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Fevric J. Glandules <f...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> There were, yes. Since the 1/2nd jab queue was prioritized
>> it didn't often have more than 1 person in it at most. One
>> of the volunteers would periodically walk down the booster
>> queue calling for people who were priority elegible.
>
>So people *with* an appointment had to wait an hour...
Er, as per my post, I waited 20 minutes. This was
pretty much entirely due to all the other people
with appointments for boosters -- there were a lot of
them and a bare trickle of priority people.
>But still, compared to earlier this year, a bit of a shambles.
I get the impression it's improved a bit, especially
with the Papworth centre opening. I also had very good
queue-free experiences for my 1st and 2nd jabs --
perhaps that was because (as a mid-40s person) by
the time they got to my group the systems had been
running for some months to have the kinks worked out,
and also they were still allowing new groups to book
at a graduated rate. For the boosters they'd effectively
ramped down the system and now have had to ramp it up
again, and they're also trying to get pretty much the
whole under-50 population through at once.
I suspect the best fix for the queues would have been
if they'd had more of a sense of urgency about the
boosters and done more of them earlier in the year
than they did...
-- PMM