Posted on 03/02/2021 11:28:20 AM PST by BeauBo
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 102,353,940
Receiving 1 or More Doses: 51,755,447
Receiving 2 Doses: 26,162,122
Many retired individuals in our neighborhood. Most qualified for the vaccine in the over 75 age group. Many have taken the second shot (pfizer) and I’ve not heard of any complaints.
I appreciate the tylenol suggestion.
Would you be comfortable saying which State that hospital is in?
How about severity, mortality or treatment? Seeing any changes?
“Many have taken the second shot (Pfizer) and I’ve not heard of any complaints.”
Maybe because I am always asking, I hear of more symptoms with the second shot. Mainly just tired and woozy, sometimes fever or chills, or aches.
Biden: US will have enough vaccine supply for all adults by end of May; states directed to prioritize teachers
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Arkansas and I’ve been pleased with how we’ve done. Vaccinated about 9% in state as of yesterday. Oklahoma a little over 10%.
“Biden: US will have enough vaccine supply for all adults by end of May”
There were (more than) enough doses on contract to do this during the Trump Administration, but it depended on the vaccines making it through the trials and getting authorized, before it could be officially claimed.
Mostly what Biden’s administration has done, is to add orders for more doses, onto the existing Trump Admin contracts (exercise options).
Getting those manufacturers with failed vaccine candidates (Merck and Sanofi) to help produce more of the successful candidates (J&J) however, might have been a Biden Administration idea. I don’t recall hearing that plan before, but it is a good idea.
“Vaccinated about 9% in state as of yesterday. Oklahoma a little over 10%.”
I have noticed that CDC, in the last week or so, started prominently breaking out adults (over 18), right up top, along with the total population number they had been reporting. It makes it look even better (and arguably is more pertinent for disease outcomes/vaccine priorities).
Nationwide today 15.6% of the population had had a first shot, but 20.3% of adults.
The older the demographic, the higher the percentage with a first shot. About 40% of people 65-74, and about 60% of people 75 and older. Virtually all Nursing Home residents have had a first shot (who will consent - well over 90%), and 63% of them have finished their second.
“mixing the 2 different vaccines may work even better than getting 2 of the same”
Makes intuitive sense to me.
But as effective as these vaccines are, there is little room left for improvement, by mixing.
Just a single shot of any one, confers strong immunity. The huge Israeli (Clait) study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, gave a lot of detailed info on just how the immunity increased in the days and weeks after the first shot, and the second (of Pfizer and AstraZeneca). One shot does a solid job, given two or more weeks to work.
The point of mixing types is probably more for the convenience of not having to match the same type, and just use whatever happens to be in stock.
Yes. That’s the numbers I’ve seen. I believe we are over 50% over 65.
“I believe we are over 50% over 65.” (1st shot vaccinated)
That vaccination of the vulnerable is independently going to empty out the COVID wards, even if herd immunity is delayed.
We will see the effects of vaccination first in Israel. Over 90% of their population over 50 years old, already has had a first shot. They lead the World.
The US vaccine supply is on track to keep growing larger and larger, every few weeks. Biden said today that there would be enough doses delivered to vaccinate every American (~330 million people), by the end of May.
Yes that is my understanding. But since they are thinking of it, and/or doing it, may as well study it too.
I've also heard that some vaccination sites are offering a "first come first serve" (no appointment necessary but no guarantee of vaccination) at various hospitals to administer whatever leftover doses they have in the vials because of spoilage e.g. once it's taken out of the freezer and used they can't put it back so they are giving away whatever overages or missed appointment doses they have. Which I think is totally reasonable. Except that I've heard from a front line doctor that there has been a fair amount of insider dealing in vaccines e.g. doctors giving their 2nd cousins a white coat etc. At the hospital where my best friend of 35 years works, one of the doctors was put on administrative leave for dosing his extended family. As ever some corruption is to be expected I suppose.
Yes, we will whip this. He will never get credit but warp speed was a medical miracle.
My scheduled 1st shot for yesterday afternoon was cancelled (delay in receiving the vaccinations), then I got a text saying it was still “on”. So I called our County Health Dept. and that latter turned out to be a mistake.
However, I did get signed back up again for later this morning, and it looks like that is holding up. It still appears to me that when they have vaccine this site has been vaccinating approx. 100 people per hour, so I’ll be curious to see how efficiently they process people through.
Good luck Paul.
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I’m sending this review to a few friends and such, plus our local Health Dept.:
So far, so good. I hardly felt the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination 1st shot; it was less noticeable than my flu shot, last year. Granted that the nurse giving the shots is probably doing over 100 per day by my calculation, so, she should be dang good at it by now!
11 hours later, my shoulder is a bit “achy”, but not bad. 7 hours in I started feeling “draggy” and headachy — almost like a sinus headache with a slight temperature, but without any actual congestion. But, that’s gone away, so now the slightly sore shoulder is all I’m noticing now. Good chance the headache was “something else”.
As for the clinic itself:
I got the shot at a “mass vaccination clinic” that is a joint effort of the local County Health Dept. and the National Guard. Basically the soldier handle the flow of people in, out, and about, and initial screening. The Health Dept. employees handle the vaccinations, most of the paperwork, etc. Organization looked very good, and everything went quickly and smoothly except for me finding the parking lot.* My earlier estimate that the clinic in total is doing ~100 shots per hour appears to be good. I did note that at the end of my 15 minute “recovery time”**, the “recovery area” had all chairs taken. So, increasing the throughput significantly would require a larger room or more rooms (more floor area.) I’m not sure who laid out the floor organization / flow design, but it was quite good: Done by a NG officer, perhaps? Then again, I’d think the building manager might have good people for that sort of thing, too.
It further appeared to me that going much over 100 people per hour would require a larger parking lot, or perhaps separate parking for the people running the show.
I’d also note there was good information on several monitors around the “recovery” area, a good post-shot handout, and so on. It appeared that considerable effort was expended to request that any person experiencing any odd side effect, even many days later, to please report such. At the end, a NG soldier asked each person if they were ok, on their way out, and then bid them a good day.
*The biggest problem was an unexpected and rather “slow” road(s) detour on the way in. A major intersection in that part of town has been all torn up / closed off. I’d missed that in the news, and was glad I headed in early. The Health Dept. might want to note that on their website. Then, while signs had been put up, much like for a yard sale, to guide patients in to the general location (a very well known building - the local University’s 10k capacity basketball arena), the modest size parking lot for patients itself was poorly marked, with “parking” in big characters and “vaccination” so small one had to be under 20’ away to read the latter. There are multiple parking lots in the same area, and I went right by the correct one (the others are restricted, etc.) on the 1st pass. No biggie, but it could be easily corrected.
**Another minor criticism I had was naming the post shot waiting area the “recovery area”. Yeah, I’m being nitpicky, but I’d have called it the “Post Vaccination Waiting Area” or something like that.
Legitimately, one can ask whether months of this is a good use of National Guard time. Initially, as a sort of training exercise, I’m fine with it. But, for months? Why not employ some of the many people now needing jobs, instead of paying them to sit at home? And get our NG soldiers back to matters military.
Last, the CDC vaccination record card should have, I think, a note on it to indicate how long (4-5 weeks) to wait / schedule the 2nd shot. (Mine does not.) I WAS cautioned to NOT lose that card.
All in all, I’d say the vaccine operation at this location was good.
Thanks for posting your experience.
I’d plan for a worse “draggy and headachy” reaction after the second shot. Take some Tylenol, and head right home to take a day off and relax. Most people say that they didn’t feel anything until 4-12 hours after, but one friend got woozy driving home.
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