2nd Booster...

Over 65year olds can now book appointments on line or by phone- you don’t have to wait for a text or email

Our flu jabs are booked in at our GP surgeries for October. I had a look at the Covid booster site yesterday, supposedly just out of interest, and ended up booking ours for tomorrow at a local hub. We’re going abroad in a fortnight and it seems sensible to get them done before we fly.

Our surgery have been texting DH for a fortnight. He has finally booked his Covid booster for next week. We have flu jabs booked for next month.

We are to have our jabs at 9am today. Apparently we can have flu and covid vaccinations together which will save time and money.
Last time they offered both together I declined as I was concerned about reactions but since then hundreds of thousands of people have taken both without problems.

Ive had three Covid vaccines and a booster and had Covud, booked in for my Flue jab November.
Are we supposed to keep having these Covid Boosters until there's no more cases?

I’ve just had my second booster. Gave me a headache for 24 hours then I was fine. I hope it will reduce my symptoms if I catch covid.

We'll both be having the jab once we're offered it.'

But it’s so early as is the flu jab I will reconsider end of October start of November I only had my fourth jab three + months ago it f I m having another I want it to last through the winter not wear out in January and need another and another and another

DH and I are having ours on 27/9 - covid (my 5th) and flu. Had shingles jab a couple of months ago too. Bring 'em on!

I intend to have everything on offer, even though I am down with COVID at the moment.

Over 65s can book their booster online from today. Some pharmacies are doing 'walk ins'.

growstuff, sorry, that was just me being sarcastic. There is no evidence of any such thing (barring one very small, not peer-reviewed study, which suggests a low level of king -term flu effects) whereas the ONS suggest 3.1% of the population have long Covid.

I’m waiting to be called for my booster, friends in their 70s and 80s have just been contacted so I’m guessing they are working through the age groups as they did before.

I understand that this vaccine has been tweaked to include some protection against Omicron as well as the original Covid which sounds good. I’m slightly wary about having my flu jab at the same time as I always have a bruise and swollen arm after any injection and two jabs together could be painful but I’ll just go along with it. I’m sure it will be fine even if I’m a bit tender!

GrammyGrammy see my previous post.

I was surprised to get a text about my flu jab/booster, got straight in for 4 October.

I paid £35 for my flu jab last year as the surgery didn't have any availability at all.

Zonne

Given the similarities, I’m really amazed that, over the years, there hasn’t been more attention paid to the 3% of the population of the UK who have long flu.

Do you have the link to any details about that?

Having flu and 4th covid jab in 24th. I am very grateful that these are on offer free to me and others like me.

It will reduce my chances of getting either illness, either badly or at all, and I will increase the pool of vaccinated people to help protect others. There is no question about it in my mind.

How very lucky we are.

Aveline

Good point Esspee. I hope they maintain these requirements so we don't come up against unvaccinated people.

If you are vaccinated how does it affect you what another person chooses?!

I've had every vaccination going since I was born and don't intend to stop now. I still have a scar on my left arm from my very first smallpox vaccination when I was a tiny baby! I had a horrid reaction to a diphtheria 'jag' when I was 10, but that didn't put me off. Science has given us these miracles.
We should be - and I am - grateful that we live in a time when we don't have to dread that our grandchildren will be lost to diphtheria, grow up disabled by polio, blinded by measles, ravaged by TB, suffer learning difficulty through a mother's rubella. I could go on, but I'm sure you'll get my drift...

I'm definitely having the new booster as soon as they offer me it. These vaccines decline in efficiency as time goes by, so it makes perfect sense to me to have the boosters.

Given the similarities, I’m really amazed that, over the years, there hasn’t been more attention paid to the 3% of the population of the UK who have long flu.

We were both invited to have the shingles vaccination which we accepted. After recent major surgery, DH contracted a mild dose of shingles. According to his consultant, and I agree, without the vaccine, chances are he would have suffered a worse case than he did.
How much worse we would all have been if vaccines for example, polio, German measles etc. hadn’t been discovered?

volver

^But coronavirus is similar to flu, doctors say so.^

Do they? Got a link? From a proper doctor who knows what they are talking about?

Note: saying they have equivalent mortality rates doesn't hack it.

But flu and Covid don't have equivalent mortality rates!

Covid has generally had higher mortality rates than flu and pneumonia combined. It's possible to have pneumonia not caused by flu.

I don't have an issue if people choose not to be vaccinated, but I'm fed up with false information.

We always used to be offered the flu vaccine at work and I always used to refuse it. However, one year I got flu and was so ill that it was frightening. Ever after that I've had the flu vaccine whenever offered.
I had all the Covid vaccinations plus booster and was glad I had. I was found on routine testing to have Covid but I'd never have known otherwise. If I hadn't had the vaccinations I could have been very ill.

Good point Volver. I’m a bit nervous thanks to all the scaremongering but will have the booster as will dh. The possible consequences and probabilities of having the booster outweigh those of not having it. We have been offered the flu vaccination but not covid yet.