Current Covid vaccine programme to end in mid- February...

[mazi]

I’ve lost mine, but a quick summary.

We are sending you this letter because you are in a category that may benefit from treatment
for covid,  ie over 80 or lmmunosupressed.
You will be sent a test kit in the next two weeks and take the test if you have symptoms.

I am sure about the over 80 bit, you are to young

Report a positive result on 119 or online, you will be told what to do



A bit of digging shows that this group has always been eligible for free tests even after they were no
longer free for most.

So no connection with vaccine, just giving us them without us having to ask.

Googling “report a positive test” is where I found this.


Mike


A quick edit, you can order a pack of seven every three days, to test your nearest and dearest as well

[mazi]

Looks like the BBC reads rootschat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64876657

Mike

[jc26red]

I think gibel and mike’s letter to receive test kits is because they are in a group where if they caught covid they would benefit from medication whilst they had the virus.

This was discussed on a cancer forum I belong to (my husband not me) last week. The people who received letters were on immune suppressant treatments, not everyone in the group have received it  yet. My husband isn’t on chemo or radiation treatment and not expecting a letter.  They were not over 80 years old.

I guess it depends on your own personal medical history on whether you receive a letter.

[Gadget]

Looks like the BBC reads rootschat
...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64876657

Mike

 

[Pheno]

Well I have had no letter at all but have just received a box of tests!  Had no idea that I was considered 'that vulnerable'.

Pheno

[jc26red]

Well after my post yesterday, my husband received a test kit in the post this morning. He didn’t receive a letter either.

[Pheno]

I am not on immuno suppressants or receiving cancer treatment.  Pheno

[jc26red]

While my husband does have cancer he isn’t receiving any treatment which renders him vulnerable and hasn’t had any in the past, he is under 70 too.
We both had covid last year and both got over it with minimum symptoms, we are both fully jabbed.

[Gadget]

I don't think the letters/testing kits and the Spring 2023 booster plans  are unconnected.