Good luck
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Once again make a COVID vax appointment for my kid, show up, nope no second shot available at this location. I give up. Guess heâs a one shot only kid. Cool health system we have.
EDIT: feedback i got iafter calling around that CVS and Walgreens are out of primary dose vaccination doses and there wont be any more in stock for the forseeable future. Theyâll be happy to book an appointment through the online portal. There just wont be any vaccine there when you show up.
Oh well.
I remember someone trying to educate me on how Covid presented to other viruses. Here is the dumbest chart of all time from the NYT.
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Hmmm and they wonât let you get the bivalent? I know youâre supposed to do two of the OG vaccine but seems pretty silly tbh.
Got an appt for my babyâs bivalent vaccine Wednesday.
Correct as thereâs no approval for using bivalent as a primary dose.
Does your pediatrician do it? There has to be a way around this.
They do clinics but none scheduled currently.
State has a list of vaccination sites but do a really bad job updating it. Scheduling doesnât work for many of them, a lot are like an hour away, and without a contact for many of them no real confidence that they have the original dose as there is apparently a real shortage, at least at retail. Possible thatâs just cvs and Walgreens scaling down given govt no longer paying for them shortly and most people here looking for bivalent given high vax rates.
That is super awful. Really sucks that there is such a wild disparity in the ability to get an important medical treatment in different parts of the US (lol sweet summer child). In the rando part of NY I am in, I have probably 10 places within 15 miles thatâll shoot me up tomorrow.
Iâd say move here but itâs also snowing so meh, itâs just the flu.
Just got my 3.5 yo the bivalent booster. Sorry to hear itâs so hard to get the primary series, LG
It is a recent development. Got the first shot in November and, while the scheduling sucked, there wasnât a shortage. Pharmacist said basically no way to get more for now and they donât know when it will change. Again this just for the primary. The bivalent reasonably easy to get. Given the like 5 percent vax rate or w/e for under 5s though this seems like a problem over time if not fixed.
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Struggling to figure out what Chinaâs covid strategy was supposed to be. Did they really think they were going to be able to do zero covid forever?
Might have been to just get through the party âelectionâ that happened this fall before eating the exit wave.
They can build new hospitals in next to no time, but donât have enough trained medical staff to cope with anything like a simultaneous outbreak in massively populated cities.
It wonât work, but the government probably felt it had to stave it off as long as possible.
Sure seemed like relaxing the restrictions was to do with the protests and not linked with the end of the âelectionsâ, though.
Not really the point, point is they apparently did not prepare for the end of zero COVID. Vaccination rates are low among the elderly, even with their shitty homegrown vaccine. Why not just swallow your pride and buy mRNA vaccines?
Like the simplest explanation by far is that they were planning to do zero COVID indefinitely and their hand was forced by the protests, but âzero COVID indefinitelyâ is a batshit insane idea, so itâs difficult to reconcile with CCP leadership who are generally vaguely competent.
Fair on the protests, but everything in China is so stage managed that I find it hard to tell.
I do hope that it turns out zero COVID indefinitely is less insane than our mass infection indefinitely policy. I dont think what China was doing was very sustainable and not mass vaccinating the elderly after three years is just awful, but I also am not going to drop dead with surprise if life expectancy in the US in 2030 is like 71 years.
There were literally guys on the streets yelling âdown with the Communist Party, down with Xi Jinpingâ. I doubt they stage managed that. I think they are actually pretty scared of revolution.
Thinking that COVID is going to make that kind of difference in life expectancy is out to lunch. Even at the height of the pandemic in an unvaccinated US, life expectancy declined by just over two years. Life expectancy in Australia (where total COVID deaths are still less than 0.06% of the population) continues to climb, and thatâs probably a better guide going forward.
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I sure hope so. Im admittedly scared by the immune system stuff given the disaster that is the current respiratory season.
Chinaâs government does not swallow its pride. I think the âstrategyâ was to hope its potency burns itself out sufficiently for humans to be able to live with it, as most people around the world were expecting.
Zero COVID forever was not part of their plan. Look what lockdownâs done to their economic âmiracleâ, which is the only thing the government cares about.
Also, opening up in Shanghai for instance was already happening by the time the protests started,
Thatâs not possible without the military. The only actual fear is the protestersâ fear that they and their families will disappear. They are incredibly brave.
