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).

Would you really?

I can't wait to ditch the bloody masks. Makes communication with patients so much harder. Bloody uncomfortable. I can't stand it.

Yes, I might accept the safety of it but not the efficacy. Those who have had flu vaccin still wear full PPE when dealing with pat with flu

@hopelesschildren

Yes, I might accept the safety of it but not the efficacy. Those who have had flu vaccin still wear full PPE when dealing with pat with flu

That's because the flu vaccination doesn't protect against all strains of flu - they take an educated guess at which ones will be prevalent in any given year. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn't.

"That's because the flu vaccination doesn't protect against all strains of flu - they take an educated guess at which ones will be prevalent in any given year. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn't."

and you already know he corona vaccin does????

@hopelesschildren

"That's because the flu vaccination doesn't protect against all strains of flu - they take an educated guess at which ones will be prevalent in any given year. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn't."

and you already know he corona vaccin does????

Covid-19 is a coronavirus, which means it mutates much more slowly than flu. There are different strains around the world, but they are still very similar and there's no evidence that one vaccine won't work for all of them.

I would take the vaccine without a doubt. Rather take my chances with a new vaccine, built on decades of research and knowledge on previous vaccines, albiet rushed through, than a new disease which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected far more. We don't know the long term effects of covid infection yet - there is lung and heart damage seen even with asymptomatic patients.

I've already said I'll definitely have the vaccine

I do take the point that I would likely wear PPE anyway if I was looking after a confirmed or high risk case but I'd hope to be able to ditch it for day to day low risk encounters and if people get vaccinated it will reduce the overall rates and every encounter will have less statistical risk than currently.

Someone on another thread thinks this one is fake news by 'bad actors' as no real NHS staff would refuse the vaccine. Ha ha ha. They clearly do not know how hard Trusts work to get people to have flu vaccines every year and how many still refuse.

I'll be (socially distant) queuing up for it. It'll be safer for me than catching it, for sure. (I'm higher risk and frontline NHS)

I really want the vaccine - but not convinced that testing is good enough, and worried about short and long term side effects.

For people who are questioning those opting out of the vaccine at the moment, do some research into vaccine damage payouts that the government have money set aside for. Vaccine damage is real, I have seen it in my job, and it is swept under the carpet and it is not mentioned when getting a patient's 'consent' for a vaccine. I cannot get my head around putting myself or my children at risk of a vaccine, that protects against an illness that is most likely harmless to us, in order to protect someone else!

@LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus

For people who are questioning those opting out of the vaccine at the moment, do some research into vaccine damage payouts that the government have money set aside for. Vaccine damage is real, I have seen it in my job, and it is swept under the carpet and it is not mentioned when getting a patient's 'consent' for a vaccine. I cannot get my head around putting myself or my children at risk of a vaccine, that protects against an illness that is most likely harmless to us, in order to protect someone else!

Did you opt out of childhood vaccines for your children? Rubella, measles and mumps are harmless to the vast majority, the vaccination programme protects those who can’t (not won’t) be vaccinated. So much for community and society 🙄