Meanwhile, a different hope is dashed
Oops! I used AZ in the same faulty way I call all vacuums Hoover ad sticky tape Scotch. Clearly, no scientist am I!
This family all swore never again after the third one and have not had covid nor known anyone else who caught it. We decided to let our natural immunity deal with things and take a chance, the last effects were nasty both in our arms and how we felt!
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It’s quite possible that previous vaccinations gave you enough immunity to keep infections down to sub-clinical levels, and you never knew. And that’s a good thing.
So do I, well, not Scotch, that’s Sellotape. 
My husband instantly goes to 
And maybe without the vaccine it would have been a whole heap worse? I have had them all as keen on risk reduction.
Also had the flu jab last week and pharmacist said that less than 50% of the targeted population have had the jab. Which is pretty useless as need minimum 70% to stop the virus circulating. I’ve only had flu once and it was awful.
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Had the covid jab last Thursday and felt unwell for about 24 hours but that’s better than having covid. Strangely, injection point still a bit sore. Had the gripe vaccine the week before. That’s the one I really need as I get very bad flu. Had the flu last January despite being vaccinated and then covid straight after. Was quite ill for a whole month 
. Didn’t have the covid vaccine last autumn as we had covid last September as well.
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As previously posted, the new mutation for the grippe is not covered 8n the present vaccine.
I have both injections at the same time and in the same arm. No problems and no after effects from tge vaccine either.
To Jane and Shiba and you! I had to go into hospital recently and asked my delightful cardiologue if I should have a covid jab before. He said to have the flu, and the covid? Well he said, if you had such a bad time last vax…..and he let it hang in the air!
Sounds a bit like my doc when I asked her if I could stop the aspirin, which keeps my blood thin and flowing, for 4 days at the dentist’s direction so I wouldn’t bleed to death yesterday when he yanked out a broken tooth.
She just winced and said nothing. At @toryroo 's insistance I checked with the pharmacist, he laughed and said no problem, so I did, and I am still here, one day and half a tooth later. 
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Pneumococcals (which includes meningitis and sepsis 
) done, as Sid James would say.
Delicious. Mealie pudding, even more delicious.
I had pneumococcals done last week, and flu and COVID yesterday. I still haven’t had COVID and really don’t want to get anything I could transmit to my remaining parent. I’m not old enough to get the pneumococcals as a matter of course but it was prescribed last time I had a horrible chest infection from the train.
Worth doing Vero. It’s for life and sepsis is a big killer.
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My local Cerballiance laboratory where I go for annual precautionary blood tests sent me the following, which shows I think how well advanced the French national health system has become.
“Respiratory viruses are actively circulating right now, and their symptoms are often identical: fever, body aches, cough… As a result, it’s difficult for your doctor to know if it’s the flu, COVID-19, RSV, or another infection like bronchitis.
A blood sample taken in just a few minutes at a medical biology laboratory can tell you if you are infected with one of these contagious viruses. This will help you avoid severe illness if you are at risk and limit transmission to those around you.
Multiplex PCR system for the rapid diagnosis of respiratory virus infection: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Reliable results (technique recommended by the French National Authority for Health).
Results within 24 to 48 hours.
With or without a prescription - patient pays 29€ without a prescription.”
No appointment necessary – you just turn up.
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Covid Boosters are now available again.
We have an appointment to receive ours today. This seems like a very good idea as we have noticed how the local population have slipped back into their old ways, rather than continuing with disease transmission prevention measures.
Of course the vaccination won’t actually stop a person from contracting the ailment, but it will make it a whole lot less serious, so I believe that the only answer to the question of a booster jab has to be “Yes please”.
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Our département seems to be offering them only to vulnerable people or the over-80s, or I would book myself in.
Not just local. I travelled back from UK on Saturday and noticed that where previously bottles of hand gel were everywhere they are now gone. Cost me extra in time and € having to find somewhere to wash my hands before getting and eating sandwiches.
Round here the over '60s I think, either way I qualified and was able to joke with the nurse about her colleague, trying, and failing, to speak English to me. 