Flu Vaccine - should you wait?

[everydayupsanddowns]

This from NHS England. It contains information about why some one may need to wait, including brief details about different types of vaccines being suitable for different people, timings for getting the jab etc.

[Withdrawn] [Withdrawn] Flu vaccine supplies and why you need to wait for your vaccine

www.gov.uk

 

[grovesy]

My other half does not usally get the vaccine so ignored the text in August asking him to ring to book. Yesterday he got another text to ask him to book, he was going to ignore, but he rang up, and he has had to be put on a waiting list. I had mine on 17th Sept, so I suspect they are waiting more supplies.

 

[trophywench]

Ah, well, more recently they've realised the stupidity of not vaccinating partners, carers etc and though 'just diabetes' doesn't make us clinically extremely vulnerable - we are still more vulnerable and let's face it with all the CV19 floating about here there and everywhere - if you can get vaccinated against practically anything also floating about - why wouldn't you!

 

[grovesy]

Ah, well, more recently they've realised the stupidity of not vaccinating partners, carers etc and though 'just diabetes' doesn't make us clinically extremely vulnerable - we are still more vulnerable and let's face it with all the CV19 floating about here there and everywhere - if you can get vaccinated against practically anything also floating about - why wouldn't you!

Great minds that was sort of the tack that made him change his mind.

 

[Stitch147]

My gp surgery isn't doing under 65's yet and haven't given a date as to when they're starting them. If got an appointment at my local Boots pharmacy next sunday, the 18th.

 

[Edgar]

Got my jab yesterday. Got a achy arm today!

 

[Dollypolly]

Got jabbed at my screening last month. Nurse did say that they are running out

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Looks like I’ll be waiting for a few weeks.

 

[Pine Marten]

Mr Marten and I got our jabs at our pharmacy as I could never get through to the surgery on the phone as instructed - since then I've had two phones from the surgery inviting me to come in.... having told the callers that, thanks very much but we've been jabbed already, they both said they would amend the records. The first caller obviously didn't 🙄

 

[adrian1der]

Mine is booked with the surgery for the 24th.

 

[Minky]

Both husband and self have lung issues. Received letter from NHS Scotland with time and place for flu jag. Social distance adhered to, and sanitising carried out.

 

[trophywench]

Never managed to work out why shorthand for injection in Scotland, would be jag instead of jab.

If you give someone a sharp poke with either your index finger or a prodding implement, or indeed a quick single punch with either hand in a boxing match, are they jags too?

 

[nonethewiser]

Prediction is northern hemisphere will follow southern in seeing reduced cases of flu, likely due to covid measures in place.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Prediction is northern hemisphere will follow southern in seeing reduced cases of flu, likely due to covid measures in place.

Yes I gather that the southern hemisphere had comparatively low incidence of flu this year

 

[helli]

My partner had his jab yesterday from the local pharmacy.
He is aged under 50 and has no medical conditions but decided, with covid, to pay for one this year.
He had the last vaccine the pharmacist had in stock so, with regard to the topic of this thread, I would not wait.

Coincidentally, in the middle of last month, I was their first customer.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Yes I gather that the southern hemisphere had comparatively low incidence of flu this year

After March, we had just about no flu in Oz this year.



Closing the borders in March seems like it was probably the biggest thing. Eg; Rhinoviruses seem to have had pretty much their normal profile here - unlike flu, there's a big local reservoir of those types of viruses - "common cold" etc.

Not sure how you extrapolate our 2020 flu season to places like the UK which haven't closed borders.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Not sure how you extrapolate our 2020 flu season to places like the UK which haven't closed borders.

I think the assumption is it'll probably be much lower than normal but not nearly as low as NZ or Australia which seems about right to me.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I think the assumption is it'll probably be much lower than normal but not nearly as low as NZ or Australia which seems about right to me.

Makes sense.

 

[helli]

I read it was the additional hygiene and distancing due to covid significantly contributed to the reduction in flu cases in Australia. I can see reducing the chances of bringing it into the country can also help but that was not the justification described in the article I read.
(Sorry, it was some months ago so I have no chance of finding the article again.)

 

[Eddy Edson]

I read it was the additional hygiene and distancing due to covid significantly contributed to the reduction in flu cases in Australia. I can see reducing the chances of bringing it into the country can also help but that was not the justification described in the article I read.
(Sorry, it was some months ago so I have no chance of finding the article again.)

A lot of the expert discussion does seem to like the mainly-hygiene+distancing explanation, but FWIW I think a lot of it just ignores the impact of border closure, and I think a big reason for that is that it's an unexamined hangover from the standard pre-2020 view that closing borders doesn't stop pandemics.

That pre-2020 view is now completely out the window as far as COVID-19 goes - border closure is sure as anything the main reason why COVID-19 rates in Oz and NZ are minimal - and it should probably go out the window for flu as well.

Anyway, it's an active topic of expert debate at the moment & the dust hasn't settled yet.