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Update on Astra Zeneca jab

Posted: Wed Jun 9, 2021 2:19pm
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Just to update. My 2nd AZ jab was due on 29th June. I received a text last evening that it has been cancelled and to await further instructions. I am 64.

Posted: Wed Jun 9, 2021 3:03pm

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Posted: Wed Jun 9, 2021 3:03pm

Hi  My husband has got the same he is also 64    I have had my 1st vaccine but no date for the 2nd!!!   Gillian

Posted: Wed Jun 9, 2021 6:17pm

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Posted: Wed Jun 9, 2021 6:17pm

Me too, I understand that all 2nd AZ vacinations on 29th and 30th June have been cancelled in Denia for some reason

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:13am

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:13am

A friend of mine had her first AZ 4 weeks ago and has received a text offering her the Pfizer as the second vaccination if she would like it. She is 59.  

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:42pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:42pm

Elaine23 wrote on Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:13am:

A friend of mine had her first AZ 4 weeks ago and has received a text offering her the Pfizer as the second vaccination if she would like it. She is 59.  

That's odd, at age 59, she shouldn't have been given AZ in the first place.

I'm not surprised that there may be a delay for 60 to 64 year olds receiving their second jabs.  The EU cancelled it's forward AZ contracts and remaining supplies are being offered, in the first instance, to the younger, essential workers (teachers, police, etc.) who were also given AZ as a first vaccination.  Even though Spain latterly decided it would not give AZ to people under the age of 60, it has said to those younger ones that they can either have Pfizer as a second dose, or they can have AZ, so long as they sign a disclaimer about potential health issues from blood clots.  Personally, I'd have Pfizer, but apparently 74% of essential workers want a second AZ dose.  Rather than delay second doses for us in the 60-64 age group, I just wish they'd give us Pfizer and be done with it - looks like we're going to be the next "sandwich"!

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Kim

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:50pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:50pm

Kimmy11 wrote on Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:42pm:

That's odd, at age 59, she shouldn't have been given AZ in the first place.

I'm not surprised that there may be a delay for 60 to 64 year olds receiving their second jabs.  The EU cancelled it's forward AZ contracts and remaining supplies are being offered, in the first instance, to the younger, essential workers (teachers, police, etc.) who were also given AZ as a ...

 

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...first vaccination.  Even though Spain latterly decided it would not give AZ to people under the age of 60, it has said to those younger ones that they can either have Pfizer as a second dose, or they can have AZ, so long as they sign a disclaimer about potential health issues from blood clots.  Personally, I'd have Pfizer, but apparently 74% of essential workers want a second AZ dose.  Rather than delay second doses for us in the 60-64 age group, I just wish they'd give us Pfizer and be done with it - looks like we're going to be the next "sandwich"!

Kind regards,

Kim

I went to our local Salud this morning as my temporary SIP card runs out this month. They said when I get another date my card will still be accepted.

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:03pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:03pm

My problem is I have to go back to the UK on the 30th June so I will now miss my second jab, I suppose I will have to wait and see what happens

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:36pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:36pm

My 2nd AZ inoculation was due on the 29th June in Torrevieja I am 64 and have just be texted to say that it has been cancelled also

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:51pm

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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:51pm

Marilyn44 wrote on Wed Jun 9, 2021 2:19pm:

Just to update. My 2nd AZ jab was due on 29th June. I received a text last evening that it has been cancelled and to await further instructions. I am 64.

Yep me and Husband also been cancelled. Will just have to wait to hear from them 🙏🤞😎

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:09pm

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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:09pm

davidsnoxell wrote on Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:03pm:

My problem is I have to go back to the UK on the 30th June so I will now miss my second jab, I suppose I will have to wait and see what happens

Hi David,

A friend of mine is in the same situation as you - she´s resident in Spain, but called her former GP in the UK and was told that she can make an appointment for her second jab when she´s back in the UK during July.  She was advised that, once she´s in the UK, she should phone 119 and make an appointment at a walk-in vaccination centre.

Kind regards,

Kim

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