Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

That’s brilliant. J&J is the game changer! If we can keep pumping that into the younger cohorts then we’re in an even better place!

Does anyone know the possible percentage of population with anti bodies without vaccination?

the fact they mentioned that the rise in cases amongst 16-34 is exceptional, dare I say it herd immunity isn’t that far away…

My kids are young.

2, 6 and 8. Imo they should be done in the pharmacies asap with whatever vaccine is available. Preferably the J&J one as it’s one and done.

As I say with camps it makes sense to get the kids done now.

But there's no vaccine approved by EMA for under 12s as far as I'm aware.

I will but some young lads think they are invincible . I fully understand they have to have a life as well and was explaining getting the vaccine will get them back to some normality.

Are they doing much testing ?

Don't know. That could be a factor.

But these eastern European countries had high case numbers before. Now they don't. Whereas cases are skyrocketing in highly vaccinated countries like UK, Belgium and Netherlands.

Highly vaccinated Israel is to urgently begin vaccinating children in an attempt to stem the increase in delta cases there.

Best to call the hospital or the HSE helpline. I think it’s a separate process for pregnant women. You can’t just turn up at the vaccination centre. Even without a bump showing, she would be asked if she is or could be pregnant and as far as I know if you answer yes they turn you away (open to correction on that).

Possibly. I'm not drawing an conclusions. There could be many factors. Just an observation

They’re different bubbles of mingling too in terms of holiday destinations, likelihood of travel etc.

The same happened earlier in the pandemic. You’d initially lower rates in eastern EU member states and a lot of self congratulatory nonsense. Then it just floored them when it spread.

We’re just seeing movement / travel / contact patterns that follow where people mingle. Western EU states all get hit in the same waves because people are flowing around. We had stricter travel movement restrictions but we are repeatedly infected via the U.K. with whom we’ve an open border and they’ve had periods of being very lax about aspects of travel and testing at various times.

It follows the herd around and in terms of movement of people there are distinctly different travel patterns in different regions of Europe. We very much fall into the U.K. + Western Europe / Northern Europe bubble.

The safety is not in question, it's whether we need to do so. It's 12-15 BTW they approved it for. If we decide to go with it, it's likely it'll be Sept/Oct for the two shots.

They seem to be going through the ages fairly quickly now. Based on this, how likely would I get my second shot on day 28?

I got vaccinated through the pregnancy route. I was referred through the hospital and when I tried to register on the portal as a back up, I couldn’t as my PPSN was already used. She could try and see if she’s able to.

you can get the vaccine after 14 weeks pregnant.

Looks like 12-16 year olds especially medically vulnerable will be somewhat vaccinated this summer according to the times!

I can't see them using AZ for vaccinating children and they have very little Pfizer left to be delivered (it's all earmarked for second doses)

40mil ordered, 19.7mil first doses given. They will be waiting for their second Pfizer order to be delivered.... 60mil additional doses were only ordered back in late April 2021.