CDC Notifies States, Large Cities To Prepare For Vaccine Distribution As Soon As Late October

[KBoopaloo]

Got an email from the MA vaccine registration email list yesterday morning that was titled “update” and hoped it meant I had an appointment. Nope, just an update that they still don’t have an appointment for me. Womp womp. I wanted to reply that they can save their updates until they have an actual appointment - keep me from getting my hopes up!

 

[SmallWorld71]

Got an email from the MA vaccine registration email list yesterday morning that was titled “update” and hoped it meant I had an appointment. Nope, just an update that they still don’t have an appointment for me. Womp womp. I wanted to reply that they can save their updates until they have an actual appointment - keep me from getting my hopes up!

Are you in a group that is already eligible? My colleagues and I have all had good luck with CVS. I have also helped a number of elderly at church get their appointments through CVS. Some tips if you are not already using them: go through another state at first (I use Alabama since it is first alphabetically) just to be able to use the site as MA typically shows as full. Then after you go through the initial questions, choose MA on the 2nd page and that will bring you to the zip code page.
Once there, try multiple zip codes in your area. Don't just stick to your own zip code as appointments weirdly pop up for different zip codes, not necessarily the ones nearest the CVS either. Once you are on the zip code page, you can periodically refresh and try different zip codes whenever you can.
They had been releasing cancellations at midnight and new appointments at 6 am, not sure if that is still true.
Not sure what part of MA you are in, but I have been helping people with appts. today and so far only Quincy and Dorchester have come up in my area.
And, if you get the message that they are loading appointments, stay on. Just keep refreshing until you are in the waiting room and then don't refresh again.
I do expect it to be crazy again for a while starting tomorrow when a new, large group becomes eligible.

 

[EACarlson]

Odd question but maybe someone has experienced this. I got my first Moderna shot two weeks ago 4 hours away, on monday I become eligible in my home state. Has anyone tried moving a second appointment closer to home after travelling a long distance for the first? I'd prefer to avoid a 9 hour trip if I can avoid it.

 

[dvcgirl67]

Heard a heartbreaker just now. Customer of mine has to go to a funeral on Thursday for an old family friend. She was 80 years old...hospitalized on March 10th, passed on March 15th. Her Covid vaccine was on March 13th...which she didn't get (obviously). Her husband is 93 years old, also did not get his vaccine yet either, and is on a ventilator with Covid and not expected to make it.

It's so sad....it kind of makes me think of soldiers who endure an entire war only to die in a plane crash on the way home. .

 

[chickapin parterre]

volunteers beng asked at the border to park cars for mass vacantinon

 

[DLgal]

Odd question but maybe someone has experienced this. I got my first Moderna shot two weeks ago 4 hours away, on monday I become eligible in my home state. Has anyone tried moving a second appointment closer to home after travelling a long distance for the first? I'd prefer to avoid a 9 hour trip if I can avoid it.

Many pharmacies will make second shot only appointments. Try CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid. They will tell you which brand vaccine they have when you make the appointment.

 

[Mango7100]

Odd question but maybe someone has experienced this. I got my first Moderna shot two weeks ago 4 hours away, on monday I become eligible in my home state. Has anyone tried moving a second appointment closer to home after travelling a long distance for the first? I'd prefer to avoid a 9 hour trip if I can avoid it.

Yes. DH made a 9 hr round trip to a neighboring state for his first Pfizer. He was able to book a second Pfizer appointment at a Kroger 20 minutes away. Had his second vaccine a few days ago. He just had to bring his license, insurance card, and vaccine card

 

[Dznypal]

I can’t see how anyone can say it’s no big deal to breath a mask. Anytime your breathing is restricted it’s hard to breath. As far as germs I can only imagine what we’re breathing granted it’s your own germs but still gross. And someone mentioned damp masks from trying to breath then there saying to wear 2 masks.

 

[starry_solo]

Odd question but maybe someone has experienced this. I got my first Moderna shot two weeks ago 4 hours away, on monday I become eligible in my home state. Has anyone tried moving a second appointment closer to home after travelling a long distance for the first? I'd prefer to avoid a 9 hour trip if I can avoid it.

Just keep hunting the local county sites (or state) for available appointments and make sure it tells you which vaccine it is.

We've stayed within our state and county. When I set up my parents' appointments, it was through the County vaccination sites. The County said they would email to set up the second appointment. One week before they were supposed to do it, I found out that their health care providers lowered the age for appointments due to getting more vaccine doses so I made their second appointments through their healthcare providers. It was a crap shoot because neither appointment said which vaccine dose it was (they got different vaccines for their first dose) but after the appointment was made, it would tell us. Fortunately for one parent, it was the same vaccine as the first dose. For the second, it was different so I canceled and tried another day. Eureka! Same vaccine as first dose.

BTW, the County never contacted either parent to set up the appointment for the second dose. And the vaccination site where they had their first appointment closed down

 

[Joe in VA]

Sorry for missing my usual Thursday update, had a busy week. National positivity rate has fallen to 3.8%, the lowest number on record since the pandemic started. Sunday's 39,400 cases are down from last Sunday's 43,000. The 7 day avg comes in at 55,600, nearly identical to last weeks number. Deaths fell massively from to 455, the lowest daily number since 9/28 and down from last Sunday's 675. With the majority of seniors vaccinated this will continue to plummet.

Cases on Sundays:

1/3: 204,400
1/10: 222,000
1/17: 179,300
1/24: 143,100
1/31: 112,900
2/7: 92,400
2/14: 67,500
2/21: 59,000
2/28: 54,100
3/7: 45,000
3/14: 43,000
3/21: 39,400

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states

 

[godisney14]

Well, looks like AZ/Oxford vaccine has similar efficacy numbers as the J&J vaccine in the US.

I’m of the belief that if Pfizer and Moderna were to redo a p3 trial right now in the US, they will also have similar efficacy numbers in the 70’s%.
The Pfizer and Moderna trials were conducted in the US much earlier when there were relatively speaking no variants, and their trials were conducted on a much less percentage of minorities and elderly.

So, please don’t anyone say that J&J and AZ vaccines are inferior to Pfizer/Moderna. That can’t be deduced unless a trial is done using all four vaccines at the same time on similar populations.

 

[godisney14]

rrs

Sorry for missing my usual Thursday update, had a busy week. National positivity rate has fallen to 3.8%, the lowest number on record since the pandemic started. Sunday's 39,400 cases are down from last Sunday's 43,000. The 7 day avg comes in at 55,600, nearly identical to last weeks number. Deaths fell massively from to 455, the lowest daily number since 9/28 and down from last Sunday's 675. With the majority of seniors vaccinated this will continue to plummet.

Cases on Sundays:

1/3: 204,400
1/10: 222,000
1/17: 179,300
1/24: 143,100
1/31: 112,900
2/7: 92,400
2/14: 67,500
2/21: 59,000
2/28: 54,100
3/7: 45,000
3/14: 43,000
3/21: 39,400

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states

More informative would be the 7-day MA on those particular dates.

 

[jlwhitney]

Well, looks like AZ/Oxford vaccine has similar efficacy numbers as the J&J vaccine in the US.

I’m of the belief that if Pfizer and Moderna were to redo a p3 trial right now in the US, they will also have similar efficacy numbers in the 70’s%.
The Pfizer and Moderna trials were conducted in the US much earlier when there were relatively speaking no variants, and their trials were conducted on a much less percentage of minorities and elderly.

So, please don’t anyone say that J&J and AZ vaccines are inferior to Pfizer/Moderna. That can’t be deduced unless a trial is done using all four vaccines at the same time on similar populations.

The AZ is showing better efficacy for 65 plus I believe was the number then younger.

Also read that Pfizer protects against 94% asymptomatic infections also.

But the big key is they are all better then hoped for and what would be consider acceptable.

 

[anniemae]

I am a little concerned with AZ vaccine. The US did not give it approval because of problems. I thought one problem was that it caused neurological problems. I also heard it does not protect well against the variants. Does anyone know if it's true. I also read they stopped using it in Europe due to problems. Why would we approve this?

 

[charmed59]

I thought we gave all our AZ vaccines to our neighbors. (Canada and Mexico). They are already using them there so they can start them immediately.

 

[DLgal]

I am a little concerned with AZ vaccine. The US did not give it approval because of problems. I thought one problem was that it caused neurological problems. I also heard it does not protect well against the variants. Does anyone know if it's true. I also read they stopped using it in Europe due to problems. Why would we approve this?

No, the US did not give it approval on it's first trial because they screwed up the dosing and used 2 different dosing protocols by accident and then tried to just combine the results into an average efficacy. US did not like that, and made them run the trial again using one set dosage.

It has not been directly associated with any neurological problems.

Some EU countries halted administration temporarily while they looked into the clotting/stroke cases that popped up. At this point, they believe the vaccine *may* be causing the generation of a specific antibody that is also produced in Covid infections and leads to a specific type of blood clot in the veins in the brain, that is also associated with oral contraceptives (I believe most patients who experienced these clots were women of childbearing age). However, this is just a theory right now, and many scientists are skeptical because there is no reason why this vaccine would cause this to happen when none of the others does (they all work the same way in the body, in terms of creating antibodies against the spike protein).

 

[Colleen27]

And my county is, right now, the very model of exponential growth: since the start of this month, cases per 100K have doubled every week, from 11 on March 1 to 22 on March 8 to 49 on March 15. Our highest-ever rate was 85 per 100K in early December and based on the case counts so far this week, I think we'll be right back there in a week or two.

We've now blown past our previous peak, with our numbers continuing to double each week. Our March 22 case rate per 100K is 104 and climbing, with the last few days of last week seeing daily reports in the 130s.

 

[ford family]

I am a little concerned with AZ vaccine. The US did not give it approval because of problems. I thought one problem was that it caused neurological problems. I also heard it does not protect well against the variants. Does anyone know if it's true. I also read they stopped using it in Europe due to problems. Why would we approve this?

US trial confirms AstraZeneca jab is both safe and highly effective (msn.com)

The "problems" in the EU are predominately political with the Commission desperately seeking a scapegoat to distract from its own ineptitude.

ford family

 

[DLgal]

We've now blown past our previous peak, with our numbers continuing to double each week. Our March 22 case rate per 100K is 104 and climbing, with the last few days of last week seeing daily reports in the 130s.

Yikes. That's like CA surge levels.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

We've now blown past our previous peak, with our numbers continuing to double each week. Our March 22 case rate per 100K is 104 and climbing, with the last few days of last week seeing daily reports in the 130s.

That’s so crazy! I hope it sees a turnaround soon!