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Are you NHS staff? Will you or won't you be getting the vaccination?

211 replies

CovidStoleTheRainbow · 25/10/2020 06:49

My apologies if there's already a thread. I did have a look and couldn't see one.

If you're NHS staff in a hospital will you get the covid vaccine?

If you will, what reassures you that it's safe?

If you won't get it, why not?

I work in a hospital but come Jan, I will be a community nurse so I'm not sure whether I will be very high up on the list (compared to A&E or HDU staff).

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OpheliasCrayon · 25/10/2020 10:46

[quote CovidStoleTheRainbow]@OpheliasCrayon I wonder if there is a common ingredient in the vaccinations and/or medications that you have an adverse reaction to.
Could be like finding a needled in a haystack though.

It isn't the same (at ALL) but my son has a reaction to many many eczema creams. I tried figuring out whether there was a common ingredient amongst them but the amount of stuff in them and the long spellings, it was a bloody headache to go through them.
Let alone drugs and vaccines.[/quote]
Unfortunately I have no idea.
I'm allergic to pretty much anything I could put on my skin (although I have just found a concealer in a natural food shop that has 4 natural ingredients only that I can use !! First one in probably a decade!!)
But the thing is the things I react to are SO varied. They're not one type of drug they're all entirely different, so there's no common things that I could be reacting to. Also all the reactions are different. For quite a lot of them I get psychosis but then there's been one for example when my skin just started to split open and bleed in huge welts that just wouldn't heal until I stopped taking the stuff (that was one that was completely unheard of that had to then get added onto the drug info )....
I've been to see specialists in London to see if they could shed any light, as obviously it is now causing absolutely massive problems because I can't great the illnesses I have. But whilst they said the things are definitely happening when they shouldn't be they couldn't find any explanation or cause.
I have psychiatrists involved to see if they can find any way to mitigate what's happening but unfortunately although everyone I see is absolutely amazing and wants to come up with a solution.... There just doesn't seem to be one.

OpheliasCrayon · 25/10/2020 10:47

can't treat not great!

Everybodyfednobodydead · 25/10/2020 12:28

I'm an a&e nurse and a few weeks ago I'd have been at the front of the queue for a vaccine. But I've recently discovered I'm pregnant and now I'm really unsure what to do for the best as there's no way they can know how this vaccine affects foetal development

mumsneedwine · 25/10/2020 12:34

If I can borrow a uniform please can I have someone's jab. Being with over 2,000 people every day with no social distancing and only a cotton mask is not great. I'll try anything !

OhTheRoses · 25/10/2020 12:50

So we have an NHS which has been curtailed across the board by the risk of Covid, staffed by a number of people who will refuse the vaccine. I do hope every potential refused has agreed to be drafted to the front line or will be seeing patients face to face with immediate effect. If they won't accept the vaccine they should be at work, seeing patients right now.

I will have the vaccine as will the rest of my family. We have the flu vaccine every year. We are unlikely to be a priority. I happily pay for the flu vaccine and will happily pay ten times that for Covid.

SkittyKat · 25/10/2020 12:55

I work in a clinic for the NHS, and I’m also pregnant. I have no idea if the vaccine would even be offered to me in pregnancy but I am very, very unsure if I would accept it if it was, and I am very pro vaccination generally.

OhTheRoses · 25/10/2020 12:57

I don't think of women shpuld have to accept it.

PolarBearStrength · 25/10/2020 12:57

Yes I’ll have if I can access it on maternity leave.

RonaCor · 25/10/2020 13:00

So we have an NHS which has been curtailed across the board by the risk of Covid, staffed by a number of people who will refuse the vaccine

I'm hiding the thread like the PP for this reason. I have read too much stupidity for one day and have been gobsmacked at the level of both ignorance and selfishness I've seen and heard during since March.

NerrSnerr · 25/10/2020 13:12

It's not misunderstanding. This virus didn't exist a year ago, majority of people survive.

But many people who NHS staff care for/ support will not if they catch Covid or it may make their death more painful. I have seen people dying of Covid and it's fucking awful and think it's terrible that NHS staff may refuse the vaccine as most people who catch it from them may not die.

Redlocks28 · 25/10/2020 13:16

Wow-it was only a month ago that the Oxford trials were paused because it caused serious problems with the spinal cord of one of the volunteers, wasn’t it?!

I’d be very wary being in the first round of guinea pigs.

Fizzydrinks123 · 25/10/2020 13:20

Private healthcare setting - but as that has been NHS for most of this year due to the emergency arrangements I assume will be offered the vaccine and will definitely be a YES from me.

Yes I have thought about it as much as the other people saying they won't but will on balance be happy to have it and look forward to a more normal life.

It makes me grateful for all the previous scientific advances to date.

Racoonworld · 25/10/2020 13:20

@Redlocks28

Wow-it was only a month ago that the Oxford trials were paused because it caused serious problems with the spinal cord of one of the volunteers, wasn’t it?!

I’d be very wary being in the first round of guinea pigs.

It didn’t cause it. A person had those issues and was taking part in the vaccine trials. Two unrelated things, of course the trial had to be paused to investigate but it was found to be ok. It’s even restarted in the US now.
Racoonworld · 25/10/2020 13:21

It scares me that NHS staff have these views, I thought they were supposed to be some of the cleverest members of society but obviously not!

LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 25/10/2020 13:22

I am in private healthcare but no way will I be having it. I am not at high risk of complications from the virus, so will not be putting myself at risk from a vaccine.

gypsywater · 25/10/2020 13:24

Not surprised pregnant staff dont want the vaccine. Not enough is known about potential risk to foetus.

Silvergreen · 25/10/2020 13:28

@Brieminewine

I’m frontline nhs and no I’ll not be having it. I’m not being a tester for a rushed through vaccine. I’m young and fit, and probably already had it tbh, colleagues have tested positive and been only minimally effected so I’ll wait it out I think.
This frightens me.
SpeedofaSloth · 25/10/2020 13:28

If I am offered the new vaccine I will have it, yes.

OpheliasCrayon · 25/10/2020 13:29

@Racoonworld

It scares me that NHS staff have these views, I thought they were supposed to be some of the cleverest members of society but obviously not!
That's not fair.

I know I've just detailed my very clearly acceptable reasons for why I wouldn't have the vaccine...but why are people, medics or not, now allowed to feel anxious about a vaccine that would have been developed in less than a year ? That's absolutely unheard of! It is in no doubt an absolutely stunning medical and scientific triumph if we do get one in this time frame. However, if we are being told that the VAST majority of people are NOT going to be at risk if they catch covid, I do think whether people agree or not, it is an acceptable concern to be worried about an extremely quickly developed new vaccine.

Yes I am aware that the basis of the vaccine had been around for many years as its been used for other things but, just as I wouldn't call people stupid for being worried about catching covid, I wouldn't say they're stupid for being worried about a new vaccine.

AgnesNaismith · 25/10/2020 13:51

Because it hasn’t been developed in less than a year........it has 7 years pre-work and is using existing vaccine technology. Smh.

OpheliasCrayon · 25/10/2020 13:54

@AgnesNaismith

Because it hasn’t been developed in less than a year........it has 7 years pre-work and is using existing vaccine technology. Smh.
I did acknowledge that fact.

But , it in itself is a new vaccine for a new illness. I do understand people's anxieties or at least that people shouldn't be called stupid for being worried.

I would have it if I didn't have the reactions I've mentioned above this said. I would trust in the science and development. As it goes my body is a total freak show so it's myself I don't trust, not the vaccine!

Silvergreen · 25/10/2020 13:55

Looking forward to the 'trust scientists / trust experts' re-education U-turns that populist governments will have to carry out.

BookWormBitch · 25/10/2020 13:57

I think people who are scared and believe the first recipients of the vaccine will be ‘guinea pigs’ should educate themselves before making knee jerk reactions and potentially being a cause of someone becoming seriously ill. Not everyone can have vaccines so those who can should feel obligated

Redlocks28 · 25/10/2020 13:58

@Silvergreen

Looking forward to the 'trust scientists / trust experts' re-education U-turns that populist governments will have to carry out.
Definitely! Gove was quite vocal on his views on this-‘people have had quite enough of experts!’ wasn’t it?!
NerrSnerr · 25/10/2020 13:59

@LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus and what about any vulnerable patients you come across? You're not willing to have the vaccine to reduce the risk of them getting it?