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  • CostumedVoleCostumedVole Posts: 257
    Well, I don't know that you could risk that... Your GP might get there first, I guess. However, if I am anything to go by, it's not 6 months and a week before you can book, even if it's only short by 2 days.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    OH was able book booster on line, 6 months and three days after second jab. Didn’t get a text telling him he could book until the following morning. 
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Do they class a month as a complete month or 4 weeks? Eg. 6 months and 1 week after 1st of June  would be 8th of December or 23rd of November. 
    West Yorkshire
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Six months and five days for both of us as well. I had to flit between the eight nearest venues to find dates that suited both of us.
    Rutland, England
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    On the basis that six months is half a year or 26 weeks, six months and one week is 27 weeks x7 = 189 days, not 190.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2021
    But with medication, as well as many other things, calculations are based on an average. Don’t think Julius Caesar or Pope Gregory took such things into account 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    No, but they'd go private, choose their own appointments!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Maybe @punkdoc could clarify.   People seem to think that after 6 months... that’s it, no protection, we’re going to catch it if we go out the next day.
    a couple of weeks won’t make any difference,   It only starts to diminish,  not suddenly be ineffective. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree @Lyn. 

    At 6 months vaccines are still 70-80% effective and will continue to offer protection for a considerable time afterwards.
    Of course nobody knows what will happen over a very long period, which when known, will determine how often we need boosters.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Absolutely @Lyn, the antibody levels don't just suddenly fall off a cliff. With no further stimulus,  the levels drop, but there are also memory cells that carry the information to make sure that new antibodies can be made very quickly if re-exposed to the virus.  The  Medics have seen cases where, vaccinated  people have become reinfected but its usually very mild, and they recover quickly unless there are other complications.  In a nutshell the virus and our immune system is in a battle for supremacy,  luckily we  win more than we lose. 
    AB Still learning

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