When will they start vaccinations on group 10?

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Admittedly, I am a little obsessed with the vaccination rollout and CAN'T wait to be vaccinated. I am 46, no underlying conditions and therefore I belong to group 10.
Given there are 32m people in groups 1-9 and we have vaccinated about 28m as of two days ago, do you think the online calculators are reliable saying I should expect to be called anytime from next week?

Please adjust my expectations with more facts!

47 and 48 here and had the vaccine last weekend. GP invite link

I know numerous ladies my age that are suffering with long Covid.

Similar here. And have seen the bbc story on the same.

I had some kind of post viral something between jan and may last year. It was awful and i have no desire to repeat it.

DS is back at school so i have the constant anxiety of it. I hate the not knowing of it too. I've managed my anxiety through following numbers and data points throughout so its a little like having the rug pulled from underneath me too.

Not to mention ALL my friends have now had it. Im the eldest person me and DH know who hasn't had it. All week its been constant messages about others getting it. Which is great for them. But im also very aware that despite being the same age, i will have to wait for weeks because of where I am and because i dont know the right people.

Its deeply frustrating and anxiety producing. I hate uncertainty. I find it massively stressful. Especially since all my friends are off now happily breaking the rules and generally being dicks and cases are very much on the rise locally. We have outbreaks at at least one of the local schools.

I would rather be in lockdown, 6 months from the vaccine rather than this limbo of being sort of reopening and being so close to the vaccine but also knowing its going to be weeks and only if they manage to get a shipment of vaccine from India (lets hope theres none stuck on a ship due to go through the Suez)

My worst bit about restrictions has not been the restrictions themselves. Its been the incontinency and arbitrary nature of the tiers and no knowing whether it was going to be this week or next you'd go up a level.

Its the feeling helpless and out of control.

And this is combined with school being shit and having completely different problems to everyone else over it and not feeling about to talk about it.

Its all really isolating. Its like you can't talk about anything because you live in the wrong area, are the wrong age, etc etc.

I am thoroughly fed up.

Not sure what group I'm in but I haven't been called up yet (over 40)
DH though in the 50s group has just had his.
I'm having mine when I get called, not been summonsed yet, I'll take it when its due.

I have now had a text from the GP inviting me to register if I am an unpaid carer (I'm not), so they're obviously trying to mop up those people. First text I've had about vaccinations.

South bristol and husband is still waiting for his (43)
I know other parts of bristol are already calling below 50.
My gp is doing second doses from now on so doubt they'll call him (and I'd rather not as it's Pfizer and with all that is going on I worry about his second)

@RedToothBrush I'm sorry you're having a hard time. I've followed your threads about other subjects, and your posts have always comforted and informed, so sorry you're stuck in the same boat. No pun intended,

It's a shit year to be 49. I've two kids in a huge school with bubbles popping daily. Naff all social distancing going on and it's a bit of a worry that the vaccines we thought we'd be getting in the next week or two is stuck in the Suez canal or subject to an international spat.

I take comfort from not being thought of as vulnerable enough to need a vaccine straight away, but I had long covid for most of last year and it was pretty awful. I'd love not to get that again!

I didn't know this.

@Caps444

I don’t get it. Why don’t you just go on the nhs website, tick unpaid carer and get your vaccine booked in. There are people in their 40s getting called up, probably due to a younger demographic in their area, but other areas are still doing the 50s. Myself and many people I know have simply gone down the unpaid carer route. Yes - it may seem selfish, but frankly there are plenty of appointments. Just get it done.

Maybe cuz it’s cheating the system ? And also because some places are requesting proof of being a carer and Turning people down ?

I'm getting mine in an hours time, 46, no health conditions, received invite from GP a few days ago which came as a surprise, my 43 year old DH hasn't heard yet, North Yorkshire.

Op I think some confusion on here

There are two ways to get the jab.

1/ via national vaccine centres
2/ via your gp

The national vaccine centre you book on line and is held to the relevant groups. Currently group 1-9 and also Heath/social care workers.

Gps however work at a different pace. And it’s specific to that surgery. So it depends on the demographics for that surgery and how quickly they work through the groups, if they are through all the current eligible groups and have spare vaccines they are contacting individual patients and bringing them in. The only way to know where your gp is and what they are doing is by phoning them.

I'm a healthy 46 and had my first jab last week - the nurse said they're racing through them in my area (north London). It's so different around the country.

Gp's have been instructed to go back through the records looking for those already eligible but haven't come forward as of yet and reinvite. My parents know people who haven't been vaccinated because they are unable to get to a centre

@EasterIssland

We are also Bristol ccg they are still working on group 6 and 55+ here, so many older people!

[quote Caps444]@CuriousaboutSamphire.
How is it fair that some areas with younger demographic have GPS calling under 50s. Is that fair, not really....it’a luck.
Well I and many others are just making our own luck.
There is a way for anyone to book a vaccine by saying they are an unpaid carer.
Plus there is no way of getting caught, as unpaid carers do not have any documentation. So no, there was zero risk....we were just asked for our booking reference and date of birth and postcode.

There are people anxious and stressed that they will have to wait til May, well this is a way of getting the jab,[/quote]
And you lying does what for 'fairness?'

I can't believe you haven't had a single twinge of conscience over that!

I am one of those aiming not to be anxious. 55, have CFS and am still waiting because of the demgraphics of my area. I am booked just inside the dates given for my age group and am quite happy with that!

Or I was until I read your posts! Now I am angry that selfish idiots mght actually have diverted vaccniens away from areas like mine, leaving the most vulnerable waiting for longer!

Until today I had been pretty much laissez faire about it, being patient, waiting. But your happy, yeah sod it, lie, posts have pissed me off!

I’m 49 and resigned to waiting. I’m not going to lie and cheat about being an unpaid carer to get an appointment. I can wait another month or two even in the face of others blatantly encouraging people to cheat the system.

If it's any help, some of our local vaccination centres are happy to take names of over 40s for their reserve list (left over vaccines at the end of the day).

My husband has just had his at a local pharmacy, along with some other over 40s, as they had vaccines that otherwise wouldn't have been used and people were able to go at short notice.

Each to their own.
If you are happy to wait, then good on you.
I wasn’t and did something about it.
This “loophole” would not have been possible when they were vaccinating the elderly, now that they have arrived at the latter groups it’s there.
Also allows you to book your 2nd dose, which we have for early mid June. Hopefully people are not waiting and for their first dose and moaning.

I am one of those aiming not to be anxious. 55, have CFS and am still waiting because of the demgraphics of my area

Why are you waiting? It’s open to all over 50s nationally. You just go on line and book. In fact you’re being urged to.

I'm 42. My surgery have just called and booked me in for Sunday as they have made good progress with their list. Seems to be lots of national variation