Both my sisters are now saying this. One is pregnant and not getting it because her doctor told her they don’t know the effects yet.
My sisters sometimes just make shit up though so I can’t tell.
European regulator says AstraZeneca jab ‘safe and effective’
The European Medicines Agency has said the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is a “safe and effective vaccine”.
The regulator’s executive director Emer Cooke is speaking at a news conference after an investigation into cases of blood clots in a handful of vaccine recipients.
Is it a thing backed by science? No, of course not.
Is it a thing backed by common sense? No, of course not, pregnant women are more vulnerable to covid for several reasons and there’s zero evidence suggesting it affects fertility. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology recommends getting vaccinated.
Is this a thing Facebook moms are saying? Yes, so why would the above matter?
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They’re not making it up in the sense that they developed this concern within their own brains, but they are making it up as in it is not a real concern backed by evidence. Coincidentally, Reuters had an article on one of the people behind the fertility scare today.
You don’t really have to read the article, it’s not that interesting. Cliffs: former biotech guy loses it, promotes theory that vaccine can impact fertility with no evidence, leaves former coworkers perplexed. Also may or may not have had anti-Muslim tweets from a couple years ago.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/
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Thanks, I figured as such. My relationship is very strained with GOP sis so I can’t just start sending her articles. But my liberal sister (the pregnant one) is just dumb - I’m pretty sure I can get through to her.
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Lol no. Pregnancy makes someone eligible right now.
I got it! Moderna.
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Sounds like a commerical tag line.
I got Moderna today, too. The Walmart doctor was great. I might still Hulk out later or something, but it was quite literally the least painful shot I’ve ever had. Didn’t feel it.
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Same. Essentially no pain at all.
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I felt mine but I’m super sensitive to needles and sometimes faint when I get blood drawn. My arm really hurts today.
They scheduled me out 4 weeks from the shot and it’s supposed to be 3 with pfizer but the pharmacist said it was fine.
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I have the Ohio appointment scheduled which is another 8 hour drive one way.
I’m hoping to find an appt for a Moderna shot near home for my second dose even though everyone claims they only schedule first doses. So I gotta try and wrk the system.
Apologies that wasn’t clear.
Also the checkin lady made a slight passive-aggressive crack about my PA license: “you must be visiting”.
But let me thru no issue.
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My 8 months along daughter got her first dose this week.
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I kinda wanted to get sick so I know I’m getting an immune response. Dumb and pointless and not how any of this works, I know, but I kinda hoped for it for some reason.
Still the sore arm encourages me. Feel like this gif:
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8 hour drive is awful, sorry man.
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Varies by state, but most of the time you aren’t supposed to schedule until your eligibility date.
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I waited until ~30 minutes after midnight on the date I was eligible. Still had to “lie” about my age on the appointment page.
I am in Ohio (like you are, I think), and I am eligible starting tomorrow the 19th. As soon as that was announced earlier this week, I signed up for a Friday shot. I think the only thing that matters is whether you’re eligible on the date of the shot. The problem is that many systems don’t seem to be set up that way. We booked through Kroger’s website, since myChart wasn’t letting us schedule anything without lying.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.435194v1
We show that, surprisingly, P.1 is significantly less resistant to naturally acquired or vaccine induced antibody responses than B.1.351 suggesting that changes outside the RBD impact neutralisation.
Cliffs: South African variant (not P.1 Brazillian) is why the vaccinated shouldn’t be travelling and should still be masking up
Covid vaccines ‘may protect against Brazil variant’
The P1 or Brazil variant of coronavirus that has also now been seen in the UK may be less resistant to current vaccines than experts originally feared, say scientists.
A team at Oxford University has measured the protection generated by the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech shots the UK is using in its mass rollout.
Blood tests show people who have been vaccinated develop antibodies that can fight coronavirus. While these are best matched to attack the original version of the Covid-19 virus, they still appear to work well against some of the new variants that have been emerging - including the Brazil variant of concern and the Kent variant that is now dominant in the UK.
But tests against the South Africa variant were less encouraging.
This version of coronavirus has some additional changes to its genetic makeup that may help it dodge some learned immunity from vaccines or past Covid infection, they say in a pre-print of their work.
That doesn’t mean the vaccines won’t work at all, but it is worth continuing to develop new, updated coronavirus vaccines to keep pace.
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1372593147751055366?s=21
Since I got the jab today I’m self proclaiming I got #100,000,000 in USA#1.
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