We don’t interact with people. No tests.
(Also, people just don’t care here.)
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We rapid tested before interacting with my 18 month old niece at Christmas and then there were symptoms for me during the trip. When we came back, husband’s work had an outbreak so he was testing quite a bit to make sure he didn’t have it.
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I have tested once since this whole thing started. I was exposed to someone that got Covid and was going into two nursing homes to visit friends and didn’t want to bring anything to them so I tested.
I test before seeing my elderly immunocompromised mother. Will continue though she’s had her third shot in series and is getting her newly-authorized booster tomorrow morning.
But otherwise, not much. We are exposed at all times, basically. Husband’s teaching in person (no masks, no vaccines, no distancing). There was a major outbreak at the nursing home FIL was in and we got to watch them put up plastic walls everywhere like a pandemic movie. The funeral home asked for masks, surprisingly, but it didn’t get them. So, not much point really.
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I’ve never had a Covid test. I haven’t even had a cold in the last two years.
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I just spent down an old HSA I didn’t want to bother rolling over so I have like 7 boxes of tests (between the free government ones, what we have left over from my MIL buying giving us some at Christmas and the new ones). I was doing self surveillance tests in early January but the numbers dropped enough I haven’t been yet. We do have a few weekends away in the next 3 months so maybe I’ll test before those…
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If Pfizer is approved under 5, rollout is supposed to be FAST. Medscape article below.
US Plans to Roll Out COVID-19 Shots for Children Under 5 Years in February
(Reuters) - The U.S. government is planning to roll out COVID-19 shots for children under the age of 5 as soon as Feb. 21, according to a document from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering authorizing the use of the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE vaccine in the age group even though it did not meet a key target in a clinical trial of two- to four-year-olds.
The drugmakers said they submitted data supporting authorization at the request of the FDA in order to address an urgent public health need in the age group.
Outside advisers to the FDA are scheduled to meet on Feb. 15 to discuss whether to recommend the regulator to authorize the vaccine. The roll out of the vaccine for children under the age of 5, the only age group not yet eligible for the shots, is set to begin less than a week after the meeting.
According to the CDC’s updated operational planning guide, the U.S. government is planning to ship an initial 10 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to states and other entities before the end of February, should the FDA authorize their use.
There are about 18 million children aged between 6 months to 4 years in the United States, and there will be additional supply beyond the first 10 million doses, the CDC said.
The first roll out, which begins on Feb. 21, will prioritize areas where children are at higher risk for severe COVID-19 disease.
Jurisdictions and federal pharmacy partners will receive second and third shipments of doses on Feb. 23 and Feb. 25 or about a week after the CDC recommendation.
Young children will receive a lower dose of the vaccine, if it is authorized. Pfizer/BioNTech tested a 3-microgram dose of the vaccine in the age group, compared with a 10-microgram dose in 5- to 11-year-olds and 30 micrograms for people aged 12 and older.
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Finally some urgency! I hope they send some to at least all states, not just high risk ones. I’ll be hovering my finger on that “book appointment” button and will be pretty mad if they don’t send any here, and there are doses just sitting on shelves in the deep south. Just as an example.
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Yay!!! Any idea if they will be given at pharmacies/testing sites vs pediatrician offices?
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Surely they know by now that the deep south isn’t going to use even a “normal” share of vaccines, let along any extra (speaking from the Deep South).
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I asked our pediatrician about where there will be doses available and they said that for their hospital system they would only be available at the peds office. This probably will vary by location but the pediatricians office will probably be the best place to start.
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I was just talking to someone who works for a Midwestern public health system, and she was saying work has been crazy because they’re getting ready to launch the under 5 vaccines in a few weeks. I thought of you all here and was so excited this is finally happening!
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Well, pharmacist refused to give her her booster because she had the third shot in her primary series. Says he needs to research it more, but he’ll be out all next week…
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I’m afraid of this. Theoretically I should be eligible for my booster next week, but uh…not looking forward to a potential squabble.
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A friend is in charge of ordering for a large network of pediatricians offices, although their clinics are all housed in hospitals, but my guess is then it’ll be in peds clinics?
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I didn’t have any trouble. Just had to check a box on the CVS form.
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Good luck. My mother took that exact slide with her, to no avail.
@Marcela , did you get it at 3 months (or less than five?) I think he’d have done Mom’s at five months, but she’s got a few weeks before that. If CVS has their act together, I’d like to let her know (she went to a local independent).
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I’ll probably be fine since I got J&J and the times are way shorter for me. But luckily i live near many pharmacies if I need to be a butt.
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Just tried to fake-schedule Mom through the CVS online scheduler, and it kicked me out as outside the time requirements as soon as I put in her last shot date 4.5 months ago.
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