If Pfizer or Moderna its at least 5 months from your 2nd dose - then down to when they get to your age year.
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I hope you are right but where did you get this information from? The official HSE vaccination information website still states the following:
"If you are under 60, and you are not a healthcare worker, you do not need a booster dose at this time. This includes people under 60 who got the single-dose Janssen vaccine."
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It'll be rolled out for over 50s just working its way through the bureaucracy...
Covid vaccine booster rollout expected for over-50s | BreakingNews.ie
Ministers were given dire warnings on Monday night about the impact of the current wave on healthcare
www.breakingnews.ie
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What initial vaccine did you get ?
If mRna 6 months after, the debate on whether it " should " be 5 months only started on Monday with the publication of a report by the NIAC proposing 5 months .
J&J vaccine isn't a booster it's a second shot, the FDA made this clear when they approved it.
AZ recipients will get Pfizer/ Biontech as their booster as we aren't administering AZ anymore. But the same timeline 6 months after 2nd jab.
Yeah family member is a HCW and got AZ originally... pfizer booster this week.
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If allowed to say this, we struggled initially with the vaccines in the spring for multiple reasons, but we rolled out the vaccines with superb efficiency.
We are facing another wave, but all of us who had the vaccines are protected to some degree might be 40% 50% who knows.
The issue that I see is that the message got lost, vaccines weren't the panacea, we had to temper our collective actions, we needed to get the economy going again, as did the rest of the world.
But here we are, and the adjustments that are needed to reverse the new wave aren't as arduous as the initial lockdowns etc.
If nobody got the booster but kept up the good practices of mask wearing etc we wouldn't have this wave.
This isn't going to solve itself by drugs alone it needs everyone to revert to sensible actions.
We would have taken 50% normality a year ago and perhaps that's what we need to accept now, as the science will still patter on in the background and into next year, when new approaches will be developed that will hopefully save even more lives and protect those who need protection.
We probably need to be grateful for what we have rather than wish to have, afterall its meant to be the season of good will.
Its our hands to reverse this, the governments have done their bit, but now we need to pick up and plough on.
We are facing another wave, but all of us who had the vaccines are protected to some degree might be 40% 50% who knows.
The issue that I see is that the message got lost, vaccines weren't the panacea, we had to temper our collective actions, we needed to get the economy going again, as did the rest of the world.
But here we are, and the adjustments that are needed to reverse the new wave aren't as arduous as the initial lockdowns etc.
If nobody got the booster but kept up the good practices of mask wearing etc we wouldn't have this wave.
This isn't going to solve itself by drugs alone it needs everyone to revert to sensible actions.
We would have taken 50% normality a year ago and perhaps that's what we need to accept now, as the science will still patter on in the background and into next year, when new approaches will be developed that will hopefully save even more lives and protect those who need protection.
We probably need to be grateful for what we have rather than wish to have, afterall its meant to be the season of good will.
Its our hands to reverse this, the governments have done their bit, but now we need to pick up and plough on.
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Same in the UK all AZ will get the Pfizer booster, best friend same age 54 got his Sunday
Pfizer...
Can't wait to get booster..
I will continue following hand washing, masks, avoiding crowds etc even after getting 3rd vaccine...
Will still have a quiet pint on a Wednesday afternoon or Thursday afternoon but will always avoid weekends socialising
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There ya go, that to me is the essence and if people were to do that we wouldn't be where we are.
Booster plan... doesn't look like over 50s who got single dose Johnson vaccine will be in line for booster until January?
Target for end of Dec:
Target for end of Dec:
- Over 65 LTRC - 25,000
- Over 80s - 161,000
- 70-79 - 336,000
- 60-69 - 475,000
- HCW - 305,000
- Total = 1,302,000 (+ the immunocompromised currently ~64k)
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I thought Coveney said earlier that 550k booster/3rd jabs were already administered, I wasn't listening that intently so might have gotten that wrong.
If they were to achieve the above by year end that would be impressive.
Heard on the grapevine sone vaccine centres were allowing walkins due to excess staff and no shows..
Decided to chance my arm and head to my local centre which serves two country's .. Its closed and only opens up 3 days a week!
What a joke... Before contemplating closing the hospitality sector down, the government should be doing all its power to role out booster jabs to all over 50s who are eligible..
I'm stunned really..
Decided to chance my arm and head to my local centre which serves two country's .. Its closed and only opens up 3 days a week!
What a joke... Before contemplating closing the hospitality sector down, the government should be doing all its power to role out booster jabs to all over 50s who are eligible..
I'm stunned really..
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I hate to be critical regarding rollout, but there are certainly administrative mistakes.
A friend of mine who is highly immuno-compromised had his booster appointment in City West at 3pm today.
He was told to attend not more than 5 minutes beforehand and so he expected to be in and out in a short time period.
He arrived to find it was a walk-in centre with an enormous queue with no social distancing.
Not expecting to queue for more than an hour he was not dressed for the weather and his medical condition is such than he cannot stand for long periods.
He went home without his booster shot.
Further when he tried to reschedule on the HSE website, he received the message "There was an error processing your message".
The helpline telephone number was constantly engaged.
He could not understand why the queue wasn't divided into those with appointments and those without.
A friend of mine who is highly immuno-compromised had his booster appointment in City West at 3pm today.
He was told to attend not more than 5 minutes beforehand and so he expected to be in and out in a short time period.
He arrived to find it was a walk-in centre with an enormous queue with no social distancing.
Not expecting to queue for more than an hour he was not dressed for the weather and his medical condition is such than he cannot stand for long periods.
He went home without his booster shot.
Further when he tried to reschedule on the HSE website, he received the message "There was an error processing your message".
The helpline telephone number was constantly engaged.
He could not understand why the queue wasn't divided into those with appointments and those without.
The Citywest queue was divided today and was geared to favour those with appointments over walk-ins.
Are there walk-in opportunities advertised or are people just chancing their arm? I went from pharmacy to pharmacy asking if they are offering booster shots but none of them have been told anything by the government and they seemed quite frustrated. The vaccination programme seems to have degenerated into a mess.
There are walk in slots for over 60s in MVCs like City West, Croke Park but as can be seen from previous posts capacity not planned well...
Seems like not only did they take the foot off the pedal but have forgotten where 4th and 5th gear is.
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I'd say the news of another variant hasn't helped either.
What I don't understand is they administered 600,000 plus and not a word from any quarter, now people swamp centres and it's all bad all of a sudden which clearly it's not.
Increases in services take manpower and add a new variant and associated rush was always going to cause problems.
Let's give them a few days to sort things out .
Why are they even doing walk in centres? They were only used at the end of the first vaccination campaign. There is no shortage of eligible people under the various cohorts to fill appointments. Apparently they still haven't offered it to people who had J&J vaccine despite evidence that the effectiveness of this vaccine diminishes dramatically after 1 month. I would have thought that we would have all the information needed from the first vaccination campaign about who needs to vaccinated and when. But there does seem to a sense of panic and chaos about the whole thing. Yes they are vaccinating large amounts but they are still not reaching levels seen during the first campaign despite no supply issues and I would be afraid that they have taken their eye off the ball. Hopefully now that the task force are back in charge, we will begin to see less and less of the chaos seen so far and more of a repeat of the first rollout.
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Covid: Pfizer and Moderna jabs give best overall boost, UK trial finds
Researchers say there are signs the boosters would still offer protection against new variant Omicron.
www.bbc.com
This is a story from the BBC about the effectiveness of the boosters, obviously the study was carried out with the Delta variant, but it's not bad news, which is a change in the narrative.
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How long does it take for the Booster jab to take effect? I think it was two weeks for the first two jabs.....is the booster any quicker?