Is there anyone vulnerable not having the vaccine and why?

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Is there anyone vulnerable not having the vaccine and why?

DM - 89, housebound, only sees me and a district nurse every 6 months or so, very low risk of getting Covid. Has a lifelong history of 'extreme sensitivity to medication' - GP's words. We've spent the last 12 months getting the balance right of the 11 different meds she's on and she isn't happy about having the vaccine.

DH - not sure exactly why he isn't having it but he's old enough to make his own decisions.

Me - I don't medicate unnecessarily and I'm not particularly concerned about Covid. (Or long Covid before anyone asks.)

Thanks

I am ECV due to liver condition and being on immunosuppressants. I am not going to have the vaccine because I spoke to my GP who said it was safe for immunocompromised people but there is hardly any data on how it will affect such people in terms of side effects and protection. Not sure how they can consider it safe if no data? It's all very confusing. I have reacted badly to vaccines before so would rather not risk it with one so new. Also I have an allergy to a particular medication so wasn't sure if that would be an issue too.

BamboozledandBefuddled

Have you factored into your decisions that you could get the virus, asymptomatically, and give it to your mother who then gets very seriously ill or even dies?

There are areas where a long trek is needed, encountering masses of people who won't wear masks and won't distance. For those with a car, fine. The rest, in Covid19 hotspots which are also crowded, cannot in safety get to and from a g p or pharmacy (still less a distant central hub) even if the jabs were on offer, which they are not.

One suspects that those 80, 90 year olds who were able to drive or be driven to central hubs, there to be filmed by journalists as they waited in icy conditions for hours in line, not particularly distanced and with some, even staff, using masks as chin covers, may have been mistaken. They may have assumed they are protected the moment the vaccine hits the arm. Wrong. it takes up to 21 days to have any effect. The virus they were exposed to on the way to and from the vaccine has three weeks to develop.

(Senior N.H,S managers might mistakenly believe everyone can easily travel to their 'hub', assuming everyone has a chauffeur, because they themselves never speak to poor people?).