Sight for sore eyes! COVID Vaccine!

I could have got a vaccine this way because my gf is now working part time at hospitals giving vaccines and on her first day they had no-shows. We failed to consider that possibility before I booked in downstate IL. Oh well, it's been nice to visit Mom...

As for symptoms of dose 1, just a decent amount of injection site soreness around the 18 to 48 hour mark. Not bad enough to take pain killer though.

 

1st Pfizer dose went in my arm at around 4:00 PM yesterday.
Injection site was mildly sore when I woke up this morning around 6:00 AM but subsided within a couple of hours.
From everything I have heard about and read, the second dose is the kicker so I've already requested the day after my scheduled second dose off of work just in case.
Also, I have a fear of needles and I'm not sure that it could have been more painless. If not for COVID I might have kissed that lovely lady that administered my shot.
If all works out we are hoping for a trip to the promised land in June!!!!

 

I must have fallen asleep during the news last night and didn't hear it, but today they are saying (the ubiquitous "they") that in our area they are now having regular "walk-in", as in no appointment needed, shot clinics!

"They" are also saying that Oklahoma (~6 hour drive from here) is now vaccinating out of state people with few questions asked, just in case you can't find one of those walk-in clinics around here!

 

State of RI opened up vaccines for 40+ at 9am this morning. I jumped the gun a bit, and at 8:57 was able to register for my Moderna shots at CVS (first one Friday, next one 4 Fridays from then). CVS site was odd, they only showed availability at a town about 45 minutes away (which, realistically, is as far away as you can be in RI). I clicked anyway figuring in worst case I'll have a drive, but once I entered my zip it showed availability the next town over.

Either way: Friday, Friday, gonna get jabbed on Friday (I'd say with all due respect to Rebecca Black, but don't think there is any respect due there

 

Good luck! That's supposed to be Monday for us, when I'll be stalking the sites to get a shot for my daughter. Once she's done, that's the whole family.

 

So two-plus weeks post-second shot. Starting to feel like the light is getting bigger and brighter. Still masking, of course. Still not hanging out in packed bars. But I will be having Hitching Post steak in a week!!!!

 

Just a reminder to everyone that the vaccine does not make one invincible. You should continue to wear a mask even when outdoors.

 

I'm outdoors a lot, and I mask depending on circumstances. As a courtesy when on, say, a crowded trail in Yosemite, I'll pull it up. If we're on a bike ride with others, in something approaching a pace line, I'll wear one. Just Terri and me, or a scattered group, I don't (always have it under my jersey, however). I don't wear one on the course but would if in a cart with someone outside my pod, but I walk. I'm just back from a four-mile walk and didn't wear one (but I had one in my pocket).

Yep, not invincible.

 

Just FYI, my brother had his shot on Thursday. On Friday he had a fever and on Saturday he started developing a rash on his body! Today is Monday and he still has the rash.

 

I work for the NHS here in the UK so I have had both shots so hopefully this is a step to make it easier for travel when the UK eventually let's us out.

 

A lot of folks here in Chicago are making appointments out of state or in the far boonies to get their Covid vaccine, since it's nearly impossible to get an appointment locally. Now that Illinois is open to all age groups, it's just going to get worse if they don't ramp up the available doses. I'm thinking of trying the FEMA run site in Indiana where a friend was able to get an appointment last week. They told him that almost 40% of the people making appointments are from the Chicago area. That particular site is about 40 mi from my location so we'll see.

 

Just breaking: FDA and CDC calling for an immediate pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to a rare blood clot, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), in 6 cases of women aged 18 to 48.

6.8 million doses were already administered.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-calls-halt-johnson-johnson-vaccination-blood-clot/story?id=77040882

 

Listen to Dr. Faucci and mask up!!!

 

24 hrs since I got first dose of Pfizer
Including drive time and 15 min after shot wait, don't think it took more than 1/2 hr.
This morning I am tired and have a mild headache.
10 hrs post shot arm was sore, just mildly right now.

12 hrs post shot, considering Pfizer's other well known medication I think I know at least one ingredient in the vaccine.

 

Just got Pfizer #2...HULK SMASH!!

 

I was (and still am) a big believer in the seriousness of COVID-19, and a proponent of distancing, masking, vaccination, etc.

However, I struggle with holding off on a vaccine with 6 cases of blood clots on 6,800,000 doses. That's less than 1 part-per-million. The exception being if there is a common thread among those afflicted, or if there are a significant amount of possible or unreported issues.

I get the Emergency Approval merits close scrutiny, but this might just be a little TOO close.

 

One thing the Talking Heads never seem to mention is that the risk of getting Covid and having a poor outcome, such as serious lasting morbidity or death, is far more than the risk of such poor outcome from taking one of the vaccines.

Somebody check my math here. The adult population of the US is about 250 million and roughly 525000 have died from covid. That's about .2 percent of the adult population. Multiply that out to compare to your less than one per million.

 

With Astra Zeneca it said a person was 50 times more likely to die from COVID than develop a blood clot.