Labour to deny six million pensioners Covid jabs this winter

Sly Saint

Sly Saint

Senior Member (Voting Rights)
The Government is to deny six million pensioners Covid jabs this winter.

The rollout will be restricted to only the most vulnerable groups, and the vaccines will not be offered to NHS and care workers.

Only people over the age of 75, those living in care homes and others who are immunosuppressed will be eligible for free vaccines.
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Labour to deny six million pensioners Covid jabs this winter

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This is not a recent decision but current ongoing policy.

I have been wondering as someone aged 67 whether on not I should be seeking out a private booster from the start of this year at least.

I recognise that I am probably not more at risk of catching Covid 19 than anyone else my age, indeed probably less because I see so few people, however I do feel that the risk of a significant deterioration in my ME/CFS should I catch it is something that government s should take into account.
 
There is some other weird thing going on in the UK with regards the shingles vaccination making some people only eligible over 70 but others over 65 or something(?)
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Shingles vaccine​

A shingles vaccine is available on the NHS for:
  • people who turned 65 on or after 1 September 2023
  • people aged 70 to 79 who have not yet been vaccinated
  • people aged 50 and over with a severely weakened immune system
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If I didn’t have such bad reactions to the vaccine I’d be seeking how to get it. As I am trying with the flu vaccine.

It does seem a little nuts that people who want to get vaccinated can’t get. I suppose one argument is they had huge piles going to waste because the public chose to stop having them when there was wider availability.

JCVI do not seem to have used this in their modelling but they did base cost effectiveness on things like hospitalisation. Which of course excludes the various costs for those of us whose health deteriorates as @Peter T outlines and is narrower than the modelling they previously used

For the development of advice relating to COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2025, JCVI has resumed the use of a standard cost-effectiveness assessment
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See the section “Background on JCVI methodology” here for more detail
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JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026

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I'm having the pneumonia vaccine today (first time, and also never had flu jab, only had one covid booster ages ago). From what I understand the pneumonia one also gives some 'protection' against meningitis and sepsis.
 
Sly Saint said:
There is some other weird thing going on in the UK with regards the shingles vaccination making some people only eligible over 70 but others over 65 or something(?)
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Even the GP practices seem to have trouble understanding this. When I was sixty six I asked for shingles vaccine as I had had my 65th birthday after the specified date and was told I was not eligible. However two months later I was invited by my GP to come in for the vaccination.

I have been lucky that I only seem to have short term effects from the various vaccinations I have had since the start of the pandemic. I had stopped having flu jabs some twenty five years ago, because they previously knocked me out for two or three weeks, but now I am fine with flue jabs which I resumed having in 2020.
 
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