Got my First Vaccination Injection
 

Followed my county‘s website and I’m qualified through prescreening.
Created my account profile and selected my appt from their calendar. It was about a week away on Jan 7, the second will be Jan 30.

The whole process was very smooth and I never left my vehicle.
Appt was at 10:45, arrived at 10:35. Felt like a Chick-fil-a drive through.
Easy to follow directions and guiding cars into the first checkin.
Verified id and appt, proceeded to a drive thru tent.
That person picked up from where the previous checkin ended. She knew my name when I pulled into the tent.
Within 5-6 minutes of initially arriving, I had my shot. Didn’t feel a thing during injection. No mark at site today.
Another person in the tent gave me the debrief and some literature and....a Root Beer Dum Dum. Had a good chuckle about that with him.
Pulled forward about 100’, that’s where I waited 15 minutes to make sure I was ok. Several folks walking around all the vehicles checking and guiding the forward traffic out when ready.

I think I was in n out about 25 min.

Feel normal, as expected arm was sore. But stayed mobile and worked it out.
Can barely feel any soreness now.

Do you have any lingering craving for brains yet?

Is the microchip working or is that on the second injection?

nom nom nom
beep-orp-buzzzz

Have the new voices started giving orders yet, or is it just random jibber jabber till the 2nd injection?

I grew horns, though they both fell off yesterday.

I found myself in an Apple store an hour later. Odd for sure.....

Pissing ice cycles?

So you're saying the vaccine might make ya horney? :)
Oh man I can't wait till Monday when my wife gets it!

You won't like it when she starts chewing her cud.

Daggonit! So the rumor from the other thread is true?

Thanks for the report, Don....all the best to you!

Got my first shot yesterday. A little soreness today, not as bad as the anthrax vaccine. Hopefully we can kick this virus to the curb.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1610227521.jpg

My wife is a doc, lots of her friends have gotten their second dose, and said they felt wonky for about 24 hours. After that, all good.

Second dose the reaction is much stronger than first. I had a massive headache after about 3 hours.

I got my first Pfizer dose on Thursday. I was sore for a little more than 24 hours but not too bad.

Sounds like your locales are a whole lot more organized than Oregon...

Are you guys frontline people?

I'm not.
I received an email yesterday on how to schedule my vaccine. Anyone over the age of 65 can get one..starting tomorrow.
I'm waiting until the rush is over.

My county is going to start with those 75+, after they finish the care homes.

I am a nursing student who also has a job working in the Operating Room.

Thank you for your service to others.

I work at a hospital. We decided to vaccinate family members because we have about 10% of our workforce out in quarantine we wanted a layer of protection around for the employees. My wife got one yesterday.

Plus we were given a limited amount of vaccines by the State. We have to use them up to get more so it's going live to anyone 65 and older tomorrow.

I'm in the Moderna study and was given the vaccine in September

My parents have been scheduled for Wed. at a former mall near their house. They're in the 75+ group... big relief for me when they get them, but it'll be a while longer for me. I've never even had a flu shot (nor the flu as an adult).... but I'll get this one.

Everyone remember, it takes 2 injections and time to get immunity. This in not a tetanus shot!

Is that because the vaccines are most effective after the second dose so to minimize risk of employee infection they vaccinate the family? It doesn't make sense to me to vaccinate family members unless the family members are at high risk of exposure.

I don't recall, wasn't it the Moderna vaccine that the FDA was talking about giving a single dose to low risk folks because it offers some level of protection after the first dose?

"We know it induces identical immune response to the hundred microgram dose and therefore we are in discussion with Moderna and with the FDA," Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the head of Operation Warp Speed, told "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-fda-moderna-cutting-half-speed-up/

I thought I heard that "some" immunity was within 10-12 days after the first. Any truth to that? I wouldn't lower my guard, but sure hope that's the case.

I am in the 65 and over group and received mine last Monday. Oklahoma has gone through healthcare workers, first responders, and nursing homes. My county is pushing 10% first shot vaccinations with another 5% scheduoed next week.

IIRC the argument was that the first shot gave "only" ~90% coverage and the second brought that up to ~98%. Some argued that ti would be better to have twice as many people at ~90% than half as many at ~98%... but, being that the Trump administration brought on production in parallel with trails, we are far enough ahead of the supply curve that giving high risk people higher protection is warranted.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/pres...id-19-vaccines

...We have been following the discussions and news reports about reducing the number of doses, extending the length of time between doses, changing the dose (half-dose), or mixing and matching vaccines in order to immunize more people against COVID-19. These are all reasonable questions to consider and evaluate in clinical trials. However, at this time, suggesting changes to the FDA-authorized dosing or schedules of these vaccines is premature and not rooted solidly in the available evidence. Without appropriate data supporting such changes in vaccine administration, we run a significant risk of placing public health at risk, undermining the historic vaccination efforts to protect the population from COVID-19.

The available data continue to support the use of two specified doses of each authorized vaccine at specified intervals. For the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the interval is 21 days between the first and second dose. And for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the interval is 28 days between the first and second dose.

We know that some of these discussions about changing the dosing schedule or dose are based on a belief that changing the dose or dosing schedule can help get more vaccine to the public faster. However, making such changes that are not supported by adequate scientific evidence may ultimately be counterproductive to public health.

We have committed time and time again to make decisions based on data and science. Until vaccine manufacturers have data and science supporting a change, we continue to strongly recommend that health care providers follow the FDA-authorized dosing schedule for each COVID-19 vaccine...

From the FDA report PDF

There appears to be some protection against COVID-19 disease following one dose; however, these data do not provide sufficient information about longer term protection beyond 28 days after a single dose.

These results should be interpreted cautiously given the small sample size and case number and the short follow-up duration.

Sooner,
Thanks for that. I knew I had read somewhere that there was discussion of reducing to on dose for folks in a certain age group but never saw anything beyond that.
I thought the suggestion of a half dose was a bit odd since it was tested and approved under EUA for a two dose vaccine. But I can see where if the immune response is good with one dose, they'd want to just give one dose to low risk folks. I'll have to go back and look at my link. I think there was a link within to the Moderna info.

That makes sense as to why they'd maintain a two dose regimen.

Yes.

As I said we're trying to protect employees by vaccinating those they spend the most time with.

No. Some health professionals have suggested this. The FDA has said that two injections at full strength are the way it was approved and that is the way it should be given.

I am sure there is data on antibody production between injections, as we had 10 tubes of blood drawn everytime we were in the clinic. But that is not approval by the FDA to change how the vaccine is given.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/05/covid-vaccine-fda-us-officials-health-experts-argue-dosing-schedule/4138358001/

Thanks guys. I wouldn't suggest changing the doses, etc. and certainly everyone should get the 2nd one. It's still nice to know that "some" immunity is there after the first.