University 2019/20 intake: vacations, vaccinations, va-va-voom restored and virtually into their third year

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Hi all. Just catching up. DD home finally and I think bored already though she tells me it’s better to be bored with FOC meals prepared in a clean house. Compliment? She has remote work so at least not experiencing the situations some of your DC are experiencing. I have 2 days left of term and hoping to make it through without isolation calling. So disheartening to hear the latest figures even double jabbed Sajid Javid. Our DC’s whole uni experience will be blighted. Starting to think DD2 who is year 12/13 will be affected at uni too. But what can we do?

Have any of your dc's had their first vaccine in their uni city and now back home? Ds1 isn't due for second vaccine until mid august. He was going to wait to be called by the university gp then drive back for the vaccine, then home again as he's working full time near home (only 45 mins drive, then 10 min walk to uni gp) But I'm assuming there's a way to book it more locally. I've looked online and it says book the first and second at the same time. It doesn't say what vaccine is being used or if we can book the second one only...so if we book it could be a different vaccine. Has anyone booked the second one in a different area?

@icanbewhatiwant DS booked both his at home but is now living in his uni city. Although he still has his 2nd booking here, and just might be here at the time, my expectation is that he will go to a walk-in centre as soon as possible for the 2nd dose. I am hoping that he doesn't have to wait for 8 weeks. They seem to be cutting the gap between the doses.

I wouldn't worry about being given a different vaccine. They won't give AZ and many providers seem to have both of the others, or he should be able to find a clinic that has the right one.

I am taking DD for her first vaccine tomorrow. She was only notified that she was eligible just before she came home, and wanted to wait until she was at home in case she felt rough.

I'm pretty sure that she will get the pfizer jab. Both jabs were booked at the same time, and the second one will take place in her university town.

DD had hers in uni city a month ago and has second booked there mid August but she’s hoping to go to a walk-in at home when available. I had my second earlier and the second gets automatically cancelled through the system when you have it elsewhere.

She had Pfizer.

@simbobs thanks. The walk in clinics are back in the university city anyway. We don't have any locally. We have a chemist where both can be booked online. But he was sent a text via his gp for the first one. He couldn't book the second. He was told to wait for the text. It was the same for us, we also had a text via our gp and could only book the one. Ds isn't with our gp now. He's registered at the uni one.

@icanbewhatiwant
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

DD had her first in Birmingham in May, but then booked her second one for the end of this month near home. Then got a message that the original GP practice was offering second doses early, the weekend she was thinking about going back up to see friends anyway, so she went and duly got it there.

Meanwhile, the same weekend, apparently - no idea how it was advertised, I just saw the proud Tweet of CCG-chair partner at the practice, re having welcomed 250 people into the surgery - there had been a walk-in Pfizer clinic at our surgery, so had she not been intending to go away, she could have tried there. Possibly unsuccessfully, though, given the gap.

(Despite the proud welcoming in of 250 at most only half-vaxxed randoms off the street of a Saturday, of course back in the M-F, 8-6.30 real world, the surgery remains proudly inaccessible to even fully-vaxxed registered patients, but hey-ho).

@Benjispruce5 yes i saw that thanks. But it says book 2 doses. He's had one already. So I wasn't sure how it works.

DS had his jabs 150 miles apart, one at home and one in uni town.

DH had his second jab 60 miles away in a pop-up centre during a rainy day out. It was the highlight of the day! Just our luck to plan a day out then spend it dodging torrential rain.

Try this www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/

Thanks @Benjispruce5 they all say over 40's only on the local ones. But maybe that will change in the next few weeks. I'll keep an eye on it.

That’s a shame. I had a look as DD will want one in August and we’d have to travel 15 miles at least at the moment but they all say over 18.

Ours locally are all over 18 for first dose but over 40s for 2nd - over 18s with less than 8 weeks since first dose have been turned away.

DS had the Moderna vaccine on Sunday, and has his 2nd vaccine in his university city in about 8 weeks time. Both booked via the NHS online booking system.
He feels special cos he doesn't know anybody else who has had Moderna!

I'm going to try and get DS to look locally for an option to get his 2nd jab early. He will be 8 weeks out on 26th August but won't be able to get one on that day so he booked for a week later. Now that they are saying it will be mandatory for nightclubs he may be more motivated. I think his 10 day self isolation, which ended today, has focused the mind somewhat, and he doesn't want to have to do it again.

DD said she’d heard something about a 4 week gap so she has got her ear to the ground!
She has also started back working in a (different) nightclub

Dd who volunteers in a NE Vaccination Centre has been sent an email to tell her to turn away anyone who wants their 2nd before 8 weeks. She’s 3 weeks into her 1st and would love the 2nd sooner.

It’s a bit pick and mix isn’t it?!

I think officially it’s 8 weeks but some GPs are doing them earlier if they have vaccines that will go to waste.

DS has a festival booked for the end of August and has just been notified that he will have to have been double jabbed to attend. If he cannot achieve this by the middle of August he won't be able to go. He is determined to be there as it is the only thing he is looking forward to all summer. Who knows how this is going to pan out.

@blametheparents

DS had the Moderna vaccine on Sunday, and has his 2nd vaccine in his university city in about 8 weeks time. Both booked via the NHS online booking system. He feels special cos he doesn't know anybody else who has had Moderna!

It does sound like the Moderna has been the forgotten middle child of vaccinations :-)

I had it, as did DH, but the four teens in my house all got Pfizer.

I had Astra, DH had Moderna and uni DD had Pfizer and DD17 is left out so a pick n mix in this house!

DD has booked second jab close to hone after having first in Uni city but she will be looking out for a walk in after 5 weeks - some are doing earlier than the usual 8 weeks esp in areas where vax take up is generally low. The big football stadium walk ups in London last weekend were doing 5 weeks plus. The nightclub passport thing is a good incentive. There’s a yougov poll showing something like 60% approval of this even in 18-24 year olds which is heartening

The nightclub passport thing is a good incentive.

DD hates crowded nightclubs and has a good excuse not to go