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Good to see this wasn’t scrapped. It’s been an international lifeline for so many of us throughout the world.
I had my first Moderna shot yesterday. It’s a little tender at the site. We get our second one 4/8. They had a pharmacist dedicated to shots only. It was well planned and moved along smoothly. It was our local pharmacy that my husband has used for years. I was very impressed 👍🏻👍🏻17 -
I visited the local healthcare center this week for the first time in several years, and it was pretty anxiety-inducing. I was there for a maternity appointment and the maternity clinic is upstairs, the first floor lobby was converted to a vaccination center. All I saw before heading for the elevators was crowds of slowly moving elderly people and a big tent inside the lobby, and there was a nurse by the door demanding to know what business everyone has in the building, directing to the right place and asking everyone if they have any covid symptoms. I hope the actual vaccination setup is less chaotic than what it looked like in the lobby. At least they had it set up as a ”one-way street” with parking lot doors used for entrance and street doors for exit, no crossing traffic. I also noticed big signs saying there is no covid-19 testing in the building so nobody with symptoms has any business showing up in there.
To be fair, the crowding of elderly people was likely due to the fact that I was there first thing in the morning and at least here elderly people tend to go everywhere early, so every person with their vaccination appointment within the next hour was probably there waiting, and nobody had left the building yet. They also have laboratory services in the building, and a lot of tests have to be taken first thing in the morning so I guess that could cause crowding as well.12 -
Getting my first vaccine dose this afternoon. Pfizer. I have a 2 PM appointment, but I'm guessing I'll be there for at least a couple of hours. In NM, we get a text from the DOH giving us our event code and instructing us where to go to get our shot. From what I can tell, it looks like seniors and others with higher risk medical conditions are usually being sent to places like Walgreens or CVS Pharmacies and whatnot for their shots...my mom was sent to a Walgreens and she said there were only 2 other people there waiting for shots.
I'm being sent to the Santa Ana Star Center, which is a large sports/concert arena for mine...which is what it seems they are doing for the younger and healthier population as they can immunize quite a few people at once on the floor of the arena.9 -
I had my second shot(Pfizer) last week with no reactions. Yay! I was a bit nervous because the shingles booster I got two years ago is still giving me grief.12
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Thanks for keeping this thread going. I am happy to see so many people getting their vaccine. Dh & I got lucky & got ours as soon as they opened up for 65+, so he is 2 weeks past his second one today. Yay! I will be 2 weeks since 2nd one on Monday. It is a big relief for us, but we are still very cautious and do what is advised. Our dd (teacher) got her 2nd one last night, wonder how she is doing.13
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I will be getting my first Pfizer shot on Monday morning. I was surprised that I qualified already. I'm physically disabled, but have no known conditions like diabetes, heart or lung issues.8
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Are you overweight? In some states, that's all it takes.0
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I'm slightly overweight. I just think it's because I'm disabled.0
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I've seen a lot of friends posting on Facebook they are getting the shots. While that is great, the sad thing is many are in their 30's, 40's and 50's and they are getting the shots now due to some issue that could have been avoided by lifestyle modifications years ago.8
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Yea, I got a call-back and am now scheduled for my 1st shot this Sunday3
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paperpudding wrote: »Sorry i didn't realise fortnight was not a standard term used in all English speaking countries.
Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.
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siobhanaoife wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Sorry i didn't realise fortnight was not a standard term used in all English speaking countries.
Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.
I'm in the midwestern US and have been around for a while. I've heard it in literature, probably on TV, movie, etc. but not in regular conversation.12 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »siobhanaoife wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Sorry i didn't realise fortnight was not a standard term used in all English speaking countries.
Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.
I'm in the midwestern US and have been around for a while. I've heard it in literature, probably on TV, movie, etc. but not in regular conversation.
Ditto, same region. In a lot of contexts here, if someone native here used it, it would usually be seen as kind of posturing, I think. People with exposure to literature, British TV shows, and that sort of thing are likely to have heard it, most probably know what it means, but IMO quite a few people wouldn't know exactly how long a time period it was if you asked them. It's not common vernacular.9 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »siobhanaoife wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Sorry i didn't realise fortnight was not a standard term used in all English speaking countries.
Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.
I'm in the midwestern US and have been around for a while. I've heard it in literature, probably on TV, movie, etc. but not in regular conversation.
Ditto, same region. In a lot of contexts here, if someone native here used it, it would usually be seen as kind of posturing, I think. People with exposure to literature, British TV shows, and that sort of thing are likely to have heard it, most probably know what it means, but IMO quite a few people wouldn't know exactly how long a time period it was if you asked them. It's not common vernacular.
Same region, and while I would normally expect someone to know what it meant from books or other media, it would definitely code as not usual US English, IME. (Which doesn't mean paperpudding should avoid it, I like hearing people's region-specific English and asking if I am not familiar with something!)12 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »siobhanaoife wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Sorry i didn't realise fortnight was not a standard term used in all English speaking countries.
Fortnight is a perfectly ordinary word, and I was surprised there was someone who didn't know what it meant.
I'm in the midwestern US and have been around for a while. I've heard it in literature, probably on TV, movie, etc. but not in regular conversation.
Ditto, same region. In a lot of contexts here, if someone native here used it, it would usually be seen as kind of posturing, I think. People with exposure to literature, British TV shows, and that sort of thing are likely to have heard it, most probably know what it means, but IMO quite a few people wouldn't know exactly how long a time period it was if you asked them. It's not common vernacular.
Same region, and while I would normally expect someone to know what it meant from books or other media, it would definitely code as not usual US English, IME. (Which doesn't mean paperpudding should avoid it, I like hearing people's region-specific English and asking if I am not familiar with something!)
It's an everyday term here in Australia. Just one more reason this thread has been an invaluable learning resource!8 -
I had a covid test yesterday and today I have what feels like a mild sinus headache/irritation under the eye on the side they did the "brain poke". Anyone else have this, and is it normal? It's not really bad but considering I have to get tested weekly now it is gonna be annoying if this happens every time.
I’ve been tested 3 times, and the first time my tissues up there were pretty irritated for a couple of days after. Felt kinda similar to the burning feeling of accidentally getting chlorine water from a pool sucked up your nose, except it was only on one side. The next two were significantly easier - the second one was irritated for a few hours, and the last one (last week) was feeling normal by the time I got back home from the test center.
I think it’s a combination of what else you have going on (some flu symptoms make those tissues more sensitive than others), how the swab hits you (I swear I heard something crunch inside my head on the first time) and how relaxed you are (if you’re very tense, there’s probably more pushback from your muscles and the nurse can’t be as gentle).
I was getting tested twice weekly, am back to one. I don’t have the best nose, so when the new q-tips were larger one week noticed and commented and the nurse was surprised.
They are comparing results with the saliva test, so I’ve been doing both. Saliva is cheaper and faster, but PCR is considered the “gold standard.” I’d rather shove the q-tip up my nose. You cant eat or drink for a half-hour before the saliva test and you have to produce a LOT. It takes me forever to fill up the tube enough (picture calendar pages flying off the wall and seasons changing out the window). Makes me think I should have participated in competing spitting when I was a kid. 😤3 -
On March 3 of last year I was monitoring the virus (the first case in Chicago was reported in late January, and I was paying attention to the number of cases), but way more focused on Super Tuesday. I did not yet have any intention of voting early in the primary (ours was March 17, I actually voted on March 13), and I wasn't particularly worried about any shortages (although apparently I said something about stocking up on toilet paper in this thread). I was lucky that I never really had to deal with any significant shortages, as it happens. I was also joking about mask ads, and didn't really believe that masks would be used in a widespread way, and did not expect to work from home for any extended period of time -- at some time around then (might have been late Feb, however), I recall a workplace meeting where someone talked about making sure we all had what we needed to work from home (which sounded awful to me), and I recall thinking they were overreacting and that would never happen. Sigh.
Today is March 12. One year ago today, our Chancellor announced online classes and sent everyone home (who could go home) and we began scrambling to figure out how to best keep everyone safe and healthy who remained with us.
We were lucky with the tremendously amount of resources and knowledge to which we had access. As well as a really generous COVID paid leave program.
And we still have some international students whose visas have expired and who cannot get home. They are truly in limbo. 😞3 -
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I'm not sure - I just assumed she had chicken pox. My son is her same age and he didn't have the vaccine I don't think it was around back then? Or maybe it came out after he already had chicken pox he was very young when he got it.
Edit: no vaccine, she had chicken pox as a kid. The vaccine wasn't licensed in Canada until 1998 and the vaccine programs started in 2000.
Is it just me, or do others seem to have someone who disagrees with literally every post they write? Idk it just seems odd that someone would disagree with the above statements of fact. Like do they disagree that my son had chicken pox as a very young child? Or that the chicken pox vaccine was licensed in Canada in 1998? It doesn't really matter - it just really confuses me.
I feel like maybe someone has a problem with me and just disagrees with everything I post.
Yeah - disagrees happen (and btw, I know we had a lil’ argument over vaccinating pregnant women a few pages back, but I’m not your disagree stalker, we’re cool). However I have a question about the chicken pox. I didn’t know it could affect covid vaccinations, could you elaborate on that?
I never had the chicken pox vaccine eiher and hadn’t even heard there’s a vaccine for it until I traveled to the US for an exchange program in 2008 and had to have either the vaccine or confirmation that I’d had it. Got blood tests to confirm I had it basically asymptomatically around the same time my best friend and my sister had it when we were kids. I lucked out with that one - a former colleague got chicken pox as an adult and it was nasty. Apparently the vaccine is in our national vaccination program for kids now.
I can’t really elaborate on it - I just know that my DIL had the Pfizer vaccine and 6 days later was diagnosed with shingles (which is a reemergence of the chicken pox virus). I suspect there might be a connection between the two as she is healthy otherwise and it is very unusual for a healthy young person to suddenly come down with shingles. She has since been in contact with others online who had a similar experience- but as of now there is no data or study showing that shingles can be triggered by the vaccine. I can’t say that it was the vaccine that triggered it, but I think it is plausible at least.
I think it’s any vaccine, not just the shingles/chicken pox vaccine. That was one of the questions I was asked when I was filling out my form to schedule my appointment. They asked about a lot within the last 90 days. Though I don’t recall being asked about the flu vaccine. Doesn’t mean we weren’t. Hepatitis, meningitis, MMR, Tetanus, etc. maybe the concern is magnification of side effects to the immune response with multiple recent vaccinations.1 -
paperpudding wrote: »Update on the shingles vaccine reaction if anyone is interested. While the urgent care doctor said that she "couldn't rule out" a vaccine reaction, the next day her GP told her definitively that she believes it to be a vaccine reaction. Given her age, general health, and the timing of the rash "you would not have shingles right now if you hadn't had the vaccine".
Don't shoot me I am just the messenger - that is what the doctors are telling us.
Personally it wouldn't dissuade me from getting the vaccine, I do wish that I had a shingles vaccine prior though.
Nobody is or was 'shooting' you
Would be interested to know via what mechanism the Dr thinks covid vaccine brought on shingles - since, as we all know, shingles is caused by re activation of chicken pox virus, dormant in your system since having the primary disease.
Or how he knows she wouldn't have shingles anyway - given young and healthy people can and do get it.
I do know “Moderna Arm” is a thing. I had it the first time, pretty mild and none after the second shot. Wasn’t something I really heard about as a vaccine reaction until it happened and I was wondering what the cause was. Could be something like this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/amp/covid-vaccine-reaction-side-effects-arm/10398907/1 -
Considering the new variants roaming around, I (personally) will take these recommendations with a grain of salt. I will have no problem meeting with fully vaccinated people, while keeping still distance (no hugs or kisses unless they are wearing masks). But that is just me; I am too old to take unnecessary chances
Vaccinated Americans can gather inside without masks or social distancing in certain circumstances, CDC guidelines say
“You can visit your grandparents if you’ve been vaccinated and they have been, too,” CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a White House briefing Monday. “If grandparents have been vaccinated, they can visit their daughter and her family even if they have not been vaccinated, so long as the daughter and her family are not at risk for severe disease.”
Vaccinated individuals should still wear a mask and social distance in public settings and avoid medium- to large-sized gatherings. The agency has yet to release updated guidelines on travel for those who have been vaccinated. Current CDC guidelines recommend delaying travel but provide a list of public health measures in the case that someone must travel.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/08/covid-vaccine-cdc-releases-new-guidelines-vaccinated-americans/6917770002/
Not sure where you are (figuring the US), but they’re also not going to really be useful for a while yet with only about 10% of the population vaccinated.
CA (where I live) also has its own variant now. 😞 As well as the UK and the South Africa one. We’re just hoping the conditions are good and stable enough to be able to house the students in double rooms next academic year. (They’re in singles now, being charged a reduced rate.)2
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