Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[Birdie dog]

I'm hoping Wednesday. Monday will be the latest for me.

 

[anniemae]

I get it on Wednesday morning.

Please let us know how it goes and any side effects you may have. Good Luck!

 

[Birdie dog]

I've also volunteered to give the vaccine next week at our hospital..

 

[mi*vida*loca]

One of my coworkers is scheduled for her first shot on December 22 and the second January 12. Even though it’s voluntary they are prioritizing employees who work directly with covid patients so she has to wait an extra week.

 

[TLSnell1981]

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[JimMIA]

I thought this thread was about who got the vaccine.......


I am still not sure when my turn will be. I hope to hear something soon from my state.

Like me, you're in Florida.

Florida published a very detailed plan back in October as part of their preparations for a vaccine. It's available on the Department of Health's website, and public health officials have been appearing in the media daily explaining the process.

Here's a link: http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_p.../vaccination-plan/vaccination_plan_latest.pdf

The priorities are as follows:

• First wave of vaccinations
  • Healthcare workers who have frequent patient contact, especially hospital workers -- probably all of the doses received today will go to these folks. We got 170K+ doses in the first shipments and all of those will be used for first dose shots.
  • Long term care facility staff and residents -- Walgreen's and CVS will be helping with these vaccinations.
  • First responders -- police, fire rescue/EMS personnel
  • Patients with high risk comorbidities -- most of the news reports talk about elderly people with comorbidities, but I expect that all people with high risk factors will be vaccinated regardless of age.

After that will come "essential workers," elderly people without high risk comorbidities, and then the general population.

Walgreens, CVS, Costco, Walmart, and other retailers are already gearing up for the general population distribution, but that probably won't start until April-May. Some major universities will also serve as vaccination centers.

 

[bcla]

Vaccines are supposed to provide immunity against specific diseases. Hmmm...

Not necessarily. It's not necessarily going to be an impenetrable shield. There's been some discussion that these vaccines may reduce the impact of an infection or perhaps someone is asymptomatic rather than coming down with symptoms. It's supposed to create an antibody response that can fight when the virus attempts to infect someone, but it's not necessarily that it wipes out all viruses before they get a chance to infect.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits/facts.html

 

[leebee]

DD is part of the social work staff at a nursing/long term care facility, working directly with patients, AND she is immunocompromised, so I hope she is eligible to get the vaccine soon. She's been anxious all summer and fall, watching the numbers grow, even though we are pretty "sheltered" here in Maine. I don't know where DH and I will fall in the hierarchy. We are both teachers, but University faculty, and I think I read that "teachers" only refers to K-12. He's 60, I'm 64, so even our ages won't qualify us for an "early boarding group." Don't care, as long as DD is protected.

 

[bcla]

I'm not in the medical field and it has been a long day but - if I get vaccinated against a disease how can I continue to spread it to other people....

There's always the possibility that someone vaccinated is in the 5-10% for which the vaccine isn't effective enough.

Think of it this way. Antibodies are seek and destroy weapons against viruses or classes of viruses. But they won't always get all of them. But if they can be reduced it should be better. Having the antibodies doesn't make it impossible for cells to be infected. Infected people certainly have antibodies, but it's not an immediate cure to have them.

 

[JulieBeeRN]

Please let us know how it goes and any side effects you may have. Good Luck!

Will do!

 

[JulieBeeRN]

Like me, you're in Florida.

Florida published a very detailed plan back in October as part of their preparations for a vaccine. It's available on the Department of Health's website, and public health officials have been appearing in the media daily explaining the process.

Here's a link: http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_p.../vaccination-plan/vaccination_plan_latest.pdf

The priorities are as follows:

• First wave of vaccinations
  • Healthcare workers who have frequent patient contact, especially hospital workers -- probably all of the doses received today will go to these folks. We got 170K+ doses in the first shipments and all of those will be used for first dose shots.
  • Long term care facility staff and residents -- Walgreen's and CVS will be helping with these vaccinations.
  • First responders -- police, fire rescue/EMS personnel
  • Patients with high risk comorbidities -- most of the news reports talk about elderly people with comorbidities, but I expect that all people with high risk factors will be vaccinated regardless of age.

After that will come "essential workers," elderly people without high risk comorbidities, and then the general population.

Walgreens, CVS, Costco, Walmart, and other retailers are already gearing up for the general population distribution, but that probably won't start until April-May. Some major universities will also serve as vaccination centers.

At my hospital, our initial doses are prioritized for health care workers with the highest COVID-19 exposure risk, such as aerosolizing generating procedures, and not just frequent patient contact.

 

[VandVsmama]

deleted. never mind

 

[mom2rtk]

I could be reading some of the comments here incorrectly. But, just to clarify some possible misconception, there is no evidence to support any notion that a vaccine prevents the transmission of the virus. (In fact, the general thought is that the vaccines will not stop transmission). It is just for your own personal benefit to reduce possible severe illness.

Vaccine = helps you
Mask = helps others

That's needlessly alarming. They just don't have proof one way or the other. Give it a moment.

And if it turns out to be very unusual and not prevent transmission, at least people will have it within their control to protect themselves (by getting the vaccine).

 

[VandVsmama]

I work for a healthcare organization, but do not work in direct patient care. Today, they had a big town hall conference call and answered a bunch of questions that employees had about the vaccine. The chief medical officer said that:

• the vaccine is not contra-indicated for people with food allergies
• anyone who's had an allergic reaction in the past to a vaccine should consult with their doctor first before getting this vaccine
• getting vaccinated right now for this is not a condition of employment, but getting a flu vaccine is.
• 2 shots given 7-10 days apart.
• ER, urgent, ICU staff will be given it first. This includes not only doctors and nurses, but patient care techs, respiratory therapists, custodial staff who work those floors in the hospitals, basically anybody who works in an area where they're exposed to COVID patients.
• the Pfizer vaccine was not tested on people age 15 and younger, so it wasn't approved by the FDA for that age group. Only age 16 and up can get it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

According to the local news a nurse in an ICU ward in one of the hospitals is the first in my metro to receive it:

https://www.kmbc.com/article/nurse-...-receives-first-covid-19-vaccination/34967859

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

For this actual thread I wouldn't have a clue when I'll be eligible for one so I'm just living vicariously through y'all who are able to get it and just updating for my area as information is given. So very happy for this whole bit to come to fruition

 

[bcla]

I think some of the concerns here were about whether or not being vaccinated will prevent the spread. That's questionable. However, remember that some of the worst affected were doctors and nurses who ended up treating a lot of Covid-19 patients. There was that one doctor in China who was a whistleblower and ended up dying from it after being heavily exposed to patients.

It should be an overall good idea to be vaccinated, but it doesn't sound like a perfect solution.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/vaccines-faq​

How do vaccines work?​

Vaccines stimulate the human body’s own protective immune responses so that, if a person is infected with a pathogen, the immune system can quickly prevent the infection from spreading within the body and causing disease. In this way, vaccines mimic natural infection but without actually causing the person to become sick.​

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For SARS-CoV-2, antibodies that bind to and block the spike protein on the virus’s surface are thought to be most important for protection from disease because the spike protein is what attaches to human cells, allowing the virus to enter our cells. Blocking this entrance prevents infection.​

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Not all people who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop disease (Covid-19 is the disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2). These people have asymptomatic infection but can still transmit the virus to others. Most vaccines do not completely prevent infection but do prevent the infection from spreading within the body and from causing disease. Many vaccines can also prevent transmission, potentially leading to herd protection whereby unvaccinated people are protected from infection by the vaccinated people around them because they have less chance of exposure to the virus.​

 

[bcla]

This is the explanation of how it's going down here in California:

https://www.radio.com/kcbsradio/news/state/coronavirus-vaccine-touches-down-in-california​

Northern California is still waiting on its delivery into Oakland International Airport and at the Coast Guard Island in Alameda, which is one of 16 military sites to get the vaccine. 44,000 doses are expected to be held in cold storage there, but only for military use.​

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University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) health officials expect 975 doses on Monday or Tuesday, which would mean vaccinations could begin by Wednesday morning. But Chief Pharmacy Executive Dr. Desi Kotis told KCBS Radio that there are some 20,000 people in their system that need vaccinations, including frontline healthcare workers and researchers who are working with the virus, students and the campus police force.​

 

[tinatark]

I have short and long term antibodies, so a level of protection - participating in a research study regarding antibodies. The infectious disease doctor advised that while I may not be able to be infected by the virus, I can still infect others if I am exposed. Seems the same for people who are vaccinated.

 

[Dan Murphy]

My firefighter/paramedic son gets his this Friday. His department services 3 nursing homes of which he said one has very high COVID case loads.