I already posted this elsewhere, but I think the Covid Vaccination deserves its own topic...
Here is the Bulgarian website where you can book an appointment for a Covid Vaccination:
https://his.bg/
* This website is in Bulgarian (but, if you prefer English, you can open it with the Google Chrome browser with automatic translation enabled)
* You require a Residence Card (with your personal number), but no EHIC or insurance card.
* It's free of charge.
* You need to print the appointment confirmation, and print and sign the disclaimer form.
* I think they are mostly giving out the Oxford AstraZeneca (AZ) one, although the appointment system did offer me the chance to specify another. So if they are getting deliveries of the Pfizer, you might be able to hold out for this, if you prefer.
I did mine at Pulmed in Plovdiv, which is a very nice shiny new hospital. I think this is very much a YMMV situation, but my side-effects lasted a couple of days, headache, tiredness, aching hand/arm. A week later I was fine.
The nurse gave us appointment cards (rather than it being in the above online system) for 2nd shot in 3 months time.
From what I read, Bulgarians are currently pretty anti-vaccine, so I don't think the vaccination points are super busy. If you have a Residence Permit... and you print the disclaimer form... I suspect you have a pretty good chance of getting it even without an appointment. Or going back for your 2nd shot on a different date.
There are still news items about AZ and clotting events, so I think you need to mull it over, especially, according to a couple of countries, if you are a woman under 55. The risk period is 4 to 20 days after vaccination, and the main warning sign requiring urgent medical attention is severe headache and/or unexplained bruising.
SOME DATA AS of APRIL 4, 2021
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The UK (biggest user of AZ, and has not been paused) has given 18.1 million shots.
0.1% = 18,000
0.001% = 180
0.0002% = 36
0.00005% = 9
Their clotting numbers are 30 cases, with 7 deaths.
Covid data for UK and Bulgaria:
UK population 67 million
cases 4.36 million = 6.5%
deaths 127,000 = 0.2%
BG population 7 million
cases 352,000 = 5%
deaths 13,500 = 0.2%
Statistically, death from Covid is 4,000 times more likely than death from AZ vaccine. Hence, the continued advice from EMA (European Medicines Agency) and UK to take it.
(Note: That's if you treat AZ as causing the clots. This is not proven, and AZ says there are clotting cases that occur in people that take other vaccines, or take no vaccine at all.)