I would add just that it seems like we know even less what to expect with mild infection, or people who are particularly young, old, or immune compromised.
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My daddy got his second Moderna shot today! Mamaâs a couple weeks out because she had to wait until they opened it to seniors under 75 to get her first- sheâs 74; heâs 75.
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The reasoning for this that Iâve heard is difficulty for those people who would be eligible to actually make it there in time before the vaccines spoil. Plus if there is only a couple of doses left, you donât want to cause a big scene by offering 2 vaccines to a waiting room full of people.
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Same two studies (thatâs all we have right now and one isnât even officially published yet), but I found the write up to be well done and accessible. And touches on the vaccine hesitancy stuff we were recently pondering.
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I have a hard time accepting there is no way to figure this out though. Yes, please give it to literally anyone rather than toss it. Why not contact 5 folks at the top of the wait list to ask if they want to be on (phone) standby today or tomorrow to come in under short notice if thereâs a cancellation or no show? I kind of donât want to hear that short notice doesnât work for some seniors or some disabled or some poor people, so we shouldnât even give them the opportunityâŚ
The âlet me randomly call my daughter and see if she wants itâ calls wasted time. They were contacting people who had no intention of getting the vaccine, versus people who are trying to get appointments yet there is âno availabilityâ. With 30 minutes notice, my friend drove 80 miles an hour through a residential area to rush to pick up her husband and get him to the vaccine clinic before it closed. Had my friendâs husband not said yes, the vaccine would have been tossed. Iâm just glad my friend didnât kill anyone getting her husband to the appointment!
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Covid rates should further improve in our area - the entire 10-county public health region we live in is permanently discontinuing all Covid testing next week. People with private doctors may still be able to get tests, but not through the health departments. The only testing available to students at my college was through the health department, so rates on campus should improve as well.
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Well, thatâs great! All better! Congrats on defeating the pandemic! 
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That was a rollercoaster of a read. Yaaaayoooh. Oh.
Similarly, this morning I read Floridaâs teachers and police officers over 50 are next in line to get shots (yay!) then the very next article was about nearly half of central Florida deputies say theyâll turn down the vaccine (oh).
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Positive news with Johnson and Johnson though!
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Ah, wait, this isnât true. I forget the college is in a different health district - that health department is still doing drive-through testing once a week in College Town, so students who happen to own a car (and have symptoms, and make an appointment) can get tested. The public college 90 miles south of our home is in the district with us, so their campus rates should improve drastically since thereâs no testing anymoreâŚ
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San Diego County is opening up vaccinations to food workers on Saturday, and Kid-4 and I both managed to get appointments for Tuesday. We donât live in San Diego County, but the site asked us for our county of residence and our addresses and still made the appointments, so maybe itâs okay. Thereâs no guidance on what we need as proof of occupation, and no number to call. And it asked if weâd been recently diagnosed with COVID (she has). I looked up whether itâs okay to get it within 90 daysâŚone source says to wait 90 days if youâve had convalescent plasma or monoclonal antibodies but donât wait otherwise (she hasnât), the other source says to wait 90 days after diagnosis, period. Both sources are the CDC.
I guess weâll find out Tuesday if itâs a go. Itâs worth the 120-mile round trip for the chance it might be.
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I did a 200-mile round trip today. Worth it! I hope it works out for you.
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I hope it works out! Weâre doing 70 miles round trip for our second shots today.
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My parents went 70 miles round trip for their first shots yesterday. I would say itâs worth it but I live in the upper Midwest where everything is a million miles away. I also live in a border area. People are going from one state to another to get shots quite a bit(the hospitals are both in other state). No one is batting an eye.
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And weâre all shot up. Second dose of Pfizer, and now we just wait for full effectiveness in a couple of weeks.
No noticeable side effects yet, three hours after.
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Fuuuuuck. My employer finally got tired of the pandemic and is cancelling all WFH hoursâŚwith two weeksâ notice.
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The mayor said today that the city is 500,000 doses of vaccine behind where we need to be to get thru group 1b. Which doesnât include preexisting conditions.
As in, we do not have the doses, not that they havenât been administered.
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oh no!
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If anyone has perspectives on the extent to which working in person 5 days a week would be riskier than 3 days, please share. I am thinking of taking unpaid leave for the other two days that I was supposed to WFH and I want thoughts on whether I am overreacting/just making a protest vs actually helping myself and other people. Not that the former is necessarily a dealbreaker. Itâs not.
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I feel like there are too many variables here. Private office or hot desking? Expected face time/meetings in tight conference rooms? How well can you hold your pee so you donât have to walk down the hallway?
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