[quote bookworm1632]@IndigoC
It's not totally concrete, but it will be very reliable.
It's obvious that the way it normally works is the government releases a batch of a particular vaccine to a particular site - a bunch of appointments are created to use this vaccine up.
If you think about it, it couldn't really operate on an ad-hoc basis, i.e. decided on the day - the logistics would be impossible given that a lot of people need a particular jab (e.g. 2nd dose), and then some vaccines are ONLY available at certain sites, so if they assigned you one on the day, they'd need to look to see where and when your second jab was booked to see if the vaccine they were going to give you was likely to be available there ... yup, this would be a totally mad way to organise things!
But that said - if for some reason a batch got damaged/lost etc, then they could no doubt go through the system and reassign people who hadn't yet had a first dose to a different vaccine, but this will be rare I think.[/quote]
Thank you for that, and I agree the logic flows that it’s based on batch allocation. It’s interesting that when you talk to the people on the ground they don’t seem to have any idea day to day but there has to be some system to it.
My appointment is for next Monday at a supposed Moderna site in London booked this way. Hope it holds true and there isn’t a random last minute supply issue. 🙂 My DH got his at AFC Wimbledon today based on word of mouth that it might be Moderna but it was their first day switched to AZ. Apparently everyone else attending at the same time were disappointed about the switch! Many people are actively on the hunt to avoid AZ it seems.