If it is of any help to anyone my OH ( 80 yrs old ) had his first vaccine - A.zeneca - 24 hours ago and the only discomfort he has felt so far is an ache at the injection site. He describes it as if someone had thumped him there which was one of the possible side effects the accompanying leaflet mentioned. Hope those of you having the vaccine don't suffer anything more than the above
I did say a while ago that most people only get this sore arm some of the younger (under 50) folk have experienced flu like symptoms but these only last a day/ night.
I have just been reading about vaccine reactions on the BBC website. Surveying 40,000 who were among the first in the UK to be vaccinated, about 1 in 3 had an ache in the arm and 1 in 7 had a headache or achy shivers that lasted a day or two. After two doses the proportions rose to nearly 1 in 2 and 1 in 5.
The two nearest vaccination centres to us are managing about 50 jabs a day and have no slots left for this month. March at the earliest then, assuming supplies improve.......
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I have just been reading about vaccine reactions on the BBC website. Surveying 40,000 who were among the first in the UK to be vaccinated, about 1 in 3 had an ache in the arm and 1 in 7 had a headache or achy shivers that lasted a day or two. After two doses the proportions rose to nearly 1 in 2 and 1 in 5.
These are pretty much the symptoms you would get with the flu vaccine so nothing that untoward. If there are any major reactions I think you would see them after over 10 million vaccinations!
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OH actually had another invite for a jab at the mass vacinnation center I went to, not sure why we've both been targeted twice but we're not complaining. Better than being missed out.
The system isn't foolproof. I got the phone call from our GP surgery, but my husband who has copd didn't. I mentioned it and they sorted him with an appointment at the same time as mine. I wonder if they called me by mistake. Anyway, we both had our jabs today.
@Lizzie27 Like the rest of the EU, France has limited quantities of vaccine available to distribute because of late ordering. They also have a lot of bureaucracy governing any vaccine programme and that seems to be slowing things down but the main problem is lack of supply.
As elsewhere, priority is the elderly and those in homes and the vulnerable but France has also decided the Astra Zeneca jab is not suitable for the 65+ which further limits supplies to that group. Macron insists that anyone who wants the vaccine will have it by the end of summer. We'll see.
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If there are any major reactions I think you would see them after over 10 million vaccinations!
OH actually had another invite for a jab at the mass vacinnation center I went to, not sure why we've both been targeted twice but we're not complaining. Better than being missed out.
As elsewhere, priority is the elderly and those in homes and the vulnerable but France has also decided the Astra Zeneca jab is not suitable for the 65+ which further limits supplies to that group. Macron insists that anyone who wants the vaccine will have it by the end of summer. We'll see.