I got the same Safeway email and also just received a notification via the App labeled “Covid: vaccine: coming soon.”
Now I guess coming “soon” could mean August, or it could mean they’ll get 5 doses a week starting mid January and I’ll be camping out to try to get a dose like I used to wait in line for concert tickets, but, for now, I’m taking this as a good sign that we might actually get to some sort of broad availability soon.
Can you explain what this means for the plebeians here?
In case you’re interested, I saw the cardiologist today. Office was as safe as it could be. My overall health is excellent, so he thinks my risk is very low. He wants me to have an ultrasound on my heart, but they’re currently doing those at the hospital so he’s OK with me waiting until they get the machine at his office (about a month). He also wants me to do a sleep study, I do snore pretty loudly (so I’m told) so he wants to check for apnea. In the meantime he gave me a prescription for propafenone to take if I have another episode. But in general he thinks it’s likely this is not going to be a big issue.
He went to an expensive 12-person, multi-household birthday party for a lobbyist at a fancy restaurant after telling people that they should stay home for Thanksgiving and not join with friends and family.
It was outdoors in an enclosed patio and he claims that there were more people than he was expecting and that he paid for his own dinner, but…not a good look. I’ve never been a fan of Newsom and this makes me even less likely to ever want to see him do something like run for president.
considering we were supposed to have 40 million vaccinated by the end of the year and we’re barely over 2 million, I don’t see how general availability is anywhere close.
Your take is almost certainly correct, but, especially as I haven’t touched another human being since March, I just really, really, want to be right…
I don’t think it was a tent. One story said the party was so loud that they closed the sliding doors to keep the noise in.
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1328932610169561090
It looks like it could be this room:
A lot of the outdoor dining in New York is laughable. Some restaurants have basically built cabins on the sidewalk.
If you snore loud and are having heart problems you could very well have sleep apnea. Good luck that it’s not. If it is, the mask takes a bit to get used to but you eventually dont notice it.
Also, try taking the day after the sleep study off. You will not get any meaningful sleep that night
Tell him the point of the jab is it enables you to get the second jab.
The point of the second jab is one week later you are magically 90-95% immune
In normal times, there’s a limit on how many patients per nurse on the floors, ER, ICU. This is done to varying degrees, but California in general is very strict about it. The point of those laws is to ensure that hospitals keep adequate staffing. If you follow those rules in a pandemic that is overwhelming the system, people sit in the waiting room and die.
These hasn’t been covered enough but this glacially slow implementation becomes a problem with shelf life, no? I seem to remember the original information that at proper storage these didn’t last a really long time.
Is that correct? I don’t believe that I’ve read anywhere that they would be able to vaccinate 40 million by the end of the year.
ok seeing reports of LA running out of oxygen tanks.
That’s officially March NYC then to me then. I had that happen to me, and I still think about some of the really bad decisions I had to make because of it. Thankfully they have rapid testing now but still.
This isn’t tenable and there’s no reason to see it getting better.
These excuses would be a bit more credible if he was actually trying.
Trump said 100m!
Also the lamestream media appears to be reading UP.
A lot of bars in my area built the same things when smoking was banned.
That was 100mm manufactured and available, no? But of course I’m not talking about anything Trump said. (And I know you are just taking the piss.)
I’d have to look it up again, but the storage conditions are different for the two.
I think that Pfizer can be stored for months at -80 (or whatever super cold temp), but once you take it out of the deep freeze, you may only have a few days. So I don’t think the shelf-life is going to be an issue because the bulk should be stored at the appropriate temperature until shortly before use.
Edit: so for Pfizer here’s what it looks like:
Cold Freezer - 6 months
Keep in dry ice (has to be refilled) - 30 days
Refrigerator - 5 days
So shelf life isn’t going to be a problem for 6 months. I think the pace will pick up enough that we’re not going to run up against that. For places without the -80 freezers, then 30 days could really be a problem.
