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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 3, 2021 17:55:48 GMT -5
I think our county is reaching the saturation point already which is a little troubling as we're only at 40% of over 16 vaccinated. The last two days the county has run clinics the Facebook page has been begging people to come down. Today my Facebook is full of posts from the county, and shared by the emergency response and sheriffs department about how there are no lines and they need to use up doses so please come in if you need one. Only qualification is over 16. I thought about sending my son, but he wouldn't be around for the 2nd dose. I wish they'd offer the J&J one and done to the college students.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 3, 2021 18:14:25 GMT -5
I'm seeing them needing people to go to the stadium site this coming week. My mom's hospital had 1900 doses of Pfizer that had to be used. So they offered to pay their employees to run a clinic. My mom signed up.
I signed us up Friday night to get first dose next week locally. This morning I was thinking my brother in law qualified and he needed one. I booked him and his wife this morning and the site still had appointments. I think part of the problem with decentralized distribution in many states is then you don't know what's available. Checking multiple sites gets old.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 3, 2021 18:21:03 GMT -5
I'm seeing them needing people to go to the stadium site this coming week. My mom's hospital had 1900 doses of Pfizer that had to be used. So they offered to pay their employees to run a clinic. My mom signed up. I signed us up Friday night to get first dose next week locally. This morning I was thinking my brother in law qualified and he needed one. I booked him and his wife this morning and the site still had appointments. I think part of the problem with decentralized distribution in many states is then you don't know what's available. Checking multiple sites gets old. I lucked out on the county popping up on my Facebook feed. Otherwise I have to have multiple tabs open. Some apparently you have to call but there is nothing on their pages stating that. Iowa is decentralized and it's been driving me insane. I.got lucky and DH is lucky. I can't imagine someone like my grandma trying to navigate this. My SIL works from home so she was able to stalk the internet to get my in laws registered. What do you do if your family can't or you don't have anyone?😔
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 3, 2021 18:37:20 GMT -5
I'm seeing them needing people to go to the stadium site this coming week. My mom's hospital had 1900 doses of Pfizer that had to be used. So they offered to pay their employees to run a clinic. My mom signed up. I signed us up Friday night to get first dose next week locally. This morning I was thinking my brother in law qualified and he needed one. I booked him and his wife this morning and the site still had appointments. I think part of the problem with decentralized distribution in many states is then you don't know what's available. Checking multiple sites gets old. All of this. Both TD and I were checking them all several times each day.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 3, 2021 18:40:45 GMT -5
I'm seeing them needing people to go to the stadium site this coming week. My mom's hospital had 1900 doses of Pfizer that had to be used. So they offered to pay their employees to run a clinic. My mom signed up. I signed us up Friday night to get first dose next week locally. This morning I was thinking my brother in law qualified and he needed one. I booked him and his wife this morning and the site still had appointments. I think part of the problem with decentralized distribution in many states is then you don't know what's available. Checking multiple sites gets old. I lucked out on the county popping up on my Facebook feed. Otherwise I have to have multiple tabs open. Some apparently you have to call but there is nothing on their pages stating that. Iowa is decentralized and it's been driving me insane. I.got lucky and DH is lucky. I can't imagine someone like my grandma trying to navigate this. My SIL works from home so she was able to stalk the internet to get my in laws registered. What do you do if your family can't or you don't have anyone?😔Friends of ours live in a retirement community and she has been booking appointments for her neighbors who aren’t computer literate. She has set up appointments for dozens, despite she wasn’t eligible herself until 3/31, like me.
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Post by jerseygirl on Apr 3, 2021 18:57:52 GMT -5
Same in NJ, the state had a website to enroll. But found out all that site did was send email about a month later after enrolling that gave you all the individual websites for vaccinations Complete mess with each of maybe 60 sites having different format , questions, some asking to download insurance card, some asking multiple questions about race, ethnicity, what pronoun you preferred,, check which essential job, health conditions etc etc and only then did you get - no appointments available Also needed a cell phone # to get text message if you were lucky at 3:00 am to register for an appointment So many older people who were next after health workers couldn’t navigate to get appointments . Plus NJ besides being 65+ allowed smokers and a long list of quasi essential jobs - including real estate agents!? So younger volunteers started helping with multiple phones and computers at the same time and taking requests on Facebook. But our state government failed to manage the vaccinations. Finally starting to get easier mostly because volunteers have stepped up and know how to navigate the multiple various websites Operation Warp Speed developed and delivered the vaccines but sadly there wasn’t a follow up for the actual vaccination appointments. Not at the federal, or state or even county level. Did any states you all live in have a better organization?
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 3, 2021 19:15:28 GMT -5
West Virginia had it mostly centralized. I signed my grandma up for a single list. Then the local health departments scheduled from that list for the various clinics.
I got all six appointments I booked for Maryland people by following leads from a Facebook page set up to help people get appointments. People on the page also volunteer to get appointments for those who may not have access.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 3, 2021 20:06:25 GMT -5
We are in the top 5 with vaccine distribution. State had a website. Hospitals ran most of the clinics. Health departments worked with hospitals and community organizations. We went mostly age based after first wave. Think that was the right decision as you did not have to figure out who qualified. I thought no we did well, but we had some blips as well
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Post by saveinla on Apr 3, 2021 21:30:47 GMT -5
I dont know how CA is doing - probably much better in the cities than the rural areas as always.
I got an appointment for my DH to get the pfizer vaccine on Monday, but he decided he wants only one shot and he searched for J&J today and we have an appt tomorrow at one of the bigger sites. We have a lot of places where we can get vaccinated here and every place seems to be full, but appointments seem to be constantly available a week or 10 days away.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 3, 2021 22:14:46 GMT -5
Vaccine distribution seems to be going better now that there are vaccines to distribute.
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Post by Opti on Apr 4, 2021 7:30:09 GMT -5
Encouraging news. www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.htmlMore than 4 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine were reported administered in the past 24 hours, setting a new record and bringing the seven-day average to more than 3 million a day, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Saturday.
Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, the Covid-19 data director at the White House, celebrated with a tweet early Saturday afternoon.
"Wow a record reporting day!! +4.08M doses reported administered over the total yesterday," Shahpar wrote.
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Post by jerseygirl on Apr 4, 2021 8:09:07 GMT -5
Astra Zeneca seems to have a lot of sloppiness in clinical trials (gave wrong doses to one arm of study) , published incomplete data and now poor oversight of US factory making the vaccine. Mixed together the AZ and J&J vaccine ingredients. The batch was discarded now AZ not allowed to use the manufacturing facility Chiver would be devastated if she were associated with this manufacturing mess www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN2BR00Q
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 4, 2021 10:55:10 GMT -5
56 million fully vaccinated- only 264 million to go. 🤪
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 4, 2021 12:03:57 GMT -5
DH just sent me a text. He went over to Walgreens to schedule his 1st dose at the end of the week. They took him right away. I am pleased as punch. We’ll both be fully vaccinated by the end of the month.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 4, 2021 12:34:33 GMT -5
56 million fully vaccinated- only 264 million to go. 🤪 61 million fully vaccinated and 103 million have at least one dose as per the CDC tracker - covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinationsThat is an impressive number - really like the way it is moving along.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 4, 2021 13:02:49 GMT -5
Astra Zeneca seems to have a lot of sloppiness in clinical trials (gave wrong doses to one arm of study) , published incomplete data and now poor oversight of US factory making the vaccine. Mixed together the AZ and J&J vaccine ingredients. The batch was discarded now AZ not allowed to use the manufacturing facility Chiver would be devastated if she were associated with this manufacturing mess www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN2BR00Qthat's an understatement. 😳 funny enough, EBSI is actually one of our CMOs. not one I manage, though. they were also the runner up bidder in trying to buy a former job site, too.
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 4, 2021 13:03:38 GMT -5
Both DH & I have had both of our shots. DH got his at our local county health dept. since they were the first in our county to give them. I got both of mine at our local Walmart since that is where I get all my scripts filled. No problems for either of us getting scheduled. Our local Walgreens & CVS are also giving shots and from time to time even some of the smaller local pharmacies will get a shipment & notify folks they have on their lists. So our county is doing pretty darn good getting folks scheduled & shot! Oh, and BTW....I'm in a rural county in Ga. This county produces the most ag products in the state...so small town & the rest very rural.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 4, 2021 14:17:53 GMT -5
I was looking today at the county rankings in Iowa to help me decided if I feel safe to go to an indoor birthday party next weekend. I know most of my cousins didn't believe Covid was real, didn't wear masks and talk like they are anti-vax.
We have 99 counties. The county where the party will be held is 95th in % of people vaccinated. I'm guessing that is mostly nursing homes.
I will not be going to the party.
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Post by jelloshots4all on Apr 4, 2021 15:31:53 GMT -5
Same in NJ, the state had a website to enroll. But found out all that site did was send email about a month later after enrolling that gave you all the individual websites for vaccinations Complete mess with each of maybe 60 sites having different format , questions, some asking to download insurance card, some asking multiple questions about race, ethnicity, what pronoun you preferred,, check which essential job, health conditions etc etc and only then did you get - no appointments available Also needed a cell phone # to get text message if you were lucky at 3:00 am to register for an appointment So many older people who were next after health workers couldn’t navigate to get appointments . Plus NJ besides being 65+ allowed smokers and a long list of quasi essential jobs - including real estate agents!? So younger volunteers started helping with multiple phones and computers at the same time and taking requests on Facebook. But our state government failed to manage the vaccinations. Finally starting to get easier mostly because volunteers have stepped up and know how to navigate the multiple various websites Operation Warp Speed developed and delivered the vaccines but sadly there wasn’t a follow up for the actual vaccination appointments. Not at the federal, or state or even county level. Did any states you all live in have a better organization? jerseygirl- from my experience, WI has done a good job. My parents and most of their friends over 65 received their 2nd dose early March. No issues getting appts even in their small town of 10,000 people. On a Friday night they said on the news that restaurant workers were now eligible and within an hour, I had both my kids booked at Kroger for that Monday, and I was able to get into Walgreens that Tuesday (by asking about open slots). My kids get their 2nd dose Pfizer tomorrow and I get my 2nd dose Moderna next Tuesday. Many of my friends have been vaccinated and no one is complaining about not finding appts on FB. Our state opens up for everyone tomorrow 4/5 . I had registered us through our Dr/Hospital group in Feb, and they contacted me with a schedule last week with numerous sites and times. I obviously declined, but was impressed with their preparedness.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 5, 2021 9:44:53 GMT -5
I'm seeing them needing people to go to the stadium site this coming week. My mom's hospital had 1900 doses of Pfizer that had to be used. So they offered to pay their employees to run a clinic. My mom signed up. I signed us up Friday night to get first dose next week locally. This morning I was thinking my brother in law qualified and he needed one. I booked him and his wife this morning and the site still had appointments. I think part of the problem with decentralized distribution in many states is then you don't know what's available. Checking multiple sites gets old. I lucked out on the county popping up on my Facebook feed. Otherwise I have to have multiple tabs open. Some apparently you have to call but there is nothing on their pages stating that. Iowa is decentralized and it's been driving me insane. I.got lucky and DH is lucky. I can't imagine someone like my grandma trying to navigate this. My SIL works from home so she was able to stalk the internet to get my in laws registered. What do you do if your family can't or you don't have anyone?😔 My parents are certainly computer literate, but they each got scheduled essentially through one of my moms doctors. Hopefully that is an option for those who need it as well.
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Post by movingforward on Apr 5, 2021 11:23:29 GMT -5
My employee's wife, who swore she would not get vaccinated because "she has a strong immune system and has no medical conditions," is getting her first dose today. I'm honestly shocked...she is 60 years old and has never gotten a flu vaccine, Hasn't gotten her shingles shot and stated she wouldn't get the covid vaccination either. Dang, there may be hope for us yet!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 5, 2021 12:15:54 GMT -5
I finally got a text from Meijer about a vax appointment. There wasn't an easy way to decline, since I already got one, so I'm letting the link expire (in a day).
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Post by daisylu on Apr 5, 2021 12:24:11 GMT -5
Both TD and I got vaccinated with Pfizer this morning. I was scheduled, I asked if there was anything open fo him and was told no. So texted him that. Then the pharmacist came up to me and told me he preferred doing couples together, so did him too. They did that in the facility where I got mine. There were couples who had different appointment times, but they sent everyone in the same household at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2021 13:05:52 GMT -5
I finally got a text from Meijer about a vax appointment. There wasn't an easy way to decline, since I already got one, so I'm letting the link expire (in a day). I got quite a few offers for appointments from the multiple lists where I'd registered after I'd signed up for my first dose. I got the second a week ago and the messages have stopped. Maybe the info goes to the CDC registry after the second one. Like you, I just ignored any that didn't provide a way to decline.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 5, 2021 13:26:32 GMT -5
I lucked out on the county popping up on my Facebook feed. Otherwise I have to have multiple tabs open. Some apparently you have to call but there is nothing on their pages stating that. Iowa is decentralized and it's been driving me insane. I.got lucky and DH is lucky. I can't imagine someone like my grandma trying to navigate this. My SIL works from home so she was able to stalk the internet to get my in laws registered. What do you do if your family can't or you don't have anyone?😔 My parents are certainly computer literate, but they each got scheduled essentially through one of my moms doctors. Hopefully that is an option for those who need it as well. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the norm. I don't think that anyone I know who has been vaccinated locally managed to get it from their doctors. Everyone I know has got it by checking multiple sites multiple times/day to be able to snag an appointment when they drop. Our medical group announced that they'd be doing this, but the best we've gotten is an email from them telling us that we were eligible to be vaccinated, not getting an appointment.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 5, 2021 13:26:41 GMT -5
My DH was able to call the Walmart pharmacy were he was scheduled and cancel his appointment for today since he got his yesterday.
I was amazed at the mass vaccination site run by CAL-OES yesterday - took 30 minutes from start to end even with a line of cars around 300 - the longest time was waiting for the 15 minutes post vaccination. Looked like it is operated by FEMA & California OES with support from DOD. That site has a capacity for 6000 doses per day - 7 days a week.
It also helped boost our vaccination rate, as doses came straight from the Federal government instead of the state's allocation. Looks like DOD & FEMA will move out next week, but the county will take over, so people will still be able to get vaccinated. Since the city is already operating 2 other mass vaccination sites, this process should be easy.
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Post by dannylion on Apr 5, 2021 14:53:16 GMT -5
Got my 2nd dose of Pfizer 4 hours ago. I was in and out of CVS in less than 20 minutes, including the 15 minute wait. Even though I felt fine after the first shot, I've taken to heart all the warnings about how sick some people get after the second shot. I'm on my own here, so after a 50-min drive home, figuring I'd have a few hours before any side effects kick in, I have: cleaned up the cats' litter boxes/area and added extra litter to their boxes and emptied both litter genies; washed their food and water bowls and put out a clean placement after sweeping/washing the floor in that area; refilled their automatic dry food feeder, and set out their dishes and a can of food for this evening; made a pot of soup (ate 2/3rds, saved the rest to reheat for dinner); took out trash, washed my dishes and cleaned the kitchen; did my regular evening chores, including setting up tomorrow morning's coffee and meds for tonight and morning (2 meds require splitting, which is a PITA even when I'm feeling fine); hunted down flu medicine (which I bought over a year ago and haven't seen since) and put some upstairs by my bed along with a fresh,covered glass of water; found a spare blanket to bring downstairs in case I decide to crash on the couch at some point this evening; vacuumed cat hair off the couch/throw pillows, also in case I crash here later; took a short walk around the neighborhood and stopped by the community mail center to pick up mail. Now I'm just sitting here waiting to start feeling ill/tired/wiped out, lol. So far, I feel totally fine. I have today off, but I think I may try to get a few hours work in, in case I'm not 100% tomorrow. Hoping your side effects, if any, are mild. I felt a little tired the evening of the day of my second dose but was very tired and achy the next day and just wanted to sleep. All back to normal the day after that, though. Sounds like you're ready, whatever happens.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 5, 2021 16:08:14 GMT -5
In between shot 1 and 2 I did receive an email from my doctor's office that I could schedule with them. However, here they have told us that we have to get shot 2 where we got shot 1. I scheduled shot 2 and was called and told it was a no go.
That is where my nephew in law with type I diabetes got both of his shots.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 5, 2021 17:17:09 GMT -5
Got the in laws J&J vaccine today. They preferred that one. I hunted it down and we took them. It was an independent pharmacy. Well run with appointments spaced out.
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