Way behind seemingly everybody else here, I finally was allowed to get my first Covid-19 vaccination this morning. Given the way the process is being handled in Tennessee, particularly Knox County, what with vaccine shipments mysteriously disappearing I should probably consider myself lucky since I had (somewhat jokingly) predicted here that I might get it by March 2022. Of course I had to pay $120 for my free shot since it necessitated hiring a health care agency to come and sit with my 97-year-old invalid mother while I got things done. Now, if things don't fall apart totally in the next four weeks...
>>>Given the way the process is being handled in Tennessee, particularly Knox County...
Great!
Anderson County Health Dept has been great over the last year, first with the tests and now with the vaccines. And they are less then 5 minutes from me.
A friend got his 1st shot recently at Kroger's on Emory Rd.
I so appreciate hearing the positive vibe about vaxing. My 92 yo Mom hasn't gotten her first, she lives near Dallas.
About 3 weeks ago I spent time searching for an appointment near Twin Cities for me. I got one setup about 1.25 hour drive then got setup at a local pharmacy...ten minutes away. Got my first last week, second is scheduled.
Yesterday I got a notice from the state registry list telling me I had won their lottery. The next email was from my clinic I go to. I'm not replying...waiting for next week for #2
I'll be masking, etc. for a long while. Probably for a couple weeks after all the vaxes are given.
Glad to hear you have recieved your 1st vaccine, SWMBO and I had our 2nd shot 2 weeks ago today. We still wear masks and social distancing. Hopefully we can see some of our family this weekend.
The LOML and I will get our second Pfizer shots a week from Saturday. No problems at all with the first one (we are 84+). We will continue to mask up and will still be very careful. We haven't been in a restaurant in over a year and it will probably be a while before we do restaurants again with any regularity. We are hoping we can have a full indoor family get-together on Thanksgiving.
`` `just a word of caution; my 2nd shot was uneventful UNTIL the 2nd day when I suddenly felt weak and a bit 'woozy '. Some 12 hrs later I was '0ps normal'. I would not like to have been driving or operating any kind of machine during the 12 hr woozy time. P
Masks are mandated in New Mexico, so even though we have been vaccinated we will have to wear them when we go anywhere. I doubt that mandate is going to be lifted any time soon - our governor has a background in public health and she was quick to set up procedures to protect the populace.
The way things were being run here in my county in the beginning the odds weren't necessarily that much better than winning the lottery. Little things like claiming that nearly 1000 doses of Pfizer were missing and assumed thrown away accidentally. Of course nobody ever actually got around to looking in the trash receptacles to see if anything so sizable as one of those insulated dry-ice shipping containers was there. No explanations yet on that one.
I can't even claim that my 1st was uneventful. I normally get a bit of a sore arm from the annual flu shots and other jabs. This one was quite a bit worse.
Back during 'Nam I attended an Army technical school even though I was in the USAF. The Army's vaccination protocol called for lining every student company up and then giving them every inoculation known to medicine all at the same time -- kind of an assembly line. After four of five shots for things like typhus and typhoid and yellow fever and who knows what else sore and sick was the order of the day.
This AM I actually had pain in the opposite arm to where the shot was given along with what felt like low-grade fever (the thermometer didn't agree) and a bit of a headache. I'm sure that the arm pain wasn't psychological but maybe it means I'll be needing another rotator cuff repair.
But, given that, I'll still be going in search of my second shot when the time is ripe.
In MN, nearly 180,000 signed up for the first lottery, and 7900 or so were drawn. Small odds in my case, but it turned out to be a twofer. My wife wasn’t drawn but went with me to the vaccination site. She went in with me and was told that they had extra doses and since she was on the wait list she could be vaccinated at the same time as I was.
I think our WoodCentral sample space is too small to discover any meaningful trends, but it doesn't hurt anything to report our experiences.
My wife and I got our first vaccines Tuesday. We are 68 and 72. I had no reaction whatsoever, I didn't even feel the needle, and she has a small bruise and slept about 12 hours yesterday, 4 hours extra.
Finding an available vaccine was a lot more difficult. There are lots of places and organizations in NJ offering appointments, but some of them don't work very well, or you have a very low chance of winning the lottery, or the schedule date is way out in the future (beyond the promised date of when everyone who wants one should have had one).
We got them through the local county health department. It took us a while to get appointments, because their online instructions were inaccurate, but we got clarification with one phone call, which resulted in appointments the next time they were opened online. Their process for administering the shots was well organized, and they had lots of well trained staff on hand to make sure everything went smoothly for everyone. We left with appointments for our second shots on April 1. The facility is about a half hour drive from home, much closer than the other locations we had previously attempted. The wait in line was a few minutes, and most of that was in our car, because they have a bit of a shortage of parking spaces compared to the queues set up inside the building.
The shot in the arm is an efficient way to inoculate a large number of people who come in cars, more likely outside of cities. The muscle of upper arm is the preferred injection site.
At the county health department here: Drive up, check your name, back into a parking spot, wind down the window or crack open the door, get the shot in the arm closest to the door, then wait 15 minutes in case there is a reaction. In and out in less than 30 minutes.
They don't even want you to get out of the vehicle unless you ask to have it in the other arm. (The non-dominate arm could be better in case of soreness)
I got the first shot on Thursday. I work for the US Air Force and the people in our building were prioritized for vaccination. Sore arm Thursday afternoon (got stuck at 0745) and fine since then. We'll see what happens after the second injection.
