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Well they would say that wouldn't they? In any event, that's not really the point; the point is XXX vaccine (and in the case of AZ, specific 'brands' of AZ) is either on the list of approved vaccines decided by any given country or it's not. If it's not, announcements by some government spokesperson from any country quoting a manufacturer saying they are all of the same quality ain't worth sh*t!

And as if by magic, email from Medpark today saying they have have secured enough Moderna to service the demand. So that's both places we registered, Medpark and Kasemrad.

Much better organised than yesterday and nowhere near as crowded. Went over at 07:30, very short queue, 40 + people. Waited about 15 minutes then the staff called for anyone over 60 to form a queue within a queue, they have now separated the reception desks, one for over 60s the other for everyone else. You need to scan a QR code displayed on noticeboards near the queue. This brings up a webform with simple Q&A about whether you have any covid or similar symptoms. After you hit submit it will bring up a screen which they will want to see at the desk as it indicates the level of risk and whether or not you can use the normal queue. The reception desk will then give you a queue number. By 07:50 I was inside in a well organised seating area where a nurse was coming round with a mobile BP machine checking BP and noting your weight and height (they just ask you). Don't throw the plastic sleeve they give you to cover your arm when they take your BP as you will need it in the observation area. After that you wait to be called to service desks where they enter details into a system and give you a medical conditions form where you simply tick the boxes and sign a vaccine consent form. They hand you a set of papers to take inside. After that straight into an area with the injection stations (about 4-5 in all), jab straight away (requested and got Pfizer) and then into the observation area where, after handing your sheaf of papers to the staff at the desk, you have a 30 minutes wait after which they will give you your next appointment sheet (3 week wait) with details of your jab. 1) Contrary to the advice from some staff they are still doing evening appointments so you can still go for it if you have one. 2) If you have trouble standing or for any other reason need a wheelchair DON"T wait in the normal queue. Got to the main door entrance and speak to the staff. They will arrange a wheel chair and wheel you straight in to the system without waiting. I left the hospital just before 9:00am and by that time there were still very few people in the queue, again 40 or so. Looks like they learned from the problems yesterday and adjusted their processes but it was strange that there were so few people. Maybe down to a first day rush yesterday or maybe it was the last day for appointments Thai folks had from their Mor Prom registrations? All guessing but there were very few Thai citizens there today.

Much better organised at Medpark than yesterday and nowhere near as crowded. Went over at 07:30, very short queue, 40 + people. Waited about 15 minutes then the staff called for anyone over 60 to form a queue within a queue, they have now separated the reception desks, one for over 60s the other for everyone else. You need to scan a QR code displayed on noticeboards near the queue. This brings up a webform with simple Q&A about whether you have any covid or similar symptoms. After you hit submit it will bring up a screen which they will want to see at the desk as it indicates the level of risk and whether or not you can use the normal queue. The reception desk will then give you a queue number. By 07:50 I was inside in a well organised seating area where a nurse was coming round with a mobile BP machine checking BP and noting your weight and height (they just ask you). Don't throw the plastic sleeve they give you to cover your arm when they take your BP as you will need it in the observation area. After that you wait to be called to service desks where they enter details into a system and give you a medical conditions form where you simply tick the boxes and sign a vaccine consent form. They hand you a set of papers to take inside. After that straight into an area with the injection stations (about 4-5 in all), jab straight away (requested and got Pfizer) and then into the observation area where, after handing your sheaf of papers to the staff at the desk, you have a 30 minutes wait after which they will give you your next appointment sheet (3 week wait) with details of your jab. 1) Contrary to the advice from some staff they are still doing evening appointments so you can still go for it if you have one. 2) If you have trouble standing or for any other reason need a wheelchair DON"T wait in the normal queue. Got to the main door entrance and speak to the staff. They will arrange a wheel chair and wheel you straight in to the system without waiting. I left the hospital just before 9:00am and by that time there were still very few people in the queue, again 40 or so. Looks like they learned from the problems yesterday and adjusted their processes but it was strange that there were so few people. Maybe down to a first day rush yesterday or maybe it was the last day for appointments Thai folks had from their Mor Prom registrations? All guessing but there were very few Thai citizens there today.

We paid for Moderna at Medpark, no news at all from them at the moment. That said, for some reason I don't seem to receive emails from Medpark in some cases so I may well only pick up news from seeing others post about it, MedPark are rubbish at responding to emails (or even answering the phone judging from all the complaints on their FB page and Maps).

Interesting you were able to go at 7:10pm. One of the issues for me with Medpark is conflicting information and the fact that for me, their email update system isn't working. I had an appointment for 6:30 pm on the 10th but having heard that they'd changed the timings I mailed them to ask (using a different email address) and was told I could go at 6:30pm OR between 8am and 5pm. Went over a couple of times during the day and saw it was like Bang Sue 2 with very long queues and zero social distancing. Asked the staff inside at the desk and they said that there were no evening appointments and that you HAD to come between 8am and 5pm now. Clearly they haven't got a clue. Annoying really as I'd far sooner have stuck to my original appointment time. Shambolic really.

Not bad I suppose, makes a mockery of the appointment system though which seems to have been abandoned. You'd think they'd have learned from the Bang Sue fiasco. I might eve take a stroll over earlier if the mad rush has dies down, maybe leave it until any lunch time bump to the queue length has dies down.

When I went over there last week it was Thais only being jabbed and by 4pm it was pretty quiet. When they said I could go any time I thought it might be quiet still and decided it would be a good idea to go early, clearly an awful lot of people thought the same. Might wander over at 4 to see if it's died down at all, if not, just go at the original appointment time, it can't be any worse than it was at 8. It seems that their auto-email system has a problem in some cases too, I didn't receive an original confirmation or any of the updates sent out since, a few people I know had the same issue, we were only able to get a reply after contacting their Patient Access department.

My appointment is for 18:30 today, I'd not received any email from them at all but after contacting them to confirm the appointment I eventually got a reply saying I could go at the appointment time or any time between 08:00 - 17:00. Walked over there at 8:00 and saw this, came back home and will go at the original appointment time. Seems to have gone from having a well organised appointment system to absolute chaos.

Hitler's mob could have done with having these clowns behind them.

Not at all, just setting out the FACTS as they pertain to my actual experience, not an account of my experience that someone else has made up because that's what they want it to be. You, or this 'us' that you purport to be part of, interests me not in the least and at least I haven't devoted as much time as you have to making pointless, vacuous low IQ posts ????

Whatever. Not defensive and believe me, it will take much much more than some random internet nobody on a forum to make me angry. Don't confuse people getting bored with the relentless negativity and, despite NOT having the facts, the desire of some people to interpret things in a way that fit's THEIR version of events with anger. Despite having told you the facts you seemed to be determined to convince yourself (and others) that the appointment I had didn't come from Expatvac. Quite why you need to dispute a person's account by posting your own BS theories with zero evidence whatsoever is beyond me. You didn't ask for images but equally you clearly didn't want to believe the facts when I told you what they were, intent instead on spinning your own narrative, so quite how else someone is supposed to convince a determined disbeliever I've no idea. From other posts though you seem intent on seeing problems and anticipating the worst at every juncture so I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise. One thing that is certain though, what you do, think or whatever is of zero interest to me. I've posted my experience, people can make of it what they do. Added to ignore list.

The appointment WAS from Expat Intervac. I could post the images but I'm blowed if I'm doing it again just because someone wants to try and convince themselves it came from somewhere else. There is yet another thread lower down about Expatvac registrations with further details and an image if anyone wishes to look. I had an appointment via the old Intervac too, on 27th July, again at Bang Sue, when it was Covid Central. Decided not to go for that due to the massive overcrowding. Truth is neither you, I or anyone outside of MFA/MOPH have the slightest idea how many appointments have been successfully issued via the Expat Intervac site and any suggestion to the contrary is just BS theorising. Trying to 'validate' that by reference to posts on this forum, other forums or any other source (particularly the bitch and whinge 'nothing works' sources that seem to be prevalent at the moment) is just further 'pie in the sky' supposition unsupported by any evidence. Part of the problem with posting any information here is that you find yourself having to go out of your way to convince terminal disbelievers who seem to able to find, or want to find, problems at every single step of the way. I've no interest in trying to convince people who want to convince themselves that it's all doom and gloom for registering and getting vaccinated, I prefer to put the effort into arranging it and then getting on with life.

Outlier on this forum on this thread maybe, we've no idea how many have registered who've never even heard of, let alone use, Asean Now and who have also had appointments. The handover may well be the reason for the delay in sending the second appointment, either that or they're waiting until Pfizer is available, that would also allow them to divert any remaining AZ earmarked for expats to non-expat use. All merely guesses at the end of the day though.

I'm in BKK,

Registered on 1st, received a confirmation email immediately, received another mail on 3rd with a link for an appointment on 6th at Bang Sue. Taking someone to another hospital on 6th so not available, the appointment link gives you the opportunity to request an alternative date (but once only), did that, now waiting for alternative appointment.

I'm over 60 in BKK. I registered at Medpark (a hospital I can walk to) on 01/08/21, expressing a preference for Pfizer, for an appointment on 10/08/21 but didn't get the immediate confirmation email that others were getting (I did wonder if it was because I'd also booked and paid for Moderna at MedPark and the system had rejected my booking because of that). As such I also registered at Expatvac on the same date. Walked over to Medpark on 02/08/21 and staff confirmed I did have an appointment booked on 10/8/21 (apparently a systems glitch was rejecting my email address so I did not get the confirmation). Subsequently received an email from Expatvac on 03/08/21 with a link to confirm an appointment which you have to do within 24 hours. Clicked the link, appointment was for AZ at Bang Sue on 06/08/21. Really didn't fancy Bang Sue given the pictures of the crowding and Pfizer is preferable to me given that, unlike the local AZ, it is on the 'acceptable vaccine' list for travel to the EU, plus I now had the confirmed booking at Medpark. I'm also taking my wife to Bang Rak on the 6th (the same time as the Expat Vac appointment) for her vaccination so the 6th was a no go in any event.. When you get the appointment link it will tell you that if the date is not convenient you can elect to request an alternative appointment date (once only) or to cancel the appointment. I'm hoping the Medpark appointment will go without a hitch but TIT so, just in case, I requested an alternative appointment from Expatvac hoping that it would be a) after the 10th, b) Pfizer, and c) preferably not Bang Sue, giving me a fallback if Medpark cancels or falls through for any other reason. Yet to receive the alternative appointment which I'm hoping will not come for a few more days. Yet to hear anything about the Moderna booking but if the Pfizer jab goes ahead I'll either take the refund if I don't get it because of them being over-subscribed or pass the vaccine on to someone else. If I do get Pfizer I also wouldn't be surprised if that information will be available to those doing the Moderna short list and they'll chop me automatically, that said, inter-departmental communication I've never found to be a strong point here.

Then perhaps he should shut up!

The Untouchables ????

This time I heard back from Medpark. My appointment remains unchanged, maybe they are only curtailing the evening appointments from the 13th. One thing they did say in the email which is worth bearing in mind: 'Note: If you need the proof of vaccine, please inform the staff upon arrival and please ask for the appointment date/time of the 2nd dose before leaving the hospital.' So they clearly intend on giving people a 2nd dose and a date for it, along with proof of vaccination.

In my case I received no original confirmation email due to some glitch in their system not accepting the email address, as such I also haven't received the 'change appointment' email either so I have no way of getting in to amend my appointment (if indeed I actually NEED to amend it). I'm hoping it's a case of just being able to turn up otherwise it's another walk over to change it ???? Someone sent me a copy of the mail from MedPark and it looks like they are just moving everyone to a freedom of choice to go between 08:00 - 17:00 on any date between 13-20th? My appointment was for the 10th so I'm not sure what the score is with that, whether an email, had I received it, would have said 08:00 - 17:00 10th - 20th?

There will be 7 tourists each spending 9 billion baht per day, solved.

Yes when I was over there earlier the reception area is more like a 5 star hotel. Very clean, modern, very few people, loads of staff. The entrance for covid vaccination is at the side of the hospital on the right as you face it, that is also very well managed, strict appointment system with not more than 15-20 inside. Very impressive.

I suspect in case you suffer from an extreme adverse reaction onsite and need to be admitted, they want to know if you or an insurance company will be paying.

That's interesting. So they have a way to cater for the post 8:30pm appointments.