Covid - news and views

Bit worrying seeing that the vaccines may not be effective on the new variant from India.

Hope we don't have to start from scratch.

Pause over.  Back to jabbing tomorrow.  45's to 50's beware .

 

It's pretty certain we will need an "upgrade", probably in the autumn.  Tiz said the Indian variant can survive a Phaal curry so it must be robust .  

What I want to know is whether you are taught to aspirate the needle before finally giving the injection? I appreciate the Green Book says not but there is a theory that a possible cause of blood clots is because the injection may have been put into a vein rather than muscle. Apparently if you aspirate the needle it will draw back blood if you are in the wrong place. Be interesting to know what the procedure is.

David

Our Doc’s practice uses only the trained professionals due to some queries & concerns from patients. It surprised me when I read the posted announcement. It was something to do with enough training & professionalism. I thought it was just a-‘push it in & hit the plunger’, apparently not as attested by your question DK🤷🏻‍♂️

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Not  sure what happens within the various authorities re giving injections, but my daughter is an experienced practice nurse with years of experience, especially giving vaccinations as she works in the sick bay at a millitary establishment, She volunteered to be part of the vax team at a local hospital, but she had to go for a couple of hours training before being let loose with the needle despite all her exerience, some of the training was also administrative so that the correct information could be entered on the data base, just as important as the vaccine itself if in the future we have to have some sort of vaccine passport.

 

I’m thinking it could also be down to-if certain practices are risk averse or their insurers are. If something goes wrong & it’s proved the injector is not a medical professional what(if anything) would change re being sued for negligence🤷🏻‍♂️. It’s a thought for sure.

It might depend on where you live in terms of who is actually administering the vaccine. It’s required a huge team of vaccers, and I know some vets have been involved alongside human medics. 

Got my second jab booked in now. Since the Government saw sense  just before Christmas, and left things more to the true professionals to run and organise things, mainly the vaccination programme and science led decisions, things appear to have been much better. I cannot fault in anyway the vaccination programme, certainly here in South Yorkshire where we live, a truly amazing feat is happening to organise, check and deliver vaccines to our region. Mine will be almost a month early on from my first vaccination, and there have been six Jab centres, none more than four miles away. Seems to be carried out mainly by local GP centres getting together and doing the administration.👏👏👏👏

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