[nudephil (OP)]

Carol asks:

I have a 17.5mg methatrexate injection weekly for rheumatoid arthritis. I cannot find any advice on whether I should leave it off before my COVID vaccine or to continue, and also if it's okay to have it at all?

[Bored chemist]

Ask whoever prescribed it; they will know much more about your circumstances than some web site.

[syhprum]

Very sound advice but doctors are very hard to comunicate with these days, no face to face discussion due to covid-19, no fax machines due to obsseions with privacy and no emails publised

[Bored chemist]

That's interesting.
The story I heard was "Dear General Public. Here are some figures from NHS England which you wont see in the news today.
GP surgery appointments - 26.6 Million in September 2020, an increase of 20% in workload from this time last year.
Over half of these appointments (GP, nurse, other practitioners) were face-to-face (56.6%).
We've been working flat out over the last 8 months, despite many of us and our staff having to self-isolate or becoming ill.
So the next time you hear the usual frothing anti-GP rhetoric from hate-pamphlets such as the Daily Mail or Daily Telegraph, or from the army of dissatisfied adult toddlers on social media, kindly inform them to go and **** themselves."

But that's only from a doctor; what would they know?

[syhprum]

 I do in fact read the Daily Telegraph for the same reason as I read the the RT and used to listen to W Joyce during the war I wish to know what other people believe.
Can you suggest any other source of news that would have little chance of corrupting me  .

[Bored chemist]

Well, if you want to find out what's happening in GP surgeries, it's leaky that a GP will, at least, know the answer.
They may of course lie.

Buti the alternative seems to be to listen to a journalist who- not actually having first hand knowledge- will have to make stuff up and then pretend that they know it. So they are pretty much forced to lie.

If you find two conflicting reports then at least  you know that you are ignorant.
If you only read one, then you don't even have that wisdom.