COVID vaccinations! Have you gotten yours?

[HisMajestyBOB]

Well shit.  Iowa must be getting hosed.  CVS and Walgreens have been fully booked forever.

Here CVS and Walgreens follow state guidelines, not the separate health districts, so they're still only vaccinating Group 1C, so I was checking the health district websites. Dunno how Iowa is doing it but that might be fruitful. You might also check county government websites or local university hospitals. Or keep mashing the F5 key on VaccineFinder.org. Good luck! 

[celedhring]

My dad got his first Pfizer shot yesterday.

Mom got another SMS with an appointment for the AZ one (she skipped her first one), but there's no way to convince her atm, with all the blood clot reports.

[Iormlund]

I'm hoping all the bruhaha with AZ gets my parents vaccinated faster (they are in their late 60s).

As for myself, seeing how being immunocompromised is not a factor anymore, I'm guessing early July with the rest of my age cohort.

[alfred russel]

[Duque de Bragança]

First shots for my Mom and Dad today. Pfizer-Biontech. Second shots in early May.

Hope you get your first soon, thought you're still a relative Languish youngster middle-age dude.

Vaccine eligibility-wise, I'm as old or good as an old teenager, so in theory, not until mid-June.

[FunkMonk]

Sitting at the vaccination site post-jab. Very quick and efficient. Thank you Maryland!

[Jacob]

Booked my father-in-law's vaccination this coming Friday. Allegedly it's Pfizer or Moderna. He's 65.

[Maximus]

Sitting at the vaccination site post-jab. Very quick and efficient. Thank you Maryland!

I live near the Salisbury site and apparently they're vaccinating anyone who comes in. I walked by there yesterday and there was no outdoor line, so next to no wait. If you know anyone who isn't able to get an appointment yet let them know. I believe Hogan even suggested the same thing.

[DGuller]

I got my second shot, and I definitely felt the pinch a lot more.  Now I'm really wondering whether I got the first shot administered properly.    Does anyone here inject people for a living?  How easy is it to fuck up a jab like this?

[Tamas]

I got my second shot, and I definitely felt the pinch a lot more.  Now I'm really wondering whether I got the first shot administered properly.    Does anyone here inject people for a living?  How easy is it to fuck up a jab like this?

The only thing I can compare it to which I remember is a flu shot I got like a decade ago. Could barely feel the needle going in and was a bit confused it was over already. The covid jab was FAR more painful although again very brief. It depends on the person's skill I guess.

[11B4V]

I got my second shot, and I definitely felt the pinch a lot more.  Now I'm really wondering whether I got the first shot administered properly.    Does anyone here inject people for a living?  How easy is it to fuck up a jab like this?

Did they break the needle off in you? If they didn't, they didn't fuck the stick for something like this....

[Barrister]

Alberta announced today that health care workers are now eligible for the vaccine.

On the one hand that's great (Mrs B started a job working at a doctor's office part time so she qualifies), but on the other hand they're still nowhere near done with the last group they announced, so I'm not quite sure what they're doing.

[FunkMonk]

Sitting at the vaccination site post-jab. Very quick and efficient. Thank you Maryland!

I live near the Salisbury site and apparently they're vaccinating anyone who comes in. I walked by there yesterday and there was no outdoor line, so next to no wait. If you know anyone who isn't able to get an appointment yet let them know. I believe Hogan even suggested the same thing.

Good to know, I'll let some of my friends know. 

[merithyn]

I got my second shot, and I definitely felt the pinch a lot more.  Now I'm really wondering whether I got the first shot administered properly.    Does anyone here inject people for a living?  How easy is it to fuck up a jab like this?

My son is a phlebotomist so I asked him this. He said that pharmacists are the ones typically giving the shots, and they have minimal experience for the most part so they're not going to be nuanced. They can miss muscle and hit fatty tissue instead, move the needle to the side as it goes in so it tears more inner flesh than it needs to, etc.

For myself, the same pharmacist did both of my shots. The first one I barely noticed when it went in and came out but hurt a lot more over the next couple of days. The second one hurt both in and out but didn't hurt nearly as bad later that week.

[DGuller]

Thanks!  I guess my arm did hurt just a little some time after the first shot, so if it missed the muscle, it probably didn't miss completely.  Or maybe it was the second pharmacist/doctor that was the brute, and made it more painful than it needed to be.  Hopefully I'll get a fever tomorrow, so I'll feel more relaxed.