Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

What makes me upset is the elective surgeries being cancelled again b/c of the influx of Covid pts (mostly unvaccinated) filling up hospitals. The backlog was way behind even before this 4th wave.

I watched an interview with an elderly man who has been living in pain b/c his second hip replacement surgery has been postponed (again) until April.

 

They are estimating that there have been 780,000 surgeries postponed here in Canada so far since the Pandemic was called. I heard an interview with a doctor from I think it was Saskatchewan who was upset because they are allowing the unvaccinated covid patients to pretty much take over the hospitals while denying access to heart and cancer patients. Between August and December of 2020 alone, they estimate that approximately 4,000 people died in Canada unnecessarily because of this.

 

i thought, initially the omicron variant could *not* be detected with regular flow/pcr tests ?

there had to be changes with the tests, to distinguish the omicron from the "regular" covid variants.

is it possible, that there are now such rocketing infection numbers, just because it can be detected all of a sudden? while it has been around for ages already ? and therefore is spread all over the place...

no... no... we wouldnt be that stupid

 

yes, one couldnt make this stuff up...

0,5% or so of all covid infected people would notice any symptoms at all.

but i understand, nobody cares about this.

 

just to say it...

A) DIVI, the german society of medicals in intensive care, REFUSED to comply with a mandatory vaccination.
meantime, the tune changed somewhat..

you understand, that doctors from intensive care didnt want to be vaccinated?

B) there are mandatory testings at the workplace. at least in some companies staff with exposure to customers has to be tested at the plant.
the FIRST to REFUSE this procedure were the medicals/doctors offices. too much effort, too much to write and document, they said.

 

I am thoroughly confused about the booster roll-out.

I was put in Group 6 back at the start of the year and had my second dose in early May. I only got a text about booking my booster last Friday—7 months after my second dose.

Have they got rid of the groups now and are just rolling out the booster in age order?

 

Does anyone know if there's any other route to getting a home booster vaccine in the UK other than your GP? There seems to be no mechanism to book one on the main NHS site. I had both of the first two vaccines at home, courtesy of the GP's surgery, but they have greatly reduced capacity to offer this service for the boosters.

 

I'm not certain, but I suspect not. I think everything goes through GP clinics, except pop-up and walk-in centres.

 

You could contact the ME Association to see if they have heard of any other alternative.

 

Thank you @InitialConditions and @Trish

My GP's surgery say they are currently fully booked for making home visits to deliver boosters but will keep me in mind and get back in touch if they find themselves able to do more.

It's a good idea to contact the ME Association. I have posted a message as a response to other comments about this on the MEA Facebook page. It would be good if the ME Association can highlight this problem @Russell Fleming

 

That could be the case. My husband's PCR test came back positive for Covid after 5 days. Normal turnaround here is 2. We have one of the major testing labs close to us. We have been told that it can detect if Covid but not if it is the new variant. It could take 2 weeks for them to run the test and even if they have the result we may never know. They are not under any obligation to tell us.

Noted that in the report about Victoria Derbyshire's brother he received a text message 2 days after his positive PCR so things could be improving or very regional.
Saw a quote from the Zoe Project that the South of England and London were worse then the North.

 

You could also look on your local CNCC groups website and see if there is more information there or if they have a dedicated local area Covid helpline (not the same as the 119 number). Ours did and they really did try to help.

 

Thank you @ukxmrv . I didn't know about the CNCC group websites. I will take a look.

 

Apologies @ukxmrv . My brain is always slow. Did you mean CCG when you said CNCC groups? Or is there another organisation I should be looking at?

 

Absolutely right. My apologies

 

Many thanks @ukxmrv

 

From talking with a friend who lives in Oxfordshire, because the Omicron variant is doubling every two days in the UK, it sounds like the gov't is in panic mode now trying to get everyone to get their booster shots.