Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

Leinster90

Will the next age groups to register all be in 5-year increments? Ie. 35-39, 30-34, 25-29 etc. ?

This information was not clear on the HSE website.

is_that_so

Leinster90 wrote: »

Will the next age groups to register all be in 5-year increments? Ie. 35-39, 30-34, 25-29 etc. ?

This information was not clear on the HSE website.

Yeah for the thirties as they are very big groups , not sure about the younger groups. Reckon that 35-39 will be from the end of next week.

1huge1

Hi all,

Just had my 2nd vaccine, fully vaccinated and absolutely delighted. GP ran an amazing efficient service.

revelman

FuzzyThinking wrote: »

Myocarditis is also not likely to be that high risk of bad outcomes, very much unlike the clotting issue that was identified with the viral vector vaccines. Once it’s identified, mostly you just get monitored in hospital for a few days.

My point though it’s extremely rare but also Pfizer itself doesn’t seem to be finding it in data.

Worth watching but at the same time, you’ll always expect some degree of reaction to everything, but the issue with these is they tend to trigger anti vaxxers, which seems to be a huge issue in some countries.

The USA for example has no issue with availability at all at this stage, but what they’re hitting a brick wall with is the conspiracy theorists and a high % of anti vaxxers in some segments of society.

France has an absolutely enormous issue with this. Germany has to some degree too.

I just think we need to be a little careful about media outlets blowing these things out of proportion entirely.

Ireland seems to be one of the places with a very positive view of vaccines. We’ve had the older cohorts quite literally achieving 100% uptake, which is very clearly why our death rate and hospitalisation rates have fallen so sharply.

If we get this thing beaten with vaccines, the pandemic is basically over for us.

There’ll be bubbling issues for a long time to come in places with patchy uptake.

I see what you are saying but I don’t think we have a problem with vaccine hesitancy in Ireland. Look at how badly the messaging has been in the media about vaccine efficacy. Yet, hundreds of thousands of people who have been offered AZ and J&J have accepted it. I think it is better that all information is out there, as transparent as possible. This increases confidence.

ImDave

Leinster90 wrote: »

Will the next age groups to register all be in 5-year increments? Ie. 35-39, 30-34, 25-29 etc. ?

This information was not clear on the HSE website.

In terms of population size as an estimate for when registration will open, the 45-49 age group that opened two weeks ago is the largest yet with 326k, 40-44 is bigger again at 357k, and then 35-39 is 389k, so I'd expect the gap between calls for registration will be a little longer than what we've seen recently but hopefully not by much.

revelman

So the initial vaccine available at pharmacies will be J&J, for the over 50s. I suspected as much. It makes sense.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40303772.html

JPup

ImDave wrote: »

In terms of population size as an estimate for when registration will open, the 45+ group that opened today is the largest yet with 326k, 40-44 is bigger again at 357k, and then 35-39 is 389k, so I'd expect the gap between calls for registration will be a little longer than what we've seen recently but hopefully not by much.

It was 40-44 that opened today! 45+ already getting vaccinated.

On your main point, hopefully increasing supply from Biontech can compensate for the increased size of the age cohorts.

is_that_so

revelman wrote: »

So the initial vaccine available at pharmacies will be J&J, for the over 50s. I suspected as much. It makes sense.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40303772.html

How do they actually know they've been vaccine hesitant? J&J, as a vaccine, is a lot easier administratively.

speckle

josip wrote: »

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People will more readily know their age than year of birth.
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Ahhmmh...I thought women after a certain age 'forget' exactly how old they are?

Is there much standing around in the MVCs have a neighbour on crutches would like to know if they could sit down outside instead of queing...?

And just to definitely know no contraindications if healing from a broken bone? I presumed if showing any symptoms of any type of infection not just covid cancel but this question had me stumped? Not sure if they had clotting issues on their mind or infection or just worried if vax contents would go into their bone...though its not a broken arm etc

Actually a third question from myself how long do the different vax's last until expiry date...talking about if perfectly stored say if waiting to go to a third world country as I am hearing some possibly disturbing info on that especially pfizer/biontech which needs to be transparently explained better by the company if true. Thanks

acer911

Any idea with 31 your old is likely to be called for first shot? I have some time off the third week of July, bit of travelling around Ireland, I have a feeling my time will come when I am away which will be annoying.

ImDave

JPup wrote: »

It was 40-44 that opened today! 45+ already getting vaccinated.

On your main point, hopefully increasing supply from Biontech can compensate for the increased size of the age cohorts.

Thanks, good call out! Population figures in my post were correct put got mixed up in the post - updated now.

is_that_so

acer911 wrote: »

Any idea with 31 your old is likely to be called for first shot? I have some time off the third week of July, bit of travelling around Ireland, I have a feeling my time will come when I am away which will be annoying.

Back of the envelope guess, registration for late June and then being called from mid-July.

ClosedAccountFuzzy

revelman wrote: »

I see what you are saying but I don’t think we have a problem with vaccine hesitancy in Ireland. Look at how badly the messaging has been in the media about vaccine efficacy. Yet, hundreds of thousands of people who have been offered AZ and J&J have accepted it. I think it is better that all information is out there, as transparent as possible. This increases confidence.

I agree Ireland’s not having this issues, but I don’t necessarily mean it’s an just issue in Ireland but if, say France for example, as our nearest continental neighbour picks this up as a panic it turns an uphill struggle into an even steeper one.

It also applies to the USA, Austria, Germany etc and hugely so in certain eastern parts of Europe where there has been a lot of conspiracy theory buy in and so on.

That has consequences here in the sense of possible new variants emerging in unvaccinated populations, tourism, travel and particularly with our EU and Eurozone neighbours we are all connected.

Ireland, the UK, most of the Nordic countries, Spain, Portugal and Italy seem to be utterly pragmatic about this and are seeing remarkable uptake levels.

The pandemic may end in some places (including Ireland) sooner than others.

We’re also going to all have to put resources into getting vaccines rolled out globally. We’re in an extremely privileged position to be potentially able to return to normality by the end of summer.

Cork2021

Nice touch on a Wednesday

https://twitter.com/michealmartintd/status/1400045556811116544?s=21

JDD

Registered for my vaccine at 8am this morning. Woo hoo!! It's probably been asked a million times on the thread, and I understand it completely depends on supply which fluctuates constantly, but anyone got a ballpark for timing between registration and appointment confirmation? I'm in South Dublin.

pemtca

JDD wrote: »

Registered for my vaccine at 8am this morning. Woo hoo!! It's probably been asked a million times on the thread, and I understand it completely depends on supply which fluctuates constantly, but anyone got a ballpark for timing between registration and appointment confirmation? I'm in South Dublin.

Aviva is quick. I know someone who registered on Monday this week, got text on Tuesday, appt. this Friday

podgeandrodge

FuzzyThinking wrote: »

To be quite honest with that’s extremely low.

Think of it this way. If you made 5 million people a sandwich, how many of that 5 million will have an allergic reaction to something, accidentally choke on the bread, get food poisoning or just have an unfortunate incident like develop an illness that may or may not have anything to do with your sandwich, but may coincide with having eaten that sandwich?

Well I can tell you that, as I type this while eating a ham sandwich, that I'm having no reaction, and your metaphor is complete bol l;v msdalkkkkkkkkkkkkkjgfl afdkbv df

Heroditas

South Dublin seems to be a bit quicker than West Dublin. Mates of mine who are the same age or younger than me are now getting appointments for the Aviva on Friday or Saturday. We all registered a fortnight ago.
I'm assuming I'll be in Citywest but no text yet.

josip

speckle wrote: »

Is there much standing around in the MVCs have a neighbour on crutches would like to know if they could sit down outside instead of queing...?

At the Aviva, I saw people with mobility issues being escorted to the front of the queue, so I would imagine it's the same for your neighbour.
There were seats every 5m after registration for people who were tired, but the queue was moving well at that point.
You'd tire yourself more sitting down, getting up, wipe down the seat, move 5m, sit down...

speckle

josip wrote: »

At the Aviva, I saw people with mobility issues being escorted to the front of the queue, so I would imagine it's the same for your neighbour.
There were seats every 5m after registration for people who were tired, but the queue was moving well at that point.
You'd tire yourself more sitting down, getting up, wipe down the seat, move 5m, sit down...

Thanks that part answered for them as they are still on crutches.

speckle

As it seems to be a question of lately...this might help re what is myocarditis exactly and stats etc etc


https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/about-myocarditis/

JDD

Heroditas wrote: »

South Dublin seems to be a bit quicker than West Dublin. Mates of mine who are the same age or younger than me are now getting appointments for the Aviva on Friday or Saturday. We all registered a fortnight ago.
I'm assuming I'll be in Citywest but no text yet.

Same with a mate of mine. She's 45 so registered a couple of weeks ago and lives in Firhouse so I expect she's Citywest. She's still waiting on a text.

iamwhoiam

I think City West might be doing HCWs second dose this week .

cameramonkey

1huge1 wrote: »

Hi all,

Just had my 2nd vaccine, fully vaccinated and absolutely delighted. GP ran an amazing efficient service.

How long before the vaccination date did you get the txt notification?

Heroditas

Heroditas wrote: »

South Dublin seems to be a bit quicker than West Dublin. Mates of mine who are the same age or younger than me are now getting appointments for the Aviva on Friday or Saturday. We all registered a fortnight ago.
I'm assuming I'll be in Citywest but no text yet.

Citywest and the Helix seem to be taking on some of the Louth/Meath backlog, which might explain it slowing down. Hopefully they can pick up pace again, in the beginning Citywest were flying ahead of everywhere else.

speckle

Flying Fox wrote: »

Citywest and the Helix seem to be taking on some of the Louth/Meath backlog, which might explain it slowing down. Hopefully they can pick up pace again, in the beginning Citywest were flying ahead of everywhere else.

I was wondering if some countys have a higher % of different age bands due to lifestyle and or eg people of a certain age might move out of a city with kids or move into a city for work if young or the whole housing/rent cost issue etc. That is on top of any population bulge on the 40s age group.

Russman

JDD wrote: »

Registered for my vaccine at 8am this morning. Woo hoo!! It's probably been asked a million times on the thread, and I understand it completely depends on supply which fluctuates constantly, but anyone got a ballpark for timing between registration and appointment confirmation? I'm in South Dublin.

JDD wrote: »

Same with a mate of mine. She's 45 so registered a couple of weeks ago and lives in Firhouse so I expect she's Citywest. She's still waiting on a text.

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I think City West might be doing HCWs second dose this week .

FWIW, I was 12 days between registration and getting the text. Age 47, getting jabbed tomorrow in Citywest.

Strazdas

JDD wrote: »

Registered for my vaccine at 8am this morning. Woo hoo!! It's probably been asked a million times on the thread, and I understand it completely depends on supply which fluctuates constantly, but anyone got a ballpark for timing between registration and appointment confirmation? I'm in South Dublin.

Six days with the Aviva for me - registered on a Wednesday evening and was vaccinated the following Tuesday.

kevyg

Trying to find out for definite if after having covid and proof within 6 months, will 1 jab be sufficient. Heard in the Dail it was agreed but on HSE site it says you should continue with vaccine process. My question is does anybody know or have they been through a similar process. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

strongback

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I registered 2 weeks ago and still no text for an appointment.

I registered two weeks ago and still no text, I'm in Dublin.

I called the HSE helpline today to see if I was missed as my mate who applied a couple of days after me got his text a few days after applying and and was vaccinated on Monday.

I was told on the helpline call that the texts are sent out randomly but that I will receive a text within 3 weeks of the day I applied. If I have not received a text after 3 weeks I am to get back in contact with them.