Posted on 03/10/2021 12:42:12 PM PST by BeauBo
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 127,869,155
People Vaccinated At Least One Dose: 62,451,150
Fully Vaccinated: 32,904,161
(Excerpt) Read more at covid.cdc.gov ...
Doses Delivered: 4.6 million (Huge)
People Receiving 1st Dose: 1.4 million (big day)
People Receiving 2nd Dose: 802,000 (good day)
Over 32 million shots on hand, in forward delivered inventory. This should mean lots of appointments opening up, for those looking to get vaccinated.
Sad news. Been nice knowing you all.
Thanks for the update as always.
Clearly helping. We basically have full immunity in the healthcare profession and it’s helped with staffing.
Wife and I were among the 1.4 million receiving our first dose (Pfizer) yesterday.
So far, so good. No side effects other than sore arms.
I received the Moderna yesterday. Feels like somebody slugged my arm today.
I’m gonna wait it out a bit, if ever. We don’t go anywhere or see anybody anyway. Not many places to go, most people still afraid to gather. Going to see what happens as there is no long term efficacy or safety data on these. Let’s see if these mRNA vaccines keep working after 3 months. Curious if they actually create long term memory T cell immunity. If forced, with limited knowledge at hand, I’d choose the JNJ vaccine.
Lets baseline the J&J, to compare day to day (I’m a poet).
On 10 March 2021, they report for J&J:
Total delivered: 3,621,800
Total Administered: 458,911
You would think that for J&J, administered would equal fully vaccinated - but not so. For J&J fully vaccinated, they report a slightly different number: 457,370 (1,541 difference - rounding error territory).
I don’t plan to try to explain the difference, and chalk it up to errors in reporting. So I’ll just go with Delivered and Administered.
I got Pfizer 1st on Monday, wife 1st Pfizer on Tuesday, set up for 2nd shot both of us. Could not get us shots together, online was that “clunky”. Actual shot process was very efficient for both of us (about 40 minutes in and out, mine county gov contractor, hers major hospital), mine was a 10 minute drive, hers 50 minutes, but this is Texas so not that big a drive. I do feel for someone trying to sign up if they are not “computer literate” I’m pretty good but no 16 year old.
We are well on the way to “herd
I always recommend that folks plan for a light schedule/day off after the second shot. Some people don’t feel much, but lots of people say the second shot is where they feel generally lousy - starting some hours after (4-12), an running for a few hours to a day (or rarely two).
Others have recommended some tylenol with the second shot.
“Let’s see if these mRNA vaccines keep working after 3 months.”
The folks in the earliest trials are coming up on a year.
Theoretically, the mRNA vaccines should produce at least as long lasting of an immune response from the spike proteins they cause the body to produce (for the immune system to recognize), as the identical spike proteins injected as part of (grafted on) the other (traditional) vaccines.
I’m under 65 so figured I’d be waiting awhile, but wife called from the school library (Librarian) and said hurry up and get down to the “Community Center”.....”They have extra vaccines”
Well raced down there, got behind about 7 people, filled out the short paperwork and 15 minutes later was walking out the door having received a Pfizer dose in my left arm.
Turns out they had a ton of extra vaccine because 85% of the young people at the Walmart distribution center just outside of town declined the shot. Now, if I was 20 and healthy, I would very likely give some serious thought to taking one myself . But, at 64 and a few health issues, it’s a no brainer.
“at 64 and a few health issues, it’s a no brainer.”
Also, you greatly reduce the risk that you might be the vector to carry the disease to someone else (friend or family), who then has a bad outcome.
Doing your part.
“Turns out they had a ton of extra vaccine”
Such “spot surpluses” are going to become more common over the next few weeks (and months), as supply continues to grow pretty rapidly, and the really eager get their shots, and get out of the competition.
I’ve had my first, my wife her second Pfizer jab. My wife felt bad, not sick for two days after second shot,felt fine after that.
I got my first dose about a week ago.The second is scheduled for the end of the month.
I would like to see follow up studies on the CT cohorts.
Another story I read was that the mRNA vaccines are only about 68% effective in people over 80, while being 97+% in people under 60. Just a curiosity. I'd expect people over 80 to be likelier to have a reduced immune response in general (no hard & fast rule just statistics), so perhaps not a huge surprise but the devil is always in these kinds of details.
“some early studies revealed that the strong immunity (evidenced by reduced risk of hospitalization) starts to decline about 5 weeks after vaccination even with 2 shots.”
I just have not been seeing that.
It is now well recognized that the circulating COVID-19 antibodies in the bloodstream drop below detectable levels around that time (1-2 months) - after vaccination or natural infection. That is why we can’t just test directly to find out who has already had the disease - they only test positive for a relatively brief window in time.
Nonetheless, T Cell memory allows the immune system to mount a defense, should there be a reinfection later. Some survivors of the Spanish Flu in a study, were observed mounting an immune response to an induced challenge (because of T Cell memory) almost 100 years after their exposure, with no detectable antibodies.
That duration varies widely between different diseases though. We will have to see with COVID-19, but the consensus is that it seems like it should be good for at least a few years, maybe much longer.
The reinfection rate is quite low with COVID-19 (strong immunity is conferred). When there is a reinfection, virtually no one dies of it.
Such “spot surpluses” are going to become more common over the next few weeks (and months), as supply continues to grow pretty rapidly, and the really eager get their shots, and get out of the competition.
My sibling who has been striking out re an appt.
Used this link and will be getting her first shot, finally in a couple of days.
Find Vaccine - VaccineFinder
https://vaccinefinder.org/find-vaccine
Vaccine Finder is a free, online service where users can search for locations that offer vaccinations.
States reporting data to VaccineFinder
This website includes the latest information on COVID-19 vaccine availability at certain providers and pharmacies in Alaska, Tennessee, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Utah, and New York State (excluding NYC).
In other states, information may be limited while more providers and pharmacies are added in the coming weeks.
Find Vaccine - VaccineFinder
https://vaccinefinder.org/find-vaccine
Vaccine Finder is a free, online service where users can search for locations that offer vaccinations.
“I got my first”
The logjam really seems to be breaking now with the increased supply.
Lots of folks are getting appointments, that they couldn’t get before.
I’m always recommending to plan for a light schedule/day off after the second shot, and Freeper lightman recommends tylenol with it. It is not uncommon that folks feel it working more after the second (a sign of success), but it can feel a little lousy for several hours, or a day or even two.
Do any of you who were successful in getting appointments, have any helpful tips for Freepers who have not yet broken the code on how to get them?
What worked for you?
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