"If the 2nd appointment is 3 weeks after the 1st appointment, it’s the Pfizer vaccine. If 4 weeks later, it’s Moderna." so they are the same formula just different mfgs?
“Typically, when you show up at a vaccination station, they do not provide a menu.
You get what they have.”
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When you schedule your appointment online they also schedule your second dose (at least in Maryland they do). If the 2nd appointment is 3 weeks after the 1st appointment, it’s the Pfizer vaccine. If 4 weeks later, it’s Moderna. I haven’t scheduled a J &J appointment for anyone but,presumably, the absence of a second scheduled appointment means it’s J & J.
I had Moderna. It's actually the one I would want because I/we have given so much of it (hundreds/thousands of shots) and everyone, with rare exception, has come back for dose 2 and told me that their immune response was mild and they had no significant side effects.
I also didn't have significant side effects after Moderna. The few reports that I heard from people whose friends and family got J&J were positive too though.
I haven't heard much about Pfizer.
“When you schedule your appointment online they also schedule your second dose (at least in Maryland they do). If the 2nd appointment is 3 weeks after the 1st appointment, it’s the Pfizer vaccine. If 4 weeks later, it’s Moderna. I haven’t scheduled a J &J appointment for anyone but,presumably, the absence of a second scheduled appointment means it’s J & J.”
Same here in Huntsville, AL. Only one vaccination center. All second shots are scheduled for three weeks later. We get ours second tomorrow.
BTW, learned a little trick on getting the vaccine. Here in HSV, if you just show up, there is a fairly good chance you’ll get the shot. They have to use or lose the vaccine each day. If they have no shows, they will try to administer those shots to anyone who is waiting. About 30 minutes prior to closing at 6PM, they will call forward anyone who is waiting and administer the vaccine that would have been given to the no shows. A man and his wife I know when to the facility a couple of weeks ago. Several people including his wife was able to get the vaccine but they didn’t have enough for him. He went back the next day and got his shot. Since they make the appointment for the second dose at the time of the first dose, they also received appointments for those.
My Pfizer is 4 weeks apart, They are finding out it does not matter as much.
I wound up with the J & J vaccine. They were upfront about which vaccine we were getting once we were in the clinic. But, there was no advance information about what you’d get when you made your appointment. It was indeed a case of “you get what’s in the store.”
This was in Taxachusetts.
"If the 2nd appointment is 3 weeks after the 1st appointment, it’s the Pfizer vaccine. If 4 weeks later, it’s Moderna." so they are the same formula just different mfgs?