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lazymum99 · 07/05/2021 15:43

@Welikebeingcosy

Also just read that they are going to speed up first doses and slow done second doses now that all the elderly people have had their second doses so might get through the ages quicker for everyone getting a first dose.

Enough of the ‘elderly’ please!

. This pandemic has made me feel ancient the way they group all over 50s together!

lazymum99 · 07/05/2021 15:44

I also moved up an age group during the pandemic! That didn’t help

RainbowCrayons · 07/05/2021 17:09

@BigWoollyJumpers I can vouch for that. After a few years where I couldn't get a dentist I was having daily tooth niggles, sometimes worse. Finally managed to get myself a dentist and after an all-clear checkup the niggles disappeared completely. I've also had some terrible stomach issues which flare up with my anxiety too. (it's funny for someone with a lot of health anxiety covid hasn't worried me as much as I would have expected!)

Dementedswan · 07/05/2021 19:04

Updated chart. Good news for the under 40s but the difference between benefit and risk 40 to 49 is tiny. I think that will change in the next few weeks.

Good News - Thread 13. 40/30s and onwards to the roaring 20s.

Dementedswan · 07/05/2021 19:27

Oops wrong one...

TruelyWonder · 07/05/2021 22:29

I think we haven't had one of these in a bit

Love a visitor

Dementedswan · 07/05/2021 22:35

Awww cute!!!

TruelyWonder · 07/05/2021 22:38

inews.co.uk/news/uks-vaccine-rollout-speed-up-despite-change-advice-jab-give-under-40s-991194

4.5 million doses a week anyone 🤓

TruelyWonder · 07/05/2021 22:43

A total of 976 people were being treated as of 8am on 6 May, NHS England said - down more than 97% from a record 34,336 on 18 January.

schroeder · 07/05/2021 22:49

Good Lord is that giraffe real? It looks like a cuddly toy!!!

springhasalmostsprung · 08/05/2021 08:09

@TruelyWonder

inews.co.uk/news/uks-vaccine-rollout-speed-up-despite-change-advice-jab-give-under-40s-991194

4.5 million doses a week anyone 🤓

Wow!

So do we have tonnes of Moderna/Pfizer now?

TeenMinusTests · 08/05/2021 08:29

What chances of my 16/17 year old being jabbed before she starts college in September? It would help her anxiety (she's been out of school for a year). Do you think that would count as medical need? I wonder if I should ask the GP when we get round to August.

This thread keeps me sane.

whataballbag · 08/05/2021 08:33

@TeenMinusTests

What chances of my 16/17 year old being jabbed before she starts college in September? It would help her anxiety (she's been out of school for a year). Do you think that would count as medical need? I wonder if I should ask the GP when we get round to August.

This thread keeps me sane.

So long as it's approved.

I really think that GPs should take mental health issues surrounding the vaccine and the pandemic more seriously. Of corse everyone is 'worried' but for those of us like your daughter and me it's becoming detrimental

TeenMinusTests · 08/05/2021 08:43

Well according to www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639 the UK has approved Pfizer in over 16s.
Maybe I'll ask her consultant at the next review, and when he writes to the GP he could recommend she gets it to aid MH (provided of course all the people at risk physically have had theirs).

whataballbag · 08/05/2021 08:49

@TeenMinusTests

Well according to www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639 the UK has approved Pfizer in over 16s. Maybe I'll ask her consultant at the next review, and when he writes to the GP he could recommend she gets it to aid MH (provided of course all the people at risk physically have had theirs).

I'd be inclined to phone them sooner as severe MH issues is one of the group 6 priority things?

TeenMinusTests · 08/05/2021 08:59

Thank you, I'll have a think. I don't think DD really meets the criteria, on the other hand her life has been massively curtailed due to her MH (and missing the whole of y11 certainly shows this).

Any back to good news...

pjani · 08/05/2021 10:18

@TeenMinusTests I would have a lot of confidence your DC will be offered the jab m. If everyone else is finished by June/July of course they want as many people vaccinated as possible and it’s approved for use then of course your DC would be in line. I think they will be offered it sooner than you expect. So I wouldn’t chase the GP or anyone else yet.

lazymum99 · 08/05/2021 10:46

@TeenMinusTests although slightly older than your daughter, my son in his 20s was put in group 6 after a phone call to GP under the severe mental illness criteria.
I was surprised because physically he is not vulnerable. But his mental health condition has seriously worsened by the pandemic (severe OCD).
He got his first jab in February.
The GP has all the reports from his consultant as should yours. If you think the vaccination will help her and it has been passed for that age group I would push to get it done soon

LivinLaVidaLoki · 08/05/2021 16:08

Hi just thought I'd pop this here....

www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-britain-will-be-free-of-the-coronavirus-by-august-says-outgoing-vaccine-taskforce-chief-12300112

COVID-19: 'Britain will be free of the coronavirus by August', says outgoing vaccine taskforce chiefThe UK will have a population protected from COVID by midsummer, the departing chief of the UK's vaccine taskforce says

TruelyWonder · 08/05/2021 17:00

He isn't a scientist though sadly. Not counting on that quite yet.

springhasalmostsprung · 08/05/2021 18:22

Wondering if you can help? I didn't want to start a separate thread because I can just hear he responses re why bother doing lateral flow tests now...

A colleague got a positive lateral flow test Thursday, several in fact. Went for PCR and the result has come back negative. I know false positives can happen, and now that general numbers of cases are lower with will be a statistically higher number of false positives, but she got several positives. Anyone have any idea why this might be? She has swollen glands and feels a little under the weather but no other symptoms.
Do the tests pick up other coronaviruses? Could it be a faulty batch perhaps? Was it just randomly unlucky?

We've been told we can return to work by PHE so obviously really hope the PCR is correct!

TruelyWonder · 08/05/2021 19:22

The PCR test could be a false negative. They are more accurate in general but not totally. You still get a small number of false negatives.

It is possible something is making the LFT play up but if done so many my first guess is the PCR was wrong.

OrangeBananaFish · 08/05/2021 19:47

No idea about the PCR Vs LFT. I would wonder too, if the PCR was a false negative though.

I'm not sure about the August thing either. Coronavirus free by August. Unless they mean that by August there will be more than enough herd immunity to live with it and be completely normal like before? We're not going for zero covid are we?

Just when I thought things were starting to feel more positive on MN, I'm wrong. Still so much doom and gloom out there. Granted its the same handful of posters, but my mental health is not being helped by stepping outside of this thread.

Overthebow · 08/05/2021 20:07

By the August thing don’t they mean covid wont be circulating as it is now, not zero covid? So we should have enough immunity to break the transmission, but will still get the odd outbreak here and there. I should think that’s fairly possible we will reach that in August.

springhasalmostsprung · 08/05/2021 20:11

@TruelyWonder

The PCR test could be a false negative. They are more accurate in general but not totally. You still get a small number of false negatives.

It is possible something is making the LFT play up but if done so many my first guess is the PCR was wrong.

Yes, this is the worry. I really don't understand why PHE just say it's totally fine without even double checking the PCR