Teachers, school staff, university staff - will you get the vaccine?

[HelloMissus]

Just read a thread where a good proportion of NHS staff say they won’t get the vaccine when it becomes available.

So just wondering what school and university staff will do.

I’m low risk, but regardless I don’t want to catch the virus especially if there is a safe vaccine available. That would be stupidity as its such an unpredictable virus. I don’t want to end up passing it on to my new born baby or parents and as chances of catching it in school are high i would like to do what I can to protect my family and protect myself from possible long Covid which sounds horrendous.

Gino yes but it's proving impossible to get an appointment. It may not help that the area is now in tier 3.

I'll try do better than I did on the other thread.

No I won't. But it's because I get life threatening reactions to most drugs I take. And so, although I would like to, and I would if I was a "normal" person, I won't when it's so new.

My consultants won't prescribe me new drugs that are available to treat my chronic illnesses due to the extreme reactions I've had to things ( hospitalized / have had the reactions reported and added to the drug info they're so rare).... Until they've been around for a considerable number of years.

I'm not anti vax. I vaccinate my kids and I have all mine and the flu jab as I'm immunosuppressed but no, I won't have the covid one initially. I've had covid and it was very minor for me thankfully so I think the safest thing for the moment is to not. I would need to see what sort of possible reactions there were first before I do.

If I didn't have this issue yes I would get it for sure

Yes.

Our school is reimbursing us the cost of the winter flu vaccine. We just need to bring in the receipt.

I’m a uni lecturer. If I’m offered it I will have it. I am teaching face to face without social distancing. A number of my students have Covid/have had it which does worry me. Personally I’m Fairly low risk, but I have higher risk relatives and friends who I’m worried about passing it on to.

The uni have paid for staff to have flu vaccine this year. So I think if they can get vaccines for staff they will but possibly won’t be able to. I totally understand other people may be higher priority.

Yes, I wouldn't hesitate to have it.
I have the flu jab every year, since having Swine Flu 4 years ago, and never feeling so ill in all my 50 plus years.
Think I had Covid in March, but not testing then.
Teach High School.
It's not fun.

Healthcare plus university staff- will get it as soon as possible

Yes for both me and DP, both science teachers. We already get the flu vaccine from school but I've been having it for years since being hospitalised with the flu at the age of 30.

I am not doing that again, ever!

Id have it but I doubt we will be offered it.

Re flu vac - our local Boots have stopped doing it apparently at the moment as they have run out of vaccines.

@ASimpleLobsterHat

Will university staff be given the vaccine? I think I would have it if offered, but I can’t imagine we’ll be in the first group offered it given that we’re not classed as key workers.

We are classed as essential workers, at least that what my uni is telling us to ensure we do face to face teaching! But I agree I don't think we will be offered it.

I'd get the vaccine, purely so I can look after DC if DH goes down with covid.

@WhyareWehardofthinking
I feel the same. So many people think they've had flu, when it's just a heavy cold. I was so ill, I couldn't get out of bed for a week, then when I crawled to the GP, for a sick note, she told me that out of all the hundreds of patients she'd seen in the last weeks who claimed they had flu, she'd only seen two, and I was one of them. Took me six weeks to recover.

Yeah I reckon so.

Secondary teacher. I’d definitely have it. I also don’t really believe all the people on the other thread are actually NHS staff. I assume most who really are would be science-literate.

@HelloMissus

Max aye. We keep being told that all the sacrifices people are making, the losses we’re suffering are inevitable in order to protect the NHS. But then NHS staff will refuse a vaccine? Head blown off.

Well a proportion of people who replied to that thread anyway.

It might not be a representative sample of the NHS as a whole though.

I'm a teacher and will absolutely take the vaccine when it's offered to me.

I hope that they will at least risk assess and vaccinate teachers in a higher risk position but we'll see won't we?

And I would happily pay for it too if that turned out to be the way forward.

Absolutely. No idea why anyone wouldn’t.

Yes, as face to face, no PPE, with high numbers of children and little social distancing!

I wonder if childcare workers will be included with teachers? They're often forgotten about I find!

Another university lecturer who highly doubts we’ll be offered it. But I would absolutely have it if offered, yes. All my teaching is currently f2f in windowless rooms, and there are hundreds of cases on campus. I’m finding it pretty scary atm.

Yes

Yes

Definitely. DH is high risk, I am high risk, my DM is high risk and my DGM is high risk. I am terrified of Covid but no option to work from home. It is either vaccine or change career for me.

Yes I'd have it (I volunteered for the vaccine trial but haven't been called). I'm secondary science so teach students how vaccines work and the process for getting then approved. I'm confident it'd be safe, efficacy is harder to guarantee but worst case I'd just catch covid. However seeing as teachers don't qualify for free flu jab I doubt we'll be a priority.

Yes.

Yes. Not just for personal protection, but because it won't be completely effective for all vulnerable people and they need as many of everybody else to have it to provide the real herd immunity that comes from vaccines.