Covid booster jabs

[TheOstrich]

Have I got this right?

No Covid jab this Autumn unless you've turned 75?

And no Covid jab if you're within 6 months of having your last booster?

[JanB]

Nothing mentioned over here yet Crommers.

But we both refused last years and also the flu jab, then got the most horrendous bug in February, so I will be having the flu one, just not covid.

[jenniren]

I've checked the Gov.uk website and it says the eligibility has been revised to over 75's Ossie.

[TheOstrich]

Thanks for your replies, both.

I've checked the Gov.uk website and it says the eligibility has been revised to over 75's Ossie.

We have had a text from the surgery which said that you would "be called" if you were eligible - but they didn't say what the criteria actually was.
I'm 75 shortly, so I shall be interested to see what the "cut-off" date is.
Mrs O had a spring booster in May, so I believe she will not be entitled to an Autumn jab.

[Suff]

We shall not be having a Covid booster ever again. Mrs S got the original Covid, long before the vaccines arrived at 71. I was a lot younger and got it at the same time.

With an actual Covid infection followed by three vaccine "boosters", the GP agrees that the chance of any issue now is so minimal as to not bother with.

Mind you Mrs S was stung by a bee (we have thousands of them in one of the attic rooms and are dealing with it at the moment), had to have her wedding ring cut off and the hand is massively swollen and blisters are bursting. It's into her arm. Antibiotics this evening at the hospital and more from tomorrow.

Covid? Not on the horizon.

[JoM]

I’m trying to work out when I had my Spring booster. I know it was a Sunday and I know I was going to a match straight afterwards because when I got back into the car John was talking to Les on speakerphone, a bloke he knows through work who lives in Bolton, and has been going to Old Trafford since the 50s so me and Les had a moan

The only date I can see posted on Facebook is April 6th which is possible because we played City that day and I’m sure Les said he’d got something else on and was missing the derby.
It was also a few days before George arrived and I’m sure I wanted it done before he was here in case I suffered with the side effects (it was actually the first time ever that I didn’t) because I didn’t want to be feeling awful whilst looking after a puppy.

Ossie, for the 2025 Spring booster the Facebook page of the local centre lists over 75s then too, along with anyone over 18 with weakened immune systems. Nothing about 6 months though.

[Kaz]

Personally I happily take whatever they offer me, these days. I hadn't heard about the Covid eligibility being changed, can't say I fancy getting Covid again