Vaccine Megathread - See OP for threadbans

Sharon_B

Champagne Sally wrote: »

Punchestown Vacc Centre is not open until 28th April, so no appointments yet for Kildare and West Wicklow.

My mother got her 2nd jab in Punchestown centre 2 weeks ago.

is_that_so

It seems that we are now up to 26 out of 37 MVCs, with 7 opening this week.

Full list is here.

https://www2.hse.ie/apps/services/vaccineclinics.aspx

pc7

Anyone who registered for themselves or folks, have you been called to Helix? I reckon that's my dads centre, no word yet.

Skygord

Sunday's vaccination figures are posted...

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/vaccination-programme-dashboard-as-of-18-april-2021.pdf

Level 42

buddys going out with non english speaking person getting vaccine shortly is there any assistance offered to non english speaking residents of ireland or can he go in with her

cheers

Garlinge

I have to take someone for vaccine in Aviva around rush hour tomorrow morning. Anyone familiar with arrangements. I have never been there before. What road do you access facility from? Passing in January on Northumberland Road, there seem to be an 'in' and an 'out' from there. How much time should we allow to get parked, walk in etc before appointment time.

1huge1

Skygord wrote: »

Sunday's vaccination figures are posted...

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/vaccination-programme-dashboard-as-of-18-april-2021.pdf

Am I reading that right? 1k doses?

majo

Gael23 wrote: »

I’m in group 7 and my consultant is in Dublin but I don’t live in Dublin.
Would I get the vaccine near where I live or near the hospital that registered me?

If you are in 60-69 age category I think you need to register on the portal and you will be assigned to your nearest vaccination Centre. But double check with your consultant or GP if you like.

horse7

My friend of 61 has just announced she has managed to skip the Corona vaccine queue, she has mild rhumitoid issues (for 2 years), and said her (private) consultant had somehow arranged this. I find this extremely unfair as I am 64 with severe rhumitoid, (for 40 years) attending (public) consultants in hospital. (Also immuno suppressed)

Sparko

is_that_so wrote: »

It seems that we are now up to 26 out of 37 MVCs, with 7 opening this week.

Full list is here.

https://www2.hse.ie/apps/services/vaccineclinics.aspx

Is there a way to tell which are open? My mother is registered in Meath but I'm not sure if the Navan centre is open yet.

Cork2021

Aer lingus delivering for us

https://twitter.com/markcarney123/status/1384252124507246596?s=21

noplacehere

horse7 wrote: »

My friend of 61 has just announced she has managed to skip the Corona vaccine queue, she has mild rhumitoid issues (for 2 years), and said her (private) consultant had somehow arranged this. I find this extremely unfair as I am 64 with severe rhumitoid, (for 40 years) attending (public) consultants in hospital. (Also immuno suppressed)

It seems to be completely at the whim of the hospital and the consultant who is getting sent forward for vaccination in cohort 4 which is very frustrating for everyone concerned

Do GPs have guidance on how to sort cohort 4 lists? As in do they still prioritise age?

is_that_so

Sparko wrote: »

Is there a way to tell which are open? My mother is registered in Meath but I'm not sure if the Navan centre is open yet.

Call the HSE and ask maybe?

acer911

1huge1 wrote: »

Am I reading that right? 1k doses?

Does seem like it, although the report says last refresh at 03.00, whereas the older reports have last refresh around 08.00 so unless the detail is only partially updated?

is_that_so

noplacehere wrote: »

It seems to be completely at the whim of the hospital and the consultant who is getting sent forward for vaccination in cohort 4 which is very frustrating for everyone concerned

At this stage you can understand it. Nobody has ever had to categorise people with conditions before. I think it is a case of the HSE getting through all of groups 1-7 as they can. And of course there's the supply issue.

1huge1

acer911 wrote: »

Does seem like it, although the report says last refresh at 03.00, whereas the older reports have last refresh around 08.00 so unless the detail is only partially updated?

Hopefully that is the case.

I know people keep saying that as long as we are getting the supplies into 95% of people's arms within 7 days, then we are doing well, but I believe 1k doses in a day would be our lowest since the beginning of the entire rollout.

stephenjmcd

1huge1 wrote: »

Hopefully that is the case.

I know people keep saying that as long as we are getting the supplies into 95% of people's arms within 7 days, then we are doing well, but I believe 1k doses in a day would be our lowest since the beginning of the entire rollout.

I fully expected a drop on Sunday tbh given the lack of MVC with AZ.

They rolled out 141k doses when 180k were expected. A 40k hit due to AZ. Not a bad week given the start it had, keeping in mind it was primarily Pfizer being rolled out through GPs

stephenjmcd

Good to see things getting underway

https://twitter.com/OSullivanJennie/status/1384436873548939265?s=19

Cork2021

Cork2021 wrote: »

Aer lingus delivering for us

https://twitter.com/markcarney123/status/1384252124507246596?s=21

Leaving them on the apron, in the sun, for a photo op?

IRISHSPORTSGUY

There's going to be a lot of annoyance if J&J is age restricted to older people (whom we'd have already vaccinated by the time it is arriving in useful quantities). Sure we won't be sitting on the best part of 600k J&J doses at the end of June and can't use them.

josip

Deleted User wrote: »

Leaving them on the apron, in the sun, for a photo op?

Have you much experience yourself in the vaccine packaging and transporting business raind?

MrStuffins

Deleted User wrote: »

Leaving them on the apron, in the sun, for a photo op?

There's absolutely nothing to indicate that this happened.

A photo existing of something does not mean that something is staged for a "photo op"

josip

josip wrote: »

Have you much experience yourself in the vaccine packaging and transporting business raind?

MrStuffins wrote: »

There's absolutely nothing to indicate that this happened.

A photo existing of something does not mean that something is staged for a "photo op"

You might want to get those sarcasm detectors looked into.


But as a matter of fact...not vaccines specifically, but material with special storage requirements yes, and standard handling with a wide margin of error would be factored in to the packaging storage and transportation conditions to leave minimal risk

plodder

Deleted User wrote: »

Leaving them on the apron, in the sun, for a photo op?

How long were they 'left' there for?

ACitizenErased

Latest update on 65-69 is over 136,000 registered

bennyineire

Level 42 wrote: »

buddys going out with non english speaking person getting vaccine shortly is there any assistance offered to non english speaking residents of ireland or can he go in with her

cheers

Do they speak Irish?

iamwhoiam

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You might want to get those sarcasm detectors looked into.


But as a matter of fact...not vaccines specifically, but material with special storage requirements yes, and standard handling with a wide margin of error would be factored in to the packaging storage and transportation conditions to leave minimal risk

So they were unloaded and someone took a photo . I cannot see any big deal at all

robindch

Sofa King Great wrote: »

Is it considered to be taking guidelines seriously when you visit someone even though they have told you they have symptoms?

Good point, but I left out of the post the decision process by which we assessed that the risk of transmission was low - I do recall checking relative area infection rates, correlating the mild symptoms mentioned and the chances of the disease actually being present (the child concerned had shown similar symptoms a few times before and wasn't covid-positive then), as well as acting to reduce the transmission risk by sitting far apart and moving the chairs so that the breeze blew between us and not blowing from one to the other, and that we'd brought our own coffee + cake from home, plus the fact that more generally, it was the end of October and we'd had no non-pod social events since the start of August and that the next non-pod social event would be dinner on Christmas day + Stephens day (same four people both days), and that we've had no non-pod social events since then.

I'm sure plenty of other people do such risk analyses and risk reduction before meeting up during a pandemic, but I haven't come across too many who do - no doubt because, as above, we're not meeting anybody. I'm not so sure though that the hundreds of people whom I can see, from a relatively safe distance, meeting up in and enjoying themselves in and around Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey are really being quite as careful.

Wolf359f

stephenjmcd wrote: »

I fully expected a drop on Sunday tbh given the lack of MVC with AZ.

They rolled out 141k doses when 180k were expected. A 40k hit due to AZ. Not a bad week given the start it had, keeping in mind it was primarily Pfizer being rolled out through GPs

They could maybe space the appointments out throughout the week.
Citywest this morning had a queue of people snaking around the carpark with well over 1hr wait to get into the building (not sure of the queue inside) So having 65-69 year olds waiting out standing for that length of time is not acceptable. With Irish weather you would need an umbrella and suncream! This was at 9:30 this morning, so I'd hate to see the wait time at the end of the day!