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Post by NastyWoman on Mar 17, 2021 0:46:59 GMT -5
I got lucky I had my shots when I did. As of last week all appointments for a first dose were canceled. My friend's doctor got her the next earliest appointment - April 3rd! Friend has some serious health issues that needed to be taken care of before she could sign up. She is 77
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Post by ohmomto2boys on Mar 17, 2021 8:24:39 GMT -5
Got my 1st dose last night. Moderna. Waiting 4 weeks for the 2nd dose. Ohio is opening up vaccinations to 40+ starting 3/19. I'm glad I was able to get an appointment before the next group is eligible.
My arm is sore, but that was to be expected.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 17, 2021 10:02:38 GMT -5
My DD is signed up at Walgreens on Friday. She works for both Starbucks and Delta. She said airline employees are not yet eligible, but restaurant workers are. they told her to brink her employee badge. She told me she has one for Delta, but not SBUX. I told her to take a check stub, hopefully that will work.
DH really wants DS to get one. He is not yet eligible. DH said to me I can make him get it (DS works for DH) and I said yes, I know. I told DH not to make an issue until they open up eligibility more. DH's office assistant was the one that managed to get into the Walgreen's site and schedule my appointment (I was unaware they were trying). DH said when she tried to get in this week to schedule herself, they said there were no appointments available. Now WI added a bunch of groups to the eligibility list, so I expect getting appointments may be difficult.
I plan to call my DS and one of my SIL's and tell them to make sure they claim their place in line. Both are overweight. My SIL just had some serious arm surgery and is going for rehab - she is probably exposed to plenty of germs, so being vaccinated would be good.
We were vaccinated at the site of a community clinic that serves the south side of Milwaukee. The area is heavily Hispanic, and I would say most of the people in line were Hispanic.
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Post by busymom on Mar 17, 2021 15:37:50 GMT -5
Well, I finally got scheduled to get my own vaccine done, for next week. The annoying part is, that DS is more vulnerable to get the virus than I am, yet, under the current rules, I am eligible to get vaccinated before he is.
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Post by jerseygirl on Mar 17, 2021 16:32:59 GMT -5
Seems most states have a disorganized and stressful system to sign up for vaccines. But so great that folks are being vaccinated!! Most in my family have at least the first dose, still waiting for younger son and oldest grandson Then we have a teenager,15 and his younger 6&5 yr old siblings Was thinking about a family Easter but older physician son said not yet, would be disastrous if most but not all of us were either fully or partially vaccinated and had a Covid outbreak. We can wait till we’re safer Remembering St Patrick’s day last year when gradually things closed down including the parades. This year still shut down but the growing vaccinated population gives hope for 2022 celebrations on March 17
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Post by jelloshots4all on Mar 17, 2021 17:27:18 GMT -5
My DD is signed up at Walgreens on Friday. She works for both Starbucks and Delta. She said airline employees are not yet eligible, but restaurant workers are. they told her to brink her employee badge. She told me she has one for Delta, but not SBUX. I told her to take a check stub, hopefully that will work. DH really wants DS to get one. He is not yet eligible. DH said to me I can make him get it (DS works for DH) and I said yes, I know. I told DH not to make an issue until they open up eligibility more. DH's office assistant was the one that managed to get into the Walgreen's site and schedule my appointment (I was unaware they were trying). DH said when she tried to get in this week to schedule herself, they said there were no appointments available. Now WI added a bunch of groups to the eligibility list, so I expect getting appointments may be difficult. I plan to call my DS and one of my SIL's and tell them to make sure they claim their place in line. Both are overweight. My SIL just had some serious arm surgery and is going for rehab - she is probably exposed to plenty of germs, so being vaccinated would be good. We were vaccinated at the site of a community clinic that serves the south side of Milwaukee. The area is heavily Hispanic, and I would say most of the people in line were Hispanic. bean29 neither Pick n Save or Walgreens required any proof (or at least the 2 Pick n Saves my kids went to and the Walgreens I went to). I went to the Walgreens right near the STBUX your DD works at. ETA: Have her fill out the Walgreens form prior to arriving for easy registration
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 17, 2021 21:43:49 GMT -5
Well, I am eligible to sign up now! Yea! But nothing available nearby, and I'm limited on where I can look.
Pharmacies can vaccinate only those age eligible (just dropped to 60) or teachers (newly added). So those tracker sites are useless for me. The state run site tells me there are 2 appointments in late May at the big university in the metro area south of us, but at #2 city campus, not nearer north campus. There's also some in city #3, further out in late April. My county's website has no local distribution planned, but a POD site at a convention center in city on f a r side of county from me. Don't really want to head there if I can avoid it.
Now, some patrons ran in quick a few days ago to print their admission ticket for a site just over the county border to the east. I hadn't thought to check that county's website, separately from mine. They seem to just have Tuesday/Thursday clinics planned, and if they get doses they open up a link quick, and shut it down when filled. I'll have to haunt their website to see if I can find a slot in the coming days. Otherwise, I'm waiting for my county to get a new batch from the state and schedule a POD in tiny city county seat.
It's such a stupid system. One area complains about people from other areas driving in and taking "their" shots, but that's the way the system is set up. No preference is given to local residents, and if there's availability elsewhere you should go chase it. Biggest dose allotments go to biggest population centers, and NYC is the biggest black hole gravity well of them all; it's population is larger by far than the rest of the state combined.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 7:31:50 GMT -5
It's such a stupid system. One area complains about people from other areas driving in and taking "their" shots, but that's the way the system is set up. No preference is given to local residents, and if there's availability elsewhere you should go chase it. Biggest dose allotments go to biggest population centers, and NYC is the biggest black hole gravity well of them all; its population is larger by far than the rest of the state combined. I know- you just sign up on every darn list you can find. I was getting notices from my state "vaccine navigator" site about nearby vaccination events and had already been vaccinated at another site in the state, a medical center 75 miles from my home, after registering on THEIR site. So, there's apparently no single database with info on who's had one already. I was able to Unsubscribe from the state site and also sent a text notice to another medical center that eventually got back to me, asking them to stop messages. Most states seem to be doing the opposite of what you see in NY- the big cities get proportionately fewer doses given the population. Yesterday I realized one minor effect of having had the first dose 2/27. I realized my supply of canned soups was low and was thinking I needed to replenish because if I got COVID they'd be a good source of very easy meals if I was too exhausted to cook. Then I realized it was a far less likely scenario than it was only a month ago.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 18, 2021 7:57:14 GMT -5
It's such a stupid system. One area complains about people from other areas driving in and taking "their" shots, but that's the way the system is set up. No preference is given to local residents, and if there's availability elsewhere you should go chase it. Lots of similar complaints here. One of the biggest problems is people signing up for appointments that are long drives from their homes. Then they see an appointment closer to where they live. Apparently one of the grocery store chains doesn't have an option to cancel. At least Walgreens has that option. One of my friends told me nearly everyone in his office have gotten their vaccines by going to one of the places giving vaccines at the end of the day and getting the vaccine for no shows. At that point, they don't care if you qualify or not. They just don't want to waste the vaccines.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 18, 2021 8:48:24 GMT -5
It's such a stupid system. One area complains about people from other areas driving in and taking "their" shots, but that's the way the system is set up. No preference is given to local residents, and if there's availability elsewhere you should go chase it. Lots of similar complaints here. One of the biggest problems is people signing up for appointments that are long drives from their homes. Then they see an appointment closer to where they live. Apparently one of the grocery store chains doesn't have an option to cancel. At least Walgreens has that option. One of my friends told me nearly everyone in his office have gotten their vaccines by going to one of the places giving vaccines at the end of the day and getting the vaccine for no shows. At that point, they don't care if you qualify or not. They just don't want to waste the vaccines. I don't really think the private places care at all whether or you qualify and I don't think they ever did. My dad was at a store on the very first day they were doing vaccinations and he witnessed the pharmacist questioning one person on their eligibility. They were 40-ish years old (not eligible), worked for a manufacturing company (that industry is eligible), but the lady worked in HR (?). The pharmacist said that it's really intended for people that can't socially distance at work and she said that she's out visiting different plants and traveling. At that point, the pharmacist just said they certified online and have the appointment, so he gave it to her. I think you run into enough of those as a pharmacist and you just throw your hands up. I think at this point, they are assuming 95% of the people getting the vaccine meet the requirements. The other 5% probably don't, but they don't have the time to sort through it all.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Mar 18, 2021 8:55:00 GMT -5
Nobody checks at any of the vaccination clinics here. All I've seen is a "please don't share these links with people that do not meet the requirements" 75% of the over 65 population have had at least one shot now, so I think they're like "meh". Why bog down everything by requiring proof from people?
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Post by Opti on Mar 18, 2021 9:16:41 GMT -5
I hope supply keeps increasing. I couldn't find any testing data except totals, but I did find in NJ over 30% of the Covid cases have been in the 30 to 49 yr old age range. (Largest percentage by age group) It would really help control the spread if more of that group were vaccinated.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 18, 2021 9:24:31 GMT -5
Lots of similar complaints here. One of the biggest problems is people signing up for appointments that are long drives from their homes. Then they see an appointment closer to where they live. Apparently one of the grocery store chains doesn't have an option to cancel. At least Walgreens has that option. One of my friends told me nearly everyone in his office have gotten their vaccines by going to one of the places giving vaccines at the end of the day and getting the vaccine for no shows. At that point, they don't care if you qualify or not. They just don't want to waste the vaccines. I don't really think the private places care at all whether or you qualify and I don't think they ever did. My dad was at a store on the very first day they were doing vaccinations and he witnessed the pharmacist questioning one person on their eligibility. They were 40-ish years old (not eligible), worked for a manufacturing company (that industry is eligible), but the lady worked in HR (?). The pharmacist said that it's really intended for people that can't socially distance at work and she said that she's out visiting different plants and traveling. At that point, the pharmacist just said they certified online and have the appointment, so he gave it to her. I think you run into enough of those as a pharmacist and you just throw your hands up. I think at this point, they are assuming 95% of the people getting the vaccine meet the requirements. The other 5% probably don't, but they don't have the time to sort through it all. I don't know. Our HR lady does have contact more/various people than people in other positions at my company. I didn't think about that fact until I had to go in to the office and meet with her.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 18, 2021 10:02:08 GMT -5
We test drove a car yesterday and the salesrep said he wouldn't get the vaccine because he hates needles. I told him to grow up and asked him if he was a little bitch. I laughed, he laughed politely. I dont think I convinced him. 😏
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 18, 2021 13:25:18 GMT -5
Lots of similar complaints here. One of the biggest problems is people signing up for appointments that are long drives from their homes. Then they see an appointment closer to where they live. Apparently one of the grocery store chains doesn't have an option to cancel. At least Walgreens has that option. One of my friends told me nearly everyone in his office have gotten their vaccines by going to one of the places giving vaccines at the end of the day and getting the vaccine for no shows. At that point, they don't care if you qualify or not. They just don't want to waste the vaccines. I don't really think the private places care at all whether or you qualify and I don't think they ever did. My dad was at a store on the very first day they were doing vaccinations and he witnessed the pharmacist questioning one person on their eligibility. They were 40-ish years old (not eligible), worked for a manufacturing company (that industry is eligible), but the lady worked in HR (?). The pharmacist said that it's really intended for people that can't socially distance at work and she said that she's out visiting different plants and traveling. At that point, the pharmacist just said they certified online and have the appointment, so he gave it to her. I think you run into enough of those as a pharmacist and you just throw your hands up. I think at this point, they are assuming 95% of the people getting the vaccine meet the requirements. The other 5% probably don't, but they don't have the time to sort through it all. On the Walgreens site at the beginning, you had to be 65 and have a Medicare card. That was easy to check, but I think the end of the day ploy probably worked. Now that the requirements on the online appointment booking site have changed, you can check any box and get the vaccine. There have been people interviewed on tv that said they were not eligible but that is what they did. Apparently, they are not required to check. The governor's theory since last March has been that Iowans will do the right thing and that is what she said about this. If you are going through a doctor's office, you do have to qualify. Most are only vaccinating their own patients so they know your history. Some of the small town locally owned drug stores are limited vaccines to only their customers because of people from all over the state trying to get appointments.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 18, 2021 14:01:27 GMT -5
I signed up, but there were no appointments available to me. I had to answer all the questions- am I a healthcare worker, am I an essential worker, do I have a condition, am I over 55. All no - so I am not surprised.
BUT they had a link that showed their plan a little better. The current phase is 55+. They have the metric that when 55% of the population between 55 and 64 are vaccinated, they will open it to the next group. Or, if demand drops before they get to 55%, they will advance. Right now, they are at 35% of that age group - which seems to be going fast given they just opened that group up on March 2nd. Granted, a bunch of those vaccinated people were part of an earlier group - but we seem to be moving along nicely.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 18, 2021 15:51:24 GMT -5
I don't really think the private places care at all whether or you qualify and I don't think they ever did. My dad was at a store on the very first day they were doing vaccinations and he witnessed the pharmacist questioning one person on their eligibility. They were 40-ish years old (not eligible), worked for a manufacturing company (that industry is eligible), but the lady worked in HR (?). The pharmacist said that it's really intended for people that can't socially distance at work and she said that she's out visiting different plants and traveling. At that point, the pharmacist just said they certified online and have the appointment, so he gave it to her. I think you run into enough of those as a pharmacist and you just throw your hands up. I think at this point, they are assuming 95% of the people getting the vaccine meet the requirements. The other 5% probably don't, but they don't have the time to sort through it all. I don't know. Our HR lady does have contact more/various people than people in other positions at my company. I didn't think about that fact until I had to go in to the office and meet with her. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's not super simple for a pharmacist (who has a line of people to deal with) to determine if you qualify in 30 seconds or less. Like the example I pointed out above, "Manufacturing" as an industry qualifies. I'm sure that they intend on line workers to get the vaccine, not necessarily "office" workers that can normally maintain distance. It doesn't bother me, but I think it just points to the reason why the private sector stopped even trying to figure it out.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 18, 2021 15:56:31 GMT -5
Here when a sector qualifies, every person in the sector qualifies.
When health care workers qualified, it didn't matter if you were a doctor, nurse, receptionist, billing clerk or in HR. You qualified.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 18, 2021 16:01:17 GMT -5
I don't know. Our HR lady does have contact more/various people than people in other positions at my company. I didn't think about that fact until I had to go in to the office and meet with her. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's not super simple for a pharmacist (who has a line of people to deal with) to determine if you qualify in 30 seconds or less. Like the example I pointed out above, "Manufacturing" as an industry qualifies. I'm sure that they intend on line workers to get the vaccine, not necessarily "office" workers that can normally maintain distance. It doesn't bother me, but I think it just points to the reason why the private sector stopped even trying to figure it out. Yeah, my brother actually manufactures stuff. And he also works alone in a room with the machine that he programs. He does talk to the other guys at work, he could totally do that at a distance too.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 18, 2021 17:12:25 GMT -5
Here when a sector qualifies, every person in the sector qualifies. When health care workers qualified, it didn't matter if you were a doctor, nurse, receptionist, billing clerk or in HR. You qualified. Since there is no judge/jury, I won't argue the point too much. However your statement isn't really true. If you read certain states guidelines, they usually will have a couple qualifiers. In my state, they specify that you have to be a frontline essential worker that is unable to work from home and/or maintain physical distance on the job AND be in the following industries. Like I said, I don't really care if an office worker that is employed by a manufacturing company goes in and gets one. But I think it's clear that it's not really the "spirit" of the guidance. That's why hospital executives were taking heat when they were getting vaccinated.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 17:36:48 GMT -5
Texas vaccine providers do not require proof of qualification which is how my neighbor (with COPD) got her husband and 19 year old daughter vaccinated in late December. Her husband claimed to have COPD as well (needed vaccination to return to his job in Saudi Arabia) and her daughter claimed severe allergies. And they bragged about it to friends and on FB.
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I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's not super simple for a pharmacist (who has a line of people to deal with) to determine if you qualify in 30 seconds or less. Like the example I pointed out above, "Manufacturing" as an industry qualifies. I'm sure that they intend on line workers to get the vaccine, not necessarily "office" workers that can normally maintain distance. It doesn't bother me, but I think it just points to the reason why the private sector stopped even trying to figure it out. Yeah, my brother actually manufactures stuff. And he also works alone in a room with the machine that he programs. He does talk to the other guys at work, he could totally do that at a distance too. It has been hard enough to break down the population to the groups they did - and people are still confused. Can you imagine an if>then, flowchart type of qualifications??!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 7:26:30 GMT -5
Texas vaccine providers do not require proof of qualification which is how my neighbor (with COPD) got her husband and 19 year old daughter vaccinated in late December. Her husband claimed to have COPD as well (needed vaccination to return to his job in Saudi Arabia) and her daughter claimed severe allergies. And they bragged about it to friends and on FB. That's really sleazy and I can't believe they bragged about it on FB. I didn't even post directly about mine on FB (have subsequently mentioned it in comments on the subject) because I know how much frustration is out there among people who qualify but can't get an appointment, who are trying to book them for sick and elderly friends or family members, or really want one but aren't eligible yet.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 19, 2021 8:21:58 GMT -5
Iowa doesn't require the facility giving the shot to verify anything. You can lie on the online sign up and the governor doesn't care. It makes appointments harder to get for people who do meet the qualifications.
Qualifications are moot here as of April 5. She says she will open up vaccines to anyone over 18.
I am very pleased that we no longer have any nursing home outbreaks in the state. The nursing homes were hit so hard. About half of the deaths in the state were people who lived in nursing homes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 10:50:17 GMT -5
DH and I got scheduled for first dose of Moderna next week. It's exactly what I didn't want - location requires freeway driving and we get the shots on the same day - but it's all we had even a remote chance at so it is what it is.
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Post by saveinla on Mar 19, 2021 10:54:56 GMT -5
DH and I got scheduled for first dose of Moderna next week. It's exactly what I didn't want - location requires freeway driving and we get the shots on the same day - but it's all we had even a remote chance at so it is what it is. How about taking an uber?
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 19, 2021 10:59:08 GMT -5
DH and I got scheduled for first dose of Moderna next week. It's exactly what I didn't want - location requires freeway driving and we get the shots on the same day - but it's all we had even a remote chance at so it is what it is. Maybe you can get separate days for the 2nd shot. Side effects are supposed to be worse after the 2nd one anyway. I'm glad you got an appointment!
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Post by Ava on Mar 19, 2021 11:32:39 GMT -5
CT opened up for 45+ today. I was able to schedule through VAMS, but it's for June 3rd. I really wanted to get the first shot in two weeks or so. It was the only date available. As of today 400,000 more people qualified for the vaccine, and apparently there just isn't enough to go around. I keep checking Walmart, Walgreens and CVS to see if there's anything earlier than June 3rd. Nothing so far, but I'll keep checking.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 12:03:57 GMT -5
DH and I got scheduled for first dose of Moderna next week. It's exactly what I didn't want - location requires freeway driving and we get the shots on the same day - but it's all we had even a remote chance at so it is what it is. How about taking an uber? If it was local, I would try that but it's in another city about an 50 miles away.
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