2nd Booster

[Gadget]

Yes, Lizzie. I've been watching it creeping up again - today's cases are 24K more that last Wednesday

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom

and deaths, cases admitted to hospital and tests are all up.

I have noticed that mask wearing is decreasing.

[Viktoria]

Hopefully what has been stated will make people wear masks and behave sensibly ,so many of us felt it was too soon to relax.

Very pleased for those in special categories who have had their booster .
Viktoria.

[mazi]

Masks have almost ceased to exist here in the rural marches, young and old alike, even the local farm shop has given up.

Seems you have to wait for your GP or hospital consultant to invite you, I have no change since our surgery website was last updated last July.

Those of us who can remember the raging inflation of the seventies might be more worried about that than catching COVID.

Mike

[wyndham]

I spoke to my local pharmacist a couple of days ago and he had heard absolutely nothing although he is administering first, second and booster injections currently.

[roopat]

My husband aged 75 with some health issues (but was not on the original vulnerable list) received an NHS letter inviting him to get his 2nd  booster. He did a walk-in (no appointment needed apparently) at a nearby 'cottage hospital' last Friday afternoon, was the only one there, job done. They suggested Moderna as his other 3 were Pfizer & they said a different one could provide added protection. No after-effects.


Pat

[LizzieL]

I hope all vulnerable people get their 2nd booster soon. Inevitably since all legal restrictions were removed, cases, hospitalisations and deaths are on the rise again.
Today on government website
cases: up 46.4% on a week ago
hospitalisations: up 12.2% on a week ago
deaths: up 19.5% on a week ago

tests conducted in last 7 days under 4.5 million.

source
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

today 10 March
cases up 52.9% on a week ago (371,622 cases in 7 days - i.e over 50,000 per day)
hospitalisations up 17.3% (9,328 in 7 days - over 1,300 per day)
deaths up 0.8% (7 day total 726 people)

[Gadget]

I checked the figures a while ago, Lizzie. I wish that they might bring the 2nd booster forward but was told that we fit 75 and overs have to wait until the Govt announce the start of Spring!

I shall continue wearing an FFP2/N95 mask in public indoor spaces for the foreseeable future.

Though, this is nothing compared with those poor poor people in Ukraine 

[PaulineJ]

My in-laws  85+, West Yorkshire have been given a date for it.

Soon, certainly.  Didnt see them this week due to a cold.

[Viktoria]

Ooo! I am 85 in a couple of months ,hope I get my second booster soon.

But as has been said and was predicted ,COVID will seem  as nothing by comparison with Putin’s atrocious acts.

I don’t minimise the grief of people who have lost loved ones to COVID .

What a lot Boris has had to deal with ,he needs all the support he can get.
Relative trivialities must wait ,there are more important ,more urgent things to sort out.
Viktoria.