Vaccine Priorities

[kenny1234]

A definitive answer please-----is it 80 AND over, or OVER 80---

[bednobs]

80 and over https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advice-from-the-jcvi-2-december-2020/priority-groups-for-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-advice-from-the-jcvi-2-december-2020

[bednobs]

actual words =
residents in a care home for older adults and their carers
all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
all those 75 years of age and over
all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals[footnote 1]
all those 65 years of age and over
all individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
all those 60 years of age and over
all those 55 years of age and over
all those 50 years of age and over

[ichkeria]

It always is worded that way, otherwise a whole confusion arises about what constitutes “over 80”

[Maydup]

If you were 80 yesterday you would be over 80, so whether they say 80 and over, or over 80 it amounts to the same thing I think.

[jourdain2]

80 and over. Mr J2 (87)got a phone call on Friday afternoon and we shall be driving (with great trepidation because it will be getting dark, and therefore difficult) 25 country miles to Malton tomorrow afternoon for his first Covid Injection at 3.55 p.m.. The follow-up is booked for Jan. 5th at the same time. I'm not sure how to feel. It means they think he is very vulnerable - he thinks he is made of old oak.

It is a bold stratagem because at that age many people are just liable to die of all sorts of things, some a few days after the injection, so the headlines will be scare stories. At 85 a male can average a life expectancy of 91 - but I heard today (R4) that that still means a normal death rate of c.1,000 per day over the year.

Odd. They might have been better starting with the 60 year olds - to prove that people don't drop dead from it. Or are oldies expendable? (That was naughty and provocative of me, so I'm sorry - it just crossed my mind.)

[pixie374]

Life expectancy of men in the UK is 81, jourdain. But yes, if you were 80 yesterday- you are "over 80".

[pixie374]

79, sorry x

[jourdain2]

Pixie, I was quoting a statistician I heard on R4. If you make it to 85 then those are the expectations. Women of 85 can expect another 7 years on average.

It all went very well. Beautifully organised and a round of applause to our local NHS staff.