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Have You Gotten Your Covid Vaccine? Thread.

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uallas5 said:
Had a slight headache when I went to bed then things got weird. Woke up about midnight, went to the toilet, and when I got back in bed a had a bad case of the shivers and couldn't get warm. Threw on a a long sleeve shirt and went back to sleep. Woke up an hour later to use the toilet again (was told to really hydrate day of second shot) and the moment I got out of bed I started to shake uncontrollably. Was barely able to pee I was shaking/shivering so bad. Got back into bed and it wouldn't stop. I didn't really feel that cold but I was shaking violently (to put it into perspective, I once went fell into an icy Boston Harbor one winter and when I got back onboard I wasn't shaking nearly as bad as I did last night!). Grabbed another blanket and as soon as I got into bed I went from being slightly chilly and shaking to being too warm IMMEDIATLEY. Stayed that way until 3 when I started tossing off all the extra stuff and I was still too warm. Tossed and turned till 4 then tried moving to the couch downstairs. Never made it back to sleep. Now I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee and I'm that kind of stupid you get when your too tired.
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For the record.... this is NOT your case... BUT... if you didn't have a good reason for such an immune response - those symptoms match the onset of a serious infection / sepsis. AKA, you would need to go to ER immediately. Remember that shaking. You never want to experience that randomly without a known cause.
 
IronWing said:
We're in the process of having Costco replace the mattress they just sent. So far, "yeah, we got your replacement request" followed by a week and counting of silence. The one they sent is moldy.
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Yikes! Hope it wasn't a GhostBed.

Should have just gone to the "wiggling man" down in Silverdale.
 
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Back on topic. Just got back from a nice and easy trip to Kaiser for my second shot. Changed arms, will see how much this one hurts. Bed? What Bed? What delivery date? Nothing.
 
hal2kilo said:
I go this afternoon for my 2nd Pfizer. I'm about to never order something like an adjustable base queen bed and mattress online or at least from Costco online. First they say we are processing your order, this could take 10 or 15 days. Fine. Then they send me an email like 1 day later that says delivery will be the 25th. Well I see the first track with real information on the 25th, says said they were in Eugene at 2.02 am. Well just google travel time from Eugene to Bremerton. OK. almost 12 hours. So, I figure it's probably unlikely that they will be delivering actually..... Oye to make a long story short. It's the 27 still no bed (sleeping on floor so all the removal would be easy). It was in Kent (across the sound) yesterday afternoon, but they still have not given me a delivery time. I'm sure very shortly, they will finally be contacting me that they want to deliver it this afternoon, and I will have to tell them to get F'd, I'm getting my Covid shot!!! Stressed. Tracking apps are useless unless it's updated! By their procedure, I can't adjust my delivery until they contact me for the actual delivery! Fn contact me!
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Delivery issues! I ordered a fancy coffee mug (Yeti Rambler 14oz) at Dick's Sporting Goods online on Feb. 19 to be sent to my sister on Maui (her BD is Feb. 26), and it said there would be priority delivery on Feb. 24. Origin of delivery was in Utah. I send my sister an email explaining what I bought her. I get email from her on her BD saying it hasn't come. Fedex tracking says for ~5 consecutive days that there's "Delay beyond our control" and that the package has been in Salt Lake City, Utah all the time, all the way to Feb. 27, i.e. 9 days after order! Today, I go to Fedex tracking again and it says it's gone from Utah to Tennessee where it sits now!!! WTF!

Edit: May be weather delays. I received a letter yesterday, Feb. 27, containing 40 tomato seeds that I ordered on Ebay from Houston, delivered to my Berkeley CA address. The order was placed on Jan. 29, 30 days ago. I was refunded my ~$5 over a week ago. First time that's ever happened to me, refunded for non-receipt and then it comes (~3+ weeks late)!
 
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hal2kilo said:
Back on topic. Just got back from a nice and easy trip to Kaiser for my second shot. Changed arms, will see how much this one hurts. Bed? What Bed? What delivery date? Nothing.
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I'm getting 2nd Moderna in 4 days. The people who did the first on Feb. 4 were slow to schedule us for shot #2, could not get info from them for 2 weeks, so I set up Shot #2 with Kaiser. Then the first people (Curative) send me link and I set it up with them, a drive through that's a lot closer than the Kaiser location where I booked, so I cancelled Kaiser. A drive through is easier, closer, don't have to worry about parking, finding the conference hall KP set up.

I figure same arm (left), being right handed. Honestly, my left arm was so sore from the first shot it was hard to use it for over a day. Don't want that to happen to my right arm.
 
Nope, I'm not considered worthy enough yet. But I'm not that worried about it since I had the virus late spring last year.
 
Well, after 2nd Pfizer, last night, arm was only slightly sore, but I went through a period where I felt chilly, and not so great, then it passed, and I was feeling fine, about an hour before bed. Woke up, arm was only slightly sore, was thinking I shouldn't take my walk, but I felt fine, so what the hey. I got to the place where I add another 1/4 mile loop or keep going on through. Feel fine, take the loop, then not so much further, it was like I just ran out of gas. Dang, got over a mile to go, and it's the hilly side. Dragged my butt home and was wiped out. It's been a few hours now, and I'm feeling much better. So a word of warning.
 
Managed to get my first shot today. Moderna. Arm is sore and ached a bit up and down for a little bit earlier. Now it just sore at the injection site.

Strange how it happened. I had signed up to be notified when I could get shot from one the local major university/medical centers. Didn’t qualify at the time for 1a or 1b per the questions on the website


Got an email saying I was now eligible and to follow the link and select an upcoming slot. Link took me to the same questions as before which I didn’t quite meet the criteria for.

Then I got a text saying I was eligible and to follow the link. Felt like I could borderline qualify anyway and said fuck it and signed up.

If they are going to contact me multiple times telling me I’m eligible I’m not going to keep telling them I’m not.

Perfect is the enemy of good here and getting folks inoculated helps everyone even if the order isn’t perfect.
 
I got pretty lucky in the vaccine lottery, and just received my second Moderna shot yesterday.

My understanding is that the second dose is more likely to elicit a strong response from your immune system because the first dose has already armed it to respond pretty robustly. Fortunately for me, those side effects turned out to be pretty minor. A couple of hours spent under a blanket because I felt a bit colder than normal, and one bout of borderline diarrhea. Oddly, no soreness around the injection site like I had after the first shot (the only side effect following the first shot).

I suggest that anyone getting either of the two-dose vaccines arrange your affairs so that you can have a 48-hour down period following the second dose just in case you need it.

So now I just have to dodge the virus for another two weeks while the vaccine works up to peak efficacy. 🤞
 
hal2kilo said:
Well, after 2nd Pfizer, last night, arm was only slightly sore, but I went through a period where I felt chilly, and not so great, then it passed, and I was feeling fine, about an hour before bed. Woke up, arm was only slightly sore, was thinking I shouldn't take my walk, but I felt fine, so what the hey. I got to the place where I add another 1/4 mile loop or keep going on through. Feel fine, take the loop, then not so much further, it was like I just ran out of gas. Dang, got over a mile to go, and it's the hilly side. Dragged my butt home and was wiped out. It's been a few hours now, and I'm feeling much better. So a word of warning.
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Ended up sore all over, and stiff. Took a couple Advil about an hour before bed. Slept as good as usual, and feel generally fine now (30 hours later).
 
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Seems like this whole vaccine "prioritization" is absolute bullshit! So far have heard a relative who's an accountant working from home, and his stay-at-home wife have gotten it. A guy WFH doing IT for a hospital. A guy who's self-employed, WFH his whole life in the movie industry. And know a guy who's schedule for a shot since they want him in the in the lab "because they're loosing money" (but not critical work). All these people in their 30s- early 40s. Meanwhile I've been in the office every single day since july because my (maskless) boss said so, even if we weren't loosing money. But I'm months away from a shot, at best!

Can any healthy, young idiot just walk up and get one now? I'm I just dumb for waiting like the rules say?? But even if I could get one that means someone at risk isn't so I wouldn't.
 
obidamnkenobi said:
Seems like this whole vaccine "prioritization" is absolute bullshit! So far have heard a relative who's an accountant working from home, and his stay-at-home wife have gotten it. A guy WFH doing IT for a hospital. A guy who's self-employed, WFH his whole life in the movie industry. And know a guy who's schedule for a shot since they want him in the in the lab "because they're loosing money" (but not critical work). All these people in their 30s- early 40s. Meanwhile I've been in the office every single day since july because my (maskless) boss said so, even if we weren't loosing money. But I'm months away from a shot, at best!

Can any healthy, young idiot just walk up and get one now? I'm I just dumb for waiting like the rules say?? But even if I could get one that means someone at risk isn't so I wouldn't.
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What state are you in? I know in IL right now you have to show some proof of being a healthcare worker or above a certain age to get it. Some companies are securing it for their employees though, I know people who work at Abbvie and the company somehow secured vaccines for their employees even if they don't meet the criteria really.

I've been trying to schedule my first one still but it's pretty hard to find anything, in IL they seem to be relying mostly on retail pharmacies to distribute it which is stupid imo.
 
VashHT said:
What state are you in? I know in IL right now you have to show some proof of being a healthcare worker or above a certain age to get it. Some companies are securing it for their employees though, I know people who work at Abbvie and the company somehow secured vaccines for their employees even if they don't meet the criteria really.

I've been trying to schedule my first one still but it's pretty hard to find anything, in IL they seem to be relying mostly on retail pharmacies to distribute it which is stupid imo.
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I'm in MD, where from what I can tell they're pretty strict. There are people who hunt down canceled appointments, but you still need a group 1C verification. Though large hospitals/employers seem to be able to get them if they call everyone "essential", even WFH people. Some of the more egregious cases I mentioned are PA, which seems much more loose with it. Since none of the people I know who got it there are even close to any essential bis.
 
obidamnkenobi said:
I'm in MD, where from what I can tell they're pretty strict. There are people who hunt down canceled appointments, but you still need a group 1C verification. Though large hospitals/employers seem to be able to get them if they call everyone "essential", even WFH people. Some of the more egregious cases I mentioned are PA, which seems much more loose with it. Since none of the people I know who got it there are even close to any essential bis.
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Hang in there with the new J&J vaccine now shipping it will likely only take a month or two to get to a point where everyone can have it.
 
IronWing said:
We're in the process of having Costco replace the mattress they just sent. So far, "yeah, we got your replacement request" followed by a week and counting of silence. The one they sent is moldy.
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Geez, now that I know my mattress won't arrive until tomorrow, oh by the way, I hope it's not moldy. My inflatable queen Coleman mattress sits well on my new queen base, that I managed to get the FEDEX guy to at least move it up to the floor I needed to set it up on (friggin heavy and was a bitch to just move it). There is an amazing number of sites for things you should never buy from Costco. They are all related to mostly the stuff that will go stale before you finish them, which is a big duh! Some bitches about TV values, but nothing about big items in general. I get it though. A warehouse is just a warehouse whether it's in town, or online. Never again!
Next task. How to get floppy old queen mattress into/onto vehicle to take to dump for $11. Oh, by myself.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Hang in there with the new J&J vaccine now shipping it will likely only take a month or two to get to a point where everyone can have it.
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I doubt it.
J&J are shipping only 3M doses this week, and possibly 20M doses at the end on the month, That's not anywhere near
what is needed to ease the shortage. But it will help. Now supposedly the Moderna and Pfizer will ship 140M doses the next 5 weeks.
But that is for just 70M people (2 doses/person)

Now we have injected about 75M people so far and that includes people with just one dose. 50M have one dose, 25M have 2 doses.
To get the 50M people with a single dose fully vaccinated, you will use up 50M of that 140M shipment(s). That leaves 90M doses for 45M people

That looks like 75M plus 45M for 120M with doses form the mRNA mfgs. Now add the approx 20-23M people injected with the
one dose J&J and we possibly could have 140-143M people vaccinated by mid-late April. That's still less that 1/2 the population. (43%)
We're still at a shortage. There still won't be enough to fill the need by the end of April.

I think that that we have a ways to go before anyone that wants one can get it. Probably June or July.
 
esquared said:
I doubt it.
J&J are shipping only 3M doses this week, and possibly 20M doses at the end on the month, That's not anywhere near
what is needed to ease the shortage. But it will help. Now supposedly the Moderna and Pfizer will ship 140M doses the next 5 weeks.
But that is for just 70M people (2 doses/person)

Now we have injected about 75M people so far and that includes people with just one dose. 50M have one dose, 25M have 2 doses.
To get the 50M people with a single dose fully vaccinated, you will use up 50M of that 140M shipment(s). That leaves 90M doses for 45M people

That looks like 75M plus 45M for 120M with doses form the mRNA mfgs. Now add the approx 20-23M people injected with the
one dose J&J and we possibly could have 140-143M people vaccinated by mid-late April. That's still less that 1/2 the population. (43%)
We're still at a shortage. There still won't be enough to fill the need by the end of April.

I think that that we have a ways to go before anyone that wants one can get it. Probably June or July.
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Rolling with the 2/3rds are willing to get it I do not think it will be that long. My prediction is generally and generally will vary by State. Enough high risk people will have had their chance to be vaccinated and at some point it has to be said “you’ve had your chance” and the focus will shift towards getting as many vaccinated as possible.
 
uallas5 said:
Had a slight headache when I went to bed then things got weird. Woke up about midnight, went to the toilet, and when I got back in bed a had a bad case of the shivers and couldn't get warm. Threw on a a long sleeve shirt and went back to sleep. Woke up an hour later to use the toilet again (was told to really hydrate day of second shot) and the moment I got out of bed I started to shake uncontrollably. Was barely able to pee I was shaking/shivering so bad. Got back into bed and it wouldn't stop. I didn't really feel that cold but I was shaking violently (to put it into perspective, I once went fell into an icy Boston Harbor one winter and when I got back onboard I wasn't shaking nearly as bad as I did last night!). Grabbed another blanket and as soon as I got into bed I went from being slightly chilly and shaking to being too warm IMMEDIATLEY. Stayed that way until 3 when I started tossing off all the extra stuff and I was still too warm. Tossed and turned till 4 then tried moving to the couch downstairs. Never made it back to sleep. Now I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee and I'm that kind of stupid you get when your too tired.
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I had chills the morning after the second shot of Pfizer even after putting the thermostat to 77 (when it was 70 outside) and wrapping up in a my warmest fleece I wear when hiking in the 20s and wrapped in my warmest winter blanket. And then like 3-4 hours later I felt pretty normal. It was weird. Never felt very sick though. Mild headache. And was never shivering anywhere near as bad as what you describe. I'd still classify the reaction as pretty mild and much less than I was expecting.
 
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Fanatical Meat said:
Rolling with the 2/3rds are willing to get it I do not think it will be that long. My prediction is generally and generally will vary by State. Enough high risk people will have had their chance to be vaccinated and at some point it has to be said “you’ve had your chance” and the focus will shift towards getting as many vaccinated as possible.
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Don't know what it's like where you're at but I still know people trying to get their elderly parents slots as well as some diabetic friends I have who can't find an opening in Texas. Right now vaccinations are available to:

Class 1A: medical workers

Class 1B: Adults 65+, or people 16+ with a chronic health condition like cardiac problems, diabetes, obesity with BMI >= 30, kidney disorders, cancer, and a few others.

So I think Texas still shouldn't be very close to moving to Class 1C which is essential workers when Class 1B is still having trouble getting appointments.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Rolling with the 2/3rds are willing to get it I do not think it will be that long. My prediction is generally and generally will vary by State. Enough high risk people will have had their chance to be vaccinated and at some point it has to be said “you’ve had your chance” and the focus will shift towards getting as many vaccinated as possible.
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I totally agree with you. I know many that will skip it all together. I suspect that we will get to around 50-60% by summer and it will still stay there.
 
SteveGrabowski said:
Don't know what it's like where you're at but I still know people trying to get their elderly parents slots as well as some diabetic friends I have who can't find an opening in Texas. Right now vaccinations are available to:

Class 1A: medical workers

Class 1B: Adults 65+, or people 16+ with a chronic health condition like cardiac problems, diabetes, obesity with BMI >= 30, kidney disorders, cancer, and a few others.

So I think Texas still shouldn't be very close to moving to Class 1C which is essential workers when Class 1B is still having trouble getting appointments.
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This is sort of what I mean. 1a medical workers have had since late December to get this done, if they haven’t gotten it done by now they simply don’t want it.
Overall States vaccination numbers are all pretty close and per below may(ish) there should be enough to vaccinate 220 million people.

www.cnn.com

Here's when the US will see a lot more vaccine doses

Moderna, Pfizer and now Johnson & Johnson will deliver enough doses to fully vaccinate 130 million people -- more than one-third of the US population -- by the end of March, the pharmaceutical companies told a House subcommittee last week.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
 
Texas has essentially become a free for all. Essentially anyone can get a vaccine at pharmacies that have them in supply. Previously hospitals would vaccinate anyone living with their workers(they vaccinated everyone not just front line workers). Texas is supposed to remove all restrictions later this month.
 
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