The CDC recommends that people who were infected get vaccinated. You may not agree with this science (and perhaps you are an immunologist), but this is the recommendation by the official scientific agency in the US. I will just leave this here for people interested in reading the official recommendation,
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
But at the very least, someone who has had a documented case can certainly cede their vaccination spot to someone in a similar roll-out phase who has never been infected.
My mom (77) was a day away from getting hers where the entity (older folks community) emailed her and indicated they ran out of vaccine and were unsure when they would be resupplied. She then went online to sign up with her county, and as 68k down the list. They were doing about 7k/ week. Yesterday morning (2 weeks later) she got a call telling her to head on down to get her first dose. They had her go to Texas Motor Speedway, where they had 16 drive-through lanes open. She made it through with only a short wait, and got an appointment card for the second dose.
When I talked to her yesterday afternoon she indicated she only got vaccinated so she can come visit us here and in the DC area and see my son. Her reasoning was she rarely gets sick, has never had the flu, never gets shots/ vaccinations, and is great health. Of course that made me knock my head into the wall a few times. I reminded her that she had, in fact, received several vaccinations when she was a baby/ toddler, and they helped prevent her from getting a serious illness when she was a kid. I don't know what the heck they feed people in that part of Texas, but she's only lived there ~3 years now and it seems to have impacted her ability to think 🤨
My dad is 78, and is scheduled to get his first shot in 2 weeks. He is a DC resident. It took him a few weeks of trying to finally get on the list.
I live right outside of DC, and my 'city' is only getting ~1,700 doses/ week. If the supply does not ramp up it will be 3 more months until Group 1B is complete. I am sure it will be summertime before my wife and I can get vaccinated.
Texas Motor Speedway is a new vaccination site outside of Dallas. The area has been converted to a large drive thru vaccination center. The site was averaging about 9,000 vaccinations per day during the first week. They are hoping to get up to 10K/day by this weekend. Mass vaccination is occurring in Texas...hope other areas in the US can mimic this setup over time
That’s through VAMS right? That’s how it started for health care workers it’s actually a pretty good system. They also give you weekly alerts where you enter how you are feeling and any side effects. It’s not mandatory to do so but I joined it figured it’s a good way for them to gather data
It is supply-dependent. Plenty of sites in the DC region could be used, but the supply is not here.
I think I'll be waiting a while, until late March at least. Maybe I'll get a jab on April 1st!
Maybe I should have stayed in the military reserve 😁.
Oh well, we don't have any active (uncontained) cases in Victoria with a population of 6.5 million, so it'll just be normal life as usual (masks/distancing/sanitising etc) until I get the jab.
Was a little bit concerned/ disappointed to hear the news this morning that the Oxford/Astra vaccine might have “limited effect on minor illness from the South African variant but likely reduce the potential of serious illness”
Whilst I realise that the primary function of vaccinations is to stop people dying ( and I am grateful for that) my ideal (medium term) goal is to be able to travel internationally again for work
this news might just scupper those aspirations, as I think a ‘vaccine passport’ (similar to the yellow fever one) will be required for a lot of countries I would intend to visit.
Was a little bit concerned/ disappointed to hear the news this morning that the Oxford/Astra vaccine might have “limited effect on minor illness from the South African variant but likely reduce the potential of serious illness”
Whilst I realise that the primary function of vaccinations is to stop people dying ( and I am grateful for that) my ideal (medium term) goal is to be able to travel internationally again for work
this news might just scupper those aspirations, as I think a ‘vaccine passport’ (similar to the yellow fever one) will be required for a lot of countries I would intend to visit.
