Read this if you are unsure about the vaccine

[CrispsnDips]

I work in a small residential care home where ALL of the eleven residents, except one, developed Covid (two sadly passed away but with other serious health conditions) AND ALL of the 20 staff, except three (including myself), also developed Covid. I believe I escaped the virus by having my first vaccine almost three weeks prior to the outbreak 😊 I don’t want to tempt fate but how brilliant are my antibodies? 😂

Were the elderly vaccinated?

Did the other staff not have the vaccine?

I’m not sure that’s going to change the mind of any vaccine hesitant people.

Why wasn’t anyone else vaccinated?

Didn't anyone else there get it??

Eh?

Did you get your vaccine before the residents?

Surely all care home residents were done in Jan???

I’ve been exposed to many covid positive people and never caught it and I’ve not been vaccinated.

I'm not sure how this story is reassuring

Why were you the only person there vaccinated?

This makes no sense, the residents would have been done long before you if this in the UK??

Surely all care home frontline staff, and elderly care home residents have had the vaccine a while back? How is this reassuring if they all caught it while vaccinated??

This sounds odd.

None of the residents (learning disabilities) had been vaccinated, but are due to be within the next few days. Delays were due to the GP surgeries not being able to arrange the vaccines despite several attempts to contact them by the management. Three other staff members had been vaccinated but only 2-3 days prior to contracting the virus (immunity had not had a chance to build up). Each staff member had to arrange their own vaccine through their GP. We are in the UK.
I just thought I was a good example of someone whose vaccine appears to be very effective (so far), and it might persuade people if they’re not too sure about taking it 😁

I just thought I was a good example of someone whose vaccine appears to be very effective (so far), and it might persuade people if they’re not too sure about taking it

I’m not sure you’ve really understood the reasons people aren’t keen on having the vaccine, and you’re overestimating the effect of an anonymous, unverifiable story will havd.

I’m not sure you’ve really understood the reasons people aren’t keen on having the vaccine, and you’re overestimating the effect of an anonymous, unverifiable story will havd.

Most people don't want it because of anonymous, unverifiable stories...

@CrispsnDips

None of the residents (learning disabilities) had been vaccinated, but are due to be within the next few days. Delays were due to the GP surgeries not being able to arrange the vaccines despite several attempts to contact them by the management. Three other staff members had been vaccinated but only 2-3 days prior to contracting the virus (immunity had not had a chance to build up). Each staff member had to arrange their own vaccine through their GP. We are in the UK. I just thought I was a good example of someone whose vaccine appears to be very effective (so far), and it might persuade people if they’re not too sure about taking it 😁

Yeah... no.

OR it’s a good example of loads of people getting it and not actually being ill and therefore no need for a vaccine?

I will be having it but think the story might be a swing and a miss...

However I am very glad you are well :)

In seven areas I’ve come across so far in England (appreciate you may be elsewhere in the U.K.) the GP services have nothing to do with delivering the vaccine to care homes. It’s arranged by the Care Home Team who go out the homes. Some staff were vaccinated at hospitals or mass centres but not the GP. Most staff got vaccinated in care homes by the visiting team.

Are you extremely rural? It’s an unusual set up which seems poorly run, leaving so many residents and staff vulnerable.

Or

I have literally just been reading a thread, where in a family of 5? the son got it, and the other 4 didnt, and the mum cant work out why this happened.[the family may not be in the UK, I didnt stop to read the whole thread].

Nothing wrong with what you have written, but there seems to be so many variables with the virus, and that even in one's own life, differences are strange.

@PurpleDaisies

I just thought I was a good example of someone whose vaccine appears to be very effective (so far), and it might persuade people if they’re not too sure about taking it

I’m not sure you’ve really understood the reasons people aren’t keen on having the vaccine, and you’re overestimating the effect of an anonymous, unverifiable story will havd.

They don't take notice of the actual scientific evidence of vaccine effectiveness, so they're unlikely to take notice of your story.

Large scale real world studies show the vaccines are highly effective. But by now they've all "done their own research" (i.e. read a Facebook post or seen a YouTube video) that says different.

I understand that there are reservations about the fact that the vaccine hasn’t been trialed long enough to consider the implications for pregnant women or those wanting a baby (I am sure reservations may be around many more factors, too, not just these). When my fellow work colleagues were lying in bed suffering, they were impressed that I had escaped the virus, but can appreciate that these sort of mysteries exist elsewhere. I was lucky!