Covid Vaccinations

 
have 2 family members partake in the the moderna trials

in cincy 

 
After paying $20:each at Kroger's for antibodies testing

goldeN

still have to live protocol tho

' bout to hit this geoffrey 

I expect it will be March or April before vaccines are available to the general public in Marin, and that may be optimistic....

My brother is a doctor and he got the vaccine two days after it came out.   I know some nurses and other health care workers who have received the vaccine too.

My parents live in a county in Florida that is already vaccinating old people on a first come, first serve basis and its been sort of a clusterfuck so far.

So they thought they were going to have 20 million people in the US vaccinated by now, but only around five million actually got it.   Everyone knew a vaccine was coming at "wrap speed" and it seems that how to distribute it wasn't thought out well.   Hope the logistics are worked out soon and all those doses just laying around don't go to waste.

Based on the current clusterfuck, prob. not this year.

My brother is also a doc, and his clinic (DC area) got them, but it's a pediatric clinic, so they set up local distribution for them (no organization from above whatsoever) so they could get them to folks that need them.

In other interesting DC region family holiday news;  Everyone on the conservative side of the family got the disease (including a few hospital stays, all doing better), nobody on the liberal side got it....  

(and my brothers med school roommated, very conservative, had a halloween party, everyone got infected, and it killed his father in law)

Because this vaccination situation is so massive and really impossible to operate efficiently & accurately, I think it's likely that the US will also switch to a single shot for everyone, justified as one shot for most will be considered better than two shots for less than half.

In all fairness, this is a massive, unprecedented situation, and even with great, focused leadership the scope of trying to offer/get virtually every person in the United States two shots exactly on time and in an orderly, quick fashion is not something that can just be expected.

Still, it's a shame that our buffoon leader is spending all his time, as always, focusing on himself and not doing his damn job, but I guess it's WAY too late to expect him to lead and focus on the greater good. With that guy, it's ALWAYS the needs of the one - him - that outweigh the needs of the many/everyone else.

Personally, as a relatively healthy, retired 60-year-old, I'm hoping to get my shot/s by late spring/early summer.

Until then, I'm staying inside my house.

This whole time I figured I would take the vaccine but I'm just not sure anymore.  I did contract Covid and did get sick and have since recovered fully.  On the fence- not sure.  I'm not an anti vaxxer by any stretch of the imagination but this vaccine is different in its speed to market and stuff.  We know more about Covid right now than the vaccines.  I understand there may be required to enter sporting/music events in the future.  If this is the case, that may push me towards getting it.  

I'll wait at least 5 years.

By the time it's avail. to me I expect these issues will have been worked out.

My niece in Atlanta, who just finished her residency and is working as a virologist, got the first shot last week.  
 

I'm around the public every day in my store, so I'll get the vaccine as soon as it's offered.  

From my understanding people who have been vaccinated can may still be able to catch and transmit the virus. They just don't know yet. So, you'd still have to wear masks.

My boss' sister works at the hospital and got her first dose a few weeks ago. She's currently sick as a dog with the Rona.

I'm only 60 and a teacher, so I'm thinking I might have the opportunity to be vaccinated after the beta-testers have had theirs. Maybe late spring?

i am in group 1C

Two friends have gotten it so far both work in hospitals. I don't think I wll be able to get it until April.

My wife, a nurse, got the first one on Dec 18, gets the second on Jan 9

 I understand there may be required to enter sporting/music events in the future. 

As soon as the powers that be get a handle on distribution and the numbers of those vaccinated climb, you will see most medium to large companies require vaccination in order to have a job. That's already been decided and they are just waiting for a the right moment to announce it. 

My sister, also a nurse where my wife works,

was scheduled for her shot back around dec 18 but they ran out so her appointment was canceled.

Last week she got the covid, they treated her with monoclonal antibodies infusion and shes feeling better.

>>It doesn't seem necessary for one who had Covid to get the vaccine

Honestly, I don't think that they know. Do they even know if, like the flu vaccine, it's going to have to be a yearly dose??

I don't think it will have to be yearly. One of flu's characteristics is to change it self so that the vaccine isn't effect, even though Covid has mutated they are saying that all mutations respond to the vaccine. Also this vaccine is a whole new way of making vaccines that might help with flu down the line. The 20's (still seems strange to say that) will be the decade of CRISPR. Great doc on netflix about that https://wondercollaborative.org/human-nature-documentary-film/

There is a glimmer of hope

with The government being led by someone that isn't completely bat shit crazy surrounded by morons and lakeys 

only about five nurses I know

I was hoping for April

But all bets are off  im prob a 1b or 1c

I selfishly want to go to a concert this year :-(

How the fuck did this person make it through Pharmacy school:

A Wisconsin pharmacist who is accused of purposely trying to ruin hundreds of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at the medical facility where he worked told authorities he did so because he believed the inoculations were "unsafe" and could change people's DNA, officials said Monday, according to The Associated Press.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/532585-wisconsin-pharm...

^It's amazing how fast radicalization can happen today with the internet and our current media eco system.

I only know 1 person who's been vaccinated -- my "pseudo-niece" (not blood related), who is an RN at a large university hospital in Portland. She works in the cardiac unit.