I had the Moderna vaccine, and we were all kept in a room sitting for 15 minutes afterward. I had no noticeable reactions to the first shot except a slightly stiff arm.
Interesting. My husband and I both had the AstraZeneca jab, his was a couple of weeks before mine, both at the same centre. He was advised to wait 15 minutes in the car before driving home; he waited 10. I was advised to wait 10 minutes and I waited 5.
I had a slightly raised temperature and mild achy-ness the day after my AZ vaccine, but was fine after a couple of paracetamol (apparently ibuprofen is not recommended).
My daughter has been laid out for nearly three weeks after her AstraZeneca shot. Symptoms strongly resemble those of long covid. She is having to stay with me. I merely had a sore arm for a day.
NZ will be using the Pfizer vaccine. Other vaccines had apparently been ordered because delivery was uncertain and I think they will be given to various Pacific islands. There has also been an urgent request from Papua New Guinea for PPE as there is a new outbreak there so the NZ Air Force will deliver it.
Our age group was supposed to be offered vaccinations in another month or so, but a few days ago the word percolated out that the website had opened up for pre-registration. We'll get them on Tuesday, and if it goes well, we'll drive to NY the next day to visit beloved mother-in-law. But I'm a pessimist and still remember the bad reaction I had to the smallpox vaccination fifty years ago - several days of painful nastiness.
My thought too - I didn't think I was covered for another week, as much as one dose will cover me. Not that it's much help as the vulnerable one in my household isn't on the standard lists, and is too young to qualify until late in the process.
Can you do that? Travel the day after, I mean? They aren’t effective for 3 weeks....
It probably depends on where you are. Certainly here, the restrictions on travel and meeting people apply to all, regardless of vaccination status - even weeks after the second dose you won't have freedom to travel beyond the freedom everyone else has to travel. But, that would mean that if you get the vaccine after travel restrictions are lifted you'd be free to travel immediately after your jag.
Good points all, but somehow we have to travel. We had the obligatory virus tests on Thursday and if they come back good then we should be OK to travel. At worst, my wife, being American, can fly there on her own if I am persona non grata again. I called the immigration people in Buffalo a few days ago and the word was that spouses of US citizens are now permitted to enter the country from Canada, though I haven't seen that anywhere in print. The border is still officially closed for non-essential travel, and as always, the individual border guard has a lot of power to say who shall pass. (A brother-in-law helpfully suggested that since the product of two negatives is a positive, we'll never get through...)
I have been signing up on different sites for Covic shot since December, No luck, yesterday for the first time I spoke with a real human and today I received both a text and an e-mail informing me I was on the list and would be notified when shot was available in my area. I have hope.
If you do either Twitter or Facebook, explore a bit looking for "vaccine angels" or "vaccine[your location here]". I did that and managed to snag 30 slots for the older folks of our church 32 seconds after a Tweet showed up on my screen. (If you don't do this, suggest it for a younger family member/ church member/Boy Scout/Girl Scout to take on as a project.)
We got the lot of them vaccinated (first shot) last Thursday. Whew!
Thanks I tried facebook but no luck. Part of the problem here in CA is some people want to recall the governor and so who gets the vaccine has turned into a whole political thing, with him releasing it to those he hopes to support him against the recall, not based on CDC guidelines. I did not wish to recall him, until now.
He's my gov., too. I know about the recall, but I've never heard about funneling vaccines to possible supporters. Can you point me to info, or a pertinent name, please?
I'm against the recall. I think much of it is due to businesspeople angry about lockdowns. (And I did wonder earlier today if T might be involved. He has no great love for Gavin Newsom, and they locked horns several times.)
I'm wondering if the bit about misdistributing vaccines is false propaganda?
He's my gov., too. I know about the recall, but I've never heard about funneling vaccines to possible supporters. Can you point me to info, or a pertinent name, please?
I'm against the recall. I think much of it is due to businesspeople angry about lockdowns. (And I did wonder earlier today if T might be involved. He has no great love for Gavin Newsom, and they locked horns several times.)
I'm wondering if the bit about misdistributing vaccines is false propaganda?
Thx.
It was an article in the Napa Register Newspaper several days ago. I was also against the recall until I read that. I looked for article online but can not find it. I will keep looking and try to get you a link. I think Trump's people were angry about early lockdown- then the main line republicans joined in to get him out. The birthday party at the French Laundry did not help, when he said others needed to stay home. Then he keeps expanding who gets in line first it seems. Each day it seems here new groups of people are being put in line. My frustration is Mr. Image has health issues, we are both over 80 and we first signed up in December and have continued signing up and checking each day and are still waiting.
Whooo, I have an appointment for my first Covid the first week in April. Thanks to a friend who traced down the problem to they kept kicking me out because I said retired and did not list an occupation. So she just filled in an occupation and it worked, even though I am no longer working. Whatever? Now we are trying to get Mr Image in.
These web forms are written by idiots, it seems to me, in many cases. We have one that asks for your city in one place and your country just after that. You may not type in the data--you must rather start to type it and a dropdown menu will appear, from which you must choose the correct name. Except: a) if you have the browser feature enabled that remembers and fills in common stuff like addresses for you, the dropdown menus flatly refuse to work; and b) once you go to the trouble of disabling that feature, you still can't get it right if you live in Missouri, because everything out here is Saint this and Saint that, and each space will accept only one possible variant of the three Saint/St/St., and you have to guess which, and it yells at you if you get it wrong. And God help you if you live in Ste. Genevieve!
Oh, and an extra refinement: If you put the period in on the city name, it won't work; but if you omit it on the identical county name, it won't work. Meh.
I live in a mobile home, It is located in space 11. I tried to sign up for internet service online. My efforts kept failing so I phoned the company. They, looked up the address and told me there was no space 11 at that address. I told them well that is strange as that is the number on my front door and the mailbox and the US Post office seems to think so and is delivering mail to me at that address, and the people we purchased the mobile home from had their internet service. ( the only game in town) After 10 minutes of please hold, and you are sure you are in space ll, the problem was solved. According to the internet company I am in suite 11, not space 11 so when I tried to sign up online it kept refusing me service. Mr. Image and I are feeling very high class knowing we are living in a suite and not just a space.
Whoo Whoo by getting up at 2 AM and many clicks we were able to get Mr Image an appointment next week as well. It really should not be this hard to get the Covid jab.
I had hoped to get my second jag this week (one of my colleagues suggested going down to put my name down for a spare dose if there was one*), but apparently they haven't got any Pfizer vaccine at the moment, and are unlikely to until May or June.
* I only got the first one because they were looking for volunteers to use up vaccines that would otherwise have been wasted; I'd still be well down the queue otherwise.
Wow Piglet, one would have hope by having the first jab they would at once sign you up for the second and have back up supply. That is what our note says will happen for us. If you must wait until May or June does it mean starting over, or will first one still count?
I'm assuming the first one will still count - I certainly hope so! I suppose if I'd been actually scheduled to have it, it may have been different, but I was just using up an unused dose at the end of the day.
Having had the first one in early February, I'm to look out for my invitation to the second in May. I've not had to arrange anything other than getting myself to the vaccination centre.
I'm assuming the first one will still count - I certainly hope so! I suppose if I'd been actually scheduled to have it, it may have been different, but I was just using up an unused dose at the end of the day.
Can you hang around the place (actually or by phone) toward the end of the day, next vaccination day, and see if your good luck repeats itself?
Here in Glasgow, the initial jags were booked by our Head of Unit as they opened up to our work area: there was (I believe) a priority scale for Healthcare workers and we were lower down as we're not patient facing, but those we share the centre with are, and by virtue of the fact that we scan cancer patients, all our patients are vulnerable... (as well as being a small dept so the likelihood was one case, all out, and lots of scans potentially being cancelled). Thereafter, Central Mission Control arranged second jags in waves - if you received your first jag between dates A & B you will be sent a mail inviting you to book a second jab in w/c C; first jag between dates D& E will be sent and invitation to book in w/c F etc etc.
It seems to have worked very well, and extremely efficiently. I have now had both jabs, and am extremely grateful to have qualified as a healthcare worker as I'm not sure they've quite got to my age bracket yet, with reduced supplies expected....
I'm probably in a similar situation to yours, Kingsfold - I'm not patient facing, but the midwives I work with are. I took the chance when it was offered for the first dose; it didn't occur to me to worry about the second one.
They've got my mobile number and my usual working hours: whenever they get a Pfizer batch, I assume they'll call me when it's my turn (or if they have leftovers again that need to be used up).
They are starting to get the one shot Johnson and Johnson vacs in L.A. County which should speed things up. They say in a few weeks they'll be available for 16 years+. Yay!
I had AZ on Friday and didn’t have any reaction at all. Follow up jab in June booked at the same time online (we have 12 week intervals in the online booking).
Here, it seems that if you book through the national scheme in response to an NHS letter, you get dates for both doses, but if you book via own GP, you are told you will be called at the relevant time for the second dose.
Here, it seems that if you book through the national scheme in response to an NHS letter, you get dates for both doses, but if you book via own GP, you are told you will be called at the relevant time for the second dose.
Not for us out here in the backwoods - we booked in response to text but have no date for a second jab (yet).
My son-in-law, 40 last autumn, gets his first one tomorrow *hooray*
I'm waiting for the call for my second jab. I was called via a text message from my GP. The first was the 31st January, I hope the second is slightly earlier than twelve weeks as we may have moved by then and organising the same vaccine (Pfizer) elsewhere may be tricky. As long as the appointment is late enough I could probably hop on a train back for the day.
Here, it seems that if you book through the national scheme in response to an NHS letter, you get dates for both doses, but if you book via own GP, you are told you will be called at the relevant time for the second dose.
Not necessarily the case. Mr M was called by the GP and after the jab he was given a card with the second date recorded.
Here, it seems that if you book through the national scheme in response to an NHS letter, you get dates for both doses, but if you book via own GP, you are told you will be called at the relevant time for the second dose.
Yes, here too. We just have to turn up for the second dose and take the card we received and the email with the confirmation number on it.
Here, it seems that if you book through the national scheme in response to an NHS letter, you get dates for both doses, but if you book via own GP, you are told you will be called at the relevant time for the second dose.
Is each NHS region doing things differently? We booked our first jab via own GP. We were given the date for our second jab when we were at the clinic for the first.
After finally getting appointments after 3 months of trying, I just received a call from our local health dept. ( who told me they could not help us when I first called) now they offered us appointments for our shots. I told them thank you but no thank you pass them on to others still waiting for an appointment. Makes me wonder what dam has broken. I am just happy to know it has.
I've got mine tomorrow! My husband had his on Monday, but he is almost 9 years older than me, so I thought I would be waiting at least a few more weeks. All reports are that it's a very slick operation, so I'm looking forward to seeing it in action.
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It was a little harder on me than the first, but I'm really glad to have gotten it.
I am too old for all this.
We got the lot of them vaccinated (first shot) last Thursday. Whew!
He's my gov., too. I know about the recall, but I've never heard about funneling vaccines to possible supporters. Can you point me to info, or a pertinent name, please?
I'm against the recall. I think much of it is due to businesspeople angry about lockdowns. (And I did wonder earlier today if T might be involved. He has no great love for Gavin Newsom, and they locked horns several times.)
I'm wondering if the bit about misdistributing vaccines is false propaganda?
Thx.
It was an article in the Napa Register Newspaper several days ago. I was also against the recall until I read that. I looked for article online but can not find it. I will keep looking and try to get you a link. I think Trump's people were angry about early lockdown- then the main line republicans joined in to get him out. The birthday party at the French Laundry did not help, when he said others needed to stay home. Then he keeps expanding who gets in line first it seems. Each day it seems here new groups of people are being put in line. My frustration is Mr. Image has health issues, we are both over 80 and we first signed up in December and have continued signing up and checking each day and are still waiting.
I had hoped to get my second jag this week (one of my colleagues suggested going down to put my name down for a spare dose if there was one*), but apparently they haven't got any Pfizer vaccine at the moment, and are unlikely to until May or June.
* I only got the first one because they were looking for volunteers to use up vaccines that would otherwise have been wasted; I'd still be well down the queue otherwise.
Can you hang around the place (actually or by phone) toward the end of the day, next vaccination day, and see if your good luck repeats itself?
They did with us (Manchester U.K.) - we got the second jab appointment with the first one.
It seems to have worked very well, and extremely efficiently. I have now had both jabs, and am extremely grateful to have qualified as a healthcare worker as I'm not sure they've quite got to my age bracket yet, with reduced supplies expected....
They've got my mobile number and my usual working hours: whenever they get a Pfizer batch, I assume they'll call me when it's my turn (or if they have leftovers again that need to be used up).
Not for us out here in the backwoods - we booked in response to text but have no date for a second jab (yet).
My son-in-law, 40 last autumn, gets his first one tomorrow *hooray*
Not necessarily the case. Mr M was called by the GP and after the jab he was given a card with the second date recorded.
Yes, here too. We just have to turn up for the second dose and take the card we received and the email with the confirmation number on it.
Is each NHS region doing things differently? We booked our first jab via own GP. We were given the date for our second jab when we were at the clinic for the first.