This fecking guy. He was on Irish telly last night. Presumably on the basis of similar tweets over last few days. Exactly who I was thinking of when I mentioned medical experts who don’t understand pharmacovigilance.
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This fecking guy. He was on Irish telly last night. Presumably on the basis of similar tweets over last few days. Exactly who I was thinking of when I mentioned medical experts who don’t understand pharmacovigilance.
Got my jab booked for Monday. So, so happy!! Got a text out of the blue, must be all the new shipment of vaccines or lots of cancellations of AZ. Either way, woohoo.
Yup its right that that is explored further then. It would have been more unusual had that disease been noted outside of the typical demographic (which are young, females of reproductive age), certainly incidence wise it is a bit more raised.
Very often misdiagnosed and possibly underdiagnosed as migraine though. John Hopkins says around 1 in 200000
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/cerebral-venous-sinus-thrombosis
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Its difficult though for reporters to not see "Pulmonary Vascular Physician" in this guy's twitter bio and not think his opinion on a clot-related medical story would be credible especially as it reinforces the working narrative they want to convey
Yeah, absolutely. What made me want to put my fist through the screen was that the other guy they’d brought along to try and make the case for NIAC was even less qualified than him! So PVP man wiped the floor with his hapless opponent, despite gaping flaws in his argument that showed he had a fairly terrible grasp of the important issues here.
It was a bit of an eye-opener tbh. Makes me think about all the times I’ve listened to experts on, say, finance without taking a moment to think whether it might be a niche issue that they don’t fully understand.
He is indeed and that piece shows an infinitely better understanding of the nuances of these decisions than angry Vascular Physician guy above. I’d happily listen to this bloke on telly but would like to challenge him on some key points.
He doesn’t mention that the cohort being temporarily delayed access are young and at low risk of poor outcomes from covid. Plus vaccination of the elderly can go full steam ahead using the vaccines in which there is a better evidence base for them than there is with AZ. Finally, I don’t think we can be absolutely certain that this will fuel hesitancy. At least not more than news reports about these clusters leaking out while the regulators seem to not do anything in response.
There’s loads of rooms for different opinions here and nobody has the monopoly on truth. I know this is a divisive topic even amongst the people most qualified to understand it. What really does miss the point, though, are all the “politics innit” hot takes. As I said above, I think that can be far more damaging to the trust of the general public than overly cautious use of the precautionary principle.
I thought I would get chased out by Mr Burns hounds but they were nice about it. If anyone is keen, and too young for normal channels, I would recommend going daily.The wife and I are both getting ours in an hour!
Anyone over 50 in the uk can now book their jab on the NHS website.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...rus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...rus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
More than half a million doses yesterday, and looking good for groups 1-9 to maybe be done this month. I'm also seeing a few people mention that 2nd doses of Pfizer are being arranged for much less than 12 weeks after dose 1, which makes sense as we get into the lower priority groups - there's less of push to get a first dose in every arm now.
Wow, nice one. I checked an could get it next week.
Common sense prevails. If you’re already into the 50 year olds it must be getting to the point where it wouldn’t be medicolegally defensible to continue to advise using Pfizer off-license. With cases numbers declining and hospitals emptying out there’s no need anyway.
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Glad to help
I mentioned this a few weeks back. In Wales we used the reduction in supply the last month to concentrate on getting through the Pfizer second doses - so with us nobody waited longer than 10 weeks for their second Pfizer and by the end (next week is the last week of second dose Pfizer’s from first batch) it’ll be 3-4 weeks. It also means the second doses are out of the way for the next 4/5 weeks when supply seriously ramps up to really concentrate on getting through these age groups - I think we’ll be down to at least the under 40s by end of April.
I think that just applies to England and not the UK ,
Only England are doing online self-booking I think. Scotland are giving you an appointment which you can rearrange online whilst us technical savages in Wales are giving you an appointment you can rearrange on the phone
Yeah, my bad you are right.
Yes mate , I phoned up last week as a 54 year old carer and was told I will be sent an appointment when I am due . I saw a 60 year old mate today who hasn`t had a date and a 63 year old about a week ago who was still waiting so we may be a bit behind with our vaccinations in Wales.Only England are doing online self-booking I think. Scotland are giving you an appointment which you can rearrange online whilst us technical savages in Wales are giving you an appointment you can rearrange on the phone
I don’t think we’re behind - I’m assuming “invited” in the NHS England sense means you get to book an appointment scheduled for a few weeks time. In our HB we’ll be finished over 60s - as in jabbed provided they attend their slot - end of this week - and 80% over 55s by end of next week - with over 50s done by Easter weekend. If your mates still haven’t heard anything yet I’d suggest they phone the booking line - they’ll be able to tell them when they’re booked ahead of the letter arriving. Each HB will be different though as it will depend what cohort the GPs are doing and how many have signed up etc.
Just got my first jab of the AZ vaccine, absolutely thrilled. I’m in my early 20s so I’m guessing a lot of people have cancelled over fears of the AZ one. Probably helps I called them like 5 minutes after they sent the text.
I thought we had loads of the stuff?
So the ramp up will last a whole 3 weeks and was only possible because we imported soon-to-expire stock from India...something odd going on here!
I’m due my second dose of AZ within the next 6 weeks, I had my first at the beginning of February due to being extremely vulnerable and was told I’d get my second within 8-12 weeks so now it’s a matter of waiting for the GP surgery to contact me to make an appointment. It’s a bit worrying to read about low supplies.
Thanks for that mate, sounds quite promising.
On the telly now, they're going to prioritise second shots over giving firsts to younger people. No need to worry.
I'm going off the comments made by Ursula whatsherface. And the letter to the NHS that there's a delay with vaccines coming into the UK.
Putting it together suggests the commission are making it difficult for the UK to have its orders honoured in total contrast to what they said a few weeks ago.
Reduction in the expected yield of AZ Manufacturing apparently - think they were hoping it would be up to 4m a week now but it’s at 2m which are needed to cover second doses.
Nah. Just inherent unpredictability of the manufacturing process, a need to get the priority groups wrapped up, increasing need for 2nd doses, all combined with current bumper supply levels, so it was always likely to slow down at some point.
Hopefully something like novavax getting approved will counteract the dropoff anyway.
Hope so. Just seems odd given her comments prior.
The EU have made a mess of this from the very start and certain individuals from within appear hell bent on trying to save face at the expense of other regions who have handled this more effectively. Disappointing to see.
Yet the imminent shortage in the UK has sweet feck all to do with the EU, who have yet to prevent a single EU manufactured dose getting to UK citizens. The one and only country who could feel put out by EU actions is Australia.
I'm not sure a cunning plan of waiting until we've vaccinated all of our vulnerable populations way ahead of any EU member before choking off our supply would be particularly strong.
Maybe it is, maybe it's not. Unsure why the EU feel they still need to be passive aggressive about it all mind. Well I do know. It seems they want to speak tough to atone for their repeated bloopers during this roll out. Fortunately it seems the people can see through it.
Only 1.2m have had second dose.
It seems to be the EU are not receiving the AZ deliveries as promised so if the Uk don't deliver the AZ vaccines the EU will keep the Pfizer for themselves.
So basically
UK- why aren't the EU using the AZ vaccine, how dare you!
EU - we haven't got any so we're going to use the Pfizer
UK - Give us the Pfizer
EU - We will; if you give us the AZ
UK - not until we vaccinated the UK first
Is everyone in the UK waving a flag, yes oh good.
Let's be honest the EU have made a complete and utter mess of this and still continue to do so. It's embarrassing really and the repeated big talk is to try save face to the millions of people they have let down.