21 days, if they don’t reschedule us.
This coming Tuesday will make two weeks since my second shot, so I will have full immunity then. I had no ill effects at all after either shot. But then, I’ve had just about every vaccine you can think of over the years and never had a bad reaction. Some of my colleagues though did experience some ill effects after the second shot that lasted a day or two.
The difference in efficiency and access among different locations is astounding. Unfortunately, my parents live in Los Angeles county, California, perhaps the worst place in the world for this. They are in their 80s and not only do they not have an appointment for their first shot, nobody has any idea when they might get it.
I was scheduled for my second shot tomorrow. Yesterday, I got a message from the Ministry of Health moving my appointment back by three weeks. This is not the correct procedure. I am not happy.
You should try Maricopa county. Before you could sign up for a vaccination (I’m in group 1C) you had to create an account. For five days I tried, failing to get the verification email each time. Finally successful, I was too late – all of the reservation slots were gone.
Since then I have gone back every few days to see if a new block of reservations is available. Despite the fact an account has been established – requiring only a user name, email address, and password (what the verification email was for) – in order to check I have to log in and enter that the appointment is for me (as opposed to a family member), the vaccine group (COVID-19 being the only one available), answer 10 questions to determine my status, enter my personal information (name, address [including county], phone number, birth date, age, sex, marital status, race and ethnicity), insurance info, pick a location (there’s only one in the county), tell the site it’s not for today so it invites me to select a date, then (finally) find out there are no dates available.
Since the site cannot be bothered to save any of this info in my “account” I have to enter it each time I look. I wrote a scathing email to their contact email saying my nephew could have designed a better user interface at age thirteen. No reply as of yet. My brother did get an appointment on the 4th. I’m going to tag along and beg.
I am a CPS social worker. Received the first Moderna shot January 20, 2021 with minimal side effects. I experienced a sore arm, a bit of dizziness and some fatigue. The arm soreness was pretty significant for a few days but the other symptoms were minor.
Second shot is scheduled for February 17th. I am trying not to read too much about it until after its over.
Got my second dose today. Been working remotely for the last two weeks, and on vacation this week. I’ll go back physically to work on the 8th of this month. Won’t have the maximum immunity for two weeks, but I’ll continue taking precautions until they’re no longer deemed necessary, so I’ll be safer at work than anytime in the last 10 months. Just shy of 900 of my patients tested positive for covid, out of 1100, no new cases in a week, so I’m optimistic.
I have to sign a waiver for the flu shot. Well, not when I get it from my PCP, but when I get it at work, or at a drugstore, or at the walk-up place at O’Hare. It’s normal to sign a waiver for a vaccine.
My 84 year old mom got her first dose today. She was hospitalized, and the hospital has been vaccinating all of their inpatients as “high risk”. So I cancelled her appointment to be vaccinated this Saturday.
Getting the second dose may be a nuisance, but I’m not certain she would have been released from the hospital in time for her Saturday appt, and besides, a bird in the hand, and all that.
Got my first jab today (Moderna). Surprisingly painless. No soreness, no side effects so far (4 hours and counting).
They’ve just rolled out age prioritization and for the first time in a long time, my age is an asset.
I spent a couple of hours online on Saturday (lots of green appointments available links with no appointments at the end of signing up and answering the questions). I was mostly looking at nearby pharmacies and small vaccination centers. I finally looked at the nearest big center, and was able to score a lunchtime appointment at a fire station about 20 minutes away from work.
There was an article in the LA Times about how seniors are disadvantaged by the current LA county process, which is heavily online (with no real central booking app, just a bunch of separate facilities lists run by different organizations depending on the facility type), uses email and text to communicate, QR code to authenticate, and is car-centric (did I mention where I’m located?). For example, I had to select the center I was trying to make an appointment for, go through a registration process (including entering an authentication code sent by text), and answer a set of questions on my current health before I was able to even see if there were appointments available.
But once I got to the available appointments list, it was easy to select the one I wanted, download the app, print out the QR code, and save the email and QR code on my phone. I popped the address into my GPS, got an estimated drive time, and blocked off my work calendar. Easy peasy.
It’s LA County, so I was expecting chaos and angst today. It was drive through (this is LA), and I arrived 10 minutes early for my appointment…
Well, I arrived three blocks away from the vaccination center 10 minutes early.
However, it was surprisingly well organized and aside from the wait (I got my shot an hour and a half after my arrival), everything flowed smoothly, everyone was friendly, and once my car reached the area where the vaccinations were given there were no hiccups. The only complaint I have is that they had streets blocked off around the center and only one specific route for cars to take, so my GPS guide was useless for the last few blocks (and I’m not familiar with the area, so the helpful sign at the blocked off street that the entrance was only at “Arglebargle” street had me scrambling). Maybe I should have used Waze.
The shot itself didn’t hurt at all. My yearly flu shot was more painful. My 2nd appointment will be set up automatically through the app. This approach streamlines the time spent at the vaccination center yet doesn’t leave it up to the patient to make the appointment. I got a vaccination card with the day of the next appointment stamped on the back, exactly 4 weeks after the initial jab, though I assume I can work on changing the appointment through the app or online.
Just received my first dose of the Oxford-AstraZenica vaccine. It was administered at a local pharmacy here in north London.
I’m not old but I have been marked as clinically extremely vulnerable due to my blood condition. Wasn’t required to wait afterwards as long as I was not driving.
I was given the opportunity to ask any questions I wanted to, however I’m disappointed not to have been given a lecture about how I should continue to wear masks and that my body would take a few weeks to build up protection. Surely that would make a difference to people who may not frequent the SDMB (or follow the news).
I think the vaccine roll-out has been a cluster. The idea of prioritization was done with good intentions but considering that not even half of healthcare workers even want the goddamn vaccine (and we can assume that this is probably true of the population as a whole), they should have just let anyone who wanted it, get it.
where I live, people who are eligible can’t get an appointment. There’s way more demand than supply. I’m glad they’ve at least prioritized people, so the people who ARE getting it are the ones who need it the most.
In Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, Phase 1A includes age 65 +, BMI 30 +, and “smoking.” Special occasion cigar? Marijuana? It all depends on how shameless you are. My county is threatening to turn away queue jumpers, but it might be an idle threat. What are they going to do? Start taking heights and weights? Asking someone when they last smoked a cigarette? Don’t think so.
My wife and I are exactly 65 years old. A couple blocks away, in Philadelphia, that age puts us in 1C. (Although one of us quit smoking 35 years ago. And Philadelphia also gives the smoking bump.)
Because possession is 9/10 of the law, it probably was inevitable that hospital workers, including those not giving direct patient care, would be first. But beyond that I think a pure age system would have been the only prioritization not to result in massive queue jumping.
All this should have been planned out last summer. Now is too late.
I’m scheduled for my first one on March 10th. 96,000 Hoosiers between 65 and 69 inclusive signed up on the first day we could.
There seems to be some geographical factors at work here in New York. Most of my family lives in a very rural part of the state and they seem to be better supplied (at least on a per capita basis) than the more heavily populated parts of the state. The result has been predictable; people are traveling from urban areas to the rural areas where they can get an appointment.
I’m in a rural area of New York State and we have no vaccine here. Nearest place even accepting appointments is two hours away in a large city.
What’s clear is that people who can afford to travel are advantaged:
How rural are we talking? Westchester County rural or Hamilton County rural?
My family lives in the Plattsburgh area. They are still locations there that are taking appointments.
I got my first shot last Saturday.
I’m in NY, and am over 65, so I qualify. I was planning to wait until things settled down, but my employer arranged for the vaccine for all employees over 65, and quickly expanded it to spouses over 65. Our campus has a friary, and many of the friars are well over the minimum age, so I suspect they were going to get it first, but the clinic had more doses than needed just to cover them, so the college expanded the number.
One of the six smallest counties by population in the state; in the Finger Lakes; primarily agricultural.
Plattsburgh’s quite a long way away from me; I’d have to stay overnight someplace. Syracuse is a more plausible possibility, but I really don’t want to have to spend a day driving back and forth to Syracuse and hanging out with a crowd of city people waiting to get vaccinated, not to mention finding several small enclosed places to piss enroute; and I think they’re backed up until April, anyway. I’m hoping by then I can get vaccinated somewhere closer to home; my local drugstore is trying to get it, and they seem to be the one place around taking waiting lists. I’m on theirs.