That reminds me, back when I had interns, I recall fighting with IT to get them more powerful virtual machines. Somehow IT sees “intern” and thinks “doesn’t need much”. But no, the actuarial summer interns were the ones running the “change the dates and then process all 100+ million data records of every policy every quarter-end for the last 10 years” programs. So as I explained to IT every single year, they probably had the greatest need for computing power in the whole entire company… more than me, more than the IT person I was talking to, more than the chief actuary, and far FAR more than the CEO. But because they were mere interns, IT never wanted to give it to them.
Then last summer an actuarial student ran all of the stuff that the interns normally update. A hassle for the student, but easier on me than fighting with IT.
Well, if it was a question of getting the Pfizer vaccine on Thursday or the J&J vaccine on Friday then I’d go with the latter since that will have me fully protected sooner. That’s kind of why I want to know. Plus I hear the side effects are less with J&J.
It’s hard enough to get an appointment here that i don’t expect to have a choice of two. If i wait to “shop”, the first one will be booked by someone else.
And while there are a lot of places that only do Pfizer or only do Moderna, i haven’t found any that only do J&J. There’s a lot less of it out there.
I think I was making progress on convincing IT that they needed to create an “actuarial intern” profile rather than putting them on the generic intern profile when setting up new interns. But all of that progress may now be lost.
I think that J&J is expected to surpass the other two in availability eventually. I think that Cuomo said that. He took J&J in order to promote that one. Right now I think J&J is harder to find though. I think that only Javits gives J&J here. They also give pfizer at javits.
In Indiana the State Health Department has one portal for all vaccine appointments. If you pass through a qualification screening (I’m 40 and they opened 40+ today) they take you to a screen and you register and it gives you all the options for your zip code and they all say what vaccine they have.
honestly the protection you get from being 3 weeks past a single shot of the mRNA vaccines is pretty good. It gets better with a second shot, and they believe that helps to promote longer-lasting immunity. But I will relax quite a bit after the first one settles in.
Yeah, I’m 8 days out from my first shot and I already feel like I’ve probably got at least a decent amount of protection. Not behaving any differently yet but it takes the edge off.
Those rates are a little higher than I would’ve guessed. I know rates have dropped significantly over the last few decades but I just assumed it was more.
Interesting. I wrote a paper about smoking in college (specifically it’s impact on women as it was for my women’s studies class) and I had looked at the data then. I forgot about WV, but I think it, KY and NC were the tip 3.
Of course college was a while ago :heynow: and NC is growing by leaps and bounds. I’m guessing the newcomers are far less likely to smoke and are bringing down their statewide average.
Eh, it’s sort of like porn. You know it when you see it.
Yeah, that person is a liar. Although it illustrates my moral hazard point if the only reason they had the cigarette was to get the vaccine.
If you were applying for a new life insurance policy would you say you were a smoker and pay the higher premium?
If your employer charges smokers more for medical insurance and relies on you to self-report, have you self reported as a smoker and paid the surcharge?
