JamoLew

Some areas have fewer 80+,70+ and CEV then others - they arent just sitting back and waiting for the rest to catch up

strawb_shortcake

I know a teacher and a social worker that have had the vaccine, neither are CEV or even CV, and I don't think either are 30 yet.
They do both live in the same county, so may be down to the locality, I also think their county may have been top on vaccines delivered last week??

molerat

My niece had hers, 40 and a nursery teacher, SW England.  Up here not heard of anyone outside of the initial groups being done, even making a pigs of doing that !

elsien

annabanana82 said:

I know a teacher and a social worker that have had the vaccine, neither are CEV or even CV, and I don't think either are 30 yet.
They do both live in the same county, so may be down to the locality, I also think their county may have been top on vaccines delivered last week??

That might be because of their jobs. I’ve just had mine (don’t qualify on grounds of age or health) because although I’m not a hands on carer or NHS worker I do go into care homes and hospitals in a directly client facing role. I would imagine social workers are the same. 

sheramber

Food bank volunteers in my area have had their first jab under the health and social care banner.

68ComebackSpecial

My husband is 62 and clinically vulnerable, but not extremely vulnerable, had his on Friday. His 89 year old mother 40 miles away is receiving hers tomorrow. My parents, in their eighties, had theirs over 2 weeks ago. It varies area to area, particularly as new vaccination centres are opened up.

strawb_shortcake

elsien said:

annabanana82 said:

I know a teacher and a social worker that have had the vaccine, neither are CEV or even CV, and I don't think either are 30 yet.
They do both live in the same county, so may be down to the locality, I also think their county may have been top on vaccines delivered last week??

That might be because of their jobs. I’ve just had mine (don’t qualify on grounds of age or health) because although I’m not a hands on carer or NHS worker I do go into care homes and hospitals in a directly client facing role. I would imagine social workers are the same. 

I'd assumed that was the case, I was listening to radio 4 yesterday and there was a debate about where teachers should be, but I didn't hear of any other teachers having had the vaccine. 
There is a lady that lives nearby that may fit into a CV category but works in safeguarding children and she had the vaccine too. But nice to know that they are making good progress 

sourcrates

If its been offered, seriously i would take it, no question.

I was hospitalised over Christmas after testing positive for covid-19 and also pneumonia (one seems to follow the other).

I`m in my early 50`s, but I became very weak and breathless in a very short space of time, do not underestimate this virus, some people can shake it off no problem, others like me, spend two weeks in hospital on a ventilator, hardly able to breathe, it is very indiscriminate.

The ward I was in was almost full, men and woman, young and old, as well as middle aged, all on oxygen, there were no deaths during my stay, most do recover, unless you have a more serious underlying condition, such as COPD, or any type of lung disease.

Seven weeks in, I'm still recovering, have not yet regained full lung capacity, it can take up to 6 months for recovery.
Don`t be proud, get the vaccination, you do not want to get this virus I can assure you.