Sat Dec 12, 2020 7:56 pm
GP surgeries to start Covid-19 vaccinations from Tuesday
Those who are considered highest priority will begin to be contacted by their GP surgeries next week.
The mass inoculation programme will be rolled out from Tuesday, BirminghamLive reports.
People are being urged not to call their surgery or turn up, but to wait to be contacted first.
The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Professor Martin Marshall, told Sky News: "You'll receive an invitation if you're in that priority group.
"Please don't call up the surgery to get a vaccine or turn up, wait to be called."
The group which will receive invites from surgeries first will be over 80s, Prof Martin told the news website and TV news channel on Saturday.
Patients will be given appointment times and turn up as they would for any other issue, checking in at the front desk and being met by staff wearing PPE.
People will be required to wait in the surgery for 15 minutes after the vaccine is administered, Prof Martin also revealed in his interview.
Prof Martin said some wiggle room will allow clinically vulnerable to be prioritised in the first age group, such as those of certain ethnicities, or with certain underlying health issues.
Sat Dec 12, 2020 7:59 pm
The group which will receive invites from surgeries first will be over 80s
Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:35 pm
dutchman wrote:The group which will receive invites from surgeries first will be over 80s
Question: If you were planning a mass euthenasia program for everyone over 80, how would you go about it?
Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:31 am
Alaska healthcare worker with no history of drug allergies suffered serious 'anaphylactic-like' reaction after getting Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine
An Alaska healthcare worker suffered a serious allergic reaction within 10 minutes of receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday.
At a news conference on Wednesday, officials said the woman, who remains unarmed, started flushing and experiencing other signs of an allergic reaction after getting the jab at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau.
She was hospitalized and remains stable in the ICU with expectations to be discharged later today.
The woman has no history of allergies, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
The allergic reaction is believed to be similar to the anaphylactic-like reactions suffered by two healthcare workers in Great Britain, both whom have since recovered, after they were given the Pfizer-BioNTech SE vaccine last week.
With hundreds of thousands of Americans expected to be dosed in the U.S. over the next few weeks, health officials will be on high alert to see if any other recipients experience severe reactions.
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