Vaccination priority groups

[candleflame]

It is very much dependent on where you live I think. . My OH is early 70’s , but our docs have said they are now getting ready to vaccinate 75 to 79 next, subject to getting vaccine supplies , so he’ll be. a While getting it . They let us know on their Facebook posts stating where they are at and how many phone calls have been made into the surgeries in the previous week. For our surgery it’s usually 1900 calls a week.
I’m group 7 and not retired so I’m not expecting mine for quite a while.

[Rishile]

My husband is 80 years old and has a heart condition.  He received his letter yesterday and will have his first dose on Monday and the second dose in April.  I am much younger at 59 so expect it will be a long time yet before I get the first dose.  I doubt I will receive the second dose until at least August.

One thing I don't understand - what is the benefit of teachers moving up the priority list?  If children go back to school they can still spread it to families and the elderly.

Rishile

[PaulineJ]

Because teachers can't avoid relatively large numbers of contacts.

[BushInn1746]

They let us know on their Facebook posts stating where they are at and how many phone calls have been made into the surgeries in the previous week. For our surgery it’s usually 1900 calls a week.

People in our area are being urged not to call their GP Surgery regarding when their vaccine might be (date currently unknown), due to blocking telephone lines and preventing the making of Appointments for currently ill patients, some, which after a Doctor's Appointment are found to have very serious or currently life threatening conditions.

Mark

[Liam59]

Good afternoon,

I realise that for many people, vaccinating the elderly is a priority. However, I feel that perhaps the order of play is the wrong way around.

Surely the best thing for getting the country back on it's feet and industry  up and running fully would be the opposite. So all the younger age groups (under 60 say) who make up the largest proportion of the workforce should be first. Along with the keyworkers who are not in those younger age groups.

John915

Except most hospital and ICU beds are taken up by the elderly.
So even if you vaccinated the younger age groups and sent them back to work, the hospitals would still be struggling to cope.
Giving the elderly priority in vaccination is more to do with keeping them out of hospital than anything else

I think perhaps the thought is if health workers, and some other key workers, be vaccinated, there will be less of them off work poorly and so more of them able to remain in work to staff hospitals and other essential services.  I have read that the Moderna vaccine is likely to start deliveries from the Spring so they will help.

[LizzieL]

Aren't the health care and care home staff in the first priority group anyway.

[familydar]

My understanding is that vaccination won't exempt you from the need to self-isolate if you're contacted or pinged by nhs test and trace. Schools could still have half their staff off and kids sent home.

[Skoosh]

Care home residents, staff & outside care-workers were Scotland's priority. more or less completed!

Skoosh.

[ReadyDale]

Aren't the health care and care home staff in the first priority group anyway.

First and second:
1. Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
2. 80-year-olds and over and frontline health and social care workers