Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[Denise W]

I've seen the data. What I'm curious is if anyone here has had the vaccine can describe what they went through post the shot. Then, I can plan accordingly. I will try to either get it on Friday or the weekend or plan to take the day off after getting it. I'm just curious.

Have you read post # 141?
Denise

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

More came to our metro! 2 more hospital systems received shipments today.

https://www.kshb.com/news/coronavirus/more-kansas-city-hospitals-receive-covid-19-vaccine
I really can't remember if it's been shown before (I'm losing track of my own news I've seen lol) but in there is a video from twitter that shows the container Pfizer's vaccine is in and then put it into another storage. I'm not sure why but I got super excited seeing that

 

[snappy]

My mom received a form this afternoon in her LTC facility to sign to indicate willingness to have the vaccine. Last Thursday, the CEO of her facility said per our governor that they would get the Moderna vaccine. If approved, they may start next week, not necessarily at her facility though. The nursing units, memory care units, and the assisted living units are scheduled to get it, not the independent apartment residents. Mom already signed the form, she said I am getting it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

And not far from me where my alma mater is located at they are preparing for theirs: https://www.kmbc.com/article/outdoor-covid-19-vaccine-center-ready-in-lawrence/34979757 Looks like they will have an outdoor center which is interesting, glad they got heaters for the workers.

 

[snappy]

And not far from me where my alma mater is located at they are preparing for theirs: https://www.kmbc.com/article/outdoor-covid-19-vaccine-center-ready-in-lawrence/34979757 Looks like they will have an outdoor center which is interesting, glad they got heaters for the workers.

I like the outdoor drive up option, also having a designated area to wait 15-30 minutes afterwards to watch the person after vaccination. Well thought out plan.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I like the outdoor drive up option, also having a designated area to wait 15-30 minutes afterwards to watch the person after vaccination. Well thought out plan.

I thought so too and I'm glad they had the forethought to get the heaters though

 

[snappy]

The heaters wouldn’t occur to me but I live in the Deep South. I get it though.

 

[bcla]

I like the outdoor drive up option, also having a designated area to wait 15-30 minutes afterwards to watch the person after vaccination. Well thought out plan.

That's typical when giving blood although I'm not sure exactly what would happen so quickly unless it was anaphylaxis. I saw a blood donor pass out once.

 

[snappy]

That's typical when giving blood although I'm not sure exactly what would happen so quickly unless it was anaphylaxis. I saw a blood donor pass out once.

Yea my husband has passed out at least once when giving blood. Surprised me as he donated blood frequently because he has a highly prized blood type.

 

[bcla]

Yea my husband has passed out at least once when giving blood. Surprised me as he donated blood frequently because he has a highly prized blood type.

When I saw it happen, it was younger, fairly small woman. I was guessing that she was barely over the weight requirement (maybe 115 lbs?).

 

[snappy]

When I saw it happen, it was younger, fairly small woman. I was guessing that she was barely over the weight requirement (maybe 115 lbs?).

I am sure hat happens, that was not my husband’s situation though.

 

[skeeter31]

What I’m most interested in is how will be people be guaranteed the second dose of the vaccine when they’re time comes? Is it a punch card situation? Also, wouldn’t people need to receive 2 doses of the same vaccine, so they‘d have to be guaranteed that their vaccinator of choice will have that same vaccine in stock when they’re due for the second dose. No one really seems to have that information readily available. Especially when most people will be looking to get the vaccine at a store and not a doctors office.

 

[dez1978]

I am sorry for your troubles but that is not how your post read at all. You said that your life has stayed the same this year and you have no fear of catching Covid and that you wished others had the same mindset.

That’s how you chose to read it. What I said was I still had to work and do all the things I did before. My kids still go to daycare/school like before. Do I want to get it no. But I’m not afraid to get it bc I feel like it’s inevitable. I never said I was making choices bc I wasn’t afraid. Working isn’t a choice. Grocery shopping isn’t a choice. Neither is sending my kids to daycare. You read what you wanted to and made a judgment based on what you thought I said without knowing a thing about me.

 

[Jennasis]

I wonder if people were so suspicious of the polio vaccine or smallpox vaccine when it came out?

I would get the vaccine tonight if I were able, but as it is I am way waaaay down at the bottom of the list. Mid-forties, no underlying health issues (I have asthma but haven't had an attack in 15 years), not a frontline worker etc. So maybe in the spring. But until then I have to wait and watch while people turn it down and pray I don't catch it before my turn.

 

[godisney14]

I wonder if people were so suspicious of the polio vaccine or smallpox vaccine when it came out?

I would get the vaccine tonight if I were able, but as it is I am way waaaay down at the bottom of the list. Mid-forties, no underlying health issues (I have asthma but haven't had an attack in 15 years), not a frontline worker etc. So maybe in the spring. But until then I have to wait and watch while people turn it down and pray I don't catch it before my turn.

Not sure how many here are old enough to remember the polio outbreak in the US back in the 50’s. (I’ve only read/studied about it during school). Eerily similar environment back then as what we are experiencing now with SARS-COV-2. People stayed indoors, minimized touching and interacting with others, wore masks and gloves.

Maybe some people were hesitant about new vaccines back then? But, the slight difference now is that we have a vaccine in less than a year. It took about 4 years to get a commercialized vaccine for Polio back in the 50’s. So, people were probably more willing to take whatever came out by the time one was made available. Jonas Salk (yes, that Salk Institute in San Diego) was the man credited for the vaccine that came out in 1955. By public pressure to quickly do something, the US gov licensed the vaccine manufacturing to a handful of labs. One of these was Cutter Laboratories. A bad initial batch from this company, and government’s efforts to hastily mass produce a new vaccine led to what is now known as the Cutter Incident. The vaccine contained infectious levels of live Polio virus. A couple hundred became paralyzed from Polio and about a dozen died. Obviously, federal regulations and safety protocols have improved drastically since. But, the environment is similar.

ETA: Vaccines are a very poor financial driver for companies. There’s no money to be had in this sector. Therapeutics is where the big bucks are made. Thus, before COVID-19 and Operation Warpspeed, there were only 3 major companies with names on vaccine vials. Now, everyone is in the race with money pouring in, and companies that had no name recognition are now even worth hundreds more than book value on the market. Besides MRNA stock, look at what has happened to CODX, and especially NVAX since the beginning of the year. $1 to $11, and <$4 to $170!! A $100 investment in NVAX could have gotten you about $5,600.

 

[Heather07438]

Not sure how many here are old enough to remember the polio outbreak in the US back in the 50’s. (I’ve only read/studied about it during school). Eerily similar environment back then as what we are experiencing now with SARS-COV-2. People stayed indoors, minimized touching and interacting with others, wore masks and gloves.

Maybe some people were hesitant about new vaccines back then? But, the slight difference now is that we have a vaccine in less than a year. It took about 4 years to get a commercialized vaccine for Polio back in the 50’s. So, people were probably more willing to take whatever came out by the time one was made available. Jonas Salk (yes, that Salk Institute in San Diego) was the man credited for the vaccine that came out in 1955. By public pressure to quickly do something, the US gov licensed the vaccine manufacturing to a handful of labs. One of these was Cutter Laboratories. A bad initial batch from this company, and government’s efforts to hastily mass produce a new vaccine led to what is now known as the Cutter Incident. The vaccine contained infectious levels of live Polio virus. A couple hundred became paralyzed from Polio and about a dozen died. Obviously, federal regulations and safety protocols have improved drastically since. But, the environment is similar.

ETA: Vaccines are a very poor financial driver for companies. There’s no money to be had in this sector. Therapeutics is where the big bucks are made. Thus, before COVID-19 and Operation Warpspeed, there were only 3 major companies with names on vaccine vials. Now, everyone is in the race with money pouring in, and companies that had no name recognition are now even worth hundreds more than book value on the market. Besides MRNA stock, look at what has happened to CODX, and especially NVAX since the beginning of the year. $1 to $11, and <$4 to $170!! A $100 investment in NVAX could have gotten you about $5,600.

Most of us kids growing up in the late 70s together had parents who grew up in 50s. We kids would get warnings from each other, ‘Don’t play in that puddle, you’ll get polio!’ That idea was drilled into us even tho the threat had passed already. Some kids would get very upset seeing another kid jumping in a dirty puddle. The fear was still real.
I wonder what kind of Covid things will be handed down to the kids who aren’t even born yet, like what happened with us.

The last of the iron lungs are still alive. They were kids in the 50s who contracted polio.

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthi...rney-72-who-survived-polio-lives-in-iron-lung

 

[BadPinkTink]

What I’m most interested in is how will be people be guaranteed the second dose of the vaccine when they’re time comes? Is it a punch card situation? Also, wouldn’t people need to receive 2 doses of the same vaccine, so they‘d have to be guaranteed that their vaccinator of choice will have that same vaccine in stock when they’re due for the second dose. No one really seems to have that information readily available. Especially when most people will be looking to get the vaccine at a store and not a doctors office.

In my country IBM and Salesforce are creating a centralized database system and the Irish Data Commissions is overseeing GDPR compliance. People will register online or by phone and their details will be in this data base. Once people get the first dose, they will be given an appointment for the second dose and will be given a reminder by their chosen method of communication, email, post or text message. It will not matter whether people get the vaccinations at a hospital, community hospital, doctors office, pharmacy or a mass vaccination centre, as the same database system will be used in all locations.

 

[tippity]

What I’m most interested in is how will be people be guaranteed the second dose of the vaccine when they’re time comes? Is it a punch card situation?

In our county, people are scheduled for the 2nd dose in 3 weeks after their first dose.

 

[Minnesota!]

The building blocks had already been worked on prior to this. This has been discussed in other threads as well if you want to know. It's not that they came up with a vaccine this year. They had already been working on one but financial, public interest and more meant it didn't go too too far.

A good but very brief description I found was:

"During the SARS1 (SARS-CoV-1) outbreak 18 years ago, researchers started looking at that virus, and other coronaviruses, and found a really promising vaccine target on the virus cell surface -- which is a protein called spike. That protein is what binds to human cells and leads to an infection. So about 10 years ago the science wheels started churning out strategies to vaccinate against SARS1. Unfortunately, funding dried up for SARS1 as that virus never made its way to the U.S., so a vaccine didn’t actually get developed. However, the research on the virus and ideas of how to vaccinate against it were already available."

"SARS2 (SARS-CoV-2, our current situation) uses almost the exact same version of that protein to infect cells and uses the exact same receptor on human cells. Due to these similarities, scientists were able to pick up where they left off, which sped up the process dramatically. Further, vaccination strategies have improved significantly in the last 10-plus years, particularly in the past couple of years with the mRNA technology that Moderna and Pfizer have utilized. All of these companies basically just took the DNA or RNA backbone of a vaccine that they had already built and plugged in the SARS2 spike protein’s genetic information."

Add in a global interest such that we really haven't seen with billions of dollars that frees up things and well it may still seem fast but there's at least reasons behind it.

This isn't to say your hesitancy in the vaccine isn't valid, it is, and others share your concern. I just wanted to give you some information.

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Back to the thread topic for me

It floors me how many people DON'T know this and assume we went from scratch in 2020. Pretty much we fine tuned something that was already existing, with a TON more money, resources, and scientists. Almost anything is possible in this world with the attention and money this received, but even moreso when it was already existing..

If 2020 has taught me anything, it is that so many people just take what they hear and run with it, vs. actually reading into things, finding out backgrounds and truth.

I would get mine today if I could. I am probably a ways down the line, but I do have some scary underlying things that I am sure will put me ahead of many.

 

[easyas123]

I am in the stage three Oxford-AstraZenica trial.

Thank you so much for participating in this study-

And thanks to everyone who can come back and report how the first, and second does affected you, if at all. We are ALL so hungry for info on how it will work. So again, thanks to all with first hand experience to share. I for one appreciate it.

I'm guessing I'll be among the last group to get it. I'm in my late 40's, healthy for the most part. I do have meds for asthma daily, but that has kept it in check.