Fantastic!
I got my first Pfizer dose this afternoon. Was in the Dallas VA for an appointment and heard an overhead announcement: “Covid vaccine being given in the Gym for employees and veterans. No appointment needed right now.” I’m guessing they had some thawed vaccine they needed to use. I do have a scheduled appointment for Shot #2 on Feb 12. Today, walking into the VA, was the first time I had seen posters advertising getting an appointment for the vaccine. I had signed up online in Dallas County as well, so now I will need to figure out how to cancel that. 7 hours since my dose and no adverse symptoms.
Yesterday evening when I was walking I got an email on my phone saying that appointments were available at the local university hospital. By the time I got home 15 minutes later, the scheduling website had already crashed. I spent over an hour attempting to get connected, and occasionally got a couple of screens into the process, but never any farther. Checking again this morning around 4:30, all appointments through mid-February are taken. I’m really glad people are so enthusiastic about getting vaccinated.
I’m still not worried about getting mine. I expect the vaccination process to accelerate under the Biden administration as more vaccine is available. I no longer feel like I’m in the bread line fighting others for a tightfisted allotment of loaves. I believe the good bakers and bakery shops are at work and there will be enough bread for all eventually. IOW I feel good will and benevolence toward citizens emanating from the top, and no longer miserliness, stupidity, and ineptitude.
I have not. I couldn’t even create the account needed to sign up online – the verification email never arrived in several attempts all week. Supposedly you can also sign up via phone if you have no access but, needless to say, all you get from the robo-receptionist is, “Due to the overwhelming inbound calls, please try again later,” >click<
I sent an annoyed email Monday but have yet to get a reply as yet. My brother has an appointment in early February. I’m going to tag along and beg.
Got email last night, on behalf of my mother, from the New Jersey Department of Heath, saying it was time to make an appointment (she had pre-registered a while back).
I made an appointment, for Sunday, at the hospital in Mullica Hill. Received confirmation email in a few minutes.
30 minutes later — received email from state saying that her appointment was cancelled and we should reschedule. Going repeatedly back into the web site — no appointments available.
I didn’t know this when I made the Sunday appointment, but it already was in the news that this hospital was cancelling all appointments due to lack of vaccine. This was in news stories BEFORE we got the initial invite to schedule.
My mother received the first dose yesterday of the Pfizer vaccine near her home in Connecticut and has the second dose scheduled for thirty days later. I’m a little concerned about that. The recommendation is 21 days between doses for the Pfizer vaccine but a CDC webpage says up to six weeks is doable also.
My parents (both above 75) got vaccinated in the last 24 hours. The website opened up on Monday and my mom signed herself up. Went upstairs to get my dad signed up and had to sign him up for the next day.
She told others, who signed up later that day, who have to wait another month to get their vaccinations.
She was a bit annoyed with the receptionist. He asked her if she had an appointment, to which she answered yes. He then asked her several more questions before letting her in.
The next woman only got asked if she had an appointment and was allowed in. My mom is convinced the difference is due to the fact that my mom has white hair and the other woman was significantly younger.
And I got my second shot on Tuesday. We don’t know when the wife will be able to get here though. We’re hoping Biden will speed things up.
I got my second Moderna today. As with every circumstance surrounding this virus, I’ve been very lucky. Although I’m only 50 and have no particular risk factors, our whole department was approved to get the shot and the procedure was organized and smooth. I hear these stories on the news about sick elderly people waiting hours in line, or unable to get appointments, and it’s not been my experience at all.
At almost 12 hours to the minute after getting my second Moderna shot, I came down with a rotten fever. I was shivering under a blanket, a bathrobe, and two dogs, but couldn’t lay still because my everything hurt. I took six ibuprofen over the course of the night, and made it in to work today, but I still feel achy and out of it. Apparently I received some very potent medication!
They’re giving out the Pfizer vaccine here and I’ve heard people getting flu-like symptoms after the second dose. Bad enough that they’re calling in sick the next day.
My husband was the last person in his office to get his first dose, so he’s heard the stories of everyone he works with. Most have them have had that same experience with the second Pfizer shot - fever, aches, generally feeling shitty. He went ahead and scheduled a day off after his appointment for his second dose.
I got the first dose of the Moderna vaccine this morning. I got an email from University of Texas Health Science System because my PCP is part of their physicians’ practice. My appointment was for 8:45, but because I’m compulsively prompt and I didn’t know exactly where I was going, I arrived at 8:00 am. I got at the end of a line (outside) that only had 11 people ahead of me and by the time the line started moving (about an hour later) and we were admitted into the building to actually get our shots, there were probably 150 people behind me. The process was very well-organized once it got rolling, so I was back out around 30 mins later-- including the 15 min post-shot waiting time. Anyway you slice this, it’s a logistical nightmare, and I thought an hour and a half was a very reasonable amount of time. A friend of mine stood in line for four hours for her first shot.
I had checked myself in online the night before, and when the intake person confirmed me, she also made the appointment for my second shot three weeks from today and gave me a card, which I assume will become my “proof of vaccination.”
My RN daughter in Philadelphia just got her second jab yesterday. My 96 year old mother in a Wisconsin rehab (bad hips and knees) got her first jab a couple of weeks ago.
I, and 7,000,000 other New Yorkers are currently eligible. New York has been allocated 250,000 doses a week. Doing the math that means about 28 weeks for one dose each or 56 weeks for two doses and that does not cover the remaining state residents. On Monday the governor announced the state’s allocation might go up to 420,000 per week which would cut the time for one dose to 17 weeks, or late May or early June. November for two doses and then immunizations for others may start.
The state sign-up site hasn’t had an available appointment time for at least the last ten days and they’ve made appointments out to April 1. I check the site several times a day.
This certainly is not warp speed.
My husband and I are both group 1a. His employer, a large university connected to a hospital system, offered appointments starting today. We got the Moderna shot and will go for our second one in 4 weeks.
So far neither of us has side effects. My arm doesn’t even hurt yet, though I expect it will tomorrow. Frankly, the shingles shot was worse. My arm hurt for days after that one.
We’re in Pennsylvania. Our county (Cambria) is letting us get the shot but my friends in Allegheny county can’t get theirs yet, despite also being 1a.
My wife, a breast cancer survivor, got her second Pfizer shot yesterday. No side effects yet.
Update: she feels like crap and went to lie down.
My sister was told to take Saturday off (she is an ER PA) as she is getting her 2nd Moderna shot tomorrow. She was told that flu-like symptoms should be expected. That’s my fear, as I haven’t had a sustained fever in my adult life, and have never had the flu, or taken a flu shot.
Not sure if it’s known, but is there a correlation between how someone reacts to the vaccine and how they would have fared if they had actually caught the virus?
I’m in Armstrong County. Every morning I’ve been checking online, every morning I see there are no vaccines.
Johnstown is just an hour away, I’ll search there as well. I’d happily drive an hour for a vaccine.