Care home residents

[Keep1984fiction]

As it appears that care home residents and the over 80s are going to be the first to be given the vaccine I'm wondering how they are going to get to the designated vaccine areas.
If in a care home many of them will need specialised transport, then all the isolation they have had in their homes will be affected.
Other over 80s may not feel safe on public transport and as far as I can see in the guidelines giving them a lift in a private car will not be within guidelines.

In most homes here in Wales, they bring the clinic to them so a group of nurses would bring for instance the flu jab and just do them all. All wearing PPE and no isolation compromised then. The only issue will be with vaccines that need cold storage so they will need to come up with a way to transport it safely.

Apperently now care home residents have been pushed down the order due to operational difficulties.
Thought pennees suggestion seemed too sensible

@Keep1984fiction

Apperently now care home residents have been pushed down the order due to operational difficulties. Thought pennees suggestion seemed too sensible

😆 ha yes. Some bright spark will be writing a risk assessment now on how to get severely disabled people into a minibus, all socially distanced and comfortable and therefore only 4 people a day get done. Due to manpower and shortage of disabled friendly minibuses 🤦🏼‍♀️ And sadly that’s probably happening. I heard JVT say earlier the vaccine keeps for 6 hours so logistically they could do a care home in that 6 hours if they staffed the injectors correctly. They certainly managed to Swab us all (100 people) in a three hour window and that was changing ppe between each person too.

The other issue for care homes in terms
Of the Pfizer is that apparently it comes in batches of 965 or something. And cannot easily be split up. Obviously 965 is probably ok for a hospital but not so much for a care home. Though apparently there will be a plan on how to “split” it safely soon