My wife is a head of department teacher. One of the teachers in her teams other half came to live with him a few days just before christmas...... From Zimbabwe. Apparently strolled into the country with no checks whatsoever. She is now self-isolating with covid symptoms. Total joke.
Agree and how many could that person have infected? My worry is they are already concerns about the 12 week gap and that mutations can affect the cells (Beth would explain that better) can you imagine after all the vaccine jabs some Brazilian mutation cocks it up because a person was allowed in with the virus unchecked? I would go down to Downing Street myself and punch Boris on the nose. These mistakes are ridiculous.
Just found out that 2 close friends of ours had the pfeizer vaccine last saturday. Both early 30's and healthy. They have a dog walking business and one of their customers works at the local health centre. She asked if our friend would like the jab, he asked if his wife could have it also. Apparantly they were throwing hundreds of doses away due to them only having 5 days left of use. I am absolutely shocked! Glad that they spawned it but find it incredible they were throwing hundreds of doses away whilst not even contacting local, vulnerable people to offer them it. Turns out, its who you know, not a particular order of age or vulnerability!
That sounds like a total cock up. The way the Pfizer jabs are transported in deep freeze means they come in batches of 975. If a single site offering the jab doesn’t have enough priority patients for 975 jabs some will go to waste or be ‘reprioritised’, but more likely such centres won’t get any Pfizer jabs to give which is why small care homes are being ignored quite frequently. I suppose in this instance they must have had loads of priority patients who didn’t turn up, so went down the friends and family route not to waste them. Heard a horrible story this morning. A small care home, which had gone to heroic lengths to stay completely COVID free to date, was having its staff and patients vaccinated. A couple of days later one of the staff tested positive (before vaccine had a chance to kick in) and they are pretty sure it was contracted during the vaccination process. Now waiting and hoping that the residents are all ok. Great excitement at Casa Stan this morning when a formal looking NHS letter arrived, causing speculation that I might somehow be included in a higher priority group than I thought. But no, it was a letter reminding me that I was eligible for a flu vaccine jab. Which I actually had 6 weeks ago. Apparently Stephen Powis, National Medical Director, hasn’t been told by my GP practice that I have been through the process already.
Continuing on the horrible story front.... Our local Tesco had an outbreak, and two members of staff have now died https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk...ck-tesco-workers-die-contracting-coronavirus/ There's stories floating about locally that the anti-Covid measures being used by the store were almost non-existant, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Apparently some members of staff were off self-isolating prior to the outbreak, including some of the management staff, and because the staffing levels were so low were coerced into returning to work before the end of their isolation period. If this can be proved, I'd imagine that some form of legal process could be started against the store... I drove past the shop yesterday and the car park was almost deserted, so this story will hit them hard.
I had a not too dissimilar experience. I had the flu vaccine early November from the nurse at my GP practice. Two weeks after having the vaccine, I got a phone call from the practice reception inviting me in for my annual flu vaccination. When I explained that I had already had the vaccination this year, she was insistent that I had not, until I gave the exact date and time, she wouldn't back down. Makes you wonder what the receptionist is doing all day as there are only a handful of patients allowed into the surgery. If they can't update records two weeks later what hope is there that they can accurately pass patient details for the Covid-19 vaccine roll out!
I had my flu jab at my pharmacy in late September and got a text from my doctor at the beginning of December inviting me to book my jab appointment. Joined up thinking is clearly in short supply. Let's hope they get some 24 hour drive-in centres up and running, I don't have a lot of faith in the organisation of this...
Well I'd love to know what's going on in West Sussex. My parents are 94 and 83 respectively and neither has been contacted yet to let them know they are going to be vaccinated soon. As the media is reporting that they are now beginning to roll it out to the 80 year olds I find that rather odd. Anybody live in that part of the world. They live in Midhurst which is about 20 miles from Chichester.
Have you got their GP practice number? I’d give them a call, and be prepared to wait a bit, to see what’s going on, because they certainly should have been contacted.
Good to hear from you and that you are managing to keep your chin up through some very difficult moments.
I live five miles from Midhurst. I know surgeries around here were contacting ninetysomethings about a month ago, so your older parent should definitely have heard before now.
BREAKING COVID-19: One of two Brazilian coronavirus variants detected in UK, says virologist. What were we discussing about borders?
There we go again, horse has already bolted whilst we hammer shut the stable door. Borders should have been closed off months ago
That's exactly what has happened in the care home where my mother is.......They have been COVID free the whole time due to incredible work by the staff and preempting any guidance by stopping visits two weeks prior to being told to do so.......they all had their jabs on Thursday last week and on Sunday I received a text from the head nurse saying that 2 staff members had tested positive....... The good news is that all residents have tested negative this week..... Just to give you some idea of how rampant the virus is here, in our electoral area of circa 22300 in the 14 days from 29th Dec to 11th Jan we had 695 positive cases giving an incidence rate of 3100 per 100k........the overall incidence rate for our county is 1400 per 100K....... Stay safe all
I heard cases have plataeued as well. Lets hope we have learned by previous mistakes?.... Actually hold that thought.
So why is this happening. You do not state if the vaccinators have also tested positive ( trace and trace...should make that easy peasy) Is it the certain bits of the equipment? It cannot be the vaccine as then all people who received that batch will have gone down...and we would certainly heard about it. That should easily be followed with trace and trace...do you know Stan?
