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Likely for two reasons. When planning vaccine clinics, you have to assume everyone will wait their 15 minutes and plan that into how many appointments you can b
by giarc 5y ago
Likely for two reasons. When planning vaccine clinics, you have to assume everyone will wait their 15 minutes and plan that into how many appointments you can book. If you only have a waiting room that can properly seat X amount of people for 15 minutes, then you can only book Y amount of appointments. (remember it's not fire capacity anymore since they should be 2 meters apart).
The other thing this allows is drive thru appointments in different areas. Drive thru vaccine clinics have existed before, but it's very difficult to find a place large enough to house a whole bunch of cars for 15 minutes. The same argument as above applies.
This also opens up things like vaccine clinics at train stations where you get the jab waiting for the train, then once your are done you can immediately jump on your train/bus etc.
- antirez 5y agoIn in Italy I received 3 shots in total, in three different vaccination units. We have among the highest vaccination rates in Europe so at some points a lot of people showed up. Well... the waiting room never where the problem because you need a room only as large as the peak vaccination rate you can have within 15 minutes. Now: because of anamnesis, check of the documents, and other stuff, it is very hard to vaccine a lot of people in 15 minutes: this means that you need a relatively small room. This is what makes me very skeptical about the NHS analysis. EDIT: I just asked a friend of mine working at one of such vaccination areas and confirmed my impressions. They never had a problem with the waiting room, but instead a problem with the queue that forms at the initial stage, because the vaccination itself does not go very fast, due to the checks needed to make sure you can receive the shot, is the correct one, and so forth.