Honestly, there were very few things that took precedence for ME over getting the COVID vaccine. I did upend my schedule for the first dose. The second is less critical, but I might have upended my schedule for that, too, if I’d had to.
Not really. The same people gave my mom her second dose 3 weeks and a day after the first dose. I knew there was a range of possible dates. But it was a fairly large range.
I’m satisfied with my experience. I got jabbed. I didn’t contract covid (or anything else) while doing it. I believe the staff doing the jabbing were competent to handle the vaccine properly, and I know they were competent to stick it in my arm.
The reason for making you set up a 2nd appt? Sure. I agree with that.
The reason for having crappy customer service? Not so much.
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It’s not crappy customer service — they are setting aside specific doses for people, and if those doses expire because people keep delaying 2nd doses because of inconvenient timing of the potential side effects, it can really mess up the logistics. I have no issue with the approach ‘the vaccine is more important than anything you have to do, so just show up that day’.
It is crappy customer service when they say “if you need to cancel, call ###”, and you call ### and go through their whole automated thing just to get to, “we’re having a lot of calls, go look online” and then it hangs up. Oh - and you can’t cancel online.
If they don’t want you to cancel - say, “you can’t cancel”.
My daughter got her first two days before me, her boyfriend a day later. We all got our 2nd shot on the same day
OK, that’s fair. I thought you meant the inability to cancel being bad customer service. They should tell you that upfront for sure.
What I want is an appt an hour and a half later. That wasn’t available then, but it is now. But I can’t get it now.
There aren’t many things that would take precidence, but this is one of them.
I’ll walk in an hour and a half later and see if I can get one (there are open appts there throughout the day, so hopefully they’ll be flexible). If not, it shouldn’t be too hard to find some other way of getting it that day or the next.
around me, no one seemed to care that much, people show up an hour early or an hour late, as long as everyone shows up and they have a constant flow of people, I see no issue
My husband had a similar experience. When he went for his first appointment they scheduled him for precisely 3 weeks out (also Pfizer). He said he couldn’t that day because he had a conflict but he could go the next day. They refused to adjust the day of the appointment. He had to no-show the initial appointment and then they were happy to take him the next day.
That seems ludicrous from an administrative standpoint: forcing someone to keep an appointment that they’ve told you they’re not going to attend.
I guess if something is so important and the exact timing is not as important as simply getting it done, then they would be the ones willing to do virtually anything to accommodate you. I’m sure many people put off even getting vaccinated because of either the hassle of getting an appointment in the first place or even just hearing the stories of how hard people were finding it to get appointments.
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When I showed up for my first stab, they told me that showing up on the right day was all that mattered, although I was around my scheduled time.
That’s really cool. Do they lay eggs, or just part of a pond setup? I remember my grandfather had a duck when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing.
So my county publishes every weekday great data on vaccination. Each day around 3:30, I start refreshing to see the new data. Here are some things I’ve noticed.
A couple of weeks ago, it was about 50-50 1st dose vs. 2nd dose. Now it’s about 80-20 2nd vs. 1st. So people getting their first shot has slowed way down. Although, the 2nd dose number includes J&J. Most mass vax sites and pop up clinics offer J&J, so who knows?
There was quite a bit of pent up demand for vaccinating younger teens. The percentage of 12-17 year olds getting a shot went from 3% to 20% in a single reporting day. Way to go, parents!
If the entire country had the same vaccination rate as my county, COVID wouldn’t be a thing anymore. In 10 years, the thing I’ll remember most about the pandemic is how unnecessarily long it was.
Pop up clinics now offer all approved vaccines and give 2nd shots with vaccine card. If I had waited a week for my 2nd shot, I could have gotten free beer and ice cream.
15 days later and up to 62%
I know it doesn’t matter anymore, but I would now be shocked if it was over 65% by 7/1
Is there anyone here that lives in the United States, plans to get vaccinated, and still hasn’t had their first jab?
In the 12-17 age range? Certainly. Among the adult population? Who knows? I know a couple of people who aren’t “no,” they’re just “not yet.”
I was assuming no 12-15yo are active here. I was wondering about adults here. I have friends outside the US that aren’t yet eligible in their countries.
Survey time!
How COVID-Vaccinated are you?
- Zero shots
- One of two
- Two of two
- One-and-Done (J&J)
- 42 Shots, and we’ll take that ride…
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If a mod wants to move this poll someplace more prominent (its own thread), I’ll allow it.