I’m hoping I haven’t just ruined Christmas for myself 
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I wasn’t going to risk Pfizer again
Out of 15 of us where I used to work there was only 2 of us who had a rough time with the 2nd Pfizer. So it’s very unlikely you’ll have problems but make sure you have paracetamol in the house just in case
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Round here it’s only the GP… there’s a testing centre setup in a supermarket car park but they don’t do vaccines. First time I booked in for my booster I was sent away as they’d run out and didn’t have an ETA for any more! I managed to get one during a routine blood test eventually.
We’re not that rural either…
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That’s a good thing! Shows you are having a strong response.
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Apparently so. I take solace from that
Here it’s GP’s, local hospital, local football ground, Velodrome, and most of the larger chemists.
Booster overload lololol
And I don’t exactly live in a huge city.
How many people have already had boosters?
And there’s a fair few who aren’t due for boosters yet, so I think there’s a chance they’ll pull it off, or at least give those that wanted , not every adult in England.
I think I saw 40% have had a booster so far. But I’m not sure if that’s of all people or of those who will be eligible
Managed to book mine on Saturday afternoon- some friends mentioned the site was allowing bookings for under 40s and got in there early.
Got the jab itself tomorrow- hoping it isn’t a shitshow organisationally with Johnson’s announcements this evening.
Had ours on Friday (almost bang-on the six month anniversary of my second dose). I had a minor sore arm for a day (that I only felt if I moved in just the wrong way) while my wife has a full on reaction and may be starting to come out of it only now. (I’m guessing. I’m not brave enough to ask again!)
She had full on fever dreams with both AZ doses (I did with the first) and this was Pfizer so she obviously just reacts to all of them.
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NHS website crashed already apparently… no surprise.
I just don’t see how they’re not going to just offer but deliver a million vaccinations a day. From what I’ve seen of the big NHS vaccination centre in the city it could do it (it’s in a football ground, it’s huge) but doubling the capacity at the GP would require cancelling a lot of appointments - assuming their allocation of vaccinations was also (more than) doubled…
Which makes me worry if my appointment next week is going to happen. I already got hit by the ‘no blood tests’ thing last month.
I think the idea theory is ok but it’s going to be a nightmare to get done in reality the booster for all over 18 before Xmas.
I’d be shocked if we hit 1m a day at any point, honestly. At the absolute peak in May (I think), the number was somewhere around 800k/d, and that was with a significantly greater number of vaccine volunteers and uptake from the public.
That said, this is as much a campaign for “more” as it is a specific number. Any vaccine given is a win, and this PR drive will aid that, so I’m not going to be looking to closely at the Govt if/when they fail to hit 1m/d, or everyone by Christmas etc.
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Hopefully getting my booster tomorrow as I’ve found a walk-in clinic near me.
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This answers some of my questions from last night. Thanks for sharing!
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As of this morning I have had three Pfizer, and no side effects on any of the occasions.
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sore arm from friday to sunday afternoon.
Took a couple of hours for it to start hurting
Your milage may vary
This thread is an education… walk in centres are still a thing? I did a search on the NHS website and it only returned hospitals, the nearest one being 7 miles away. I haven’t seen one in years…
The walk-in centres I’ve posted about are ones that have popped up specifically for Covid-19 vaccinations. Often, I’ve found, in all sorts of completely random places; civic halls, local theatres, sports venues…
By and large it seems like a smart way of getting vaccines out into the community in areas where there may not be so many nearby hospitals/doctors surgeries, and in locations which have good transit links and parking facilities.
The biggest brake to having ever more walk-in centres is, I imagine, the same one that meant Nightingale hospitals didn’t really work - staffing.