I would like to see how our vaccination status has changed in the past month since this poll: July COVID vaccination poll
August COVID vaccination poll
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Just got my second dose of Pfizer, a few days ago.
No change from last time - I'm still double-vaccinated, as is Helly 
It would be quite nice if it turns out some/all of the two waverers and three anti-vaxxers from last time have changed their minds in the past month!
It would be quite nice if it turns out some/all of the two waverers and three anti-vaxxers from last time have changed their minds in the past month!
Got the 2nd dose two weeks ago 
I didn't see the last poll so this is my first time voting. Thankfully my job got me in on the first round, which means I got my first dose in late January and second dose in late February. I heard a rumor today that they may be setting us up for a third dose, the so-called booster shot that has been in the news recently.
I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, only one shot necessary, but none of the poll choices seem to reflect this. It seems to define "fully vaccinated" as two shots and "partly vaccinated" as one shot.
In Australia, people of my advanced age can only get AZ currently. While it is quite effective if the second dose is given after 6 or 8 weeks, it is more effective if given after 12 weeks. I'm waiting, although the current outbreak may force me to get the second dose earlier.
Evidence seems to be that the effectiveness of Pfizer at least tends to wain after 6 months but a booster restores the effectiveness and may even make it more effective. There is also evidence that "mixing and matching" types of vaccine for your second or third shot make it more effective.
If 1 dose is considered fully vaccinated - then you are welcome to select the first option.
Done! Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Pootle
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Two jabs of Astra Zeneca on board with me. There is also talk now about a booster in Dec- Feb time, heard this from my GP as she was saying its great news on top of the current workload they have in winter generally!
A successful oral dosage method of vaccination would be ideal wouldn't it moving on?
For those not sure on what to do here is a bit of info.... A friend of mine who chose not to have a vaccine, has recently left hospital after 15 days within. He is getting his first jab done as soon as he is allowed to now. He caught the Delta variant (later found out) and 3 days later was admitted to hospital, he became pretty weak and needed oxygen assistance for several days.
A successful oral dosage method of vaccination would be ideal wouldn't it moving on?
For those not sure on what to do here is a bit of info.... A friend of mine who chose not to have a vaccine, has recently left hospital after 15 days within. He is getting his first jab done as soon as he is allowed to now. He caught the Delta variant (later found out) and 3 days later was admitted to hospital, he became pretty weak and needed oxygen assistance for several days.
I am double vaccinated with Pfizer as of last Tuesday. I must say, the second shot hurt more and it also gave me worse side effects (I felt awful the next day). Also quite annoyingly, my local vaccination centre didn't separate the queues for those who had booked appointments and those doing walk-ins meaning I was waiting in a queue for over an hour.
The numbers so far are pretty impressive - currently sitting on 88% of the members who have responded being fully vaccinated.
Our vaccination rollout here in Australia is ramping up quickly now (after a slow start!) - we've just received approval for 12-15 year olds to be vaccinated - but we don't yet have vaccines available for these younger kids yet - waiting on more stock to be delivered in the coming weeks.
Our vaccination rollout here in Australia is ramping up quickly now (after a slow start!) - we've just received approval for 12-15 year olds to be vaccinated - but we don't yet have vaccines available for these younger kids yet - waiting on more stock to be delivered in the coming weeks.
Hopefully these numbers *are* representative; at present significantly fewer people have actually responded than was the case last time (42 votes this time, as opposed to 66 votes last time) with only one additional vote in the "fully vaccinated" category, and as the poll is set to invisible we can't see if this is entirely the result of Arizona Docent taking part this time round when he missed it last time
Given the reduced number of responses, it's a pity that there are still waverers and anti-vaxxers in the total too; 7.5% of the total response this time, as opposed to 7.14% last time.
I received my second jab almost two weeks ago (only had one at the first poll!). Very different side effects though. After my first jab I had a sore arm within an hour that worsened in the evening and gradually got better afterwards. Now my arm was much less sore, but about 12 hours after the jab I started feeling light-headed and I was very cold. I had trouble sleeping that night and felt thoroughly miserable the next day. The next day most side-effects were gone but I kept feeling quite tired for a few days afterwards.
Still 2 doses for me. But my country offers a third jab to everybody who has been vaccinated more than 8 months ago and I plan to get a booster when I get eligible.
Australia seems to be on very good path with its vaccine rollout. We have opposite problem in Czechia. We have more than enough vaccines (thanks to EU distribution schema) but not enough people willing to take them. We are at 55% of population and already hit the wall, probably because we have very calm summer now so people stopped to care about covid. We have donated and resold +2 mio doses (mostly Moderna and Astra-Zeneca) to poorer countries.
Australia seems to be on very good path with its vaccine rollout. We have opposite problem in Czechia. We have more than enough vaccines (thanks to EU distribution schema) but not enough people willing to take them. We are at 55% of population and already hit the wall, probably because we have very calm summer now so people stopped to care about covid. We have donated and resold +2 mio doses (mostly Moderna and Astra-Zeneca) to poorer countries.
We don't really have much choice. Sydney has been in lockdown for 9 weeks already and we were told the other day that the goal is to have kids back at school in another 10 weeks - and only then once we've reached high enough vaccination levels.
My wife has been helping with planning for setting up new vaccination clinics (that's part of her job) - her latest project is working on a clinic in conjunction with one of the local city councils and community leaders targeting a local African community who currently have almost zero vaccination rates due to fear and misinformation that has spread.
There are quite a few ethnic groups in Sydney and Melbourne facing similar problems - often English is not their primary language and so they are not always getting the messages directly from the experts, but relying on 2nd hand information and sometimes the information they get told is not accurate or is tainted by rumours and misinformation.
Anyway - the following chart shows quite clearly that we started late and too slowly - but have continued to ramp up our vaccination rates and are now vaccinating more people (per-capita) than the US or UK ever has. I do hope we can maintain these high vaccination rates - getting to 80%+ fully vaccinated is going to make a huge difference.
Source: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research
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Got my first jab pretty much as soon as I could today
Just a sore arm for now.
Just a sore arm for now.