Would you Accept a very late night appt to get vaccine ?

[Thisisnotreallymyname]

So - they are talking about rolling out a 24 hour vaccination process for Covid.
Your appt come through for 2:15 am.
Would you do it ?

YABU - No
YANBU - Yes

No, I wouldn't be safe on the road at that time (CFS) and especially not if I had to teach a full 9-5 day afterwards (yes, I teach until 5). Would happily take a 6am appointment though.

Yes I would.

Yes, I'd accept whatever time and work around it.
If it was in work hours I would hope my workplace would be flexible and allow me to,attend, I'm pretty sure they would.
If it was in the early hours I'd prep for that and work around it, if it meant I was getting vaccinated.

This wouldn't work for those dependent on public transport or needed others to get them there.

If you can’t get out at night then just be glad that other people will to save the daytime slots for you

Totally agree.

This would work brilliantly near say factories with 24 hour shift patterns. They could all be vaccinated together.

Same if they rolled it out to big corporations or school staff, on site after hours.

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay

when am I likely to get the vaccine?

The online calculator originally based on 1m weekly.
BBC website now suggests 2m weekly target with the second vaccine available.
I adjusted the figures to allow for that, and it brought my likely vaccination date forward by a month. But if the second vaccine doesn't require a second dose until twelve weeks.......

Most likely in April based on their standard setting. If I up it to 2000000 then it would be February to March.

I think the issue will be, can you book a slot, or are you allocated a slot? Cannot imagine allocating will work.

Also, I am not a medic, so may be speaking out of turn, but surely lots and lots of people are trained to give injections that are not nurses and doctors? I mean, diabetics inject themselves? So I had assumed that gettign eg army involved meant they would train up groups to give the vaccinations, so you could have 10 trained volunteers vaccinating under the charge of a nurse/doctor?
It is never going to happen if we need fully trained nurses to do it, they are busy elsewhere!

I’d go anytime. Because I could.

I guess it would be “book a slot” but the daytime ones would be booked out first, so can go tomorrow if you go at night or in a fortnight if you wait for a daytime slot. Unfair to those not online.

@gotyerhat

God I'd be there dressed as a clown and doing cartwheels if that's what they wanted me to do.

🤡 🤡🤡

I would accept a tricky appointment time if a better one wasn't available though would prefer mid-morning or afternoon.

@GreenlandTheMovie

Why on earth not? But according to the government website, I'm not likely to be vaccinated before August 2022, I'll have plenty of time to prepare for this slightly late night!

Which calculator are you using?

I used this one: www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk

And for healthy, young 18y dd it says September 2021.
I've not seen one come up with 2022.
Though reality I could see that happening for some healthy younger people.

[quote Poppingnostopping]**@Poppingnostopping surely the main point they’re making is that nothing will be transformed until a high percentage of the population has had the vaccine. The point of a possible 24/7 rollout is to get there quicker!

Yes, if you have lots of spare nurses and doctors and vaccinations then all night would make sense, but we don't, so having them work (and then get tired/time off) during slow night shifts with few people turning up is not efficient. If you have staff capacity, yes, this might work.You have to have enough staff on in case someone has anaphalactic shock, quite a few people around the world have had this response, so it isn't just a question of one nurse alone and a night shift.[/quote]
I agree with Popping.

I absolutely would come to a night time appointment but it just doesn’t make any sense.

If the thing slowing you down was the facility or equipment but you have unlimited staff and doses it would make sense. But we already have or are building capacity to deliver more doses than we can get hold of.

In general doing things at night isn’t a good idea. Doctors and nurses are tired and more likely to make mistakes, and despite the roads being empty you are more likely to crash driving there. If we did have more doses and could get the staff to deliver them it would make more sense to increase daytime capacity by opening more venues (which would also have the benefit of decreasing travel distance for many) than to make people work at night.

@Namechangeme87

Id accept it at 3am , Injected into a fanny flap while listening to the sound of a thousand nails scraping along a chalkboard if it meant we could have some form of normal soon

I mean , yes .

No I wouldn't. I couldn't get to the vaccine centre at that time of night and we've never got ourselves and the kids out of bed in the middle of the night to go on holiday either.

I don't drive, public transport here doesn't run between 10pm and 6 am and taxis would cost £40-£50 which we simply don't have if we want to eat that week.

The nearest vaccine centre at the moment is about 15 miles away so walking isn't an option either.

There's some very ignorant responses here re taxis, I can only assume you're fortunate enough to not have to worry about whether you can pay all your bills this month or where your next meal is coming from. I live in a very deprived area where many people rely on food banks, local pubs and restaurants we're offering free takeaway lunches for children during the holidays and our primary school was asking for unwanted school uniform/shoes/coats to be donated to give to families at the school who can't afford them. You can't pull taxi money out of thin air even for a much needed and wanted vaccine.

@Grellbunt

What a stupid thread and stupid answers with people taking offence where none was intended.

If you can’t get out at night then just be glad that other people will to save the daytime slots for you.

I think people are entitled to take offence at being called selfish, stupid and ignorant.

Yes, whatever time of the day or night is fine by me, I'd make it work. I'd also be happy to be on overnight duty to drive others to appointments so that we can get this done as quickly as possible.

Yes. I don’t drive, so would get a taxi.

I meet three of the random criteria, so may even get one at some point.

If the vaccine programme continued at its current pace, it wouldn't get to all 30 million vulnerable and over 50's til Dec 2022.

If it speeds up with a million a week, it would still take til Autumn 2021 according to the Mail.

There are also vaccine shortages already.

The vaccine is amazing news, and we only need to vaccinate the most vulnerable very quickly to see a real reduction in the pressure on hospitals, but those who aren't CV or very old probably won't be seeing this vaccination for a good long while, and all the measures like SD will continue for this reason until people can't stand living like that any more and then life will plod along with this horrible disease in the middle of us, but killing fewer people (the morbidity of Long Covid won't count enough to keep a country locked down indefinitely, due to needing to have a functioning economy).

Totally. It's only one night, and I'd much rather go at an unsociable hour than wait weeks more

Plus it hopefully means less people about, I'm a little worried about the talk of stadiums etc being used, as I have images of massive crowds of people spreading the virus

Caveat to my post, I live in a city so a taxi is and entirely plausible and not prohibitively expensive option for me.

I would, especially if it might help more vulnerable people get it at an easier time of day. As has been pointed out they will have to take into account things like single parents, also people without cars.

Ive said yes

But i dont want to 😩

Im asleep...im old....i really need my beauty sleep

Do young people at that time!

Yes because I dont have young children to consider and I drive and live in a city. Plenty of people couldnt for logistical reasons.

I think it makes sense that 65 and under, and key workers have the options of night appointments instead of taking day appointments for older people and ones who don't have access to transport. I doubt I'll get the vaccine until late spring/ summer due to age and job, so I'll just take what I can get, when I can get it.

My husband and I are both in our 70s, and he has cancer and heart failure. We would definitely go to a middle of the night appointment. But I drive and we can sleep as late as we like.

Only on MN could a totally hypothetical situation which is fairly unlikely to happen, could there be 15 pages of angst