Alison O'Connor: Vaccine lottery - Rescheduling to get a different jab is now popular

How complacent we have become though in so short a time that we now feel entitled to pick and choose what vaccine we want to receive, writes Alison O'Connor

Public Health Nurse Deirdre Murphy with a vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination at the mass vaccination centre in the Helix, DCU, Dublin. File Picture: PA

She wasn’t intentionally smug. But it was there nonetheless. I could understand it, even if it grated slightly. My friend, a few years older than me, had gone for the jab last Saturday and the needle that entered her arm was filled with the Pfizer vaccine.

She was in and out in under a half an hour, saying the logistical operation at the Aviva in Dublin was highly impressive with thousands easily making their way through.