Booster vaccination

Don't know what those who had Pfizer for the first two had as a booster though, I'm afraid.

We got the Pfizer as a booster after AZ for the first two. That seems to be standard here, BlueSky.

Thanks Maggie and Maddy, do you get the same jab as the previous two, a different one or does it vary?

We had ours yesterday. We’d booked at a local large hub and it was very efficient. We’d to queue for around 15 minutes and the lovely volunteers kept apologising for the wait. Apparently they had a lot of walk ins yesterday and they don’t like to turn anyone away if they can possibly fit them in.

I feel wiped out today, with an upset stomach, perhaps because of my recent Covid infection, so I’m having a lazy day in bed. Saying that, DH and two friends who were isolating at the same time as us haven’t had any side effects at all. The luck of the draw, I guess.

I’m just happy and grateful to be one of the 11 million who’ve already had their booster.

Yep, 28 days.

It’s 28 days after the date you tested positive, BlueSky. The information is on the website somewhere. I allowed a couple of extra days just in case the relevant date was the day I received the PCR confirmation result.

Thanks Marydoll that’s very useful to know!

That’s what it says on the NHS vaccine site too

This is on the British Heart Foundation website.

Can I have a booster jab if I’ve recently had Covid?
If you’ve tested positive for Covid-19, you need to wait four weeks (28 days) from the day of your positive test to have a booster. If you’ve already booked your booster appointment and then test positive, make sure to log in and reschedule your booking.

Would anybody know how long after a Covid infection can you have the booster? I have an appointment booked for next week and I wouldn’t want to wait till then to find out. I’ve tried to phone the number given but that’s only to cancel/change the booking.

We had our flu vaccines the week before at our GP surgery.

We had texts last week and I then booked for us both for last Sunday. So all done and dusted now.

Just as with schoolchildren the over 65’s should have been vaccinated by now imo I’ve gone from not knowing how to get my vaccine to actually managing to have it done at a walk in centre, being offered a vaccine at my doctors and getting a letter telling me how to book an appointment.

We are both having our boosters on 1st December although initially DD had his a good month before me.
We have been trying to book them locally for over a week.
No one round here has got any available flu jab appointments.
Not heard a word from the surgery and there is no information on their web site.
No wonder the uptake doesn’t look good!

After phoning my surgery to make enquiries about my vaccines my gp says I’m getting a home visit for both vaccines and it’s nothing to do with them . The nhs have me in their sights so I’m just waiting not very patiently though I’m in fear of needles, no need to worry they’ve a lot on their plate at the moment. I’ve only doubt they’ll eventually get to me.

the people who say they just turned up, presumably your full details were taken so they know what you've had and when already......
An 84 yr old friend who has not even had a flu jab was turned away from Boots vaccination centre and told he has to book an appointment. I know because I was with him...Not had his booster yet either. has to wait for NHS contact to book.

Blimey Oops that’s utterly, utterly ridiculous

PS the chap was checking each vaccination card and working out how many days early they were, it took ages and we were getting cold and wet waiting in the queue, so another person had to come down and help him out.

Zoe there were people in my queue being turned a way as well because they were more than 1 day early , the chap on the door said that it was pointless them going inside as they would be turned away upstairs as well.
If they had been a day early he was allowed to let them in.
We don’t have a ‘walk-in centre’ we have a ‘bookable walk in centre’. Apparently!

Zoe - ‘loads of them were being turned away’!
Madness!
Had your husband booked the vaccine?

FannyCornforth

I booked my booster in the early hours this morning! I’m having it on the 10th December, just under six months after my second one.
I got vaccinated a little bit sooner than others as I am my husband’s registered carer.

I hope you have more luck than my husband, Fanny!

He went along this afternoon and was told it couldn't be done as it was 2 days early.

He wasn't 2 days early at all. The chap said that he should have made it for the 12th. Because he'd had his last one on the 12th. No logic at all.

Loads of them were being turned away. Only one man was giving the jabs and he wouldn't change his mind.

And they moan about the uptake being a bit sluggish!

I booked our booster appointments for 3:40 and 3:50 today. We stood up for 4 queues, had the 15 minute wait and left at 5:40, and got home at 6pm. The poor dog was waiting crossed legged.

Can anyone tell me why we had to take off our own masks and wear what was described as a medical mask but was one of the ordinary blue disposable mask? My mask is designed so I can still see with my glasses on and has a special graphite lining. Dh refused to swap his. The rest of us were like sheep!

lemsip

You have to phone for an appointment at the 'walk in centres' You cannot just turn up as the title suggests! Walk in centres means it is not a surgery. I booked my booster at Boots after getting NHS text. Had flu jab at my surgery though. No side effects.

I just turned up at my local walk in centre. So did DH. Some people had got prearranged appointments.

I booked my booster in the early hours this morning! I’m having it on the 10th December, just under six months after my second one.
I got vaccinated a little bit sooner than others as I am my husband’s registered carer.

After posting about the shambolic treatment of some of those, who are immunocompromised, I must also post some positive news of NHS Scotland.

My daughter in her thirties, who was classed as my career during my period of shielding and received two vaccinations early on in the pandemic to help protect me, today unexpectedly received an appointment for a booster injection from NHS Scotland.

Secondly I had to contact the vaccination helpline today, as had an appointment for next week, which I no longer needed, but it was still showing on the system and would not allow me to cancel.

The agent after dealing with that, the agent checked my record and confirmed that it had been at last, updated to show that I should be called for a booster in six months time.
He also explained that agents were now aware of the difference between a booster and a third primary vaccine.

A good result!