Booster vaccines to be offered to under 50s

[72WayTooCool]

Being reported today. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/booster-jab-covid-age-booking-b1957592.html

As a 49.5 year old, I'm feeling relieved.

@bloodyhoodedeyes

Does anyone on here have the answer for me as google isn't helping?

I've had one vaccination( Pfizer) and had an awful reaction so didn't have the 2nd dose, I've just had covid a few weeks ago.

So I'm just single dosed, and 46.. so doe the booster count as a 2nd dose?

Or do I need to have more, I'll msg my GP and ask as well but just wondered if anyone else was in the same boat.

No of course not, anything you have is your second dose. If you had a bad reaction to Pfizer you should be able to get AZ for your second & booster.

Hopefully they'll make it available to all adults at a later point then. I'm going to be 39 early next year and my 6 months will be up in January. All the data I've seen suggests the booster will really reduce symptomatic infection so I'd love to have a booster too!

Is the booster after 6 months and you can book after 5 months or can you have it at 5 months?

DH and I had our second on the same day in July. He has since turned 40 so will be due December / January. I will need to wait until spring when I turn 40.

Although, as has been stated above I wonder if it will go out to everyone anyway before I turn 49?

Arghhh. Fat fingers. 40!

Make sure you check your Covid certificates. Mine has both of my Covid vaccinations as dose 1! Which means the online booking system and real people at 119 are completely incapable of seeing that it is a mistake and letting me book a booster. The incompetence on all of this just gets better.

Is the booster after 6 months and you can book after 5 months or can you have it at 5 months?
I thought they had reduced it to 5 months but some people are still saying it is 6. We were doing people over 5 months last week, but the announcement for 40+ was 6 months.

@Feelingoktoday

Make sure you check your Covid certificates. Mine has both of my Covid vaccinations as dose 1! Which means the online booking system and real people at 119 are completely incapable of seeing that it is a mistake and letting me book a booster. The incompetence on all of this just gets better.

Go back to where you had the jab. They should be able to sort it out. Or your GP.

@LemonCake79

Is the booster after 6 months and you can book after 5 months or can you have it at 5 months?

DH and I had our second on the same day in July. He has since turned 40 so will be due December / January. I will need to wait until spring when I turn 40.

Give it a few weeks until the 40s have booked, I’m sure they’ll roll it out to everyone of any age who’s gone over the 6 months.

Talking of access, at 55, and eligible to have a booster from beginning of Dec, the nearest place (and it's not that close) and date I have been able to get via the NHS booking site is end of January! So I didn't bother booking it. Hopefully I'll get an appointment via the local GP sessions before then, but haven't heard from them yet. No walk ins near me.

From an earlier thread

 "I recall a young adult in the Valleys or deep Monmouthshire facing a ridiculous 10 hour journey from home to jab centre because of poor public transport, buses not linking up with trains, no taxis or ubers (cos rural)"

Im going to spend another fortnight trying Then on the 1st December im going to stop. Ive spent TWO MONTHS on this already ENOUGH.

@Bordois

44 and had 2nd jab at end of May so my 6 months are up soon. Can't book yet but will try again tomorrow.

Would I be able to turn up at a walk in fo you think 🤔

I don't think you can. I went to a walk in today and was turned away. I'm over 50 and got my second dose 5 1/2 months ago. They said it needed to be 6 months since the second dose and come back in two weeks or book online.

I have a hair appointment on the 16th December. My hairdresser believes that you cant dye hair within a fortnight of having the vaccine. It doesnt matter whether its true or not. SHE believes it so if i have the vaccine after the 2nd December it wont get done. Remember i have already given this far too much headspace for TWO MONTHS. So it needs to be done in the next fortnight. I have already attempted this twice on 26th Sept and 6th Nov Ive had enough. Its not my fault ive been refused.

It needs to be 182 days since your last jab otherwise you won’t be able to book a booster. Walk in centres are the same, they use the same computer system so they can’t jab you unless your record says 182 days have elapsed.

182 days means I become eligible next week, so might give walk in a go if I can't book by then.

Whatever it may say, at the centre I work at we are doing them at over 5 months (we also did 3 weeks gap previously & had to stop). The computer flashes up if you are

I think it will eventually be rolled out to everybody, as is being done in other countries including the USA and Germany.

But I suspect it's particularly important to get an mRNA booster to the 40-49s (and older) who had astrazeneca. (Also the risk of hospitalisation and death has always been increased from 40/45, rather than 50).

uk.yahoo.com/news/covid-vaccines-wear-off-why-140948961.html

Pfizer and Moderna about 90% effective after 20 weeks.

The Pfizer and Moderna jabs, both of which are mRNA vaccines, declined only slightly in the first 10 weeks after the second dose and levelled out at about 90 per cent efficacy against severe disease after 20 weeks.

But AZ about 60% after 20 weeks.

However, a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study found that the AstraZeneca vaccine kept falling in efficacy, with protection against severe disease dipping to 60 per cent by 20 weeks.

The website now says that they expect bookings to open next Monday.

I see the vaccine booking website has now been updated with a message that says bookings will be possible for 40-49 year olds from next Monday (22nd) onwards.

I have daughters in their 20s that had AZ as they were in group 6. Doesn’t look like they are in group 6 now but the efficacy of their vaccine is reducing and they are both asthmatic

I just really hope that side effects don’t get worse with every shot/booster you have… that would be terrible for all. I already had Covid, long Covid and spent two weekends in bed after both my Pfizer shots. Just really hoping I am simply in the category of people badly affected with a immune system that overreacts and that there are not that many like me. However, if most do need boosters regularly and side effects get worse every time we will have a big problem with hesitancy of boosters and worse.

@Cookerhood

Is the booster after 6 months and you can book after 5 months or can you have it at 5 months? I thought they had reduced it to 5 months but some people are still saying it is 6. We were doing people over 5 months last week, but the announcement for 40+ was 6 months.

That's why I'm confused @Cookerhood. I guess all will become clear in the next few days.

@MercyBooth

I have a hair appointment on the 16th December. My hairdresser believes that you cant dye hair within a fortnight of having the vaccine. It doesnt matter whether its true or not. SHE believes it so if i have the vaccine after the 2nd December it wont get done. Remember i have already given this far too much headspace for TWO MONTHS. So it needs to be done in the next fortnight. I have already attempted this twice on 26th Sept and 6th Nov Ive had enough. Its not my fault ive been refused.

How will your hair stylist know you've had a covid vaccine unless you tell her? She can't turn you away based on information she doesn't have

@MercyBooth

I have a hair appointment on the 16th December. My hairdresser believes that you cant dye hair within a fortnight of having the vaccine. It doesnt matter whether its true or not. SHE believes it so if i have the vaccine after the 2nd December it wont get done. Remember i have already given this far too much headspace for TWO MONTHS. So it needs to be done in the next fortnight. I have already attempted this twice on 26th Sept and 6th Nov Ive had enough. Its not my fault ive been refused.

Why not get your hair dyed tomorrow? Or whenever her next availibility is?

And then continue trying to get a vaccine slot booking - hope something more convinient becomes available.