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

Yes.100%.

I would and I’d happily pay for it, whatever it takes to get some normality back.

If a Friday or Saturday night, yes.

If a week night, no. I have kids and am often alone at night with them. I don't drive and where it looks like it'll be done around me walking would be impossible. I also have a friend who got it and was quite ill the next day. Dealing with exhausted kids and being ill like she was and home schooling (already a nightmare) plus being knackered myself, if I don't need to be, isn't something I'd choose. I want the vaccine but I'd wait a few weeks longer to have an appointment between the hours of 7.30am and 8pm.

But I'm not worried, because it seems there'll be no nighttime appointments left as people are so keen to take those times they'd crawl naked over broken glass...

Prefer not only because don’t have a car and would need to walk home through central London. But if my number comes up and that’s what I get I’d risk taxi there and back to get it.

In principle I’d accept it, in practice I live in a rural area and can’t drive so I don’t know if I’d be able to get to it as the place doing the jabs is eight miles away.

I listened to the head of the Oxford group being interviewed, Professor Sarah Gilbert. She explained some of the scientific basis (drawn from decades of work) on which this vaccine got to trial quickly. The information is readily available for anyone who wants to compare this process to the usual process for similar pharmaceutical products.

Prof Gilbert must rolls her eyes almost out of her head whenever she hears some fool like PuddyMuddles disparage a process she clearly knows nothing about.

Still, may as well leave the vaccine for the more intelligent, Puddy Muddles. Taking one for the team.

I think there would be a lot of missed appointments if they did that. Also, I don't see why it's necessary. The only thing that a 24 hr process eases pressure on is physical space. They can still only make the same number of vaccines in 24hrs. They can still only administer as many vaccines as they have staff for and those staff can only work so many hours a day. Better to spend that little bit more for more space (which isn't under as much pressure during the pandemic since so much stuff is cancelled) than have people working during hours that increase the likelyhood of mistakes and accidents.

I’d leave the house right now if they offered me one.

@PuddyMuddles4

I have no problem with doing it any time night or day, if I was ever going to get it done. Thing is - no bloody way am I letting them put a rushed, untested vaccine into my body. Not going to happen.

Can you explain in what way the process was rushed and untested?

Maybe compare it with a vaccine you've worked on to identify which elements specifically weren't done to the same standards in your lab, we here this often and it would be helpful to have an actual expert's opinion.

Yes and I'd drive someone to there's at that time as well. Even if I had to work the next day I'd do it.

If I wanted the vaccine then yes, I"d go when asked. If the public wants it rolling out quickly then the public must accept that we need to use all available hours.

Hell yes.

I absolutely would. No young children at home to worry about and I drive.

If they do offer this I think it makes sense for those of us who can take odd time appointments do so to free up capacity in the system for those who can’t.

Hell yes.

Maybe the mantra ‘in case you get run over by a bus’ should morph into ‘in case I get the vaccine call right now’. Easier as don’t think the vaccine involves displaying mismatched underwear 😂

Yes I would!

I'm priority as Care assistant but no I wouldn't I have a disabled dc and don't drive

@PuddyMuddles4 - have a read of this article which helps explain how this vaccine was ‘rushed’ through - theconversation.com/less-than-a-year-to-develop-a-covid-vaccine-heres-why-you-shouldnt-be-alarmed-150414?fbclid=IwAR1DO-rLWVPcg4Hvsg1KikVn4b9fGAIXgWSPVRrFMVgVaxDy7gFl0sM-IPA

Nope,
Getting my DS with asd/adhd out of the house in the middle of the night would upset his routine so much that a violent meltdown would definitely follow, lasting hours possibly repeated over the course of a few days.
No way would I do that.

Maybe

I don’t own a car and don’t fancy walking for an hour to the hospital alone in the middle of the night.

Because there will only be a few hubs staffed 24/7 - there just won’t be the people to be doing this across community sites

24/7 seems unreasonable for those who will be administering the vaccine but evenings and weekends for those able to get there on foot or by car I would accept.

They can still only administer as many vaccines as they have staff for and those staff can only work so many hours a day

Presumably they will recruit and train extra staff who will work shifts. If it means they get two or three times as many people vaccinated, I'm all in favour. Going out a 2 a.m is a hell of a lot less inconvenient than having Covid.

Yes (although I'm way down the priority list anyway so wouldn't be for a while). The sooner we can get vaccinated and get out of this mess the better, I'm so fed up of it.

I don't want this vaccine & I hate losing sleep - so no, not for me.

Yes - anytime it was offered I would take it.