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Why are people still accepting AZ? Will it be stopped?

230 replies

Bitzyboo · 30/05/2021 17:47

DH went for his Covid vaccine today. (Under 40 so he got Moderna)

The queue at the vaccine centre was enormous.
The attended in the car park told us they were running behind on appointments and the queue was for second doses.

Dh got chatting to the guy that did his vaccine, he told him that in their vaccination centre they were using moderna for first doses and AZ were all for second.

It’s really surprised me that there’s such a huge uptake of AZ given the risk associated.
I thought by now it would have been stopped.

Are people still happily accepting it?

OP posts:
YellowPurple · 30/05/2021 23:06

These kind of threads can cause people to be put off / cancel their 2nd doses.

It effects less than 1% .... That risk is less than any risk you take every second of every day

CrownKettle · 30/05/2021 23:13

I have my second dose of AZ on Saturday, and will be going ahead. I’m 43, overweight but no other risk factors and generally healthy. I have no qualms about having the second dose - the risk is minuscule.

musicalfrog · 30/05/2021 23:22

These kind of threads can cause people to be put off / cancel their 2nd doses.

Yeeep, I think OP knows this very well.

PixelatedLunchbox · 30/05/2021 23:32

@musicalfrog

These kind of threads can cause people to be put off / cancel their 2nd doses.

Yeeep, I think OP knows this very well.

Bingo.
sleepwouldbenice · 30/05/2021 23:35

Because. As you very well know. The risk is insignificant. Stop scaremongering

LindaEllen · 30/05/2021 23:37

Because the second jab needs to match the first and they'd already had their first before they decided to stop using AZ - the risks of not getting it for people of that age are greater than getting it.

PaulGallico · 30/05/2021 23:41

Yet another deliberately scaremongering post about the astra zenica vaccine. I have had my second vaccine - no side effects. These posters are getting very obvious now because there are so many

roguetomato · 30/05/2021 23:48

I hope you are not heath care worker as you say. It's astonishing that you think AZ should have been stopped with your back ground.

Tealightsandd · 30/05/2021 23:52

@musicalfrog

These kind of threads can cause people to be put off / cancel their 2nd doses.

Yeeep, I think OP knows this very well.

She wants the vaccine stickers to herself.
Tealightsandd · 30/05/2021 23:53

Did your husband get a sticker OP?
I hope so.

GeorgeandHarold66 · 30/05/2021 23:54

I accepted two doses of the AZ because the risk of getting Covid and getting seriously ill with it is much, much higher than the risk of getting a clot for me. So I picked the lowest risk,

ChocAuVin · 30/05/2021 23:58

Can’t wait for my second dose of AZ in early July. The prospect of being more protected against the risk of getting covid makes being fully vaccinated quite appealing, see...

Nietzschethehiker · 31/05/2021 00:01

I'm struggling a bit with the explanation of autism to justify the wide eyed faux head tilt. I have an autistic son and it really doesn't sit well because it feels like you are using an autism stereotype to play games. Your responses are manipulative rather than questioning.

Not to mention having spent a long time managing care services that you apparently work in. Genuinely it's concerning if you genuinely have the lack of risk assessment you claim to. Its also extremely unlikely.

For the sake of response like other PP people are making sensible risk assuments. I have had both AZ. I have absolutely no reason to believe I would be at risk of clots and I understand there is a risk in more or less anything I do. I manage the risk and understand that I have no way of knowing if there were greater risks by not completing my vaccinations.

That said the responses from the OP as I've said above make me really uncomfortable in the faux picture painted so thata about all I'm likely to respond.

Willyoujustbequiet · 31/05/2021 01:29

OP if you're a health worker you should know about Pfizer causing heart issues and clots?

Why single out AZ?

CarolineNW · 31/05/2021 01:36

@YellowPurple

These kind of threads can cause people to be put off / cancel their 2nd doses.

It effects less than 1% .... That risk is less than any risk you take every second of every day

" it effects less than 1%" so does covid so why use that logic for the jab and not covid?
PurpleRainDancer · 31/05/2021 01:45

@Rosehip10

No wonder there were huge queues if people like your DH "got chatting" to the people trying to vaccinate.
Oh give over Hmm
lurcherthelurcher · 31/05/2021 02:02

This is a Marie Antoinette style of OP, who clearly doesn't understand that the UK, let alone the rest of the world, simply doesn't have enough vaccines available for effective vaccines that just have more scary side effects than we would like to be dropped.

Individuals can't afford to just refuse AZ either, because people who've already had one dose or are over 50 are not being offered an alternative. The OP and her dh might be sure that they would refuse it, but they're not in that position or they'd realise it's not that simple. They haven't needed to pay any detailed attention to it, hence not working out that for many people AZ is still the lower risk option than no vaccine at all, and also still only has a very low risk anyway.

ApplesinmyPocket · 31/05/2021 02:18

@Topseyt

I am very pleased that I have had both of my Astrazeneca doses, and very relieved.

There are minuscule risks associated with all of the vaccines, as with all medication. Banning the Astrazeneca vaccine due to bigged up risks and media scaremongering would be utterly foolish.

Ditto to TopseyT's post. Had both mine, DD aged 31 due her second in a week, weighed up risks, still having it and glad to get the chance.

"I’ve only ever flown twice" - OP flew twice, knowing there was a very miniscule chance of their plane crashing. But somehow they aren't posting and probably never have ""It’s really surprised me that there’s such a huge uptake of... [flying]... given the risk associated.I thought by now it would have been stopped."

Just another poorly disguised anti A-Z thread by a pretend-disingenous, faux-naif poster. Are you people being paid or something?

plinkplinkfizzer · 31/05/2021 02:27

Just like to add I have also had my second dose as has my husband together . We were bloody thrilled . Did not get a sticker , but neither did we get sore arm .👌

Mintjulia · 31/05/2021 02:33

Give over OP. The risks from AZ are tiny. The risks from AZ second dose are even smaller., and all vaccines carry a risk.

Your post is thinly disguised alarmist rubbish. We have all been informed of the risks, most people have the common sense to assess those risks, against the risk of covid and the other jabs. Most people also understand that all of the vaccines are in limited supply. Half of the world has no access to vaccines at all.

I'll have my second AZ dose next week before returning to as near normal a life as possible.

Torvean · 31/05/2021 05:29

6.5 million doses of AZ given in the UK.

There has been around 290 cases of clots.

There have been 49 deaths.

Of course there are still ppl going for their second AZ vaccines.

thatgingergirl · 31/05/2021 06:09

I'm heartened to see the responses to this thread - rationality reigns!
I'm hugely grateful to have received both doses of AZ.

daisypond · 31/05/2021 06:14

I was delighted to get AZ, as was my DH. Everyone was getting AZ in the centre I attended yesterday (second doses).

daisypond · 31/05/2021 06:14

Sorry, not yesterday- Friday.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 31/05/2021 06:15

For me the risk of covid is significantly higher than the risk of blood clots, particularly as most people who are eligible for AZ have already survived the first vaccine.

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