Where did you find an appointment, just out of curiosity? All of the hospitals I checked (Mackay, NTUH, Far Eastern) all seemed pretty full even before today’s news. I’m doing mine this week.
Ah yes, so much for advance planning.
https://hos.femh.org.tw/newfemh/webreg_net/index.aspx
Maybe they are gone now.
On May 6, Taiwan saw 6,461 people receive a shot, a single-day high for the country that is four times the average rates in March and April. The government is hoping this elevated rate will continue in order to keep the two shipments of AstraZeneca vaccine it has secured, which are set to expire in less than a month, from going to waste.
Amazing. At this rate they’ll have 50% of the population (=23,570,000/(2×251×6,461)) vaccinated by mid-2028.
One of the obvious places to improve is to stop taking weekends off. Vaccinations should be moving forward seven days per week.
Guy
Yeah, I actually checked Far Eastern at the weekend while I was discussing it with a friend. Most of the appointments seemed booked by then even.
When I did mine, they had one or two for tomorrow and a bunch for two weeks from now.
Anyone get the vaccine with only a passport? I registered with my passport number.
I’m going to try to use my passport only, so I can use my APRC and health card to get the Pfizer or Moderna one later this summer. Hopefully they are not linking them up.
I read on a couple of hospital websites that you need 2 forms of ID. Not sure though.
I believe that your passport number should be linked to your APRC and NHI, no? I mean, NHI can see your travel history, which presumably means that everything is linked now. No idea whether that info is available to the hospital/doctor for this purpose though.
So, how good/bad/helpful/harmful is getting fully AZ vaxed, and then following it, say, a month later, with a full Pfizer/Moderna vax course? I’ve been trying to Google this info, as I intend to go back to the US at least two weeks after getting my final AZ vax.
This kind of query belongs in the vaccine discussion thread, not in this thread.
Have a look here instead:
Guy
So, if you get vaccinated with Moderna than you’re actually ahead of most folks that got AZ. 4 weeks vs 8 weeks second dose.
Hope the sudden inevitable rush for vaccines doesn’t hamper me booking a 2nd jab …
That’s my concern now, that I’ll be bundled down the lift because honestly, it seemed a bit ramshackle and disorganised when I went–was just turfed out with june 22 scrawled on my card with no clue whether that was my actual appointment or whether I should phone and book or what.
I believe people seeking their 2nd jab have priority.
Oh and you are supposed to make the booking two weeks before the date they stamp on your card. The date is your jab date.
Mine has the date for the second written on it, first jab date is stamped on. I was given a choice of dates for the second jab, this was in WanFang.
Mine was for Far Eastern.
Of course, given the crappy website design here, if you can’t get your looking made, you can call them and explain that it’s for your second shot. They should be able to prioritize you.
Any idea how that will be implemented? I haven’t seen anything on any of the hospital booking systems that would specifically allow a second shot to be booked.
Does it all have to be done over the phone?
Just got my shot this afternoon! Feeling great so far.
More people that I expected though. Lots of older people so that probably helped bolster the numbers. From when I started getting in line to getting my shot it took about 40 minutes then just had to wait about 30 minutes afterwards as required. So just under an hour and a half total.
Everyone was basically shoulder to shoulder without much space at all the associated stations (from registration to doctor’s approval, to shot and then rest). Seemed to be more than 100 people in a closed environment all really close to each other.
Given this is what it looks like when Taiwan’s highest number of doses administered in a day is still less than 7,000 shots a day it will be interesting to see what happens when things pick up.
The current batches will expire on May 31 (199.2 K doses) and June 15 (117K doses). Hopefully more vaccines will arrive soon.
Same in Wanfang, seem to be zero effort at social distancing, even clipboards and pens to fill out the forms were being reused.