Kolek planning to go pro
The amount of openings is staggering where I work. Where I live it’s a rush when Walgreens opens appointments.I don’t shame anyone getting a vaccine if there’s appointments available the same day.I know a volunteer working at the county, she texts her entire address book at 3p daily to find arms for vaccines.
I have a friend who is a pharmacist at Walgreens. He texted me Sunday morning saying they'd had a number of cancellations and if I came in I could probably get my first dose, so I walked in and got it Sunday.
Yep. Need arms, in many areas phases should just stop.
I have discovered a strange dichotomy in the delivery system here in Minnesota: chain pharmacies are getting better vaccine supply than big hospital and clinic systems.We are moving to phase 1C tomorrow (45-64 with a preexisting condition, and several new categories of ‘less’ essential workers). There were lots of appointments for these groups earlier today through a local grocery store pharmacy (Hy-Vee). OTOH, Mayo and the other local clinics are still struggling to get the 70+ crowd vaccinated. My doc at Mayo told me I’d probably have to wait several weeks longer if I want to get it there...so I’m gonna go the Hy-Vee pharmacy route.IMO, this is rather unfortunate. Mayo has legions of nurses ready and waiting to administer huge volumes of vaccines. The pharmacies, on the other hand, seem to be stretched thin, and are struggling to get people through.
Maybe Mayo should send some nurses out to the Hy-Vees.
lol that was me at my second Walgreens shot in Lakeview in Chicago. I took a selfie of me sitting in my chair waiting my thirty minutes afterwards right in front of the nail polish section.
Ziggys if you are in FB join Chicago Vaccine Hunters, people post lord of useful info there not just for Chicago, but you do have to work through some of the crap like people posting the same question 850 times.Walgreens tends to post appointments at around 6 am though today it was more like 7 am. and sometimes there will be a lot in one area as opposed to another, today people were posting that they got appointments in Harvard and Marengo. If I hear of any other info I will try to let you know, I’ve had my two shots but am trying to gather info for others ( and actually found something that helped someone book their 95 year old aunt, woohoo!).
Get my second tomorrow at 5ish. Maybe I'll take some melatonin and ibuprofen right after and just pass right out.
Don't take the NSAID. It lessens your immune response.
In Nevada, there are so many appointments going unfilled (thousands per day), they are considering lowering the qualifying age to 55. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/thousands-of-covid-vaccine-appointments-going-unfilled-2298295/
Seems like a no brainer. Any vaccine that goes on used is a crying shame.