Vaccine finder has an option for genetic problems as a risk factor! Yay! Unfortunately I was still rejected, lol.
No vaccine for you!
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There are also a fair number of medical conditions where vaccination is contraindicated, so some of them probably medically canât get it (which is why herd immunity is so important!). My friend with disautonomia is only allowed to get J&J per her doctors and thereâs no way to pick and choose which vaccine you get yet.
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Appointments donât say what kind of vaccine you are signing up for?
Here you can tell by how far apart a 2nd vaccine is, or if you only have 1.
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Husband is pissed, because after months of saying they absolutely would not be doing an onsite vaccine clinic, his work is now doing an onsite vaccine clinic.
So he will have to take 2 days PTO (plus any time for a reaction), and drive a total of 12 hours when all is said and done, because they SWORE they would never offer vaccines onsite.
And itâs not the same brand, so he canât even try to just get a second shot at work.
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Right but you canât tell beforehand, the sites donât say: J&J here! before you go through the whole sign up process yet. Plus sheâs sure to have a wild reaction so it needs be coordinated more carefully than just going to a mass vax site.
Sheâs not eligible under Maines age based only rollout, so itâs kind of theoretical still.
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I think only one of the 4 places I looked at allowed you to search by vaccine type. Everyone I know in CO has just signed up for the first appointment they could get, then were told at the appointment what kind they were getting.
My appointment confirmation has a link to sign up for a second appointment, but doesnât tell me if itâs 3 or 4 weeks out, so I donât know which one Iâm getting either, just that itâs not J&J.
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Thatâs so frustrating 
Iâm sorry.
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Here the mass vaxx sites tell you what you are getting but other places (drugstores, urgent cares, etc.) donât seem to be. At minimum though you can usually tell if youâre getting J&J or Pfizer/Moderna based on whether you get 1 appointments or 2. Or, if theyâre taking 16-year-olds and up then you know itâs whatever vaccine is for younger people - Pfizer I think?
Here, if you get it at Walgreens, you book 1st and 2nd dose together and theyâre exactly 28 days apart - because that falls within the window for both Pfizer and Moderna. I guess in case they arenât sure in advance which they will have? (Yikes, I hope they sort that out somehow so that you donât show up for your 2nd Pfizer dose and they only have Moderna?). So people havenât been able to tell based on that.
I asked when I made our appointments downstate and they said it was Pfizer - but they did not volunteer that information.
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There are also really high comorbidity rates by that age range, so although risk is increased, tolerance for trying a new drug can sometimes be low. Or recommended against. And I know some families are staggering vaccines in case someone had a reaction and needs caregiving. 75% is pretty great
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Sigh. Well, what the fuck did you THINK was going to happen when you loosened restrictions and are allowing more indoor dining, you dumb shits?!
(The dumb shits, of course, being our elected officials. Not you all. In case that wasnât clear. 
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In other fun news, some lady in the suburbs tested positive more than 2 weeks after her 2nd shot and had a âmildâ case (ie, sick in bed for 2 weeks but did not need hospitalization). So thatâs fantastic - and yes, I know that can still happen. I hope it doesnât dissuade people from getting the shot. Apparently her kids caught it somewhere and brought it home with them.
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I figure itâs like getting the flu after the flu shot. Iâm totally fine with a significantly reduced illness! I still get my flu shot every year including this year when I hardly ever leave the house!
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Sigh. It happened again. A vaccine provider gave shots to people who werenât supposed to get them yet, and now the city has cut off their supply and cancelled everyoneâs appointments. I donât THINK this is another Eric Trump/wealthy linejumpers situation; I think it is just them giving shots to people who donât qualify, as within the city theyâre not doing preexisting health conditions yet.
If people already got their 1st shot, the cityâs rescheduling them at a special city-run clinic set up just for them. It sounds like maybe theyâre doing that for school employees still in need of their first shot but itâs a little unclear.
So, that sucks - my friend (who qualified due to preexisting condition and thus should not have been vaccinated) went here and had a great experience and I was going to try for this location, for earlier appointments so we donât have to go downstate. Guess thatâs out now.
The huge contrast between whatâs happening in Chicago and whatâs happening in the rest of the state. The city is punishing providers who give vaccine to people who arenât supposed to get it yet, which hurts people trying to get appointments.The whole Loretto Hospital scandal sucks but itâs the people who live near there, in an underserved low income pharmacy desert, who are suffering because the city said no more vaccine for you.
Meanwhile, downstate doesnât care that we are unwashed heathen city folk who should just wait our turn - Quincy welcomes us, Springfield welcomes us, I just heard about another mass vaxx site thatâs farther south and was begging Chicagoans to drive down because they have more vaccine than they need.
Itâs hard not to feel like the cityâs actively trying to fuck us. I know that is not actually what is happening and I certainly donât think my white privileged ass is getting personally fucked, but when large providers get their supply yanked, that is sort of how it feels. Because itâs the Chicago residents who suffer, the venue will be just fine in the end.
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Wow, I had only heard of people being turned away if they were showing up before they qualified. The city actively cancelling everyoneâs appointments seems really short sighted and awful.
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Holy shit yâall! All Georgia adults will be eligible for the vaccine as of Thursday and on Monday all Texan adults will be eligible along with all Oklahoman adults.
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Itâll be chaos for a little while, but probably will calm down after a few days.
Itâs turned into a total he said she said situation.
The doctor who runs that clinic says that the shots were earmarked for Chicago Public Schools workers and they took those workers first⌠but they were getting a regular and consistent supply every week, so if they had extra doses and no other CPS workers took the appointments (which it sounds like were very well publicized, âif you work for CPS go here ASAPâ), they gave them to other frontline workers or seniors.
But, they apparently were not supposed to do that? And if they had leftover shots they were supposed to⌠Iâm not clear? Toss them?
The city is just being this huge gatekeeper and itâs the people who are being hurt. At this point, I feel like, get shots in fucking arms!
Technically they ARE turning people away if they show up unqualified now⌠because if you donât work for CPS you are unqualified. But a whole lot of people are due for second shots and now they are scrambling. The city set up a second-shot site for just these people but of course there are problems getting an appointment there too and itâs unclear whether you have to live in Chicago to use it.
So many rules! GAH.
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In many places it seems that throwing away shots is preferable to giving them to someone âunqualifiedâ.
The whole system is a mess.
And so many doctors are facing ethics or even legal charges because they are trying to not waste precious vaccines.
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Can Chicago do ANYTHING without a tinge of corruption? UGH
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No. No, they cannot, which is why I am getting my vaccine outside the city. It is beyond fucked up here.
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