wondering what my gal rachel, head of team J&J will have to say about this tonight.
I had not read that. That makes more sense.
Sure you can. “There was a production delay. You can get Pfizer today or hold out for Johnson & Johnson when we get it back in stock, but we’re not sure when that will be.”
Most of the places around here don’t even tell you what you’re getting until you show up anyway.
around here, you know exactly which vaccine you’re signing up for. I’m not sure telling all these people there is a production delay won’t eventually result in the secret coming out. that’s a lot of people.
Yeah, I suppose it would eventually come out. So maybe my suggestion is a poor one.
Better messaging on “why” is the answer. Secrets should be avoided.
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I just got an email saying exactly that. I’m annoyed because I actually rescheduled the appt from last week. And because I was only visiting and am flying back home the very next day. Finding the second shot back home will be a pain. Maybe Kroger had some sort of way for me to make my 2nd appt at my local store.
I will be happy to get a first dose of whatever 2 dose vaccine they have though
lolz, with how terrible the Kroger scheduling site is, I’ll be surprised if it’s flexible like that at all. But good luck.
Maybe honesty really is the best [public health] policy?
Just a reminder that none of the 3 covid vaccines on the US market has FDA approval, merely emergency use authorization; you’re all part of the longer-term safety trials (whether you were informed of this when jabbed or not); and there are two existing alternatives to the J&J jab that both had higher efficacy & preliminary safety records in the initial trials.
but the other two DO NOT HAVE RACHEL MADDOW!
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I’m glad you agree with Martin Kulldorff that us kids don’t really need to worry about covid or be vaccinated against it.
NB: had to post a screen shot bc Twitter thinks it knows better than an actual Harvard epidemiologist.
The risk of young adults dying is pretty low, but the risk of being sick enough to need hospitalisation is not negligible. And the risk of “long covid” seems to be somewhat high, although it’s not nearly as clearly defined as “death” and it’s hard to get numbers.
I was talking (on line) with a guy who is the doctor for a large prison. Effectively all of his patients had covid. And now he’s seeing nasty side effects in something like a third of them months later. They aren’t just malingering: he says their blood tests are whacky, and the people who are sick are a mix of people who always complained about their health and people who never complained about their health before.
But if you mean six year olds… Yeah, the jury is out re the possible safety, etc., of vaccines, but the only reason to really worry about covid in kids that age is that they might give it to their parents.
my only side effect was a sore arm…
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They aren’t going to give me J&J now, but they are saying I can still come at my scheduled time and get whatever they have, which is perfectly fine by me.
Sorry, we are out of J&J, but you can have an M&M instead!
I spent a day in bed.
But then I have a lot of health issues before the vaccine. It may not have been the vaccine, but my normal neural troubles that hit me.
my joints were killing me, but same as you, i think it was just because my joints have been killing me lately, not the vaccine.