Similarly I just had my booster on Saturday (got online as soon as reduction to 12 weeks was announced and brought it forward by a month).

First 2 jags produced little more than a sore arm, but this one was significantly worse! I take it as a sign that the previous 2 worked okay!

It was a hat-trick of Pfizer for me.

I am certainly glad to have had it, but work today is NOT fun!

For people looking for a booster in London, UCLH were doing walk-ins at the weekend at Bidborough House (just across Euston Road from St Pancras). They might take walk-ins if they don't have too many bookings. Had Pfizer there yesterday afternoon, not feeling too rough today, just a little slow but that may be due to slipping/sliding on the tennis court yesterday morning. Moderna had me floored for 24-36 hours on the second dose in July.

I had my booster about a month ago now, it's on the NHS App etc. but I'm being bombarded with texts and emails from the NHS begging me to have my booster. Is there any way of getting their left hand to know what their right hand is doing, or should I just ignore it?

I have 3 shots of moderna. The last booster shot I have no side effect whatever so.

1st shot - mild side effect for half a day
2nd shot - slight fever n weak for one day.
3rd shot - no side effect at all

Daily data:

Cases 51,549 (42,583 last Monday)
Deaths 41 (35)
Patients in hospital 7,268 (7,550 on the 26th)
Patients in ventilation beds 900 (925 on the 26th)
People vaccinated up to and including 5 December 2021:
First dose: 51,118,266
Second dose: 46,557,413
Booster: 20,580,644

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now up 9.1% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is down 0.2%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 119.4 today.

Daily data:

Cases 45,691 (39,716 last Tuesday)
Deaths 180 (159)
Patients admitted 713 (720 on the 26th)
Patients in hospital 7,317 (7,656 on the 29th)
Patients in ventilation beds 901 (916 on the 29th)
People vaccinated up to and including 6 December 2021:
First dose: 51,138,245
Second dose: 46,582,425
Booster: 20,909,809

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now up 12.1% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 3.0%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 122.4 today.

I got my booster last week. My local trust invited me to book directly with them. I had my second dose at the beginning July, so this was 5 months after that, rather than 6. As I leave nearby the vaccination centre, I walked in rather than booking an appointment.

I got Pfizer after 2 doses of AZ and didn't really get any significant side effects. Just a sore arm and a bit of tiredness the next day.

I've had a very similar experience since getting my booster yesterday. Lifted my arms above my head to stretch during a meeting earlier and startled my colleagues by howling though!

Two observations that I thought might be interesting: the people at the chemist's in south-east London where I went said it had been crazy busy since Friday, with so many turning up - not only boosters, but 1st and 2nd jabs as well. One described it as being like a light switching on in people's heads.

Second, there were two queues - one for people who had booked and one for walk-ins. When I was there the former was exclusively white and the latter exclusively people of colour. Obviously, a lot depends on the area etc and I'm not sure what lesson to draw, but I couldn't help feeling a bit disturbed by the starkness of the difference.

I caught covid in March 2020 (likely from a symptomatic fellow passenger on a plane, ironically) and I found that my second Pfizer dose (Feb 2021) knocked me for six, whilst my third dose (September 2021) just gave me painful axillary lymphadenopathy on the side I received the jab. Part of me wonders if my second jab acted as a sort of booster, with my initial infection being equivalent to a first dose… just some food for thought. It’s all very interesting!

Of course it does. One thing that has really concerned me about the UK government response is they have been basically silent about the immunisation effect of getting (and recovering from) Covid, whereas many other countries have clearly recognised it. Now I can understand there are very obvious health and wider societal benefits to not encouraging contracting the disease instead of getting vaccinated, but it nonetheless indicates to me that they are not being as frank as they could be about things at the individual level.

The U.K. Government did everything BUT explicitly encourage people to contract COVID over both this summer and last.

It appears that the UK and Germany have virtually the same infection rates, with one important difference: Germany is in the midst of a spike over the past 4 weeks or so, while the UK has been at this level since July. C’mon folks, mask up!

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-c...nited-kingdom/

That may be so but it doesn't negate the point I was making, re the significance of vaccination for someone who has vs. hasn't had Covid.

The UK tests much more than Germany.