What do you think will happen after group 9 have been vaccinated?

[staceybeaker]

As in, who do you think will be next (sorry if this has been asked before)
ie by jobs or in age order or what

I’m not sure how they will prioritise the lower groups - like others said could be by age. Frontline staff etc I feel should be first.

I’m neither and in my early 40’s but I’d rather my 18 year old took my place in the queue so they could go to university this September without the worry. It’s been tough on that age group with lives being on hold. I’m happy to go to the back of the queue for my 18 year old. But I know few people maybe feel that way.

I'm the same. Children in public facing roles. For Christ sake give it to them first.

In an ideal world parents of school / nursery age children should be given a degree of priority over say an office worker with no kids. We are taking our children to and from giant communal germ factories every day so we get just as much exposure as some front line workers.

In reality its not practical to divide people down by a lot of different categories so I expect it will be key workers and then working down the age groups.

As admirable as that notion is (give it to your children first), you can’t keep away from the virus forever. And it is likely to be much worse for a 40 year than an 18 year old

@Nohomeschoolingtoday

I’m not sure how they will prioritise the lower groups - like others said could be by age. Frontline staff etc I feel should be first.

I’m neither and in my early 40’s but I’d rather my 18 year old took my place in the queue so they could go to university this September without the worry. It’s been tough on that age group with lives being on hold. I’m happy to go to the back of the queue for my 18 year old. But I know few people maybe feel that way.

You might be willing for your child but I wouldn’t be. I’m higher risk than an 18 year old.

It’s been tough on every age group. No one age has had it after than others. It needs to be done on risk.

I also think this will be age, with maybe some key roles, maybe teachers or police, those who deal with the public prioritised.

But as it is going so quickly I’m not sure of the point, they may as well just fire through the rest of the population.

Shop worker here, seem to spend most of my shift walking backwards as customers try to get right up to my face to ask me something. Actually overheard a customer say yesterday "I don't know why I've come in here, there's nothing I want to buy" fgs! Had to bite my tongue. How I haven't caught it is a miracle..... saying that I am group 7 so really hoping to get vaccinated before it gets me. Lots of my younger colleagues have caught it already

I think it should be done by age, if they were to spend time sorting out the logistical issues that come with prioritising specific jobs would slow the process significantly. Some of these workers would likely get it quicker waiting for their age group.

@ThePerfectPintOfIceColdBeer

I think it should be done by age, if they were to spend time sorting out the logistical issues that come with prioritising specific jobs would slow the process significantly. Some of these workers would likely get it quicker waiting for their age group.

Agree, and people will lie about their jobs, so you’re talking about folks having to prove it when they front up.

It’s a real ball ache. Just working down the age ranges seems most sensible and fastest.

@Mousehole10

It’s been tough on every age group. No one age has had it after than others. It needs to be done on risk.

How do you propose we accurately risk assess tens of millions of individuals? And translate this to a workable system for actually booking vaccination slots? And do so more quickly than we are currently getting through vaccinations?

Also, age is still the single biggest risk factor for death from Covid 19.

I hope that at some point people with mild to moderate learning disabilities are prioritised (people with severe LDs are in one of the priority groups already), as they are a highly 'at risk' but often forgotten group.

Teachers first. Get the bloody kids back to school. Then public sector public facing roles like police. These two can be easily proved.

Then by age.

@TheAnswerIsCake I want it done by age as like you said, age is the biggest risk. I was replying to a pp who wanted an 18 year old student prioritised.

@unchienandalusia

Teachers first. Get the bloody kids back to school. Then public sector public facing roles like police. These two can be easily proved.

Then by age.

Vaccinating teachers won’t get the bloody kids back to school. Teachers might be safer but the children can still transmit the virus between themselves and their families and the wider community

@Mousehole10 I do agree completely with you around age priority (& any medical risks etc) as the most easiest/fairest way to get on with it.

I meant it more i wish I could swop my turn that’s all with my 18 yr old - only when I look it as a risk assessment- I WFH can carry on etc where as they will be moving mixing etc working in supermarket when they go to uni. But I know they would rather me first. It plays on my mind that’s all.

Teachers/police/prison workers and then university students (all the ones capable mass spreading it) and then everyone else.

All those who say you cannot vaccinate by occupation - why not? Care workers, medical staff, social workers etc have all already been vaccinated based on their employment.
Why shouldn’t retail staff, delivery drivers also be vaccinated by their employers organising in the same way.

I cannot understand why BAME who are at greater risk have not been prioritised.

I think it has to be done by age. Anything else is just open to abuse and a logistical nightmare. And age is the biggest risk factor. I’m 45 and not a key worker but I do have a child at school, or who will be at school when it re-opens. I understand why people want the teachers vaccinated but that doesn’t actually solve the problem of schools being vectors for community spread. It protects the teachers, who of course deserve to be protected as much as anyone, but it doesn’t protect the parents and families of schoolchildren and the wider community.

@Gardenista

All those who say you cannot vaccinate by occupation - why not? Care workers, medical staff, social workers etc have all already been vaccinated based on their employment. Why shouldn’t retail staff, delivery drivers also be vaccinated by their employers organising in the same way.

I cannot understand why BAME who are at greater risk have not been prioritised.

Because it’s so nuanced and open to abuse. I don’t think it’s quite right for a 20 year old shop worker to be vaccinated before someone who is 49. The shop worker may possibly be exposed to covid more, but the 49 year old has a much higher risk of getting seriously ill and that’s how you have to prioritise people.

I also know someone who is NHS admin, works from home in a role not related to health care or anything to do with patients, who has been vaccinated and was vaccinated before her diabetic father in law who is in his late 70s. It happened because she knew someone who sorted it out for her. How is that right?

Maybe postcodes of areas of worst infection would work, they've got some quite granular data.

Key workers should get priority. I'd love to see LSAs, nursery workers and special school staff prioritised.

Does anyone else not think that by the time everyone is done in the top 10 it's gonna be time to do it all over again for them?

Given that there have been more hospitalisations in the 40-49 age group during this wave, and given the majority of parents of school age children are also in their 40s, I very much hope those in their 40s are vaccinated before orb at the same time as schools start reopening.

Fine to do by age

But you can't send schools back until teachers are done (the majority of SLT/heads of departments are 40 plus)

@LaurieFairyCake

Fine to do by age

But you can't send schools back until teachers are done (the majority of SLT/heads of departments are 40 plus)

That is the point 40 plus are more at risk. The 50 plus and vulnerable will be vaccinated by then.

Therefore if we do the 40 plus next all school staff, police, retail, transport, parents and everyone else 40 plus is done too.