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THE GOVERNMENT HAS outlined how the vaccination process will work when a mass roll-out happens in 2021.
The initial roll-out, planned for early in the New Year, will be limited to particular groups.
The focus at the start of the vaccination programme will be on adults over the age of 65 who are residents of long-term care facilities and frontline healthcare workers in direct patient contact roles, including vaccinators. Those aged 70 and older will be next, starting with over 85s.
There will be five main types of vaccination administration locations in the overall roll-out:
Mass vaccination centres will be located regionally and designed to cater for large numbers of recipients.
The plan states discussions are underway with relevant authorities to ensure a geographical distribution of these centres is provided, but examples include Citywest and the National Exhibition Centre in Cloghran in Dublin.
In the initial phases, vaccination will take place at longterm care facilities – for both residents and staff. Simultaneously, healthcare workers will be vaccinated at large scale healthcare sites.
Those who are part of the mass ramp-up – likely to begin in late spring or summer – will go through a different process. The vaccination programme will work down through this list of groups:
When it is your turn, you will be invited to register, provide some medical and personal details and consent to vaccination. People will be offered scheduled appointments to attend a named location for vaccination.
On the day of the appointment, pre-registered details will be confirmed on arrival.
When the person goes in to get their vaccination jab, the person administering the vaccine will confirm their details, complete informed consent and record their own details as well as batch details and a time/date stamp.
The vaccinator will then prepare the dose and administer the vaccine.
All vaccinators will be qualified and registered healthcare professionals including nurses and GPs. As more doses become available the government will need to expand the pool of skilled workers to administer the vaccines.
The government is considering actions being taken by other jurisdictions, such as the licensing of recently retired health professionals or maintaining registration in the case of others. Pharmacists may need to be specifically licensed for Covid-19 vaccinations, but they have the experience and training needed to administer them.
All staff working on the vaccination programme will receive training either online or in person.
Aftercare
After the patient gets their vaccine on the day of their appointment will be asked to wait for 15 minutes to monitor for any immediate adverse reactions. Trained clinical staff will need to be on hand to observe the patients.
Aftercare will involve follow-up reminders to ensure people return for their second dose.
The strategy states the goal is to “provide a consistent process with a common data and technology platform, across all clinical settings in which the vaccine is administered”.
If there are any suspected side effects in the days or weeks afterwards, the recipient will be able to report this on a portal on the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) website and through their GP.
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Yo Malahide
Climate Change will affect everyone
@David Hughes: it was worse 21 years ago
@David Hughes: ye it’s really hot in the Sahara at the moment
@David Hughes: If every weather event is now climate change, what was is 50,100,200 years ago?
@Verners Tess: 50,098,179 BC
@Verners Tess: 50.1 million years ago was during the tail end of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, it was a lot warmer than today.
The warm climate caused by oceanic circulation and higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Antarctic continent wasn’t yet cut off from south America (Drakes passage hadn’t opened up yet) and Australia and Antarctica were still part of the same continent. Without a circumpolar ocean circulation, Antarctica did not act like a huge radiator like it does today.
There was also the collision between India collided with Asia 50 million, the beginning of the Himalayas:
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298462&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
This collision increased physical rock erosion and weathering of rock, this resulted in the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere, and in turn caused gradual climate cooling
See: “Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic
climate trend”
“The early Eocene (55 to 50Ma) was the warmest period during the Cenozoic. Various climatic indices suggest that tropical conditions extended 10 to 15 of latitude poleward of their present limits. Eocene tropical assemblages of foraminifera and coccoliths have been found in North Atlantic sediments (Haq et al., 1977). Vertebrate fossils of alligators and flying lemurs have been found from a site on Ellesmere Island, west of Greenland (Dawson et al., 1976).”
@Verners Tess: Basically, the climate did change but the change was a very slow, over millions of years…
https://www.global-climate-change.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot_26-1.jpg
Continents moved by centimeters per year, ock weathering, CO2 extraction and changes in ocean circulation took place over 10 million years. Life was able to adapt e.g. evolution of horses, but we’re changing climate 25,000 to 50,000 times faster now. That is faster than life can adapt, that is catastrophic.
Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum – https://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6071/959
@Pat Breen: so what’s your point
@Verners Tess: climate not changing
@David Jordan: doubt anyone who liked that comment read ur copy and paste wikipedia job.
@Simon: I did
@David Jordan: thanks for the info!
@David Jordan: tldr so what you’re saying is we need two continents to bash into each other and problem solved.
cant see why this hasn’t been done yet.
@Simon: I’m a geologist.
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