First 7 Steps to Freedom: How to Operate Ashton Gate’s Super Vaccination Center

Early images show how to get through the Ashton Gate Stadium mass vaccination center in just seven steps. The center is ready to attack tens of thousands of older and vulnerable people in the coming weeks.

The image shows a one-way system with barriers where hundreds of people are expected to line up at one of the country’s largest vaccination centers, which is scheduled to fully open on Monday (January 11).

Step 1 is check-in, and anyone who comes to the football stadium without a reservation will be returned, regardless of whether it is a priority group or not.

At this time, the members of the general population covered by the vaccine are over 80 years old, so when an invitation is sent by mail or phone, they will be at the top of the queue.

However, the government has vowed to jab everyone over the age of 70 by mid-February, so the procession can start to look younger over the course of a few weeks.

Volunteer stewards help maintain social distance and mobility for all, and the center’s medical team focuses on four priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Immunization and Immunization (JCVI). I will.

These are: A care home for the elderly and their caregivers. Everyone over 70 years old. All frontline medical and social welfare workers. Everyone who is clinically very vulnerable. After this, the Ministry of Health says that groups 5-9 people (all people between the ages of 50 and 16 with underlying health) will begin their first dose between mid-February and spring.

It is very unlikely that a healthy child under the age of 50 will be jabed before Easter and no vaccination will be given to the child. There is no evidence that the vaccine is unsafe for pregnant women, but health care managers need more evidence before deploying the vaccine to pregnant mothers on a regular basis. However, some pregnant women may be vaccinated if they are at high risk of being infected with the virus due to work reasons or if they are in good health at high risk of serious complications of the coronavirus. There is.You can find the latest government guidance here..

The stadium is expected to be an expanded version of a small community vaccination center where patients are required to wear masks and short sleeves under their coats for quick access.

In addition to the super site, there are 775 GP-led centers and 207 hospital sites scheduled to open by the end of this week, and no one is more than 10 minutes away from the jab. The stadium, however, jabs people from a wider area.

In step 2, some common health questions need to be answered before the patient moves to the queue in step 3.

Step 4 is when the needle enters the arm.

Step 5 heads to a room full of spaced chairs. Step 6 sits for 15 minutes and reads the murals on the walls of the stadium about the 1994 FA Cup match against Liverpool to make sure everything is going well.

The final step 7 is checkout.

Journalists were given a sneak preview of the South Stand Concourse yesterday, filled with clinical white screens, beds, chairs, and everything needed to deal with thousands of seniors and vulnerable people. ..

The medical staff had not yet arrived in perfect clinical condition, echoing in an empty room transformed by the Army.

Critics say the start of deployment of the approved Pfizer / BioNTech and Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines is slow.

The third Moderna is approved for use but will not stay in the UK for several months.

The UK has ordered a total of 157 million doses of approved vaccines. That is, 40 million BioNTech / Pfizer, 100 million Oxford / AstraZeneca, and 17 million Moderna.

However, only a few of them are manufactured and shipped, and GP says the availability of supplies determines how fast they can go.

By January 3, more than 1.1 million people had been vaccinated in the UK, increasing to 1.5 million across the UK.

NHS England figures show that 308,541 patients had jabs in the week leading up to January 3.

During this period, 661,224 doses were given to people over the age of 80.

Residents of many care facilities and those who are truly at home are given jabs by the roving team with the goal of completing this by the end of January.

However, the blockade rules still apply to everyone, and the government has excluded “immunity passports” for those who had jabs.

Vaccines prevent you from getting sick, but scientists still don’t know if you will prevent you from passing the coronavirus to friends and family if you violate the rules.

However, Boris Johnson hopes that those who are most likely to die of the virus will gradually lift the blockade from mid-February after receiving the first dose.

However, the vaccine center is still there and will give a second dose of both Pfizer and Oxford Jab.

Initially, people were supposed to get a Pfizer Jab booster within 21 days.

However, on December 30, four UK chief medical officers changed the tack dramatically, saying people would only take a second dose after 11-12 weeks.

So the soccer stadium will look like this in the coming months.