JVT did cover this recently, and said there was no evidence that teachers had a higher risk of getting the disease than anybody else, which seemed surprising to me, but he is the font of all knowledge.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I heard for the first time recently that covid 19 is a vascular illness and that the disease puts you at higher risk of clots. I am positive currently with no symptoms to speak of and believe I had it in March 20 when I was quite ill (for me) having every symptom bar hospitalisation or worse. You couldn't get tests then of course unless you went to hospital as an emergency. More frustrated than anything but feel there's no socially acceptable option than to isolate. At least I am getting paid and can work from home. Good luck to anyone else in the same boat. Won't stop me gardening tomorrow.
I work in a school and I believe we are at no more risk than a bus driver or shop worker. That said to get the economy working people need kids in school so I think this is the most compelling reason to vaccinate education staff. Ironically on the day I got my positive covid test result I got a text offering the vaccination 😂 (based on age btw).
I have been teaching all year at a primary school, in person four days a week (Friday is teaching online and prep). In our district, which has been in red high transmission most of the year, there is no direct link to any staff member getting Covid at school. Plenty have had Covid, and it's either been traced to a contact outside of school or unknown (eg, no known exposure in or out of school to a positive case). I'm sure it happened, but it there is no evidence to prove it. We only have one case of in-school transmission as well, out of the hundreds of positive cases that potentially were at school when they were transmissible (for our district, 48 hours prior to a positive diagnosis). Lots of sanitization, mandatory enforced mask wearing (MUCH less enforced now), and as much space as we can get between students. Our secondary school shut down twice due to high Covid numbers (15 cases of students in school 48 hours prior to a positive test over a two week period).. but none of the primary schools did.
I am shocked, still. I expected horrible death for our older staff members, and huge outbreaks at every school. I teach at two schools and am exposed to over 350 students each week for 45 minutes at a time. But I was fine.. and my teacher husband and my two boys were fine.. and I am four weeks past my second vaccine shot now, so feel such a huge relief. Now it's just a wait until our boys can get theirs.
Our teachers have certainly been impacted, some with long term symptoms. But of the ones I know personally and who work at my two schools, every single one of them got Covid from someone in their extended family. I am not blaming them - just pointing out it wasn't from school.
We don’t seem to be hearing anything about the Pfizer vaccine, especially with this EU debacle, hope those who had that first will get the 2nd. It’s much more expensive so I suppose they’d rather favour the AZ.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I don't think it's a case of teachers being more at risk than anyone else. The problem is that if teachers get it then quite often sections of the school have to close which means essential workers can't get their children looked after. At one point every single member of the Senior Leadership Team bar one was off with Covid or Isolating at my SIL school. It meant that lots of children had to stay at home. My friends daughter had an extra two weeks out of school for the same reasons.
Does it matter what you get for the second shot? Over the years I will have had several courses of Tetanus vaccine. I have no doubt that they will often be by different manufacturers.If I go in for a booster, I don't check on the brand. Same with flu vaccines. Different manufacturers, slight differences. If the two types work by slightly different action, would one of each be better? No idea really, but mum gets her second one tomorrow.
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And why Denmark is still not using the AZ vaccine.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
More frustrated than anything but feel there's no socially acceptable option than to isolate. At least I am getting paid and can work from home.
Good luck to anyone else in the same boat.
Won't stop me gardening tomorrow.
He had the Astra Zenica one 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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