Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[Heigh-Ho]

I don't care what people are protesting about. Blocking highways and access to buildings is a crime, disturbing the peace, which can and should result in arrest.

Sorry I don't want to go off into the deep so like I said if you want to talk more message me

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Yikes I so feel for the people who were fielding the phone calls before...my county's health department "has a team of 6-8 people attempting to answer thousands of calls each day. Because we have received many voicemail messages from residents, the department has added volunteers to return those calls, as well as hired an additional nine contractors to assist with this effort next week.”

Having had call center experience I can relate to how they must have felt. And that information is only from the county's health department it doesn't include all the hospitals and doctor's offices that have probably been bombarded with phone calls as well as pharmacies too.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

DH got the first one today. He got the Moderna shot, and he says his arm is very very sore. He's feeling tired today, but he didn't sleep great last night, so...

He got the phone call yesterday from Mayo, to come in today. It was chaotic, and even at the hospital filled with serious illness, people couldn't seem to wear masks correctly. He said he called out a couple people that kept getting very close to him and who had "chin diapers" on. He's a big guy (6'4") and has a loud speaking tone anyways, so he just let it boom on them. They moved their masks up and stepped back when they had everyone's attention on them.

The lady at Mayo said they got 1000 doses in yesterday, without notice, so they were rushing to get people in. Since DH is a transplant patient (6 year kidney-versary last month, woohoo), he got the call. /happy dance

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

New to this thread.

DH was in the Pfizer study. He spoke to the principal investigator here back in Dec and found out he got the actual vaccine. Injection site soreness was his only side effect. (As an aside, it *really* bothers me when ppl refer to the current vaccination drive as experimental. The trials on safety and efficacy

I'm also fully vacc (Pfizer) as of Jan 23. Also had very slight arm soreness (less than with the flu shot) with both doses. Usually I have arm soreness for 24-48 hours after a flu shot; this soreness was much less in severity and lasted maybe 2 hours.

I know literally hundreds of people in group 1a, including many with underlying conditions, and I only know of one person who had side effects beyond injection site soreness. That one person is an otherwise healthy male physician in his late 40s who got fairly seriously ill with COVID a few months ago, including 104° fever for ~10 days and short hospitalization. After his second dose of the vaccine he got a 103° fever that lasted less than 24 hours.

 

[SaintsManiac]

My in-laws finally got their appointments to get the vaccine tomorrow. I can’t even express how relieved I am. My grandmother-in-law had both doses at her nursing home already, so I am hoping visits can start again soon.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

My in-laws finally got their appointments to get the vaccine tomorrow. I can’t even express how relieved I am. My grandmother-in-law had both doses at her nursing home already, so I am hoping visits can start again soon.

A fam member in Iowa just posted a notice from a nursing home where my great-aunt is saying they're allowing visitation again and outlining procedures (hand washing, masks, 30 min time slots,...).

 

[hmsTigger]

Seeing that in several states in nursing homes and residential living and care facilities. Also, hospitals are relaxing visiting rules.

 

[Mysterian]

Got my second shot today!

 

[gary1955]

Well, that's better than SoCal Kaiser is doing. They're still only doing health care workers and care facility residents. They say they'll contact those 75 and over when appointments/vaccine become available.

Northern California Kaiser seems to be doing the same. overall it says health care workers, care facility residents and those 75 and older. when you read on it says they will contact those 75 and older for appointments.

 

[lifesavacation]

Seeing that in several states in nursing homes and residential living and care facilities. Also, hospitals are relaxing visiting rules.

I’m happy to hear that. My cousin just had cancer surgery and wasn’t allowed a support person

 

[disneyworldsk]

New to this thread.

DH was in the Pfizer study. He spoke to the principal investigator here back in Dec and found out he got the actual vaccine. Injection site soreness was his only side effect. (As an aside, it *really* bothers me when ppl refer to the current vaccination drive as experimental. The trials on safety and efficacy

I'm also fully vacc (Pfizer) as of Jan 23. Also had very slight arm soreness (less than with the flu shot) with both doses. Usually I have arm soreness for 24-48 hours after a flu shot; this soreness was much less in severity and lasted maybe 2 hours.

I know literally hundreds of people in group 1a, including many with underlying conditions, and I only know of one person who had side effects beyond injection site soreness. That one person is an otherwise healthy male physician in his late 40s who got fairly seriously ill with COVID a few months ago, including 104° fever for ~10 days and short hospitalization. After his second dose of the vaccine he got a 103° fever that lasted less than 24 hours.

why do you think that is regarding the person you know who had covid having more serious side effects at dose two? do you think he had too many antibodies in him from previous covid?

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

why do you think that is regarding the person you know who had covid having more serious side effects at dose two? do you think he had too many antibodies in him from previous covid?

Not based on anything scientific that I know of, it just makes sense to me that he had a strong immune response to the actual virus and had a similar reaction to the vaccine which is is meant to activate the immune system. The WHO says, "Regardless of whether the vaccine is made up of the antigen itself or the blueprint so that the body will produce the antigen, this weakened version will not cause the disease in the person receiving the vaccine, but it will prompt their immune system to respond much as it would have on its first reaction to the actual pathogen."

I've known a lot of people who've been infected with covid, but most had no symptoms to mild cold-like symptoms. The person I was referring to in my previous post got the sickest of anyone I've known who has had covid (aside from a woman I knew who unfortunately passed away), and like I said, he's also the only person that I know of who has had anything more than injection site soreness from the vaccine. That's not to say others haven't had additional side effects, I just don't know of them, and most of the people I know who've been vaccinated have been very vocal about it.

 

[bethbuchall]

New to this thread.

DH was in the Pfizer study. He spoke to the principal investigator here back in Dec and found out he got the actual vaccine. Injection site soreness was his only side effect. (As an aside, it *really* bothers me when ppl refer to the current vaccination drive as experimental. The trials on safety and efficacy

I'm also fully vacc (Pfizer) as of Jan 23. Also had very slight arm soreness (less than with the flu shot) with both doses. Usually I have arm soreness for 24-48 hours after a flu shot; this soreness was much less in severity and lasted maybe 2 hours.

I know literally hundreds of people in group 1a, including many with underlying conditions, and I only know of one person who had side effects beyond injection site soreness. That one person is an otherwise healthy male physician in his late 40s who got fairly seriously ill with COVID a few months ago, including 104° fever for ~10 days and short hospitalization. After his second dose of the vaccine he got a 103° fever that lasted less than 24 hours.

That’s interesting because along the (much fewer number of) people that I knew in the study with us, that’s how we pretty much figured out who received placebo and who received the actual vaccine. Everyone that I knew who got the real vaccine in the study had side effects including fever, chills, fatigue, and aches after the second dose. I hope I’m like the people that you know.

 

[mom2rtk]

Still nothing but frustration here. Missouri finally says they will free up about half of their vaccine for mass vaccination sites around the state (really? Did that just occur to you?) In our metro area they are using a handful of hospitals. 2 are in a county north of us (and you have to live or work there). One other says they will only be vaccinating their own patients for now. The other won't even let us set up a portal to check for access. So we're back to absolutely no chance to even try scheduling for my elderly parents.

 

[lovemygoofy]

My mom and her nursing home residents are now fully vaccinated! She had several days of being down not feeling well and her arm looking red and swollen. She is back feeling better and out in the home well as much as they allow them right now. I'm hoping that by end FEB there
will be plan to do visitation plan soon. March will be a year since I have seen her and as much I like face time it's just not the same.

Here in Indiana shots for those 65 and over opened up yesterday and seems to be going pretty efficiently. I went online and scheduled my MIL for later this month. My husband's grandma lives in Michigan and ended up getting her shot at the Meijer when her clinic said they had no. Just FYI for those that may still be looking...

Good luck to those that are still trying.

 

[Avery&Todd]

DH got his 2nd Pfizer shot this morning! SUPER EXCITED (and a little jealous) of him!

Bring on the shots!!

 

[sarahann77]

My husband got his first dose last month with the medical personnel. He had the drive up setup and he had noticed that those EMTs were actually watching the cars. Each person had 5 cars to watch from the back. There was one on the side and the ambulance in the front. He had injection site soreness. He goes for his second next week.

Ohio had pushed to the pharmacies giving it so he's very aware of folks getting it, being a tech. He hadn't witnessed anyone having any adverse affects.

Since I'm close to a few he goes to he got me on their waiting list. I was able to get in yesterday from a cancel. Soreness as injection site. Noticed slight chills for a few mins later in the evening but otherwise nothing unusual. Soreness on the arm is tricky though. I think I had about the same from a tetanus shot years ago. Next is getting my mom on their waiting list as she couldn't secure an appointment with their website nor the other pharmacies.

Edit: Moderna for us un Ohio above.

My dad in SC gets his next week.

 

[Kamy04]

My grandma in a LTC facility has now had both her shots! She got Pfizer. She had a little fatigue after second shot. Sore arm after both, but no crazy side effects.

 

[JimMIA]

My husband got his first dose last month with the medical personnel. He had the drive up setup and he had noticed that those EMTs were actually watching the cars. Each person had 5 cars to watch from the back.

Same at my drive-thru. They marked your injection time on the windshield and then you drove forward to a waiting paramedic and waited for 10 minutes. They're looking for anaphylaxis. At 10 minutes, they ask if you're okay and then send you home.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Still nothing but frustration here. Missouri finally says they will free up about half of their vaccine for mass vaccination sites around the state (really? Did that just occur to you?) In our metro area they are using a handful of hospitals. 2 are in a county north of us (and you have to live or work there). One other says they will only be vaccinating their own patients for now. The other won't even let us set up a portal to check for access. So we're back to absolutely no chance to even try scheduling for my elderly parents.

As I was reading about that in the news I was thinking there wouldn't be a point to posting calling attention to you for the same reasons you're talking about just not really helpful for your situation.

I did think it was interesting they are rotating in scheduling the larger doses through the "regions" they've set up in the state. I get the concept but it's like they are blitzing each of those areas and then poof they are gone. At this point even small amount of doses spread throughout the state would be welcomed rather than seeing in the news nearly nadda for the metro.

I saw Parson said the reason Jackson County didn't get any doses last week was a "supply and demand issue"...as if that is new. Of course there's not enough supply..