COVID-19 Thread [V2.0]

[stoutdude04]

I get my first today and my 2nd shot on April 6th. Luckily Walgreens has their act together because my school district sure did not.

 

My school district finally came through, however, it wasn't the district itself, it was the county.

 

My district was at the mercy of the higher ups.

 

My wife had the first shot, just a 1 day headache, 2nd shot, nothing, no symptoms but a sore arm for 24 hours. She got pretty lucky as a lot of people are down for the count for a day or two after the second shot.

 

By any chance did she have it before (even in symptomless form)? I'm curious if there is any correlation to minimal/no interactions to the second shot if the anti-bodies are already there.

 

My uncles doctor told him that if you had covid the first will hit you. If not, the 2nd will hit you. I asked a few of my buddies in the medical field and they both said, 'na, we havent heard or seen that'

[Zad Fnark]

I'm mostly recovered now.

 

Probably still have this cough for weeks.

[Machu Peach]

My uncles doctor told him that if you had covid the first will hit you. If not, the 2nd will hit you. I asked a few of my buddies in the medical field and they both said, 'na, we havent heard or seen that'

Generally a recall response will be more severe than a primary response. Therefore if you've had COVID there's a chance that both the 1st and 2nd vaccination will lead to increased general immune-activation-related side-effects. If you've haven't had COVID the 1st vaccination will be a primary response and only the 2nd will be a recall response. ...but it's the sort of thing that can vary a lot between people, so I wouldn't read too much into anecdotes.

[nate82]

My mom and 5 of the nurses who got the 2nd dose all came down with a fever, some pain and a rash after the 2nd shot. First shot they were fine other than the sore arm part.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

DHS announced this afternoon that vaccines are expected to be available to all Wisconsinites 16 and over in May.

[hawing]

I get my first today and my 2nd shot on April 6th. Luckily Walgreens has their act together because my school district sure did not.

March 9 / April 6 is my exact timetable. I'm not on UW-Madison's payroll but I have an affiliate staff ID, work on campus and have direct contact with students who work at or have appointments to visit my library. The SO (64 and diabetic) began to hound walgreens dot com and woke me up early last Saturday morning saying "quick, go log into Walgreens."

 

In the end, Walgreens asked for our personal IDs but not our work IDs. Slightly sore arm for me for a couple of days (like if I touched the vaccination site) and SO had a more sore arm.

 

Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my WFH days, so two Tuesday doses stand to work out nicely.

[TURBO]

Got my first shot yesterday.

 

Arm never got sore, no other symptoms.

 

Almost like it never happened.

 

I will say this though, the needle going in hurt really really bad. I have no issues with needles, shots never bother me, but this one felt like the needle was an inch around, and 6 inches long. I thought for sure it would hurt for a couple days, but nope.

 

Good to go.

[pacopete4]

Got my first shot yesterday.

 

Arm never got sore, no other symptoms.

 

Almost like it never happened.

 

I will say this though, the needle going in hurt really really bad. I have no issues with needles, shots never bother me, but this one felt like the needle was an inch around, and 6 inches long. I thought for sure it would hurt for a couple days, but nope.

 

Good to go.

 

 

Pfizer?

 

This is how mine went also.

[TURBO]

yes, pfizer.

[Baldkin]

I just want to tell everyone, stop telling yourself "Other people need this before me."

 

Sign up. Do the thing.

[reillymcshane]

My 85 year old mother got her second shot yesterday. She did great. Got tired a little while later, and was fine this morning. I was really happy for her. Can't wait till I get mine - I need to go visit her - haven't seen her in almost six months.

[reillymcshane]

On the down side of things, my brother's father-in-law is looking like he won't make it for much longer. He got COVID last October. They had him in the hospital into December - didn't think he'd make it then. But he got stable and was sent to an assisted living situation. But it's been constant struggle. Needs supplemental oxygen more and more. He's elderly - 90+ - and COVID just ravaged his lungs. Slowly but surely he's getting worse. Not much can be done. Tough on their family - six months of this.

[homer]

My 85 year old mother got her second shot yesterday. She did great. Got tired a little while later, and was fine this morning. I was really happy for her. Can't wait till I get mine - I need to go visit her - haven't seen her in almost six months.

 

I am going to visit my parents next weekend. They are both mid 80's and didn't have any reaction to either shot.

[FVBrewerFan]

I just want to tell everyone, stop telling yourself "Other people need this before me."

 

Sign up. Do the thing.

 

If I'm contacted, that's exactly what I'm saying. Other people need this before me. Hopefully most people, especially young healthy people will do the same.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I just want to tell everyone, stop telling yourself "Other people need this before me."

 

Sign up. Do the thing.

 

If I'm contacted, that's exactly what I'm saying. Other people need this before me. Hopefully most people, especially young healthy people will do the same.

 

Vaccine supplies are basically to the point now there there aren't really shortages. Its moreso having the manpower to administer the shots. At the end of the day, the more shots in arms, the faster things can start getting back to normal - or closer to "normal" at least.

[homer]

I just want to tell everyone, stop telling yourself "Other people need this before me."

 

Sign up. Do the thing.

 

If I'm contacted, that's exactly what I'm saying. Other people need this before me. Hopefully most people, especially young healthy people will do the same.

 

If you're a young, healthy adult and someone contacts you to get the vaccine, that probably means most people that need the vaccine have gotten it or don't want it.

[FVBrewerFan]

Not necessarily. This latest group eligible 3/29 is so large, many providers have already said they have no way to distinguish a pecking order. I can wait another month if it means there's a chance someone with severe health conditions can get it immediately.

[Machu Peach]

The logistics of distributing 400 million-ish doses of vaccine are difficult. I'm not sure why someone would intentionally make it even more difficult.

[reillymcshane]

I just want to tell everyone, stop telling yourself "Other people need this before me."

 

Sign up. Do the thing.

 

If I'm contacted, that's exactly what I'm saying. Other people need this before me. Hopefully most people, especially young healthy people will do the same.

 

Vaccine supplies are basically to the point now there there aren't really shortages. Its moreso having the manpower to administer the shots. At the end of the day, the more shots in arms, the faster things can start getting back to normal - or closer to "normal" at least.

There are still plenty of shortages. I was at my doctor's about a week ago and was told the healthcare system had a 30,000 person waiting list. My wife confirmed this at the time. But it is going down. Everyone is getting more efficient, the number of doses that are getting here is increasing each week. I see a light at the end of this tunnel - which is good.

[igor67]

Short message if you get to call make the appointment.

 

Longer answer- The allotments are going up on a week to week basis, which continues to shift the slow step in the vaccination process from number of shots to number of man hours to administer. Having to call you back, and maintain a call back list takes manpower. Worse is that refusing the first call automatically puts you in the nebulous vaccine hesitant category. Because we already know that people end up in that group for a whole range of reasons it is reasonable to imagine that the follow-up to try and get a person signed up is going to involve targeted messaging and even more resources. Inevitably this slows things down, which with most of the oldest Americans vaccinated the risk of delays is comparable to tracking down 1 higher risk individual. Worse if you start to think really big picture, the sooner most Americans have been vaccinated the sooner those doses can start going to other parts of the world. One could think about this as an American life vs. someone else but the long term risk of new variants and tamping down infection everywhere is so much greater than anything else.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I find it richly ironic, and extremely frustrating that many of the same groups of people that have been preaching the idea of herd immunity for the last 12 months are now showing hesitancy toward utilizing the best tool that will get society to that mark. igor67, you are correct. The logistics behind scheduling vaccine appointments and actually getting the shots in arms is the greatest hold-up right now. If you are getting a call now to schedule a vaccine appointment, accept it, and show up. That's the easiest way to keep the process moving.

[Fear The Chorizo]

I find it richly ironic, and extremely frustrating that many of the same groups of people that have been preaching the idea of herd immunity for the last 12 months are now showing hesitancy toward utilizing the best tool that will get society to that mark. igor67, you are correct. The logistics behind scheduling vaccine appointments and actually getting the shots in arms is the greatest hold-up right now. If you are getting a call now to schedule a vaccine appointment, accept it, and show up. That's the easiest way to keep the process moving.

 

I feel that's far too broad a brush - I personally know of many people who have essentially been done with worrying too much about COVID since last summer who are chomping at the bit to get vaccinated or have already been stuck because they view it as one of the few things they have control over that helps society in general get to the same point mentally they are in terms of living with COVID instead of living in fear from it. Then there is the subset of people who have already had and recovered from COVID and are of the opinion that they'll get vaccinated after a larger number of people who haven't been COVID exposed have been stuck. Anecdotally, I also know of a decent number of people who have largely been hermits since last March despite not being considered anywhere close to high risk - personally they are among the most vocal and critical of people who don't wear masks every time they go out to get their mail or other scenarios that most people would view as being excessive after a full year dealing with COVID mitigation measures. After all that, they don't want to get vaccinated for numerous reasons ranging from always being anti-vax to assuming anything developed under the prior administration isn't worth getting to religious/personal/cultural beliefs.

 

One thing I've been curious about over the past few weeks concerning rates of vaccinations and actual COVID case/hospitalization/death tracking is at what point should we expect to start seeing obvious benefits of the most at risk people being vaccinated in certain countries? I'm curious if people that know more about this than me on this board are anticipating seeing a large dip in the percentage of hospitalizations/deaths with future confirmed COVID cases, or if we will just see new COVID cases plummet altogether despite more public opportunities for viral spread opening up as we move from late winter into spring. It's probably still too early to tell, but it does seem like the US has been in a slide lower overall since mid-January in terms of hospitalizations/deaths related to COVID after the CA and NY case spikes calmed down - but that slide still correlates to the confirmed case trend that would be expected following the last spike before vaccines really were distributed en masse. Daily deaths in particular are on a favorable downward trend, but they are still at levels and ratios comparable to mid November 2020, when the midwest was in the midst of its big fall spike and we were still 2+ months away from anyone being fully vaccinated.

[PeaveyFury]

I find it richly ironic, and extremely frustrating that many of the same groups of people that have been preaching the idea of herd immunity for the last 12 months are now showing hesitancy toward utilizing the best tool that will get society to that mark.

 

[sarcasm]"I'll reap the benefits of YOU ALL getting vaccinated, but I won't get stuck myself."[/sarcasm]

 

Seriously though, FTC's larger point is correct- there are odd, seemingly opposite groups that are overlapping in the 'no vaccine' part of a Venn diagram. I still think the numbers largely skew towards the group that didn't/doesn't think COVID was that serious in the first place. But, some of the people who took this very seriously are indeed also hesitant about the vaccine for various reasons, which is puzzling.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I find it richly ironic, and extremely frustrating that many of the same groups of people that have been preaching the idea of herd immunity for the last 12 months are now showing hesitancy toward utilizing the best tool that will get society to that mark.

 

[sarcasm]"I'll reap the benefits of YOU ALL getting vaccinated, but I won't get stuck myself."[/sarcasm]

 

Seriously though, FTC's larger point is correct- there are odd, seemingly opposite groups that are overlapping in the 'no vaccine' part of a Venn diagram. I still think the numbers largely skew towards the group that didn't/doesn't think COVID was that serious in the first place. But, some of the people who took this very seriously are indeed also hesitant about the vaccine for various reasons, which is puzzling.

 

I do think that peer pressure, along with the lack of discernible adverse side effects, will eventually cause more people to cave and get poked. I just hope that the "anti vax" crowd is just a loud, but extremely small minority. There certainly does seem like a lot of people out there, though, who feel the need to announce in a rather loud manner that they will not be getting a vaccine.

[Machu Peach]

One thing I've been curious about over the past few weeks concerning rates of vaccinations and actual COVID case/hospitalization/death tracking is at what point should we expect to start seeing obvious benefits of the most at risk people being vaccinated in certain countries?

I don't understand this at all. Vaccination started in earnest in late-December. The number of new daily infections has fallen almost 80% since then. The number of new daily deaths has fallen over 60% since then. How is that not an obvious benefit?