GP Stories - Covid Vaccine

Like most primary care doctors around the country now, we're all working towards the vaccine effort of vaccinating our local populations. Some are actively giving out the vaccinations, some in a supervising role, some doing the very important task of organising everyone and everything. Uptake of the vaccine has been good with most people very keen on receiving it in with many others who are not eligible yet, calling up wondering when they will get it. One is the hard parts has been calling patients up to consent and inform them about the vaccine. The cohort of patients currently that area being called in are over 80, and may have issues with hearing that can make phone calls hard. Most of these patients have been done now, and we're moving down the age groups. People who cannot leave their home in my area have been able to get free transport to the vaccine hubs which will greatly improved uptake.

Surprisingly (and fortunately) there hasn't been much anti-vax sentiment that I have heard of, maybe this is the result of the US elections not going to the Lord of fake-news Donald Trump. I may have missed it, but I haven't heard of any news saying he's had it yet - I would have assumed that he would have said he had it, but then again, he's also banned from Twitter.

The UK has been touting that they are one of the leading countries in terms of vaccinating their population, this in part is due to the tireless work of all the healthcare professionals involved in this logistical nightmare. Will we have the end of covid this year...? With this progress, it certainly looks promising. Air travel is going to be busy if so... (Time to invest in airline stock).