Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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He’s not even right on the 4 million dose figure.

NHS staff are having to receive significant online training before they can administer the vaccine. The hospitals are already busy as it is and in North London they have been calling nurses to try and get them to work extra shifts just to help manage the Covid influx, never mind administering vaccinations.

Where are these thousands of NHS staff ready to go administering vaccines ?
Why?
It's an injection ffs - not a heart transplant
I can go to my local chemist shop and have the very similar flu injection
 
Why?
It's an injection ffs - not a heart transplant
I can go to my local chemist shop and have the very similar flu injection
I guess some form of training is still needed. Your chemist probably needed training on how to administer the flu jab.

there are reports here of some staff here in Germany who got the dosages wrong and gave some people 5 doses at once lol
 
I guess some form of training is still needed. Your chemist probably needed training on how to administer the flu jab.

there are reports here of some staff here in Germany who got the dosages wrong and gave some people 5 doses at once lol
I suspect you'll need to be first aid trained in case of a reaction up to and including anaphylaxis. Most blue light workers could do it if asked.
 
I would, but I’m already a key worker.

I assume you know I wasn’t actually telling you to go and volunteer, rather pointing out it’s easy to say others should just roll up their sleeves and get on with it.

Many nurses are already overworked in a normal winter. My mrs had to look after 20 patients on her own a few Christmases ago.

These people aren’t robots. It’s disrespectful to just say that’s what they “signed up for”. They didn’t.
 
Why?
It's an injection ffs - not a heart transplant
I can go to my local chemist shop and have the very similar flu injectit'sit's exactly the same as the flu. You will sit for 5 mins, and pharmacist will have the Epi pen at the ready.


It's exactly the same as flu. Anaphylactic shock although serious is very rare, no vaccine would be allowed to be community based if there were real concerns.

The reality is the procurement and logistics of vaccine.
 
Why?
It's an injection ffs - not a heart transplant
I can go to my local chemist shop and have the very similar flu injection
In the trust I work in it’s not so much learning how to actually give an injection safely, that takes 2 mins. It’s as people have said learning about the most common side effects of the vaccine, what’s actually in the vaccine, learning about what types of medications may interact with the vaccine etc. Just preparing any staff giving it to be able to answer any question they may get from the person receiving it and then how to deal with any adverse effects post injection.
 
I assume you know I wasn’t actually telling you to go and volunteer, rather pointing out it’s easy to say others should just roll up their sleeves and get on with it.

Many nurses are already overworked in a normal winter. My mrs had to look after 20 patients on her own a few Christmases ago.

These people aren’t robots. It’s disrespectful to just say that’s what they “signed up for”. They didn’t.
Sorry if you feel it's disrespectful, especially towards your wife, as it certainly was meant to be. Nor am I implying they're robots and ignoring the impact it'll have.

Nevertheless, certain roles come with responsibilities either wanted or unwanted and part of that is the commitment to the service we're part of.

It's a terrible time: lots of exhausted people undertaking stressful situations. Yet, there's a chance to break the back of this thing, so that must come first.
 

It's exactly the same as flu. Anaphylactic shock although serious is very rare, no vaccine would be allowed to be community based if there were real concerns.

The reality is the procurement and logistics of vaccine.
All the major chemist chains have a distribution system already in place.
KISS
 
I assume you know I wasn’t actually telling you to go and volunteer, rather pointing out it’s easy to say others should just roll up their sleeves and get on with it.

Many nurses are already overworked in a normal winter. My mrs had to look after 20 patients on her own a few Christmases ago.

These people aren’t robots. It’s disrespectful to just say that’s what they “signed up for”. They didn’t.


You won't find a Quality Care Commission report in the preceding years, warning of clinical staff shortages, in NHS and Social Care.
 
Sorry if you feel it's disrespectful, especially towards your wife, as it certainly was meant to be. Nor am I implying they're robots and ignoring the impact it'll have.

Nevertheless, certain roles come with responsibilities either wanted or unwanted and part of that is the commitment to the service we're part of.

It's a terrible time: lots of exhausted people undertaking stressful situations. Yet, there's a chance to break the back of this thing, so that must come first.

No offence taken, just my two pence.

Not all nurses are the same, she for example has spent her “annual leave” this week revising for a masters exam she’s got coming up. I suggested she stop being lazy and get back doing vaccinations.

Her response isn’t suitable for a public forum lol
 
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