Second dose experiences are starting to come around:
I think it’s super important to set real expectations on it, even if it isn’t easy marketing.
ETA: SOB stands for shortness of breath.
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So basically, what happens to me every time I get a flu shot.
Thanks for sharing!
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Bring it on, I say.
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All the accounts I’m seeing and friends of mine who are getting their second doses seem to agree that you can expect a more intense repeat of your first dose experience. Based on my experience this week, I’m taking off the 2 days of work following the second dose.
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I hope hospitals keep this in mind and stagger the vaccination clinics for their staff second doses.
A reaction is good though, even if it’s uncomfortable…that’s how you get the antibodies. I know our pediatrician said the recommendation for childhood vaccines is to no longer give Tylenol (they used to tell you to). It was fighting the necessary immune response
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That is interesting to know! I got through my fever, headache and fatigue with grit and laziness. I did take some pain meds to sleep because my arm was super sore and my joints decided they wanted to join the party.
My timeline went:
Noon Wednesday: vaccine yay!
Dinner time Wednesday: arm getting sore, slight headache
Bedtime: arm wanted to fall off, headache, joints in full flare mode
Thursday all day: arm same, bad headache, temp fluctuating between 100.6 and 101. Utterly exhausted.
Thursday over night: fever broke
Friday: tired AF, slight headache, injection site hurts when poked, otherwise no.
Friday night: back to 100%
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So, out of curiosity I asked in my moms group who had gotten pos covid diagnoses for some combo of them/their partner/their kid(s). So, any immediate family diagnoses. We have 150 people in the group. 105 have responded. 13 said yes. So, over 12% of the group has had immediate family positives 
since at least 8 people are in Australia too, they frankly shouldn’t even be counted in with the rest of us lol, although I didn’t check how many of them replied in the poll.
Anyway, thought others might be interested in my very unofficial science. Most of the group is US and Canada, with some UK and Aus, and a couple in Spain.
Eta up to 15 of 108, one lady just heard back on her test today 
oooof. So, about 14%
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Almost 7% of the US has been diagnosed with covid so far, and that doesn’t even count people like me who never got tested…doesn’t surprise me that 12% of your group have a family connection.
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I have a question about risk groups.
My city has been approved by the state to move to “phase 1b” of vaccinations starting Monday. This is essential non-healthcare workers and people over age 75. Phase 1c adds people at high risk for covid complications and people over age 65. The city opened a registration portal for anyone in groups 1b and 1c. I can’t tell, though, if I qualify for group 1c. Here is the guidance on the form:
It is clear that anyone with a condition in the first list is part of group 1c. But I have one or more conditions in the second list (that starts “Additionally…”). Do you think this list would also be eligible?
ETA: yes, I could call the hotline. But I don’t want to and they are probably going to get a lot of calls on Monday.
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This made me happy to see
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From a friend who got her second dose: Honored to be included in the ranks of the fully-vaccinated. I’m about 30hrs out from dose #2, arm is definitely sore and I got a little queasy this afternoon but nothing unbearable. Keep wearing your masks and staying apart so we can beat this thing!
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I have no informed opinion about getting more people first doses vs keeping some back for second doses… But I’m glad the president elect is, you know, taking an interest.
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It’s getting real bad in London. I have two university friends who are junior doctors in some of the badly hit hospitals, and they’re out of beds and treating patients in the backs of ambulances.
Thankfully it hasn’t got that bad in my Dad’s hospital yet, but this strain is spreading like wildfire and it’s hard to see how this isn’t going to be the story everywhere in a few weeks.
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I would think you’re eligible from the second part of the list. Have you clicked through to the form and do they make your say your specific condition, or do they just ask if you’re eligible? I’d fill out the form and let them tell you if you aren’t eligible. Like people were saying above, at some point it’s more important to get the raw numbers of people vaccinated up than it is to make sure that it’s in the exact order of who needs it most.
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I have a friend who is a NHS nurse in London and she’s beside herself. She’s not even an ICU nurse, and she has been saying “it is much worse than most people think” for weeks.
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Thanks for the reply. This was on the form itself. It doesn’t ask specific condition, just whether you are registering for age, occupation, or medical condition. I decided to register. As you say, they can always deny me later.
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I am at the airport and I would estimate 80% of people not wearing masks, even though we have been asked to
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I ask not surprised.
Related, I couldn’t get several things from the online store for Coles because of “delays in supply trains from the eastern states”. But I do have a lot of lentils, beans and long life milk now…
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Though all but 4 people on my full plane have masks on.
Though my aunt said her flight that left about an hour before mine, only about 10 people that she could see had masks 
Edit: this is my first time having to wear a mask since the pandemic started so its a bit of a weird experience for me
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