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People questioning their invite - danger of rollout slowing ?

42 replies

SerendipityJane · 22/02/2021 11:45

I noticed a thread where a poster seemed concerned to have been invited for a vaccine jab as they felt it was too soon ahead of the listed priority categories. And a couple of replies did point out that if everyone started querying their invite rather than just turning up and getting jabbed we could end up spending more time checking records that actually vaccinating.

Is it too controversial to say if you get an invite, just get the jab ? The sooner we are all vaccinated, the sooner we can all live again.

OP posts:
picklespark · 22/02/2021 11:46

I know. I don't get it. By getting vaccinated you are protecting yourself and others. If you're asked, just GO.

MrsFezziwig · 22/02/2021 11:51

Is it too controversial to say if you get an invite, just get the jab?

This x 1 million! No way can GP surgeries cope with hundreds of phone calls from people who want to discuss at length their position in the queue.

Borogroves · 22/02/2021 11:52

Completely agree with you OP.

starfish88 · 22/02/2021 11:52

It's also really variable based on region. Places that have fewer older people have whizzed through the first categories. I know people in priority group 7 in London that got their vaccine a few weeks ago. But their area doesn't have many elderly people in the area.

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SerendipityJane · 22/02/2021 11:53

@starfish88

It's also really variable based on region. Places that have fewer older people have whizzed through the first categories. I know people in priority group 7 in London that got their vaccine a few weeks ago. But their area doesn't have many elderly people in the area.
I will admit some sort of regional dashboard might be useful here. Maybe the BBC could have a go when they've finished telling us how wonderful the 80s were ?
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Juo · 22/02/2021 11:54

Completely agree, in fact I said this to DS, if they invite you by mistake, don't be noble just go.

DinosaurDiana · 22/02/2021 11:54

I agree, just go FFS !

Razzlefrazzle · 22/02/2021 11:55

I've had mine this morning. I thought I was in the next group to be called after this one but I couldn't see any point in wasting valuable resources querying it. The lady who vaccinated me agreed and I'm just grateful to have had it done.

Springersrock · 22/02/2021 11:57

Yes, I totally agree

However, I’ve seen plenty of threads on here and FB and IRL with people questioning how their young and fit next door neighbour/their friend’s, cousin’s boyfriend’s sister/any old random has been able to book their vaccine so maybe people feel a bit awkward.

minipie · 22/02/2021 11:58

I agree

I got my jab at the weekend after receiving a CEV letter on Thurs.

Now it turns out the CEV letter was probably over cautious in my case (was based on me having gestational diabetes in the past.. now they are saying that’s not a risk if you’ve had blood tests to show it’s not turned into T2 diabetes and no other risk factors... I doubt I have T2 though no recent blood test to prove it).

I do feel a little guilty at having “jumped the queue” ahead of key workers and other more at risk people but you know what, I did what I was advised at the time, and it would have taken far more medical people’s valuable time if I’d queried the letter, got blood tests done, etc than simply having the jab.

partyatthepalace · 22/02/2021 12:00

@MrsFezziwig

Is it too controversial to say if you get an invite, just get the jab?

This x 1 million! No way can GP surgeries cope with hundreds of phone calls from people who want to discuss at length their position in the queue.

This (times a million) - it drives me crackers

It’s a mass vaccination programme - the key thing is turn up when you’re told and roll up your sleeve.

AlecTrevelyan006 · 22/02/2021 12:01

Agreed

ItsA1WayStreet · 22/02/2021 12:01

I agree. Looks like I've been added to Group 6 and am having the jab later this week. Earlier last year I had a few heart palpitations and had a 24 hour portable ECG thing - nothing wrong was found and that was the end of it - never heard from Doctor again about it. But I'm assuming a flag must have been put on my NHS record regarding a heart condition, hence being put in group 6.

No second thoughts from me, booked my slot as soon as I got the text from my doctors.

WatchWatch · 22/02/2021 12:26

I think it's because the guidance (e.g. which groups are eligible) is national but in reality, how quickly your authority is getting through the lists, is local. So the official guidance is groups 5&6 are currently receiving it, but in reality, some areas are on group 10 and for some areas its a free for all.

The guidance should be "go when invited" alongside "if you are group x and haven't had your invite, call this number..."

bengalcat · 22/02/2021 12:28

If you receive an invite then go .

SendMeHome · 22/02/2021 12:34

My GP told me this last week. It’s the blanket advice, apparently, and it’ll be updated into the answerphone messages. If you’re invited, go even if you don’t think you’re eligible. I hope they’re right!

Mine is next weekend. A LOT earlier than I thought; but we’re going Smile

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 22/02/2021 12:38

Agree I think we are at a place where it is about getting those jabs quickly in people now. I know it is frustrating and worrying for people in higher groups not yet jabbed. However long term this protects them too.

Definitely think a regional dashboard would be good. Probably just get picked apart in a negative way by the press and social media mind.

My area of London and two adjoining boroughs are still doing some vulnerable people 16 to 65 but are also down to 50s in age groups.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 22/02/2021 12:39

@SendMeHome

My GP told me this last week. It’s the blanket advice, apparently, and it’ll be updated into the answerphone messages. If you’re invited, go even if you don’t think you’re eligible. I hope they’re right!

Mine is next weekend. A LOT earlier than I thought; but we’re going Smile

The need to now make an announcement saying that
Haffiana · 22/02/2021 13:34

I have always assumed that almost all of those posts are trolls or bots. It destabilizes popular trust in health advice and institutions, and that is the aim for certain groups/countries.

The ones where op has a 'friend' or even more laughably, several 'friends' who are 19, healthy etc etc and getting a vaccine - those are just lies and get copied over from facebook with OP pretending that it happened to her friends.

Some of course are just genuine errors.

RosieLemonade · 22/02/2021 13:52

My friend got invited and called the doctors 3 times to check Confused. Every day there is a post on here asking whether they should go. As a key worker I don't care who gets it as long as as many people as possible do.

minipie · 22/02/2021 13:55

I am not hearing anything about people who are eligible but can’t get a slot (or even, can’t get one till next week or whatever) because they are all full.

So on this basis I cannot see what the issue is - even if a few people who are ineligible have the jab through some error or other, they haven’t taken a slot away from someone who is eligible.

user1477391263 · 22/02/2021 14:08

Totally agree. Countries which are seeing slow rollouts are the ones where there is endless dithering and pithering about this group versus that group. We need to accept that if you want SPEED, the price you pay will be a somewhat imperfect rollout, where you can't always be sure that every single person is in the exact right order.

MatildaStoker · 22/02/2021 14:11

Totally agree.

It must waste a lot of time if everyone who’s not sure why they’ve been invited rings their GP to ask.

Plus, recent news articles are starting to report on evidence that Covid vaccines also reduce transmission, so even if someone is invited early by mistake, they’re still helping to protect the unvaccinated by taking up the invite and getting a jab.

kirinm · 22/02/2021 14:15

I agree if people are offered them then they should go. But I'm also concerned about people not being offered them when there are people who don't seem to fit a category that are getting them. I have no idea what is happening in London because some 40 year olds with no health problems are getting them whereas I've got two conditions which supposedly put me into GR06 and I've not heard anything at all.

bungobango · 22/02/2021 14:16

I needed to contact go surgery to put me in group 6. They had at first no clue that serious mental health conditions belong to group 6. Another phone call later I am getting jab on Thursday.