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

[CovidStoleTheRainbow]

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).

@JufusMum the vaccine isn't out yet (unless you're in a trial). Do you mean the antibody test?

@Arnoldthecat

If they can develop a virus against this strain of coronavirus in what is a fairly short space of time,why have they not yet developed a virus for HIV? or have they and ive missed the news?

HIV famously and notoriously was massively underfunded for years in terms of research. Homophobia was one of the reasons. Racism another. See; malaria.

Fortunately this disease affects rich white older men as well so we should get a vaccine SUPER quickly.

I really hope that once a vaccine is available and nhs staff have it offered to them first ( with obvious exception of pregnant staff) that all NHS are available for work and all appointments are available again, especially the community ones that are not affected by lack of beds.

As a teacher with hundreds of children in a bubble and no finding for extra cleaning, no PPE and just a home bought cotton mask for protection I am hoping teachers will be offered it fairly soon, otherwise it is going to be a difficult year for exam students in England with teachers isolating at home ( with days to get a result), or bubbles closed down.

I'm part of a Covid vaccination study. There are 3 vaccines close to the end of testing. I believe the plan would be to give it to frontline nhs staff first then the most vulnerable and then it will be rolled out.

Not sure if this has already been said but no drug/vaccine. We would have our arses kicked by Legal if we ever said this. What you want is a vaccine that has a positive benefit risk ratio in the disease you are developing it for and in the intended population. No drug is without risk..,,,in drug development, if you didn’t have a single side effect, you can be pretty sure you wouldn’t have much efficacy either.
I’m not an NHS worker but I’ll take it when offered. I struggle to understand anti/vaxxers. These vaccines will be assessed by the regulatory authorities in the same way any drug will be. They will do a thorough job but the rare/very rare side effects won’t show up in clinical trials but only after it is made available to the broader population. Same as for any drug. The long term effects (if any) will show up after a certain time as for any other drug but I’d rather take the risk and have and not waiting 5-10 yrs just to be sure.
Countries might mandate that you are vaccinated before they let visitors in and maybe workplaces/schools etc. could mandate it too. Will be interesting but keeping everything crossed that a vaccine offering some protection is going to be available soon.

I’ve had Covid and will have the vaccine. Double protection for me!

I'm NHS staff and totally agree with @Hairyfairy01. How the heck can they know it's safe when it's so new? What about side effects that might not show for years?

*HIV famously and notoriously was massively underfunded for years in terms of research. Homophobia was one of the reasons. Racism another. See; malaria.

Fortunately this disease affects rich white older men as well so we should get a vaccine SUPER quickly.* surely not? there are so many pressure groups battling to support those who were perceived to be most at risk of HIV ? Also i would think a vaccine for HIV would be the holy grail and a big moneyspinner for big Pharma? A bit like a vaccine for cancer. Maybe they decided that a vaccine was a non starter so they moved toward suppression for eg Prep and other treatments to suppress transmission anddevelopment into AIDS. But i digress,,i wouldnt trust a CV vaccine. I'll leave it for a couple of years.

Honestly, if NHS workers aren’t prepared to do the obvious thing to protect the NHS...then what?

we are told in my trust of we don't get the flu vaccination we may not be entitled to do k pay if off due to flu. expect th3y will do similar

This thread is the scariest thing I've read in a while.

I've been very reassured by what I have read and interviews I've seen with the people in charge of the vaccine trials. As has been stated many times, it is not new. They are using a template that already exists. They haven't come up with this from scratch.

The vaccine does not need to eliminate Covid, or stop you catching it at this stage. All it needs to do is render it weaker so that far fewer people become sufficiently ill to need hospital treatment. Once we have that, hospitals will not need to be concerned and we can all get back to whatever is left of our "normal" lives.

Fuck this illness and the restrictions. I'd have the vaccine tomorrow.

@Racoonworld

I really think it should be mandatory for healthcare staff. It will save a lot of lives!

It very likely will be.

I would think/hope frontline nhs staff would be encouraged to have the vaccine. I work in an area of The NHS which insists we have the flu vaccine every year, we may not be concerned about getting it ourselves but could pass it on to patients and the public who might not be so lucky.
I’ve also heard the government could put restrictions in place for people who refuse the vaccine.

I'm TTC so dont think it would be safe to have

@IKEA888

we are told in my trust of we don't get the flu vaccination we may not be entitled to do k pay if off due to flu. expect th3y will do similar

In my trust we are expected to have a 99% uptake of the flu vaccination per department. In previous years it has been 75%

dh, gp and high risk group, sitting on the fence.

Frontline NHS here who was redeployed during the first phase.

I have an autoimmune condition.

I read up as much as I can about vaccines before I decide whether or not to have them. I cannot remember any that I have decided not to have.

I had a slight loss of taste in May before that became a symptom that trigged the need for a test. I have not felt unwell in the least. I had an antibody test in July through work which came back positive. I don’t know why our health board offered them to staff - there’s no follow up to see if I still have them or any evidence that it offers any protection. I’d like to know that before I make a decision about having this vaccine.

At this point in time I’d say it’s highly likely that I would accept a vaccine if it was offered to me, but I will definitely have to read up about it first.

Yes be perfectly happy to .

@NerrSnerr I read the title wrong, I thought it was about the flu jab, sorry.

I’m participating in a vaccine trial, having read up on the ins and outs and also had q and as with a doc about it there’s no doubt at all in my mind that safety is at the forefront and it will be safe for the vast majority. Safer than exposing yourself to the virus.
That said the jury’s still out as to whether any of them will actually work.

(Tangent on HIV vaccines... As I understand it - and it's not my field at all - vaccines work by triggering an immune response, so the immune system is primed when it subsequently comes in contact with the disease. HIV doesn't trigger a meaningful immune response, which is why people don't recover once infected, and which makes designing an effective vaccine tricky. In addition, it mutates rapidly which means, even if a vaccine could be found to work, it would likely only be effective for a limited period of time.

I'm not saying that the prejudice/funding issues outlined above aren't a factor, but it's also technically very difficult. We're lucky with Covid that it looks like a vaccine will be relatively straightforward, in part because we'd got a head start with SARS vaccines.

Happy to be told I'm wrong by people who actually understand this stuff!)

My mum works for the NHS, she is a nurse in A&E as is my brother. I very much hope they both choose to have it but I know Mum is concerned about its safety so we shall see, I suppose.

I am a bit surprised to see so many people saying they wouldn't have it because they have a low risk of being very ill with covid.

I have always assumed, maybe wrongly, that the majority of people who get the vaccine wouldn't be getting it to protect themselves from the direct effects of getting infected with covid. They would be doing it to reduce the susceptible population and so protect themselves from the effects of exponential growth on all aspects of our lives. Protecting others will be part of that too.

I'm in the community not a hospital but I will definitely have it.

I'm 60, various autoimmune problems and Asthma.
I'm also an Early years teacher working in very close contact with, often sneezing & coughing, young children with no protection whatsoever. Its scary.
I would have the vaccination tomorrow if I could.