For those still trying to get a vaccine appointment, a new bit of voodoo that seems to be working for now. On the CVS website, go to a random state–one that is likely to have availability and start answering their questions. They will ask you for your preferred vaccine site and what do you know, Massachusetts will be listed. So, pick that and perhaps you will get lucky. It also seems that CVS puts up a number of vaccines early Saturday morning (6 AM or so). Best of luck.
Great advice. I’ve seen that mentioned on the Grafton covid FB page. Go figure
I also found doing as you suggest to be helpful. I stayed on the screen that has you enter a zip code. Then you can try as often as you have the patience and determination without having to reenter the initial information about whether you have any symptoms and why you are eligible.
If it were my only choice, I’m not sure I’d have JJ for quite a while
Although im finding problems with the others. A neighbor said her brother has bells palsey. My oldest has had an odd symptom since her first and it seems to have worsened after second. Both pfeizer. But if you dig, you find some other, odd reactions. I don’t like that I have to dig
My preference is a one-and-done shot, and also a jab that’s traditional rather than mRNA, but I’m fully aware of how safe the mRNA vaccines are. I’m content with the Pfizer or Moderna shot next Monday, and 3 weeks after that, and 9 months after that, and so on and so forth.
I suspect in the 9 months if it is only JJ I will have that. I do understand the hesitancy of some not to.
I’m just glad that we don’t have that AZ vaccine available here.
Thank you FDA!
Philip, I spoke with my brother in law in the Bay Area. The predominant strain in CA is B117 of course. But there are two new variants specific to California. At the moment they effect only one percent of the population. It will be a month or so before they know how contagious or serious they are
Thanks Vicki. We’ll see what happens in the next few weeks.
California is only seeing a small uptick in cases so far. Their restaurants are at 25 percent and go to 100 on June 15. They are moving much more slowly than we are.
Generally speaking, California has done well. I realize there is a divide between the South (several major waves) and North (minor waves at best, with Bay Area a stand-out in terms of how well it has done). But, I commend Newsom for the difficult job of navigating and balancing competing demands.
Being a “blue” state helps. Very sad that we have such a political divide these days.
The lower half of CA is fairly red. It is similar to the red areas in our state….on a much smaller level of course.
The republicans in CA want to recall Newsom or did. I have too much other stuff to follow to pay a whole lot of attention.
I agree.
Germany’s ICU usage is through the roof in some areas. The Netherlands is also seeing increases every day in ICU cases. France, too, but they’ve had a data glitch so I’ve had to go directly to the government reporting sites. Many European countries have 3 times fewer vaccinated individuals than the U.S. The gap is growing every day.
At this point, the U.S. MUST send its Astra Zeneca vaccines to Europe. We’re not going to use them anyway. We don’t need to. We’ll have excess supply within 5 weeks with the vaccines we already have.
I’m not pleased with the Biden Administration’s inventory hoarding. I’m also critical of the Administration’s approach on vaccine supply. Biden officials refuse to change their policy and adapt to circumstances on the ground. Michigan is in a bad place right now. The federal government should be sending additional vaccines to Michigan, but it is refusing to do so.
I’ve also kind of had it with the smug attitude that some in the Administration have had regarding vaccination numbers, always using January 20th as a cutoff. Slavitt, Klain and others will tweet, “look at what happened after the inauguration.” I don’t like that. It’s also disingenuous. However much I detested Trump personally, I have always commended the Trump Administration for its vaccine development program. Biden officials should, too. Don’t act as if the vaccines were manna from heaven. They were developed in part with federal government money, and Operation Warp Speed was largely a success.
If I could give you a standing O, I would. I agree with your comment as a whole. I’m getting tired in general of digs from some in the admin. I don’t believe trump did a good job on getting the vaccine out. The majority of the development program credit goes to him. Hoarding to me is inexcusable. This is not an American problem. It is a world problem and it can’t go away until the world works together. If that means one country steps up a bit more than some others, we all benefit. For heavens sake. As you say we won’t use the AZ …this from a NYt article makes me sick
“Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca are sitting idly in American manufacturing facilities, awaiting results from its U.S. clinical trial while countries that have authorized its use beg for access.”
Globally, deaths are over 14k today, which is the highest number in 2 months. Brazil is the biggest contributor to the current daily death toll, then the E.U. as a whole, followed by the U.S., and next, India.
U.S. daily cases and hospitalizations are at their highest levels in 3 weeks. It’s not a big jump, but the fact is that nationwide we’re going backwards a bit. Deaths are also close to 1k for the day. Yesterday and the day before the number was 900.
What’s remarkable is that several of the variants of concern are more powerful than the original variants. This did happen during the Spanish Flu – 2nd wave was far worse than the 1st; probably due to a new variant – but is fairly unusual. Often, later variants are weaker, as probably occurred after the 3rd wave of the Spanish Flu.
C-19 for 4-9 is ready.
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For those still trying to get a vaccine appointment, a new bit of voodoo that seems to be working for now. On the CVS website, go to a random state–one that is likely to have availability and start answering their questions. They will ask you for your preferred vaccine site and what do you know, Massachusetts will be listed. So, pick that and perhaps you will get lucky. It also seems that CVS puts up a number of vaccines early Saturday morning (6 AM or so). Best of luck.
Great advice. I’ve seen that mentioned on the Grafton covid FB page. Go figure
I also found doing as you suggest to be helpful. I stayed on the screen that has you enter a zip code. Then you can try as often as you have the patience and determination without having to reenter the initial information about whether you have any symptoms and why you are eligible.
If it were my only choice, I’m not sure I’d have JJ for quite a while
Although im finding problems with the others. A neighbor said her brother has bells palsey. My oldest has had an odd symptom since her first and it seems to have worsened after second. Both pfeizer. But if you dig, you find some other, odd reactions. I don’t like that I have to dig
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/08/985244106/mass-vaccination-site-in-colorado-temporarily-closed-after-11-become-sick?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR10TmXyXUxvJyb582dW6FqnRy1fhDC7MK5pXFnp1BgngNoC4ULLMPSYNCo
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My preference is a one-and-done shot, and also a jab that’s traditional rather than mRNA, but I’m fully aware of how safe the mRNA vaccines are. I’m content with the Pfizer or Moderna shot next Monday, and 3 weeks after that, and 9 months after that, and so on and so forth.
I suspect in the 9 months if it is only JJ I will have that. I do understand the hesitancy of some not to.
I’m just glad that we don’t have that AZ vaccine available here.
Thank you FDA!
Philip, I spoke with my brother in law in the Bay Area. The predominant strain in CA is B117 of course. But there are two new variants specific to California. At the moment they effect only one percent of the population. It will be a month or so before they know how contagious or serious they are
Thanks Vicki. We’ll see what happens in the next few weeks.
California is only seeing a small uptick in cases so far. Their restaurants are at 25 percent and go to 100 on June 15. They are moving much more slowly than we are.
Generally speaking, California has done well. I realize there is a divide between the South (several major waves) and North (minor waves at best, with Bay Area a stand-out in terms of how well it has done). But, I commend Newsom for the difficult job of navigating and balancing competing demands.
Being a “blue” state helps. Very sad that we have such a political divide these days.
The lower half of CA is fairly red. It is similar to the red areas in our state….on a much smaller level of course.
The republicans in CA want to recall Newsom or did. I have too much other stuff to follow to pay a whole lot of attention.
I agree.
Germany’s ICU usage is through the roof in some areas. The Netherlands is also seeing increases every day in ICU cases. France, too, but they’ve had a data glitch so I’ve had to go directly to the government reporting sites. Many European countries have 3 times fewer vaccinated individuals than the U.S. The gap is growing every day.
At this point, the U.S. MUST send its Astra Zeneca vaccines to Europe. We’re not going to use them anyway. We don’t need to. We’ll have excess supply within 5 weeks with the vaccines we already have.
I’m not pleased with the Biden Administration’s inventory hoarding. I’m also critical of the Administration’s approach on vaccine supply. Biden officials refuse to change their policy and adapt to circumstances on the ground. Michigan is in a bad place right now. The federal government should be sending additional vaccines to Michigan, but it is refusing to do so.
I’ve also kind of had it with the smug attitude that some in the Administration have had regarding vaccination numbers, always using January 20th as a cutoff. Slavitt, Klain and others will tweet, “look at what happened after the inauguration.” I don’t like that. It’s also disingenuous. However much I detested Trump personally, I have always commended the Trump Administration for its vaccine development program. Biden officials should, too. Don’t act as if the vaccines were manna from heaven. They were developed in part with federal government money, and Operation Warp Speed was largely a success.
If I could give you a standing O, I would. I agree with your comment as a whole. I’m getting tired in general of digs from some in the admin. I don’t believe trump did a good job on getting the vaccine out. The majority of the development program credit goes to him. Hoarding to me is inexcusable. This is not an American problem. It is a world problem and it can’t go away until the world works together. If that means one country steps up a bit more than some others, we all benefit. For heavens sake. As you say we won’t use the AZ …this from a NYt article makes me sick
“Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca are sitting idly in American manufacturing facilities, awaiting results from its U.S. clinical trial while countries that have authorized its use beg for access.”
Globally, deaths are over 14k today, which is the highest number in 2 months. Brazil is the biggest contributor to the current daily death toll, then the E.U. as a whole, followed by the U.S., and next, India.
U.S. daily cases and hospitalizations are at their highest levels in 3 weeks. It’s not a big jump, but the fact is that nationwide we’re going backwards a bit. Deaths are also close to 1k for the day. Yesterday and the day before the number was 900.
Switzerland is also struggling. https://twitter.com/itosettiMD_MBA/status/1380102175947423753
What’s remarkable is that several of the variants of concern are more powerful than the original variants. This did happen during the Spanish Flu – 2nd wave was far worse than the 1st; probably due to a new variant – but is fairly unusual. Often, later variants are weaker, as probably occurred after the 3rd wave of the Spanish Flu.
C-19 for 4-9 is ready.