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Covid Vaccine Eligibility

Fairygodmother

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Nice guidelines state that people with diabetes mellitis are at risk from progression to severe infection should they catch covid.
Does this mean that everyone with Type One is eligible for the vaccine?
I’m seventy-six and was given flu and Covid vaccines on Saturday, so I’m asking this for all the under-seventy-fives.

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I access this site on a works laptop and the posts seem to have been infected by numbers and the word emoji6 ??
Is it my end or the sites?

Thanks
Tony
 
No, it’s me too Tony. I’ll edit
 
I don’t know what my iPhone uses for this site
 
I got this in an email from my GP practice yesterday

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Changes in COVID-19 vaccination eligibility for autumn/winter 2025/26:
• Every year, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) considers who needs to be vaccinated, to help protect people from serious illness. Their advice on COVID-19 has changed because the threat from COVID-19 has changed. It has become a common milder infection for most people.
• This autumn/winter, vaccination is being offered only to people at highest risk of serious illness - older people and those who have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment. This is different to previous years.
• It’s possible for you to be eligible for a flu vaccine but not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, even if you’ve had it previously.
• For autumn/winter vaccination invitations, NHS England uses information from NHS records to check who is eligible for vaccination.
• Information in these records may no longer be relevant if the health condition has resolved or the diagnosis or medicines has changed.
• The clinician at the vaccination site will check eligibility before every vaccination.
• More information can be found at www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/invite-enquiry

You can get the autumn/ winter COVID-19 vaccine if you:
• are aged 75 or over (including those who will be 75 by 31 January 2026)
• are aged 6 months to 74 years and have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment (see below)
• live in a care home for older adults
You may be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine if you have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment. This can include if you:
• have or had blood cancer, such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma
• have had an organ transplant, bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
• have HIV
• have a genetic disorder that affects your immune system, such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
• are having or recently had chemotherapy, biological therapy or radiotherapy
• are taking steroid medicine (depending on the dose)
• are having long-term immunosuppressive treatment for a condition such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), scleroderma or psoriasis
• A full list of conditions can be found on page 35 and 36 of the Green Book
Not sure if you're eligible? This list doesn't include all eligible health conditions. Speak to your local pharmacy, GP practice or specialist to check.
 
Despite the continuing advice that people with Type One are affected badly by covid, the main vaccination drive is more sever immune disorders.
I suppose we’ll see over the coming months whether or not this is a wise approach.
(No numbers!)
 
Just been offered flu jag. Nothing on COVID vaccination front. Trying to see if GP can do combined rather than get just flu one at the hospital. Have had COVID once was very ill with it
 
Good luck
 
Hi
I've had all the vaccines over the years and being told i don't qualify for this years covid vaccine after all the others left me a bit miffed.

Tony
 
I had covid six years ago when I was seventy. During the phase when I couldn’t breathe properly, and couldn’t lift a hand to phone for an ambulance or raise my voice to call out for help, I was convinced I’d die but was so busy trying to breathe that dying didn’t worry me.
Maybe the vaccinations since then have given my immune system a good bit of help, but when I tested positive a couple of years ago, aged seventy-four, I was knocked out for about 10 days. I was on my own at the time, and only just managed to get downstairs to fetch food and drink.
 
It seems illogical to me that vaccinations for two mutating viruses, influenza and Covid, both of which can cause severe illness or death, are treated differently.
 
Fairygodmother said:
It seems illogical to me that vaccinations for two mutating viruses, influenza and Covid, both of which can cause severe illness or death, are treated differently.
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Flu vaccines for both of us this year, but not our daughter - so checked on the prices - say £16 to £22 depending on the source (supermarkets, pharmacies etc). Stumbled across the Covid price - £90!
 
Holmstock said:
Flu vaccines for both of us this year, but not our daughter - so checked on the prices - say £16 to £22 depending on the source (supermarkets, pharmacies etc). Stumbled across the Covid price - £90!
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£90 !
I am very suspicious about this price but i don't know why.....

Thanks for sharing.

Tony
 
Ninety pounds sterling for a covid vaccine! Which one? The NHS is using Pfizer, I think. I wonder if a limited NHS target means there are spare doses to be sold.
 
Fairygodmother said:
Ninety pounds sterling for a covid vaccine! Which one? The NHS is using Pfizer, I think. I wonder if a limited NHS target means there are spare doses to be sold.
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From what I have been reading the private vaccine is the one targeting the current wave whilst the NHS one is more general.
I’m not eligible this year so will have to wait and see how things pan out. Am yet to have covid so perhaps this will be my year.
 
I find that the way vaccinations are done is inconsistent. The GP surgery that I am registered with is in Hampshire. That surgery only gives flu vaccines. Mine has been booked for next week. A friend, who is registered with another Hampshire GP surgery, only three miles away, was given both flu and Covid vaccines for no other reason than being over age 75.
 
Being 75 or over is a qualifying criteria @ElenaP, nothing she wasn’t entitled to. I get what you mean about difference in GP surgeries though, mine only does drop in for flu - 3 clinics only none that I can make. The Covid your entitled is appointments only on 2 sessions. They are not offering the 2 together this time
 
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