My son, who is a resident physician in primary psychiatric care in Michigan, will get his 2nd shot tomorrow.
My virus denying ® governor has gotten everything so delayed and derailed and unplanned and uncoordinated and uninformed about here that I, as a 71yo, have no clue when I might be able to get one. Asked in person at my doctor’s last week, a 32 doctor primary care practice, the largest in town by far-they can’t find out anything either.
I’m on the schedule to get my vaccination in two days, on 19 Jan 2021, as part of the “law enforcement” category. I work in juvenile detention, and we’ve occasionally been holding kids in quarantine because they tested positive shortly after they were arrested. About 25% of our staff have had COVID-19 and have since recovered. My wife works for a hospital and was vaccinated last week.
Johnson & Johnson looks to be asking for permission to release in February, so assuming it passes, it bumps all of us up a bit. How much? Who knows. But it shouldn’t make it LONGER for me to get one of the 3.
Huh. Hadn’t realized that the Oxford vaccine was getting held up in FDA approval. That’s the #3 vaccine in a few other countries already. India (world’s largest vaccine producer) is starting to pump that one out apparently.
I got my vaccination date moved up to tomorrow, the 20th. It’s gonna be a great day for America and a great day for me.
My second shot will be on February 10th.
Yeah, Oxford (aka AstraZeneca) mistakes in phase three trials and the lack of explanation about why less vaccine was better, made the FDA say “more data please.” They think February. Johnson and Johnson is having manufacturing issues so will be slow to distribute. But two more vaccines on the market should speed things up. And J&Js is a single shot.
Recording on phone at my doctor’s office says they have no vaccine on site and I should check a web page. That website will not load; I keep getting the ‘maybe it’s too busy, try later’ message. There’s a drugstore chain in the area that supposedly is taking appointments; the link to that page puts you in a waiting room to even get to the page, plus tells you they don’t have any appointments anyway. County health department page says no vaccine right now, we don’t know when, check back daily.
You know, I don’t mind waiting my turn, and I understand that my turn, despite age and health conditions, might not be for several weeks or maybe even months. But I wish there were someplace I could get in line! Wouldn’t it be simpler if they could take a list and contact people as their names come up, instead of having everybody in the county who wants the vaccine trying to get through every day to half a dozen different web sites? And I don’t even want to think about the phone lines. This is a mess.
Dr. Cohen said, in one of her press conferences, that you can get your vaccine in any county as long as you’re an NC resident. When your group comes up, you may want to keep an eye on more rural counties near you.
My husband is in Phase 1b, group 2 (non-covid facing healthcare workers), so he should be eligible to get his vaccine this week. Problem is, his company is partnering with a large hospital system in the area, starting in late February. As part of that, he was required to get a Hep B booster shot. When he went to go make his Covid vaccine appointment, they told him he couldn’t even schedule the vaccine until two weeks after the booster shot. If he had known that, he may have waited on the Hep B vaccine. His entire office is in the same boat.
It turns out that rumor’s wrong–my wife sent me a link to show doses in different counties, and the larger counties are definitely getting more doses. It may be that they’re not getting enough more doses; or maybe some of the rural counties just have an easier time distributing vaccine (although I’m not clear why that’d be the case).
I am coming to believe that it’s really and truly beyond the capacity of local counties to do this. I’m incredibly frustrated, but at the same time I think it’s like asking the student council, in March, to plan graduation from soup to nuts and then being shocked when it’s a train wreck.
And not giving them any money to do it.
Arizona’s vaccination program is a bit of a cluster as well. I have been checking the website daily hoping to sign my 84 year old mother up in the 1b category. Yesterday the 75 and older requirement changed to 65 and older, AND I was able to get an appointment for January 31.
Today, it was announced at 8am that sign-up had started. By 11am all appointments to the end of February had been filled.
So, I might get a shot on the 31th because Mom is living with me. Or I might get one in March. Or I might get one sometime in 2021, I hope.
… and as it turns out, I did! Yay!
I was able to fill out an online application today to be put on a list to be notified when the vaccine was available. My one concern is whether I’ll be given a choice of where to go to get it. I don’t drive and my transportation options in this area are limited.
Our governor claims that our state of 1.3 million people is only getting 17,000 first doses a week. At this rate we’ll finish vaccinating people in the fall…of 2022.
I’m super thrilled to have learned that NH doesn’t consider those of us with mild or moderate asthma a priority at all and we’re in the least priority group if under 65 but we’ve offered the vaccine to all ski patrols already.
Got my first dose.
My mother’s two sisters and their husbands all got their first doses in FL this week. One aunt and uncle drove 2 hours to a rural county site where they had 200 doses available; they arrived at 5 a.m. and got in line, and ended up receiving doses #199 and 200. (All over 75. At least I think the younger aunt is 75 now. Over 70, anyway.)
Local-ish update: apparently the hospital where my GP has admitting privileges has started notifying patients over 65 via their portal that they can schedule vaccination appointments. I just made sure my profile is updated with my age and health history. It may be a while yet before I move up in line unless vaccine production and distribution really crank up.
People over 50 are now in an earlier phase in my area (along with certain essential workers). They expect that group to start in mid-March.
I must be missing something. How is it a great day for America when you live in Israel??