At this point, I’d be surprised if they actually had something to put into my arm at all when I show up for my appointment.
All else being equal, I think I’d prefer the 2 dose shot. But I was visiting my son in AZ anyway and the appt was easy to get. I picked out J&J because I didn’t want to hassle with finding my 2nd shot back home. But I guess that’s what I’ll end up doing after all.
And my appointment was canceled
I feel so exclusive right now in this J&J club.
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Well, I have an appt on 4/24 for my Pfizer #1. It’s a 90 minute drive from my house, but it’s the town I went to college in, so it’ll be a fun trip down memory lane. I’m going to continue to look for something closer or sooner.
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Yes, and when i think about it, i am actually rather excited to be doing my bit to advance science. Yes, there’s a risk. But the potential benefit is enormous.
Beyond just the covid vaccine, i think we may be looking at a golden age of vaccine development: we have recently discovered a new technique to build vaccines faster and more precisely than ever before. And because of the pandemic, we are actually doing it, and not putzing around because vaccines aren’t terribly profitable and have the occasional big loss.
The three giant advances in public health have been clean water, antibiotics, and vaccines. And vaccines have sort of been stalled. Maybe we’ll get vaccines for malaria, generic flu (not just the best guess at this year’s strain) and the common cold.
Or maybe a universal coronavirus vaccine?
I am happy to be doing my part, too.
We may already have several vaccines for the future common cold. 
the common cold is pretty annoying. bring it on!
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If people just wore a mask when they felt a cold coming on, did their shopping via curbside or delivery and used WFH days, you’d get a cold at least half as much.
maybe. i got sick twice this winter though with barely leaving my apartment. first time with a fever that i thought might be covid, so i got a covid test that was negative. got better a few days later and THEN got a cold immediately thereafter that i likely caught at the covid testing site. wore a mask. didn’t matter. but it was a crappy mask. so they say wearing masks are key, but i got sick anyway.
Yeah, that’s actually what i was thinking of. We probably won’t be getting vaccines for adenoviruses and rhinoviruses. And since the viral vector vaccines are so much cheaper and more temperature stable than the RNA vaccines, maybe we don’t WANT to be too thoroughly immunized against adenoviruses. We want to save some good vectors for the next nasty virus.
(If you have immunity to the “carrier” virus you can wipe it out before it trains your immune system to fight the new thing. That may be an issue with the Chinese viral vector covid vaccine produced by CanSino. I read somewhere that they used a virus few Chinese have been exposed to, but it might not work in other populations.)
I agree, we’re going through an interesting sort of issue around this currently because my wife is pregnant.
Some doctors recommend she get vaccinated, some less so. To me it looks like we have some mostly known, incredibly small risk to a serious result from COVID (she’s 30 with no risk factors) versus another probably very small but less known risk that the vaccine ends up doing something unexpected to harm the unborn baby.
In fact getting the vaccine is really a statement of risk aversion for the mother vs the baby, arguably (since it mostly eliminates what small risk she has to COVID while exposing the baby to some small, unknown risk related to largely untested vaccine on pregnant mother).
Honestly I don’t think it’s crazy to do one or the other, she’s still on the fence about whether or not to get it.
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I set a reminder for midnight, got up, checked Walmart, and now I have an appt for Tuesday, 30 minutes away. That’s the one. No more vaccine musical chairs.
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I had a sore arm and also the strange urge to share my vaccination status on social media. I wasn’t warned about that part.
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2nd Pfizer yesterday. Nothing (outside of sore arm) that I can pin on vaccine. I do short bouts of exercise (15-20 min) several times during the day. I got a little hotter sooner than normal in each session, so maybe a slight temperature increase? I am tired, but had a couple of late nights this week. Good luck to everyone else.
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2nd Pfizer shot is in my arm. I’m waiting out the 15 minutes as I type this.
2 weeks to my “fully protected” date.
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I was told that I shouldn’t exercise after the stab.
I’m concerned what’s going to happen with the people in rural areas that had appts at retail pharmacies for the single shot. Are they going to reschedule or not?
Kroger sent me an email and a voicemail when they paused the J&J shot but didn’t cancel my appt, then an email and a personal call from a local pharmacy when it was canceled. I hope they put in the same amount of effort to get everyone rescheduled.
[tan] I was going to joke the other day that it should be time for you to knock up your wife again but looks like you already took care of things. [/tan]