My dad got his second dose yesterday (Washington, DC). So now both of my late-70s parents are fully vaccinated. Only 10% in my jurisdiction are fully vaccinated so far, and ~17% have the first dose. My 23-year-old niece lives in PA, and she already has her vaccinations. Apparently in their sign-up system if you indicate you are a smoker you get moved way up the list. She's not a smoker... But she claimed she did. In her defense she works on a retail shop, so she has some exposure to a lot of people each day.

 

I got my second dose of the Moderna last Saturday. A day feeling slightly lethargic followed, then back to normal. My wife is eligible, but hasn't yet been able to get an appointment.

 

It should be no problem for her to convince them
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6e12df

 

Lol. Pennsylvania’s tier 1A is so large (approximately 4 million people or 1/3 of the state’s total population) that it’s really not much of an advantage to be in it. Still very difficult to schedule an appointment to be vaccinated, but slowly improving.

 

Finally this North part of Texas is getting increased delivery of the Vaccine.

Appt for my initial injection is 3-18

 

My first is on monday morning!

 

It's great to see so many of the OF members getting vaccinated. Keep up the pace!

 

Apparently someone in my building got vaccinated, they were confident enough to surrender their toilet paper stash at the front entrance for someone else in need

 

The wife (Moderna) and I (Phizer) each have both. What a feeling of relief.

 

First Pfizer shot last week at Javits NYC. While I’m grateful to have received it, I will take the opportunity to rant about the process in this increasingly dysfunctional State. I’m middle aged (hopefully) and tech savvy. I’m eligible because of two ‘co-morbidities’ (as they depressingly refer to underlying health issues here). It took me three days of non stop frustration in order to secure an online appointment for over a month down the road. I can’t imagine how bad it would be for the less technologically inclined - we are talking about registration on a web-site here, not commanding a spaceship, but it really was one of the most F*k’d up processes I have ever seen. I was unable to secure an appointment ‘manually’ through either of the hospitals I am registered to, due to inadequate supplies, and all they could suggest was to keep trying online. Anyway, I got one, so I’m grateful but the real annoyance is that there are vaccines freely available at many pharmacies in NYC - because you can only get an appointment there through a still limited eligibility criteria on the same messed up web of online sites, (co-morbidity is excluded), this has resulted in a kind of pot luck / lottery system of people hanging around pharmacies in the hope of picking up a vaccine that is about to get thrown away (for example if someone with an appointment doesn’t turn up). I know a surprising number of people that have been able to get vaccinated that way. To be clear, I’m not ranting against them, the more people that are vaccinated, the better - I just think it’s a sad example of something that is just terribly organized and ends up being a bit of a farce once this government gets involved.

 

Pharmacies are distributing the vaccine under a federal partnership. That might explain the differences in criteria.

 

one down one to go #pfizer

 

Received My first Moderna dose on the seventh. Next one on Easter. Last week Alaska opened up for everyone 16+.

 

Vaccines in Alaska are distributed through federal, state and tribal programs. It’s very exciting that it’s open to everyone over 16 as of this past week as impalla62ss pointed out. What a relief and a bit of a release when I had the 1st shot after a year of this. 2nd shot is at the end of the month.

 

Months away from it here in the Emerald Isle, I am fortunate enough not to have any underlying medical conditions , so in with the general population, last group, end of July maybe. And sure that's fine, I'm not planning on going anywhere before then

 

Please someone explain - and preferably to the EU voters - US and UK vaccinations per head are 2.5x - 3.5x that of the EU. The EU is the worst-hit territory in the rich world, and in a couple of places it's maybe starting to get worse again. Latest response by the European leaders - suspending use of one of the big three shots - when the WHO says they don't need to. For the sake of our European friends and their beautiful countries, will someone please devise an inoculation against boneheadedness.
Sorry for rant, I'm sure experts know stuff I don't.

 

My theory (which is NOT based on scientific research) is that there are a few reasons-
1. Mutations
2. People who got the vaccine think they are now invincible
3. People who did not get the vaccine think everyone is vaccinated now so they are invincible

My sister (mid 40’s) got the second Pfizer shot about 1.5 months ago so she should be safe, yet she still got sick after her kid got sick.
She had very mild symptoms, probably thanks to the vaccine.

 

The New York times is revising their estimate of when 90% of the population will be vaccinated. As of yesterday, it showed about 90% by July. Although, I expect that doesn't take into consideration logistical issues in distribution.

 

The clinical trials only evaluated the occurrence of severe disease.
The vaccine protects against severe disease, not infection.
So for your sister the vaccine worked perfectly.....

 

It also doesn’t take into consideration the unfortunate fact that more than 10% of the population will probably refuse the vaccine.