KIP covid thread

Wow. Good luck with dose two. How long do they have you wait in the office/place after administration?

She lives in a medical group home (she's 34 years old) and the second dose will be administered there. No transportation needed. She'll be closely observed for the requisite 15 minutes to catch any severe anaphylactic reaction, but she'll be monitored pretty frequently as a matter of routine. Her home has 24-hour staffing, with two or three staff around the clock for four residents (usually five, but one bed is currently unfilled due to a death). They are all very medically complex.

Getting her better protected from covid-19 will be a huge relief.

yay! me and the big kid have been booked in for a double jab sesh on thursday!

Mighty stuff

fantastic news!

I wasn't going to send him back to school until he's vaccinated despite him being young and healthy and statistically unlikely to get it bad, if he ends up in a hospital too much risk of DNR notice getting pinned to his bed. Some bloody disgraceful stealth eugenics going on in the NHS and not making the front pages.

but anyway keeping it pos, thanks!

my bro is getting his jab this week as he is celiac (auto-immune condition). so anyone in the uk who is a diagnosed wheat-dodger might want to look into this.

^ artful wheat-dodgers were in the previous phase

Appt for jab #1 three weeks from tomorrow.

nice

one advantage to gaining quarantine weight is that it looks like I will qualify for vaccination a month early, so don't ever let anyone tell you that getting fatter is bad

Mazel tov

My mother-in-law is getting her first jab tomorrow, which is great. Now to just get the other four parents an appointment and I'll breathe a lot easier.

i weigh 217 now. I weighed 135 pounds when I was like...24. stuff jiggles that never did before :/

lol yes I might quality for vax right now based on my BMI alone.

I felt a bit of vaccine guilt earlier after I got into taxi from the health centre and the driver was telling me he is in his late 50's and still waiting for his. I lied and told him I have diabetes and was wishing I'd replied no when asked me if I had just been vaccinated, but I guess the big "Covid Vaccines This Entrance" might have been a giveaway. It's just there is no point explaining that you are a carer in the UK. To most folk it's just shorthand for idle benefit scrounging twat!

my phone swipey keyboard doesn't know about 'covid', keeps correcting it to 'vivid', which is annoying but also pleasant

got the first shot yesterday, left arm is very sore but no other major side effects so far. once they opened appointments to people with underlying conditions, everything was very smooth - and this is new york we're talking about, so no mean feat there

having been on the kidney transplant list for the last year and dealing with all of that (unrelated to covid), actually being able to see the finish line, at least as far as my own susceptibility is concerned, gives me an immense sense of relief

Good luck with that, seems like such a scary scenario.

After weeks of frustrations (in Pennsylvania) my mom is finally getting her first shot on Wednesday (in Delaware). Coincidentally, my eligible daughter is getting her first shot on Wednesday, too, though for some reason they scheduled her second dose several hours before her first dose on the same day; we spent a couple of hours trying to clear things up, to no avail, which is I assume one reason places sometimes end up with extra doses. And as part of my local emergency medical corps training I'm now on some list, too, so things are looking up in my family.

both my parents now have had both their shots! BOOM

My dad got his second shot today, and my mom is getting her second one tomorrow. Thinking back to a year ago and how scared I was for my parents (and particularly my dad, who's in a lot of high-risk groups), this is such a huge relief, and despite all my frustration with the way the vaccine rollout is going, it's so amazing that this is even happening.

Also, Alaska (where I used to live and where I have a lot of extended family) is doing brilliantly with the vaccine and virtually everyone I know there has gotten it, which is very cool.

That's great. My parents are having a terrible time getting appointments, I can sense their frustration.

My dad logs on a couple of times a day and has, on multiple occasions, found an open appointment within 15 minutes, unfortunately he lives about 25 minutes from the nearest place he can get one.

My parents are also in PA and just got their first shots. Of course they had to drive to a Wegman's 2 hours away in Wilkes-Barre to get it but ok

loving the shot updates folks, keep it comin'

Dad, partner and her kid got first shots yday

dad got his first two weeks ago; mom getting hers tomorrow; my wiiiiiiiife is now able to get one thanks to self-reporting her (real) asthma on the 'do u qualify?' form

I had mixed feelings about trying to get a boost on the waitlist for being primary caregiver to a disabled person. Ultimately I went ahead and checked the box.

Of course I would rather "my" dose goes to someone in greater need. But in all honesty I won't say no if I get an invitation.

I have a good friend, now vaccinated, that went so far as to speak to a literal medical ethicist, who encouraged her to get the vaccine when she had the opportunity. Remember, the goal is for everybody to be vaccinated, and the more people who are vaccinated the fewer people get sick, and the fewer people get sick, the fewer people spread to others.

I'm scheduled to get Pfizered or Moderna'd (the MDHS site is no help on which I'm getting) on the 18th but if the J&J vax becomes widely available in the next 2 weeks and I'm not taking anybody's spot, I'll jump at the chance to get it.

And just like that, my mom told me that her and my stepdad are set for their first jabs Saturday morning. Glad to see things moving better already this month!

Austin, TX now has a system in place where they'll release 4000 appointments for vaccines in the evening and anyone who qualifies can sign in and queue up for one. They are attempting to ramp this up to 4 days a week so long as there's enough vaccine supply available. So if you qualify for one and keep an eye on the Austin Public Health twitter feed between around 5 and 6 in the evening, you should be able to login when the appointments get released and you will have a very good chance of getting your vaccine the next day.

It was announced today that teachers in Seattle can now get vaccines. The decision is so new that none of the scheduling websites have been updated and I can't even start to look for an appointment yet, but yay! I can get vaccinated, hopefully this month!

COVID creating lols

Somehow the Hand Sanitizer Cam at NBA games is hornier than the Kiss Cam pic.twitter.com/KmmBtKCOfF

— Chaotic Neutral Pillow (@IJamEcono) March 3, 2021

is that real or made up?

It’s real!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/milwaukee-bucks-debut-hand-sanitizer-cam-and-in-arena-entertainment-will-never-be-the-same/ar-BB1eckev?li=BB15ms5qYes

My dad is getting his first jab today and my father-in-law finally got scheduled for his first jab March 12th, so feeling very relieved that all the parents are now at least scheduled.

Turns out my daughter was *not* able to get the vaccine, since although she is eligible and got an appointment, being 16 she can only get the Pfizer vaccine, yet there is as no way right now to direct people her age to a place with a specific vaccine. Kind of a bummer, but at least my mom got her first shot. Me, I had my first shift volunteering at a drive-through vaccine clinic today, which was really rewarding. It was heartwarming to see so many old people driving (or being driven) to get their second shot, though it was also kind of funny and scary watching them navigate and maneuver around the path. They should find a way to combine covid vaccine distribution and driving tests.

New cough bad, negative covid test good!

I got the result in under 24 hours as well.

That’s great onimo. Hope you’re doing well otherwise.

Did I mention that I brought in my younger kid for a covid test, and she tested positive for huge boogers? That thing was like the size of a pencil eraser.

Facemask bestows ability to mouth/lipsync lyrics to beloved earphoned popular songs walking down the street while only looking slightly, not entirely, idiotic.

Good post imo, this is def a thing

Got my first shot yesterday, so I'm letting myself think about the end of the pandemic for the first time. One thing I'm really looking forward to is being able to go places to write. I don't know about y'all, but I have had a really hard time writing at all during the pandemic because I don't generally write at home.

CNN is reporting that more people in US have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 than people who have had the disease since the pandemic began, according to CDC data.

— Will Cadigan (@WJCadigan) March 8, 2021

my mom just got the J&J shot

0 deaths reported in ireland today

First shot done!

My wife and I were just notified that we may make now firm appointments for our 'initial vaccine' shots, so I guess we'll be getting Pfizer. Until we follow the links to the appointment website we won't know how far out the appointments will be.

Right now we are packing for a short beach vacation that we booked before we got our notifications, so that's where our heads are at for now.