Okay, California announced that 4 million people 16-64 with conditions that put them at special risk* will qualify for the Vaccine starting Monday. As of today, 9.1% or 3.6 million people of the now 20.35 million total eligible for vaccination are fully vaccinated. So now there’s 16.75 million unvaccinated people ahead of me in line. It’s going to be a bit of a wait for me. I’m sticking with Julyish.
*I’m guessing being a cancer survivor (so far) won’t cut it, since I’m not being treated currently and my cancer is undetectable at the moment.
They also just shuffled their job priority list yet again as of March 11. So as of Thursday I once again qualify as 1b based on my job. Scheduled for my first shot Wednesday .
Any AZ dopers wanna drive to Yavapai county. I’ve been checking the health department webpage daily and noticed that appointments which I first saw on Wednesday are still available now. These appointments are NOT in areas with heavy snow or closed roads, btw.
By the way, my original guess ended up being pretty darn close; I guessed April-ish, and I’m scheduled for my first shot his coming Sunday the 21st. It’ll be by far the most people I’ve been under one roof with in the past year.
My BIL got his this morning through the VA. I receive mine this afternoon. The only one left (discounting nephews and their families) is my sister. She’s 60 and obese. She probably would qualify under the current state guidelines, but since she hasn’t seen a doctor in over 30 years, she has no idea what all underlying conditions she may have. Also, since she doesn’t have any tie ins to any hospital or physician offices, she will have to go through a pharmacy system, which is impossible to obtain an appointment through right now.
I want to feel bad for her, but she’s the one who has chosen to ostrich her health for the past three decades, despite knowing the multiple genetic health problems her family has.
It’s super easy to get an appointment in California right now. A whole new group (people with certain medical conditions) opened up today and plenty of appointments are still available at pharmacies and hospitals this week. I am not yet eligible but I help run a local Facebook group about vaccine availability so I am up to date.
As soon as they open it up to over 55 or manufacturing workers, I am there. I originally guessed late March but it’ll probably be early April.
It definitely getting better. But having had to deal with two counties now, it has been instructive to see just what leaving it up to counties has meant. My county? Once it got rolling a model of efficiency - good website, great communications, highly organized. I signed up through them because they even outpaced my (decent enough) HMO.
My mother’s county? Hot, stinking garbage fire of dysfunction. I mean, really - just awful. I was lucky (and it was pure luck) enough to get her into a local pharmacy via their national registration. My county is marginally wealthier, but it has its fair share of relatively poor communities. The disparity shouldn’t have been this wide.
I get why overstretched state health departments delegated, but there really should have been better coordination with the successful counties acting as models.
CVS doesn’t care where you live so long as you meet the other requirements. My LA County sister and her husband got theirs in Riverside County. A lot of my Santa Barbara County friends are getting theirs in Ventura, LA and Kern.
CVS was in fact who I got my mother in with, thankfully within walking/biking distance. Because she doesn’t drive, unvaccinated me can’t drive her and she refuses to take public transit for more than a short trip (understandably) .
It all worked out - she got her first shot about two weeks ago. It’s just I was struck by how unevenly efficient the counties were. It shouldn’t have been that surprising in this global clusterfuck, I guess. But I found it startling.
11:40 a.m. today, apparently! This is the first day it’s been open to all adults in my state, and getting an appointment was way easier than I thought it would be.
I’m scheduled to get my first Moderna shot on Friday! My company has set up a clinic. It seems like it’s getting easier and easier to get an appointment here in NC. I had actually set up an appointment through Walgreens, but cancelled it when my company announced their clinic. We needed a certain number of people to do the clinic at work, so I wanted to support that.
My Canadian province has announced those 70 and up can now book their appointments. There is a drive through on a first come first serve in my city for age 64 and up but there’s a 4-5 hour wait. I’ll wait until my age group can book. I suspect I’ll likely get my vaccination in April.
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