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Get your flu vaccination

punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
edited September 2022 in The potting shed
Flu vaccines are starting to become available this month, so if you are entitled to one, I would strongly recommend you get it.
The combination of flu / COVID this winter could cause very severe problems.
How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team

S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    If you can’t get to see a doctor our pharmacy, like many others, starts vaccinations on 12 September 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I had one about 3 months ago. Is this a different one?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    You probably had a COVID vaccine, this is common flu. I doubt this years vaccines would have been available 3 months ago.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No it was definitely a flu vaccination. Got it in the chemists. Had the Covid one before that. It must have been the one for last year. - I probably had it twice . Oh well, no harm done😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We're both booked in at our local Boots pharmacy in a couple of weeks' time. 😇

    You can do it online. Very simple.  

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





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'm off to see the practice nurse for some blood tests in a bit so I'll ask when they're expecting to get to the 50-65 age group. Last year I think it was mid-late October, the year before it was November. I want to find out if there'll be a COVID booster available as well.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    COVID boosters will become available to the over 50's sometime in late autumn.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    In France you can't get a flu vaccine before October.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I asked the practice nurse - she says they're expecting the flu vaccines to be delivered anytime now but there could be delays, and they'll start inviting people (oldest/most vulnerable first of course) as soon as the first batch is delivered. She thinks it'll probably be mid-October for my age group, and she said that they're planning to give the COVID booster at the same time - one in each arm. That'll be a couple of sleepless nights to look forward to :s.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Hello Punkdoc, how are you,long time! Got SMS from local pharma,who said they will be contacting me soon
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