Thread: Got the jab today.

Right. Better safe than sorry.

I heard on the ABC that Australia has 5 cases of bloodclots out of 750,000 Astra Zenica injections delivered so far, A very small percentage and less then the number of cases in a precovid period of airline flights.

Those who would prefer to wait for the pfizer injection may have to wait a long time as the EU has just signed contracts with the main manufacturing facility for 1,6 billion new doses and has extended the export ban from the EU.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

I heard on the ABC that Australia has 5 cases of bloodclots out of 750,000 Astra Zenica injections delivered so far, .

i.e. you're probably more likely to be involved in a traffic accident on the way to GET your AstraZeneca jab. Bring it on - I'll have mine just as soon as I can get it.

....and I did. This Tuesday just gone. Easy to get an appointment (I'm in the "anyone over 50" category). I'm starting think they have more AstraZeneca vaccine than arms to put it into, certainly no vaccine shortages here.

Did get a minor reaction the night after the jab - a bit of the shivers and slight fever for a few hours - but nothing objectionable. Roll on jab #2 in 12 weeks !

I had my jab a couple of weeks ago but today SWMBO decided to get hers and wantsed me to drive her in case she has a problem. OK no worries.

She wants to go the clinic at the show ground which is supposedly open all day and according to the GP no appointment s needed.

Arrive 11:45am, sign on door says open 8:30 am to 3:30pm but there's no one around.

Just about to go, and a young woman arrives and says clinic will open at 1pm.

More and more people turn up, eventually a queue about 50 people long has formed.

At 1pm a couple security type people come out and divide the queue into two, "appointments" and "no appointments"

By now about 70 people waiting.

At 1:30 they let everyone in more or less at the same time.
I'm sitting in the car in the car park.

At 2pm SWMBO messages me to say her nurse's tablet is not working and has gone to get another
And so it goes.

Finally SWMBO gets out at 2:45 pm

Lucky there's not a pandemic on.

Got mine today as did SWMBO. Some months ago we booked for our flu shot and they said “do you want to book in for the Covid jab at the same time?”
They rang us last week to come in today. Appointment made for next jab in August.

Went to the doctor yesterday for prescriptions. Older people were coming in every 15 minutes for flue shots, took 1 minute each. Nurse twiddling thumbs in between.

Waited at doc for over an hour past appointment time.... so I ask, "can I get the covid shot here". No. (W.T.F??)

Tops.

Eligible for the first shot as of Monday. Tried the government site here (Canberra) to book. It's broken. Obviously DDOS'd by Concerned Citizens.

Tops.

Tried today (Thursday) to use Service Finder to find one in my region... none for 14 days.

Tops.

Then thought the HotDoc program of GP's... Book Your Doctor Online - HotDoc .... none for 14 days.... But there's ONE opening in Phillip in TWO DAYS... go to book... nope... second shot only...

Tops.

OK... this is wearing thin.... checked the Local Gov tool ... MyDHR is inaccessible from this location | Health and so I go to register... put in fname, sname, DOB and medicare info... breaks. Try again... "No record found"... ok.... try again with a reformatted number .... "No Match Found"..... UUUGGGHHHHH!!!!

Tops.


Here I sit willing to do my duty for the crown and I read this... Coronavirus - ABC News about "hessitency"... "fear"... or "1.5 million doses sitting unused" .... and "30% of available doses un-administered".

HOGWASH would be a kind way of putting the thoughts in my mind. Balderdash? Nay on the Pub Test passings?



So, my fellow Australians. Is this government incompetence or some malicious program akin to Trumpism directed from the offices of Mr Morrison and his religious loonies?
It seems ... well...

Gotta love Govt websites. When I was applying for the Seniors card it wouldn’t submit, kept saying “correct error “ or something along this line.
Turned out to be my entry for Medicare data. My name had to be entered all in capitals for the website to accept it.

re the Covid shot - we had our health minister Hunt saying yesterday, during a general conversation that if you didn’t want to get the Astra Zeneca shot, wait until later in the year until Pfizer and Moderna arrive! ?

My GP only gets enough vaccines to vaccinate 10 a day - they have been trying to get more as they would be able to do 30 per day.

Originally Posted by Lappa

Got mine today as did SWMBO. Some months ago we booked for our flu shot and they said “do you want to book in for the Covid jab at the same time?”
They rang us last week to come in today. Appointment made for next jab in August.

Our GP is not recommending they be injected same time. He said that is so if you have an adverse reaction they want to know what is causing it. He recommends at least 2 weeks apart. This doesn't means that in the future they will not be delivered in the same shot.

I have no reaction to the Covid shot until about 2 weeks after wards when my arm started to feel sore around the injection site. I'm having my flu shot next week.

They didn’t do the vaccinations at the same time, they just booked us in at the same time but for different dates. There must be a minimum of two weeks between the flu and COVID shots. We had a month between shots.
They were very strict on that point. It was in the paper work we signed, asked by the doctor who talked us through the vaccination as well as the nurse who actually gave us the shot.
Sorry if there was any confusion.

She who must be obeyed got her first jab today, I get mine next week.

Originally Posted by Lappa

It was in the paper work we signed, asked by the doctor who talked us through the vaccination as well as the nurse who actually gave us the shot.

What was the paper work to be signed?

Was it to absolve the doctor of any damage caused by the jab?

No, not to absolve damage. More about your medical history ie. any history of thrombosis , anaphylaxis etc., if you were taking certain drugs eg. blood thinners etc etc., if you had had a flu shot, had it been at least two weeks ago.

Originally Posted by Lappa

No, not to absolve damage. More about your medical history ie. any history of thrombosis , anaphylaxis etc., if you were taking certain drugs eg. blood thinners etc etc., if you had had a flu shot, had it been at least two weeks ago.

That's what my GP checked as well. Although he had my medical history in front of him including my thrombosis he didn't say anything about it so I then brought it up and he sad the Astra Zeneca shot related clots are unrelated to most other thromboses.