I thought the current US rate is 2 million per day (14 Million a week).
Ah. nevermind. this whole 2 dose thing always mucks things up.
This intrigues me, as California no longer lists Type 1 diabetics as high risk, and apparently eligible no sooner than a healthy 20 year old. I was unable to find any studies to suggest that Type 1 diabetics are lower risk than Type 2, so I wasn’t sure whether to celebrate (yay, it turns out I’m not high risk!) or not (yay, California demoted my priority based on zero evidence!).
I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m 42 years old, have had Type 1 diabetes for almost 40 years, and I’m guessing I’ll get vaccinated by the end of summer along with the rest of the healthy folk…
Wow, that sucks. One of my best friends is also 42 and has been Type 1 since she was 10, and she was eager to get it, and was eligible a little while ago (a month? She got her first shot last week).
I think I do recall that at some point it was decided that covid wasn’t more deadly to diabetics than non-diabetics. This was a long while ago, not really in conjunction to vaccines more like “who should lock themselves at home?”
In Ohio, the first round included “uncontrolled” type 1s. Then after that everyday-living type 1s. And now Type 2s.
However as you know there’s a lot of Type 1s who have other non-pancreas-related maladies, probably a much higher percentage than the non-diabetic population. So that’s probably why they got moved up with the old people. (My friend had open heart surgery 2 years ago)
And also Type 2 is highly correlated with obesity, and obesity is highly correlated with covid death or complication, so it might be that Ohio is politely saying “ok fat people, you can skip ahead.”
So yeah I do think you’re not actually at a high risk by being diabetic in itself, but you are at a high risk if you have complications typically associated with diabetics.
That makes sense. And I’m in pretty good control, with no complications (yet) - I was just shocked to not see myself on the priority list since I hadn’t been following the ever changing CDC guidance.
I’m taking it as good news; I’m not really high risk, and maybe I’ve been overly cautious this past year, but better safe than not.
Thanks for the info!
It’s not even all Type 2 diabetics. It’s “Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hemoglobin A1c level greater than 7.5%”. I have no idea what that means or what percent of Type 2 diabetics that it covers.
Right. I’m still in the mode where I just divide doses by 2 to get to “vaccinations”, but hopefully we’ll start seeing some data on vaccine type soon.
Huh. That’s interesting; it doesn’t actually cover me.
Not that it matters, at least for purposes of vaccination, since I qualified on age and also have two other conditions. (A1C greater than 7.5 would mean that not only have you got diabetes but that it also isn’t well controlled by whatever medication you’re taking.)
For anyone in the Springfield, IL, area or willing to travel, Kroger consistently has appointments available.
Carbondale has around 30 appointments.
Marion area has 19.
New Hampshire has decided that asthma isn’t a risk factor if you only have moderate or mild asthma, so unless you have other risk factors you, an asthmatic 18-49, will only be vaccinated after all the healthier 50-64 year olds with no risks factors are vaccinated 
Apparently I’m about to join the Cool Kids Club.
I dont know if I’ve posted in this thread or not but my latest assumption of my vaccine date was “fuck if I know, probably next year.” I’m DM2, obese, history of smoking, etc. Also a higher ed teacher (but actually work with teenagers in a satellite campus that’s actually a boarding school) but they don’t qualify.
Anyway, I got a message out of the blue today from my nephew. His employer is offering vaccines to their employees and their families. Well, his family (a big family) all refused the vaccine and apparently I was the only person he could think of that would be smart enough / willing to get the shot.
So. Next Wednesday at 2pm. I assume it’s the J&J jab, as there was nothing mentioned about a follow-up appointment. It’ll be administered in a big tent in a parking lot behind a casino. Cool. I also have to drive ~25 miles each way, but that’s fine. I’d drive 125 miles for this.
Are you talking about California? There’s no such restriction in Ohio.
At 59 in California, I’m dead last in the queue after 65+, first responders, medical workers, agricultural workers, teachers, essential workers, grocery workers and perhaps schoolkids.
39.51 million in the state. I’m still thinking June or July for my jab.
Got my first shot (Moderna) on February 28, second shot will be March 28.
As of yesterday, I am now eligible in Minnesota. Unfortunately, sources for the vaccine have not updated their information, so obtaining an appointment is still not possible.
One of my friends works in scheduling for the hospital system I am associated with. She called me at 5pm last night, let me know the doors are open, but she couldn’t schedule me. I called and was lectured about being too pushy, wait my turn, it’s a lottery, I’ll be notified when I’m notified.
Late last night I went online to the hospital system where I had my transplant through, figuring they would have updated their guidelines. Nope. Tried again this morning and still shut out.
The largest issue I face is I am not cleared for the J&J vaccine, which the state now has quite a bit of. They have basically said you get what you get or you get to the back of the line. If my transplant clinic says very clearly no to J&J, then it’s a no.
Actually, I just looked at the numbers. If you add up all the people in tiers who can be vaccinated right now in California, you get 15,356,994 people ahead of me in line (obviously minimum; they may announce more tiers as they work through those first two tiers)
As of today, California has fully vaccinated 8.5% of the state, or 3.4 million of those 15.4 million folk. So they’ve only vaccinated 20% of the 1a and 1b tiers.
Looks like whoever is next after the first tiers will be waiting several months.
Also in Virginia. My county had its own signup site - and at some point after I got #1 but before #2 they switched over to a statewide site.
Communications to residents in that scenario were quite poor, in that I got the distinct impression that my file had been lost and that I was going to have them attempt to give me #1 all over again.
Turns out, that was not the case (I had #2 yesterday) but it was definitely confusing as hell.
What would be hysterical would be if I got a message from the state website saying “Time to schedule your shot now!”.
I don’t have to guess. Next Thursday, the 18th, is Pfizer shot number two for me.