I'm due to have the vaccine in an hour. Would you?

[PLAYJAJADINGDONG]

Just that. Am curious to see what MNers would do if offered.

YANBU - I WOULD have the vaccine.

YABU - I WOULD NOT have the vaccine.

Am 40. NHS worker. Healthy and low risk.

Baggsy having yours if you don't want it 🤞🤞

If you are uncertain, OP, and are feeling inappropriate pressure, are you absolutely certain you are not pregnant?

No. If I was the vulnerable one I would have it but given the currently available data I would be extremely uncomfortable in accepting a vaccine as someone who isn't particularly vulnerable but who comes into contact with those who are (due to the possibility that the vaccine will increase asymptomatic spread and put the vulnerable at more risk in the short term if health and care workers receive it first).

Go for it.

I definitely will when it's offered to me

@Zilla1

If you are uncertain, OP, and are feeling inappropriate pressure, are you absolutely certain you are not pregnant?

No brainer for me. Flu jab this afternoon and if they offered me the COVID at the same time I'd say YES

I would if I wasn’t BF, I’m 42 no health conditions.
As soon as it is available to me (assuming finished BF) I’ll have it without hesitation. My grandmother gets hers next week (almost 94).

I'm 100% not pregnant and have no wish to have any more DC (am too old and my DC are half reared!).

@StatisticalSense, I'm struggling to understand your post but would be interested in your description of by what mechanism the vaccination could increase asymptomatic spread?

I'm aware there are forthcoming trials checking if the vaccinated could still spread but I'm not aware that HCPs are being told to stop using PPE/distancing and other infection control management.

Yes absolutely I will be having it when it gets to group 4.

I think the suggestion was to say you were pregnant to buy for time op, not to go the whole hog and produce a whole human to get out of the inconvenience of saying "no thankyou"

Yes, OP, but if you are not certain and are feeling inappropriate pressure, when you are asked to confirm you are not pregnant as part of the consent process, will you be telling them you are 100% certain you are not pregnant?

Bring it on! Jab me up asap!

If I was offered it, I'd step in line, if I had issues about risking my health, then I would reassure my self by knowing this is produced by some of the best mind's in the business.

@FourTeaFallOut, yes that would be one reading of my post to prevent someone being subject to inappropriate pressure. I had to smile at the 'whole hog' approach to avoiding workplace conflict.

Just curious, for all the people so desperate to have the jab, do you understand that it hasn’t been proven to reduce transmission at all? That means you can still catch and spread covid but your own symptoms mightn’t be too bad. I find there’s a lot of misunderstanding around it at the moment.

As a NHS worker I would have it. Otherwise no.

Nope. Not unless I was high risk.

In your position I would have it.

In my position I won't have it yet as it isn't advised for me. Once I can have it, I will be doing.

I was nervous, but it was put to me, which do you think is the largest risk, the vaccine or covid. DH can't wait, he wants us all to get back to as near normal as we can as soon as possible.

I'm not dithering btw. Am going to have it. I've just always been a bit of a skeptic and have zero faith in the government so was just wavering a little as to whether I've done adequate research of my own etc.

@PLAYJAJADINGDONG I think it's important to separate out the Government (and their response to the pandemic) and the vaccine. The Government have nothing to do with the vaccine other than buying it and setting up the logistical chain to get it out to the people. The companies developing the vaccines and the regulators that approve it are entirely independent.

For anyone having doubts, watch the Panorama programme broadcast on the BBC on Monday night about the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine, it was fascinating and very informative about the vaccine development process.

Pfizer no - others most probably.

I would have it, the Pfizer one would be my preferred choice :-D

@Zilla1
The vaccine could increase asymptomatic spread by increasing the proportion of cases which are asymptomatic (and therefore not caught and isolated). Pfizer purposely chose not to test asymptomatic participants in the trial and therefore have absolutely no idea as to whether the vaccine prevents people catching the virus or simply reduces symptoms in which case they would still be able to pass it on the same as anyone else. As the vaccine was far from 100% effective in preventing symptomatic cases it is probably more likely that the vaccine merely reduces symptoms and does not reduce onwards transmission meaning vaccinating those who come into contact with vulnerable people before the vulnerable people they come into contact with is likely to lead to an increase in preventable deaths from the virus.