This is the kind of stuff I’m worried about when I become eligible.
The numbers a lot easier to control when it’s just a small age band.
I’m just envisioning it being “open” for me to sign up in theory, but not in practice.
Florida is not much better. I think today I’ll ask my local Publix how many vaccines they’re actually giving out per day/hour. I will report back. I just don’t know how they’re going to ramp up when more vaccine becomes available.
Basically everyone my wife knows has been vaccinated. “It’s so easy!” they tell her, and I don’t think they’re lying about that. Meanwhile, in a month she’ll begin working in person again - she works in television and is going into production on a new show, so she’ll need to be on set (indoor studio) two days a week.
There are clinics in LA where you stand a great chance of getting an “extra” vaccine if you can sit in line for eight hours, but her schedule doesn’t allow that. To get the shot she would have to at least ignore the current regulations, if not outright lie.
I’m steadfastly against jumping the line but man it is hard knowing all these people are happily getting jabbed without thinking twice while she’s headed into harms way and basically the only reason she hasn’t gotten vaccinated is my moral compass.
Fuck that. If she’s going in harm’s way, everybody else can wait.
If anything, not advocating for the best interests of your partner’s health is immoral.
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Line-cutting because you want to go eat at a restaurant—deeply immoral
Line-cutting because you’re at elevated risk in a way that isn’t captured by the guidelines—totally fine
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Looking in a 200 mile range. Have a list of zip codes to try daily. On small town pharmacy waiting lists. Use a tool called findashot.org
Prince Harry itt?
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I mean, is your prime minister wrong here? I’m sure there’s a lot of nuance here that I’m completely ignorant of, but it seems totally appropriate for electeds to push the bureaucracy to adapt to exceptional circumstances. If the minister thinks the Sputnik vaccine is unsafe or ineffective, then OK. But passing the buck to the EU seems pretty dubious.
Not sure I would describe replying on the advice of health officials as “passing the buck.”
It is odd that these EU guys haven’t approved Sputnik yet; last I heard it seemed to be doing well in clinical tests and studies.
Is anyone here willing to take the SinoVac vaccine?
My brother said he was able to sign up for a late March appointment because they’re opening up the vaccine for people in entertainment now.
Holy fuck on the day I become approved for a vaccine I find out I was in close contact with someone who tested positive a couple days after I was near them so now I get to sweat that and I believe I have to wait at least 2 weeks from exposure date to get the vaccine. I’ve been going into work in a large factory for the last year and have somehow successfully evaded contact tracing/close contact situations and now it happens when I’m so close to the finish line, what a blow.
If I end up positive I assume the advice is to pass on the vaccine until later this spring or summer?
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Not aware of any reason/guideline for that.
Get the vaccine. Don’t wait unless you’re actively ill or there’s some criteria otherwise.
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ok thank you, I’m trying to make an appointment today. Feel fine at the moment
Where are you hearing that? As long as you’re not risking infecting the health workers you should still get the vaccine as soon as you can imo.
From his title, it sounds like this guy is the top health official in the country. What’s he doing there if not to make judgments about health policy?
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Waiting until he has enough data to make a sound decision seems pretty reasonable. Are you telling your citizens to put something into their body based on Putin’s word?
His policy is not to distribute a vaccine that hasn’t passed EU health regs. Not exactly sure what you expect him to do here. Rely on his gut feelings about vaccine safety?
Yeah, I just tried to figure out what exactly was going on. A month or so ago it apparently hadn’t been submitted to the EMA, now it’s in the formal stage of ‘rolling’ review. It was approved already in Hungary (via emergency approval) over a month ago, but the EMA are advising countries to wait for their ‘proper’ approval (which Sputnik say is prejudicial).
The UK also used the emergency approval route (though not for Sputnik, obvs), but I don’t know if this was still ‘under’ the EMA what with Brexit and its myriad forms.
I doubt the likes of us can properly figure out what the actual hold up is, and who is pressuring who to do what. It does seem likely enough data is out there to make a decision, and we should just get vaccinating.
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My thinking was some kind of severe reaction could occur if your body is fighting the virus or just got done fighting it and then you introduce the vaccine. I’m basing that on nothing really just a thought that I had, I would love for it to be wrong
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