Mexico is in a similar boat. They are open to 60+ down there currently after doing healthcare workers first. They just don’t have the product and are hoping to get some doses from the US once we are done.
banned from watching rachel maddow?
well, i hope she really did get J&J and wasn’t making that part up cause i like hearing endorsements of it from people I respect. maybe they had some still hanging around at javits when she went.
Just booked an appointment for the past of my hometown friends that had yet to be vaccinated.
He lives in Seattle, which had a pretty high demand still.
His wife is going through Chemo and they have two kids, so he hasn’t had time to even look.
Was able to get him an appointment for J&J a mile away from his house.
Excellent way to spend my day off!!!
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Maybe in NYC, but not everywhere. There seems to be a lot of metro areas that you need to be online and refreshing websites continuously if you want to find a shot w/in 30 minutes from your home. Here if you are passively searching you can find ones that are at least 50 miles (and normally more like 100+ miles) from the metro area.
For the privileged set like us we have the ability to either find close vaccination sites or take a couple hours off work to drive 50 miles for a shot. But I am sure there are a lot of people that would like a vaccine, but just don’t have the availability to be sitting in front of a computer and hitting refresh for a couple hours or can take 3 hours off work on a random Wednesday to drive to a vaccination site.
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This was just a month ago. We made some nice progress.
I feel like it was ages ago when I got shot #1. Nope, not even two weeks. Suddenly time has dramatically slowed down.
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I get jab #2 a week from today
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Tomorrow is 2 weeks after 2nd stab. Get to visit grandson this weekend.
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My second pfizer was scheduled 4 weeks after the first, since that is what Walgreens decided was best for their system. I need to go hunting later this week for something next week. I am not going to stress out too much over it though, just nice to get it done sooner if I can.
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as all 2nd shots should be automatically scheduled, seeking an earlier date seems very difficult
Two to three weeks into your first shot gives you decent immunity. Don’t stress it, just wait for your scheduled second shot.
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We are just planning on sticking with the 4 week interval with Walgreens (4/25)
That is the kind of thing that would absolutely come out at some point in the next 10 years and he would be exceptionally dumb to lie about it.
yeah, true.
Yup, yup. When I signed up for my Kroger shot, it listed both Pfizer and J&J depending on the date and time. I selected a J&J slot but I wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up with Pfizer.
Pharmacies are probably still working through their existing J&J supply. The gov’ment ordered a lot of J&J
Sounds like you are going to be getting Pfizer with J&J getting shelved for a bit…
I don’t understand the pause. 6 cases out of 6.8M shots, when women’s birth control causes clots in something like 1 out of 2,000 women or something like that.
Edit: I get that these are worst type of blood clot, but the incidence of this blood clot in the general pop is 4/1M/year, so in 2 months we’d have expected about 4 of these cases in 7M people anyway — I don’t get increasing vaccine hesitancy over it.
I agree, especially when the confidence element is very tenuous with all this stuff. I think that’s part of why the EU has been a modest disaster. The messaging about getting a vaccine isn’t clear enough.
Honestly we could do better about that in the US. We want everyone to get a vaccine we should be messaging how great it’ll be once you’re fully inoculated not emphasizing that risks don’t technically go to 0.
The 6 appears to be all women between the ages of 16 and 48, so it likely is linked to birth control in combination with the vaccine.
I don’t think I have a blood clot, but this made me frantically look up the symptoms of it.