Hubby got his invitation by text message, but I didn't get mine yet.

If you installed the AlertSwiss app, make sure you also select your Kantons of interest and turn on notifications for the app. I turned on the whole country out of curiosity.

Sorry if this is blatantly obvious but thought I would mention it.

Indeed.

Back home, all the medical and medical-adjacent folks I know are spending their free time volunteering as vaccinators. Doctors, nurses and EMTs as you'd expect, also pharmacists, dentists, vets... even my nephew the volunteer fireman.

Has Switzerland expanded the ranks of vaccinators?

I rather enjoyed the summer of 2020 - seemed pretty normal. What I can't cope with is another winter like the one we just had.

I got my text on Thursday evening, with first appointment in about 2 weeks.

I so agree with that.

On the contrary, apparently we cant even get some of our general practitioners to do it. Claim is that the renumeration is to low....

"In addition to the vaccination centers, the jabs are also administered in the practices of general practitioners. And they, of all people, who know their patients best, now at least occasionally no longer show any desire for it. As "20 Minuten" reports, there are individual practices in the cantons of Thurgau, Zug and Zurich that want to drop out or do not even want to start vaccinating in the future."

https://www.blick.ch/politik/streit-...d16436666.html

Neuchâtel has.
They’re using a team of people, amongst others, who under normal circumstances organise the annual music festival.
It has been cancelled yet again this year and the employees along with pool employees and others have been trained to work in the vaccination centres.

yes, they're using people from unemployed sectors for the logistics.

But to do the vaccines themselves, there isn't a lack of personnel, rather a lack of doses.

If you get invited to get your Vaxzevria vaccine: Nope it's not a new vaccine. Astrazeneca simply changed it's name.

In case you didn't trust it before, do you trust it more now?

Got my dates today.

Back from easter break and got on various business calls today. People I spoke to in Singapore, London and US got their first jab within the past week. Even the guy in Brazil has his appointment tomorrow.

This is getting quite depressing.

they should do a go fund me. or maybe ask the nation to clap them once an evening.

In my GP practice, the doctor administering the shots is not one of the regular practice docs. So I wonder if she’s hired by the management group (Winti Med). When I got my shot, she told me she spent the morning administering shots in a care facility.

Most of my friends in Singapore who are 55+ already received their first or second vaccine. In the US, most of my family (there are eight of us and I am the youngest at 56 years of age) have received both doses/and/or the J&J single-dose vaccine.

I am planning to get the J&J vaccine when I go back to the US in late April. As a reference, when I checked the vaccine portal last week, only two pharmacies had the J&J vaccine in stock in my area but when I checked yesterday, 14 pharmacies had inventory - all within the same 10-mile radius.

If it's not a personal question - how far in advance? I guess with the bumper amounts due in May those invites will start flying out shortly.

Do you know why they‘re dropping out? Reliable sources report that many of the practices that volunteered to vaccinate didn‘t get any vaccines. In several cases, they got that message AFTER arranging appointments for 100+ patients willing to get the jab. Or even after having given them a first jab - no second doses for weeks. Can you imagine how much perfectly senseless work that generates for the practice team? Some decided they weren‘t up to waiting for Godot. Roll your eyes all you want: they have my sympathy. (It was never about profit. Even the revised Zurich tariff doesn‘t make vaccinating profitable. At least it comes closer to covering the cost.)

Biden just announced that all adults will be eligible for the vax in the US from April 16, so I’m assuming there will be even more places with inventory when you‘re there.

The quoted article is refering to practices that drop out due to the low renumeration per jab given not due to lack of vaccine.
Others are also donating their free time to volunteer. Nothing says that vaccinations have to be given during normal working hours.
These are extraordinary times that require extraordinary measures. It should not be about money. So no sympathy from my side for those that make it about that.

Tbh it's pointless having gps do this with the number of vaccines we have. We are now behind even our Eu neighbours.