Same here.
Good to see how hard they're trying to get everyone protected.

Fans who had AstraZeneca vaccine won’t be allowed into Bruce Springsteen’s New York concerts…


Anyone who has had the AstraZeneca vaccine will be barred from attending Bruce Springsteen’s comeback shows in New York next week.

The intimate five-night run at the St James theatre will be the first Broadway show to reopen since last March and will require attendees to show proof of vaccination, reports The Telegraph.

However, the list will be limited only to jabs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration - Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson.

Any potential concert-goers who received their Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine overseas will be left with the prospect of being turned away at the door should they book tickets.


…full article…

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/fans-had-a...070131015.html

Damn I had just booked my flights.

Doesn't make a huge amount of sense as I assume it's not been approved because of safety concerns rather than because they don't think it works... but it will be a technicality, I suppose. I would imagine most countries will only consider approved vaccines to be "valid". I bet UK events won't accept Sputnik for example.

:skull:

Ngl this made me laugh

We've been talking to Professor Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, about the news that hospitalisations due to the Delta variant in England have doubled in a week.

He says: "This variant that has now taken over from the Alpha is clearly significantly more infectious...and regrettably it is more likely to end you up in hospital if you're unlucky enough to get it.

"The one bit of good news around this is that the rate of rise of hospitalisations is not as fast as the rate of the rise in cases. So we are preventing a lot of hospitalisations with the vaccine programme but not all of them."

He says another piece of "really good news" is that if you've had two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines you're "more or less guaranteed not to end up in hospital". And even one dose, once immunity kicks in, will "very substantially reduce the risk of ending up in hospital", he says.

Prof Finn says: "If you live in an area where there aren't particularly large numbers of cases, now is the time to get immunised because it takes time for these vaccines to work and you really do want to get the protection before the virus arrives to avoid the risks.

"Don't neglect to get immunised, even if your perception is that your locality isn't particularly a problem one at the moment, it might be next week or the week after."

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I honestly find it hard to dig out the truth of the stats in a lot of these articles recently, because I feel like often they're designed to encourage people to get vaccinated, be that skeptics or just those who are dragging their heels.

Total — 1st dose 42,460,632

Total — 2nd dose 30,898,467

Vaccinations given
Total
73,359,099


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

Olympic Park vaccination hub is open this weekend for anyone over 18, appointment only

Publisher Bloomsbury says vaccines will be compulsory for UK staff returning to its offices when they reopen.

The Harry Potter publisher's decision comes as many firms weigh up the necessity of workforce vaccinations.

The government has announced that care home workers in England will be required to have a vaccination or risk losing their jobs.

Almost 42 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

Bloomsbury told The Bookseller magazine, which first reported the story, that it had taken both "medical and scientific advice".

"The simple fact is that this virus is still extremely dangerous."

Bank of America has also confirmed that all of its vaccinated employees can return to the office in early September, as more than 70,000 staff have voluntarily disclosed their vaccine status.

Pimlico Plumbers meanwhile, said it would require compulsory vaccination for staff, with the company having already said it would not hire anybody new who was not vaccinated.

Bloomsbury, which is due to reopen on 19 July, made employees aware of the policy in an email ahead of the second May Bank Holiday weekend.

A spokesperson for the company told The Bookseller that "the wellbeing of our staff has been our overarching concern in all our decisions since the start of the pandemic".

"We recently reported the tragic deaths of two Bloomsbury staff from Covid. We will continue to make our own decisions, conscious of the serious consequences of making the wrong ones.

"Inevitably, not everyone will agree. We accept this and, as with so many decisions in the pandemic, we have to do what we believe is right for the wellbeing of all our staff."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57481895

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This is going to become the norm

I suspect they're on very shaky legal ground here, unlike care homes/healthcare there's no aspect here of working with vulnerable members of the public and I doubt it's legal to dismiss a staff member for refusing a medical procedure -- which is what this would amount to. I think they'd be wide open to unfair dismissal claims unless the law is changed first.

On balance I hope it is challenged legally and is found to not be legal. I fully encourage everyone to get their Covid vaccinations but this is an extremely worrying route for us to start going down in terms of precedent.

Not mandatory at all then aye

sorry to adjust you, but we fully encourage everyone with most active social life to get their covid vaccinations, fully vaccinated is best, don't let covid get to you, and help with slowing down the spread

amazing :clap1:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received a dose of Moderna as her second shot of coronavirus vaccine having had Oxford-AstraZeneca as her first, a government spokesman said.

The 66-year-old leader was vaccinated a few days ago after getting a dose of AstraZeneca in April.

Experts believe mixed dosing of Covid vaccines could be a good idea but it too early to say for sure.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...6301624395792/

can that Duterte be hanged pls, vile dictator


you can't threaten people who refuse vaccine with jail sentences


philippines under this piece of **** becoming more north korea 2.0 :yuk:

82% first dose

60% both doses

That's amazing.
One more month and we could actually finish the vaccination programme!

Light at the end of the tunnel - Covid [vaccine news]
 

Intriguing !!

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Realised this morning that my vaccine appointment was going to clash with England's next game on Tuesday, this was already the third time I booked it after cancelling my last two appointments to play golf instead (priorities :pipe2:)

So I was starting to get fed up of my appointments clashing with important things and went to the pharmacy next door on my lunch today and asked if they had any spares. Half an hour later I'd had my first jab :smug:

Only thing is I'm not sure how best to get my second dose now given I did it without an appointment and the NHS site only let's you book both jabs at the same time :think:

they would take some details so that they knew who you were and it would ultimately be linked to your NHS number. They will either ping you by text message or letter when the next one is due

Cathay Pacific has told its aircrew they must get a Covid vaccination by 31 August or risk losing their jobs.

The airline says staff rostering has become "difficult and complicated" because of a need to segregate vaccinated and non-vaccinated crew.

But it says it will "review the future employment of those who are unable to become vaccinated" and "assess whether they can continue to be employed as aircrew".

The Hong Kong-based airline says 90% of its pilots and 65% of its cabin crew have been vaccinated or have appointments to receive the jab.

They will have taken your details and found your nhs number and it’ll all go through, just wait a few days and then when you book it’ll be for your second appointment! I went without an appointment also and I tried booking a week later and it knew it was for my second appointment. A text never came for me but just went online to book it and it was all sorted and it says “second dose” for clarity

When I booked my 2nd dose it just gave the option on the online form of whether it was 1st or 2nd dose.

They double and actually triple-checked at the time anyway - was asked both on entry and by the vaccinator.

Walk in vaccination centres for first or second dose will be open again this weekend