Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[disneyworldsk]

DH getting shot 1 today....traveling an hour to a megasite. lucky to have appt.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I got my second Moderna shot this weekend. Besides my arm being a little sorer than it was with the first shot, I’m feeling pretty good so far. (Knocks on wood.) And motrin helps with the arm soreness.

DD had her second Pfizer shot last week and she felt a little off for two days, but nothing major - she felt cold and shivery, but no fever. Stomach may have been a little off but she’s not sure that was the cause. Her arm was sore, too.

 

[snappy]

I am scheduled for my first one at 2 today. DH had his on Wednesday of last week and drove down to New Orleans to pressure wash his mom’s house and driveway and porch on Thursday and went back yesterday. Maybe because he (we) are older, his vaccination (Pfizer) didn’t affect him.

 

[mom2rtk]

Confirmation Missouri is dead last in vaccine distribution.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Confirmation Missouri is dead last in vaccine distribution.

Well I wanted to give you this from 2 days ago: https://www.kctv5.com/coronavirus/v...-527b-b206-6b9202ac0450.html?block_id=1013203

"Missouri Governor Mike Parson said more Missourians have received the COVID-19 vaccine than state data would suggest, largely because of reporting delays. Those delays, Parson said, come largely from the federal pharmacy partnership. Dr. Randall Williams, with the Department of Health and Senior Services, said Missouri allocated around 150,000 doses of its Moderna vaccine to the program."

Sooo yeah like I had mentioned Parson wasn't upset at the distribution at least that's what the prior news stories had said.

 

[Ariel484]

Has anyone signed up for this CDC V-safe survey, after receiving the vaccination? If so, were you at all concerned about privacy issues, or did you find value in doing so?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html

I did, and no, wasn't concerned about privacy issues.

I figure they've already got my info in their database somewhere since I actually did get a dose, and this way they get some information about side effects.

 

[gillep]

Has anyone signed up for this CDC V-safe survey, after receiving the vaccination? If so, were you at all concerned about privacy issues, or did you find value in doing so?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html

I signed up for this and completed the check ins. I don't have privacy concerns, I figure my data is pretty much everywhere already. I wanted to do my very small part in contributing to the body of knowledge that we have for the side effects of these vaccines.

 

[mom2rtk]

Well I wanted to give you this from 2 days ago: https://www.kctv5.com/coronavirus/v...-527b-b206-6b9202ac0450.html?block_id=1013203

"Missouri Governor Mike Parson said more Missourians have received the COVID-19 vaccine than state data would suggest, largely because of reporting delays. Those delays, Parson said, come largely from the federal pharmacy partnership. Dr. Randall Williams, with the Department of Health and Senior Services, said Missouri allocated around 150,000 doses of its Moderna vaccine to the program."

Sooo yeah like I had mentioned Parson wasn't upset at the distribution at least that's what the prior news stories had said.

Thanks for the link. I'm still going with my gut on this. Maybe there are a few more than reported but I'm doubtful it's a substantial difference. The fact is that my parents at age 80 and 87 haven't even had a chance to try signing up yet. The very first public opportunities took place in Poplar Bluff and Warrensburg last week where "hundreds" were vaccinated.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I just thought I’d respond to some of these that got me thinking as I was catching up on the thread. Please know that, although I quoted you, I’m speaking more generally, and my comments not directed solely at you, @ mi*vida*loca.

I think people are afraid of there not being long term studies. At my hospital, which has had the vaccine for over a month, 56% people are vaccinated (over 8000 employees). I think that's about what will get vaccinated. I don’t see people still making new appointments. Just their second shots. When people talk about not getting it is about the unknown. Not politics.

In my hospital this weekend, there were two separate processes within the same area - one for people getting their first shot, and one for people getting their second. I actually arrived early thinking it might be slow on the weekend, but I was wrong. They wouldn‘t even take me until it was closer to my appt time because it was so busy! While waiting, I got talking to a lady who was there to get her first shot. She was so excited! She told me she’d been working remotely so she was in the last group, but she was really happy to be getting it, finally. Had to drop that conversation when I got called, but it was good to see and hear. Every seat was full with people waiting their fifteen minutes after the shot. I forgot to bring my card from the first shot, but the nurse was nice enough to make a new card with information from both of my shots (ie lot numbers). And we had a nice conversation, too. Altogether a pleasant experience with people from a variety of services getting both first and second shots.

Yes. There’s a lot of mistrust in the government but there are legit reasons for it. I work in the inner city and I’m a minority and most of my friends are too. I would say about half of our employees are minorities. In my unscientific study I’ve found most of the minorities at my job aren’t being vaccinated. (They put a sticker on your badge when you’ve been vaccinated, just like they do in flu season so it’s easy to see as you walk around). None of my friends are vaccinated and only one of my grandmas is vaccinated in my family. No one else wants it. And you can see which patients ask for the vaccine and which ones don’t.

ETA: for my family and friends it’s a lot of worry about long term effects.

It‘s interesting. We have people from many cultures where I work, also. I don’t know what the breakdown is on who has gotten the vaccine and who hasn’t because, although administration shares a lot of information with us, they haven’t shared the cultural breakdown yet. I’m not sure they will at all. However, it has been noted for quite some time that surrounding city neighborhoods that have high minority populations had higher Covid rates and residents were expressing fears about the vaccine, so massive outreach programs were started to help that, and they are ongoing. I imagine they have had at least some positive effects to both lower infection rates and promote vaccinations. Buy-in is so important.

We used to have stickers on our ID badges for flu shots but they stopped doing that. Now staff can be terminated for not getting the flu shot, so not being optional any longer it became a moot point. (And no stickers for Covid vaccines.) It will be really interesting to see if they do make the Covid vaccine mandatory after it’s no longer considered experimental. I think they will. It just doesn’t make sense for only some of the staff to be vaccinated, especially when others who may not have been vaccinated are still very much around patients and patient rooms, as well as other staff. Patients want to feel safe coming to a hospital, and hospitals want to give them that assurance. It may even be a selling point down the road as to what percentage of staff have been vaccinated. Patients have become more savvy and often do their research now on where they want to go based on a number of things they can see on surveys and certifications and such. Maybe not those so much who live right in the neighborhood, but certainly those coming in from suburbs or out of state, etc.

Honestly when the flu vaccination first became mandatory for us (probably at least ten years ago), I didn’t like it. I remember nurses in NY were first to file a lawsuit about it. I was one who took the shot anyway, but didn’t agree with forcing it on people who may not have wanted to take it. (A close friend got Guillian-Barre from a flu shot and I watched what she went through. It was really hard.) I learned to live with it, though, in order to keep my job, and also learned to believe in its value based on what I witnessed in caring for some tough cases, ie bodies ravaged by influenza (which shocked even me, who’s been around for a long time and seen a lot of things as well as medical advances firsthand, for instance). I remember seeing people here and elsewhere saying they didn’t believe in being forced to take vaccines, but basically it was ok for medical people. (So as long as it “wasn’t in their back yard”, or didn’t affect them personally, they were seemingly ok with it, in other words. So for me it’s been really interesting watching these vaccine discussions take place now.)

So how do I feel about this Covid vaccine now? I am truly horrified and saddened at the destruction that this virus has caused to our society; heck, to almost our whole world. Like almost nothing we have ever seen before. It’s taken its toll medically, economically, financially, personally, and almost any other way we can slice it. I happen to feel we really all are in this together, but in today’s society, it’s just not happening the way it did in the war years and days of other diseases like smallpox, polio, and the like. I also remember lining up in school for vaccines and have the hole in my arm to prove it. It wasn’t anything I recall anyone protesting. Looking at it another way, we are so, so fortunate to have this vaccine, yet people refuse it. We will likely all pay the price, as we are now, for people “doing their own thing” that may go against local, national and global medical recommendations. I guess it will help keep us employed. But whether it’s good for our society in general remains something else altogether. Some who think they got off with mild cases of Covid may be surprised to learn down the road that there are residual problems. Much is still being looked at but I have seen it with my own eyes. (And naturally I can’t share stories but I wish I could; you will have to take my word for it.) It really behooves people to try to avoid that if possible, imho. We are very fortunate to now have a way. To eschew it seems incredibly short sighted. But what people do is up to them, at least at this point.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Thanks for the link. I'm still going with my gut on this. Maybe there are a few more than reported but I'm doubtful it's a substantial difference. The fact is that my parents at age 80 and 87 haven't even had a chance to try signing up yet. The very first public opportunities took place in Poplar Bluff and Warrensburg last week where "hundreds" were vaccinated.

No worries, I totally get being iffy on just what is going on. I just saw that news story then saw the new news story about being last. Sometimes there's such conflicting information who knows what is really going on behind the scenes.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I now know someone in my immediate circle who received a vaccine. My father-in-law who from what we knew was not going to get it ended up getting it. He works for a main hospital system not COVID facing but likely considered part of working cogs.

He had Moderna about 1 1/2 weeks ago, no real side effects from what we know other than a bit of a sore arm. We just found out about this Saturday night.

Turns out he was more or less appeasing his wife by saying he wasn't likely to get it but ended up making the decision to get it. His wife and her two kids (who are only following what she is saying) are still in the 'not getting it' bucket at this time. Maybe that will change though...

 

[snappy]

I just thought I’d respond to some of these that got me thinking as I was catching up on the thread. Please know that, although I quoted you, I’m speaking more generally, and my comments not directed solely at you, @ mi*vida*loca.


In my hospital this weekend, there were two separate processes within the same area - one for people getting their first shot, and one for people getting their second. I actually arrived early thinking it might be slow on the weekend, but I was wrong. They wouldn‘t even take me until it was closer to my appt time because it was so busy! While waiting, I got talking to a lady who was there to get her first shot. She was so excited! She told me she’d been working remotely so she was in the last group, but she was really happy to be getting it, finally. Had to drop that conversation when I got called, but it was good to see and hear. Every seat was full with people waiting their fifteen minutes after the shot. I forgot to bring my card from the first shot, but the nurse was nice enough to make a new card with information from both of my shots (ie lot numbers). And we had a nice conversation, too. Altogether a pleasant experience with people from a variety of services getting both first and second shots.


It‘s interesting. We have people from many cultures where I work, also. I don’t know what the breakdown is on who has gotten the vaccine and who hasn’t because, although administration shares a lot of information with us, they haven’t shared the cultural breakdown yet. I’m not sure they will at all. However, it has been noted for quite some time that surrounding city neighborhoods that have high minority populations had higher Covid rates and residents were expressing fears about the vaccine, so massive outreach programs were started to help that, and they are ongoing. I imagine they have had at least some positive effects to both lower infection rates and promote vaccinations. Buy-in is so important.

We used to have stickers on our ID badges for flu shots but they stopped doing that. Now staff can be terminated for not getting the flu shot, so not being optional any longer it became a moot point. (And no stickers for Covid vaccines.) It will be really interesting to see if they do make the Covid vaccine mandatory after it’s no longer considered experimental. I think they will. It just doesn’t make sense for only some of the staff to be vaccinated, especially when others who may not have been vaccinated are still very much around patients and patient rooms, as well as other staff. Patients want to feel safe coming to a hospital, and hospitals want to give them that assurance. It may even be a selling point down the road as to what percentage of staff have been vaccinated. Patients have become more savvy and often do their research now on where they want to go based on a number of things they can see on surveys and certifications and such. Maybe not those so much who live right in the neighborhood, but certainly those coming in from suburbs or out of state, etc.

Honestly when the flu vaccination first became mandatory for us (probably at least ten years ago), I didn’t like it. I remember nurses in NY were first to file a lawsuit about it. I was one who took the shot anyway, but didn’t agree with forcing it on people who may not have wanted to take it. (A close friend got Guillian-Barre from a flu shot and I watched what she went through. It was really hard.) I learned to live with it, though, in order to keep my job, and also learned to believe in its value based on what I witnessed in caring for some tough cases, ie bodies ravaged by influenza (which shocked even me, who’s been around for a long time and seen a lot of things as well as medical advances firsthand, for instance). I remember seeing people here and elsewhere saying they didn’t believe in being forced to take vaccines, but basically it was ok for medical people. (So as long as it “wasn’t in their back yard”, or didn’t affect them personally, they were seemingly ok with it, in other words. So for me it’s been really interesting watching these vaccine discussions take place now.)

So how do I feel about this Covid vaccine now? I am truly horrified and saddened at the destruction that this virus has caused to our society; heck, to almost our whole world. Like almost nothing we have ever seen before. It’s taken its toll medically, economically, financially, personally, and almost any other way we can slice it. I happen to feel we really all are in this together, but in today’s society, it’s just not happening the way it did in the war years and days of other diseases like smallpox, polio, and the like. I also remember lining up in school for vaccines and have the hole in my arm to prove it. It wasn’t anything I recall anyone protesting. Looking at it another way, we are so, so fortunate to have this vaccine, yet people refuse it. We will likely all pay the price, as we are now, for people “doing their own thing” that may go against local, national and global medical recommendations. I guess it will help keep us employed. But whether it’s good for our society in general remains something else altogether. Some who think they got off with mild cases of Covid may be surprised to learn down the road that there are residual problems. Much is still being looked at but I have seen it with my own eyes. (And naturally I can’t share stories but I wish I could; you will have to take my word for it.) It really behooves people to try to avoid that if possible, imho. We are very fortunate to now have a way. To eschew it seems incredibly short sighted. But what people do is up to them, at least at this point.

Very reasoned post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I would much rather take the vaccine than risk some of the long term complications of Covid. I know too many relatives and friends who are at risk of those complications. I just hope more of our population arrive at that same place.

 

[gillep]

Very reasoned post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I would much rather take the vaccine than risk some of the long term complications of Covid. I know too many relatives and friends who are at risk of those complications. I just hope more of our population arrive at that same place.

My brother is a traveling nurse, he is usually in the Neuro ICU but has been exclusively a COVID ICU nurse these days. Granted, he sees the sickest of the sick, but he has told me that he can't imagine how any of the patients he has taken care of will ever reach 100% health again, or really even close to that, he has been so depressed and saddened by the things he has seen and how little he can actually help despite his training and the effort that his teams put in each and every day.

 

[Pooh2]

Question for those who have register online:
I got two emails:
one from provider saying they submitted my name for "under 65 but having two or more health conditions to qualify" for 1B;
2nd email from
CDC Vaccine Administration saying to click through to register.
A few elderly people I know who registered said they went through the state site, not cdc site? (NH)
The website had a https so looked secure but worried about inputting info to a spam site..
Any feedback on where you registered?

 

[Cheburashka]

So you think all states should be opening their vaccinations up to non-permanent residents that live in other countries the vast majority of whom are over 65 & will be vaccinated before the general population? I doubt many people in other states would be okay with that.

I don't think it matters at all. Analyzing and gatekeeping who can get the vaccine is just slowing the process down. Herd immunity is the goal, and the faster vaccines get into arms, the faster that goal will be reached.

In addition, do you really want all of those non-permanent residents in your state to be unvaccinated? That just means more Covid will be going around. Florida has a ton of non-permanent residents who spend all winter there: it is in everyone's best interest for them to be vaccinated, too.

I say this as a person who's still waiting impatiently to be vaccinated. I feel your pain, really. I work in an enclosed room with 21 other people seated 3 feet apart, all day every day. And none of us will be eligible for vaccines for the foreseeable future. The faster vaccinations are given out, the sooner we'll get a chance to get ours.

 

[piglet1979]

Question for those who have register online:
I got two emails:
one from provider saying they submitted my name for "under 65 but having two or more health conditions to qualify" for 1B;
2nd email from
CDC Vaccine Administration saying to click through to register.
A few elderly people I know who registered said they went through the state site, not cdc site? (NH)
The website had a https so looked secure but worried about inputting info to a spam site..
Any feedback on where you registered?

We are in Ohio and Ohio is not doing any mass vaccinations that I know of. They are just using different hospitals and Pharmacies. I signed my husbands grandmother up to get her shot today. She is 79 (will be 8- the beginning of March). We registered at each site that was approved to administer it, to be notified. I also stalked the sites that where taking appointments until I found an opening. She is getting hers today at a Marc's location.

 

[snappy]

We are in Ohio and Ohio is not doing any mass vaccinations that I know of. They are just using different hospitals and Pharmacies. I signed my husbands grandmother up to get her shot today. She is 79 (will be 8- the beginning of March). We registered at each site that was approved to administer it, to be notified. I also stalked the sites that where taking appointments until I found an opening. She is getting hers today at a Marc's location.

This is how it currently is here. Individual Pharmacy locations are listed (300 of them) on the state department of health website. You call or email them. Otherwise you either stalk clinic sites or hang on the phone for a long time for those that have some doses. I happened to get lucky. Looks like now the governor’s people are calling for retired medical staff to come forward to help vaccinate for when there are more doses and he can set up mass vaccination venues. Seems late in the process to me to be seeking the medical staff for that. Rural clinics and hospitals need additional staff to vaccinate too. It really seems to me that we are late to the party on that but I realize it’s easy to criticize and hard to manage all this. If I had the background, I would volunteer.

 

[dez1978]

Confirmation Missouri is dead last in vaccine distribution.

As a fellow Missourian, I am not shocked. We are last at everything but Meth.

 

[tigertides]

Got 2 rounds of Pfizer vaccine. Felt perfectly normal 36 hours after 2nd dose. Best part: We are now free to move around the World Showcase.
Highly encourage everyone to get vaccinated so we can move on with our lives.

 

[dez1978]

I get my 2nd dose tomorrow. I got the Moderna one. I am lucky that my job is offering it. But I'd say less than 1/2 the staff here are taking it.