I hope Annie and Vlad’s family are all feeling better. It’s horrid when you don’t feel well.
My daughter who is a teacher had her first vaccination, Moderna, a week ago.
She felt fine but a few days later, her arm where she had the injection was red with a rash and sore.
On top of that her flatmate, a children’s nurse said the Moderna would make my daughter unable to have children and that’s why she herself had the AstraZeneca vaccination.
She said, the Moderna contains a protein that affects the blood and stops a fertilised egg from attaching to the wall of the womb.
This really upset my daughter as she wants to have children. I have told her, it has not been proven and not to take any notice of her flatmate.
Thank you, my family are all fine, granddaughter and boy friend are feeling a lot better today still in lockdown for another week
Daughter and family no symptoms but also in lockdown .
Sorry I had a look and it was apparently Pfizer that had the myth. Pfizer and moderna have been extensively tested in the US for use in pregnancy. That’s why they do not give pregnant women AZ because the others have been deemed safe and AZ is not as rigorously tested on pregnancy.
The rumour I heard is that the Indian community in Britain was against AZ because they thought it affects fertility.
Prof Jeremy Brown, professor of respiratory infection at University College London and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, has said some parts of the capital could see January-type levels of hospitalisation later this year because of poor vaccine take-up.
In London 69.7% of adults have had one dose, and 44.6% two doses, compared to 80.1% and 58.2% respectively in the UK as a whole.
But, in an interview with Times Radio, Brown said that the London figures obscured considerable local variation. In affluent boroughs vaccine take-up was quite close to the national figures, but in other areas, it was much lower, he said. For example, in Lambeth only 50% of people have had a first dose, and only 30.7% have had both doses.
According to this evening’s news the AstraZeneca vaccination will be phased out in Australia and by October will be unavailable having been replaced by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Personally I get my second AZ shot on 5th June but the vaccine rollout is going agonizingly slowly, so far only 6.7 million people have been vaccinated but only about 1 million have been fully vaccinated which is only about 4% of the population.
The only progress is that the ineffective, useless federal government at the last national cabinet meeting promised that vaccines will be distributed to the states in proportion to their respective populations. Amazing that it took so long, you wouldn’t feed the bastards.
