Thread by @Telegraph

Sick of the 'no-shows'...

💉This vaccine volunteer working on the booster frontline has a message for those who say 'no' to the jab

#Thread 👇

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/1…

"The news today is dominated by people who can’t book their jabs, of crashing NHS websites, of four-hour-long queues and unavailable lateral flow tests," writes vaccine volunteer Miranda Levy

"Yet despite all this, there remains an (often vocal) minority, who aren’t turning up for their boosters – if they have had the first two vaccines in the first place"

❌"Of the 250 people expected at my clinic yesterday there were about 30 'no shows': those with appointments who simply did not appear"

"No shows at the clinic are irritating on a number of levels.

💉"For starters, because of the way the vaccine is stored: we are using Pfizer in this clinic, and doses have to be calculated exactly"

"Desperate to get our 'jabs into arms', we were forced to hawk our precious wares: I was on Twitter at 4pm, asking 'walk-ins' to come forward.

"It seems ironic that we have to beg people to turn up for something that might save their lives"

"The odd no show could be down to keen people finding walk-in clinics earlier in the week.

"But most likely it’s because our patients simply couldn’t be bothered, and found better things to do"

🔎Read Miranda's full first-person account from the booster frontline here 👇

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/1…