I think the state of Maryland pays for vaccines at the mass vaccination sites—I wasn’t asked for my insurance information.
I got my second Pfizer dose yesterday morning. Woke up feeling pretty crappy today. Ibuprofen seems to be keeping it well under control—I can really tell when the ibuprofen is wearing off.
Only a sore arm from the first dose. I love how excited my coworkers were about getting vaccinated–there has been a real happy vibe around here since we found out at the beginning of last week that shots were going to be available for us as “essential human services workers” (we work in the library, which is open limited hours).
I have an appointment for my first dose on Friday!
Vaccine Finder posted this week’s time slots about 20 minutes ago, and they’re all gone already. That’s amazing. I’m so glad I checked when I did.
Yay husband just got his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine!
It’s so fun to read people getting their vaccines!
I’m lucky to be a teacher in Oregon, as @anomalily explained earlier, because that made me eligible early on. I think I only had to wait for the health care workers and then it was my turn. My husband is also a teacher so we’re all good in this house. We has our first shot on February 5th and our second on March 5th. And it feels great! I feel like I’ve got a superpower. I mean, we still go almost nowhere and we wear masks, etc. but in general, we feel so much safer. I hope everyone can have that sense of peace soon!!!
For those keeping track, the first dose gave me nothing but a sore arm. My husband’s arm was barely sore. The second dose gave me an extremely sore arm and made us both very tired and foggy. Neither of us got a fever. My tiredness lasted for a little over a day, his for less than a day. His arm was sorer than the previous time, but not bad. Mine was sore for a week! The first couple of days, I couldn’t even lift it without pain. But honestly, no big deal. It was really not anywhere near as bad as I feared it would be and I’m just so grateful that we were able to get it.
My county is trying to amend restrictions so that if people want to gather in groups of more than 50 and cannot distance, they have to either wear a mask or have been vaccinated. The change is that they don’t need to wear masks if they are vaccinated.
Folks are losing their damn minds. There’s a facebook post with just about 1000 comments with people claiming that this means that the police will be kicking in your door for having your elderly mother over for dinner. The comparisons to the Holocaust and transphobic (I identify as vaccinated, smirk) comments are out of control. I have one lady arguing with me for over an hour over whether it is illegal to ask about someone’s medical information and she posted a screenshot of her web search saying it wasn’t as proof that she was right.
Lord I hate where I live sometimes.
People are really frustrating sometimes. I had to delete my Facebook app recently. I was getting into arguments with people I really wanted to respect. It was not helpful to my mental health at all.
whoa – check out “immunity after first dose” section. pfizer and moderna are ~90% effective two weeks after the first dose! i am going SWIMMING next week (with distancing and masks outside the water of course)
So when do we all have to start getting boosters? Do they know yet? Is it annual? Twice a year?
It seems like we will never reach herd immunity, so those who want to stay immune are going to have to get a lot of regular boosters.
Which means rich countries are going to continue to monopolize the share of these vaccines…sigh…
Still, makes me happy that I’m rich in a rich country.
I feel equally fortunate, but man, the inequity of this is crazy.
And I think there have been some really good arguements that not vaccinating poorer countries is going to bite rich countries in the butt.
As far as I know, no studies have come out in the couple weeks since we last discussed. Haven’t seen anything come across my orbit. I think we’re still working on racing the variants with the vaccine drives. I do know the UKs approach of one dose and wait so they can vaccinate more people appears to be paying off really well, and they don’t seem to be seeing declines in immunity yet.
I just brought it up again, because the linked article says something about how the study only tracked 63 days and a slight decline was seen.
Have they tracked more than 63 days post vaccine 2? It seems like those results should keep coming out.
Have they? Yes. Ongoing. Have they been published yet? Not that I have seen. However, we’re months out from trials and I haven’t seen any SOS briefs either, which leads me to believe emerging data is promising. The CDC guidance wouldn’t be what it is otherwise.
Wow: just realized that Colorado expanded the list of which conditions are eligible for the vaccine, and I’m eligible… now! Now off to do some research to see where to get it.
Look on Vaccine Finder. They have links to pharmacies that provide vaccines near you.
I’m in Fort Collins, and I (finally) have an appointment for Friday. The appointments opened up at like 9:30 or 10 am on Monday, and they were all full within a half hour, so sign up fast when you find one!
Thanks!
Orange County Booked 7,000 Appointments In 15 Minutes After Dropping Eligibility To 40
Statewide the limit is 50 (as of yesterday) but the governor is very obviously not bothering to stop it, he’s just continuing to beat the drum of “Elderly first!” (probably so he’ll look good in a future presidential run, ugh). He has said that Florida will open to all 16+ before May 1st but there’s no details on how soon that might be. But that means I’m less than six weeks away from being able to make an appointment and first appointments are generally within a few days of being able to book! If I had a specific date I’d definitely be doing a count down with fun stickers or something.
I keep checking the % of the population of both my county and state that have been vaccinated. We’re stuck around 76% of people over 75 with at least one dose, so I am worried that’s an indicator that the remaining 25% aren’t going to do it at all.
Colorado is at ~19% of the population over 18 years old fully vaccinated, with another 30% having at least 1 dose. It’s not terrible, and I’m excited that most of the people I work with have pending appointments now that we’re eligible.
ETA - The provider stats are interesting too - it’s very evenly split 40% Pfizer, 40% Moderna, and 20% J%J.
I’m hoping that at least some of that group is about access. There must be some seniors who are stuck at home without good transit options.