My 12 year old is getting an appointment the instant it’s allowed in MA. He’s terrified of needles, but still wants to do it.
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Mine will be getting a jab as a birthday present this summer, two weeks before we leave for vacation. Hopefully the scheduling systems are a bit more flexible with getting shot #2 since we will be out of town at that point. I suppose an option would be to set it up a few days later such that three weeks happens the day after we get back, but would prefer the extra 5 days of immunity building even if there is a bit of hassle rescheduling things.
CDC says you can get the second dose up to 6 weeks after the first and still be fine.
Canada is making people wait 16 weeks between doses — so I don’t think the time in between is that critical.
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CMO at work is an epidemiologist and told us that you can’t go earlier than the 3 week window, but typically with vaccines it doesn’t really matter how much later than that window you go.
Many mass vaccination sites carry all approved vaccines and allow you to schedule a 2nd dose only. Dr Fauci said, although he doesn’t recommend it, if you get one of Pfizer and one of Moderna, they’re similar enough that you’ll be just fine.
ooooh, can i get one of all 3?
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Our 12yo will get hers asap. Already made an appointment for next weekend in the hope it will be available by then.
son just got a J & J, so of by brood, only his fiance is left, 1 pfizer
At the grocery store just now they announced over the PA they had an idea extra shot free for whoever wanted it and it was taken pretty much right away by a 20s Male
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This is an interesting marketing strategy, and I approve.
Hard no, buddy. I can’t imagine the living hell the side effects would be after getting a shot of all 3 at once would be. I’d rather get COVID 19.
Last (willing) kid’s Pfizer #2 is imminent (currently waiting for the pharmacist to call her). Hoping her side effects are minimal.
Good on him for taking one for the team. Tell him he got an “‘atta boy!” from numbers guy on GoA.
Also, if he’s ever gotten the flu shot, you can tell him that the injection itself is quite similar to that…at least for me it was…i.e., I barely felt it go in.
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He has – but he tenses up so much even that left a bruise on him. He had a bad IV experience at about 5, took about 10 minutes to find the vein and get it in, and since they any needle or blood draw is just brutal.
Back where I grew up, the cool thing to do with any multi-flavored beverage delivery machine was to mix all the provided flavors in approximately equal amounts. At the local “Dairy Frost” they had a slush machine, and so it was referred to as a “suicide slush.” That one was delicious.
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When my wife got her second poke at a Sam’s Club, she called me and told me they were taking walk ups. Seems everyone around here is taking walk ups. They will still let you schedule but it sounds like that isn’t going to be the norm pretty soon. And I heard that doctors offices were going to start getting vaccines so they could give it to those who are more likely to listen to their PCP.
BTW, I declined. As I have said, everyone in my household got it around the new years and I tested positive for antibodies when I gave blood in March and will be giving again next week to check again.
I’m not opposed to getting it and if there was something I wanted to do bad enough that required vaccination, I would get it. But until then, I’ll take my chances on immunity though exposure.
If you tested positive for antibodies, odds are you have decent immunity. Maybe wait until they officially recommend only a single dose for those who already had covid. 
Unfortunately, I doubt they will ever recommend only a single dose or a booster type shot for those who have had COVID. They are continuing to recommend full immunization for those who have had COVID. And since that is the recommendation, I doubt there will as much research on natural immunity from having contracted COVID as would be needed to provide the type of assurance that would be needed.
There’s research being done all around the world, including in places that don’t have much access to vaccines. I read four articles about natural immunity this weekend (none conclusive) and I expect many more will be published.
Europe is already recommending a single dose of vaccine to those who recovered from covid, rather than two.
So, to give you a taste… One article measured five different indices of immunity. They looked at antibodies, and at B cells and T cells and two other things that i don’t remember. And they found that most of the people with documented cases of covid had at least one of the five measures (>80%) and most didn’t have all five. That’s what i mean by inconclusive. But they thought most of them probably had significant immunity, at least to the strain they’d had. Also, all the people in that study were doctors treating covid patients, so maybe they had more exposure than people in other studies who had mild cases.
But if you are testing positive for neutralizing antibodies, that’s a good sign that you have some immunity.
There is some evidence that natural immunity to the initial strain may not help much against some of the variants, and when there are boosters aimed specifically at the variants (probably this fall) you should probably get one.