I got the Pfizer COVID shot and I am fine

[Scott Winners]

Figure we can all use some good news.

When I got mine Thursday morning there had been three adverse reactions globally, out of thousands. The fourth I heard of was actually at my home hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska on Friday, and apprarently there was a spate of reactions in Chicago too.

I am >72 hours out now, with zero adverse reaction. So there, good news. I did take tylenol once after a flu shot in I think 1996, and the 2018 flu shot kicked my butt, I took 650mg of tylenol three times after that one. For the COVID shot, I took nothing. A bit of soreness at the injection site, no fever, no nausea, no vertigo, I am fine.

I went looking to see how many vaccines had been administered just now and couldn't find data easily, but I am confident thousands and thousands of folks have had the Pfizer vaccine with no problem for each of the seven folks who did have a reaction you read about on the news. The Moderna version has been approved since I got my Pfizer one on Thursday morning.

They did change the protocol after I got mine on Thursday 12-17. At the time we had to stick around for 15 minutes after the injection, current guidance is to stick around near medical assistance for 30 minutes after receiving the vaccine. Just sit in a chair and surf here on your phone while the clock is ticking, catch up on the "time for some levity" thread. If you feel fine, you can go.

The local hospital employee was quoted in the paper as saying getting two shots of epinephrine and spending 6 hours in the ER was "nothing" compared to what she has seen COVID do to patients in her care, and she encourages folks to get the vaccine ASAP.

Certainly look at the numbers when you get your chance, but probably the most dangerous part of the covid vaccines for you will be driving back and forth to the injection clinic.

Happy holidays. I texted my preacher after my second shot was scheduled, I get to have communion with my congregation on 01-17, nine days after my second shot and the first time in ten months.

[Curt Harms]

The FAA is saying no flying for 48 hours though that's subject to revision as experience is gained. We'll have no hesitation to get the vaccine once it becomes available to us.

[Ronald Blue]

Scott I'm glad it's been clear sailing for you as it has been for virtually everyone. The Chicago hospital that paused the administration of the vaccine has resumed the process. I personally have two front line family members that have received it in the last few days and no issues. If I could have gotten it I certainly would have. The affects I'm still dealing with from Covid-19 are far greater then the risk of an adverse reaction to the vaccine. I don't know if I classify as a "long hauler" and hope that I don't. However the things that it can do and has done to far to many are staggering. Thank you for what you do and thank you for the good news post.

[Jim Becker]

Good to hear you were able to get the inoculation!

Right now, it's looking like Professor Dr. SWMBO will be able to get it for "Phase 1c" of the CDC recommendation because of her asthma and some other reasons if Pennsylvania follows that recommendation. Maybe they will take pity on me at the same time given same household. :) We're both under 65. Both daughters are retail workers; older in a food market and younger in a boutique. The older, in particular, is more susceptible for reasons I'll not go into, so I"m hoping she will be able to get it sooner, rather than later.

[Erik Loza]

My wife's BFF in Dallas and her husband received the Pfizer shot last week. She is a cardiac nurse and he is a firefighter. Both reported no side effects and have felt fine, since.

Erik

[Ron Selzer]

I will get the shots when they become available for regular people
Right now the Politicians are first, health care next and then on down the line
Ron

[Bert Kemp]

How were you notified to get the shot, I'm wondering if theres a notification process Im 70 and high risk

[Scott Winners]

How were you notified to get the shot,

I ruled in to group 1A since I am front line health care. The hospital I work for was doing pre-availability consents via emails once the Pfizer vaccine got past the expert comittee and the only remaining step was a EUA from the FDA. Once the EUA was issued and they had a tracking number on the shipment, more emails, this time to schedule appointments.



I'm wondering if theres a notification process Im 70 and high risk

The short correct answer is I do not know. Both of the current vaccines use messenger RNA or "m-RNA" and have to be stored at remarkably low temperatures in special freezers.

So one thing to know is where in Arizona are folks going to get the shots? How far away is that?

In the meantime, keep an eye out for newly approved vaccines that might last a little longer in a refrigerator than what we have now.

Also, there was recently published a tool by ABC news, it is at the bottom of this link:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/find-covid-19-vaccine/story?id=74764103&fbclid=IwAR2Q9ADNJ-PXF1u-mMYiGbIFY81SvBECTqrmWjHH6yHPZYgug5USZYtj1Lc

that should help you figure out which "group" you are in, without telling anyone here what pre-existing conditions you may or may not have. Unfortunately the data is 4 days old now so which pre-existing conditions that might change a group assignment may have changed already.

Good luck and best wishes.

[Bert Kemp]

Thanks look like I'm in group 1-B
I ruled in to group 1A since I am front line health care. The hospital I work for was doing pre-availability consents via emails once the Pfizer vaccine got past the expert comittee and the only remaining step was a EUA from the FDA. Once the EUA was issued and they had a tracking number on the shipment, more emails, this time to schedule appointments.




The short correct answer is I do not know. Both of the current vaccines use messenger RNA or "m-RNA" and have to be stored at remarkably low temperatures in special freezers.

So one thing to know is where in Arizona are folks going to get the shots? How far away is that?

In the meantime, keep an eye out for newly approved vaccines that might last a little longer in a refrigerator than what we have now.

Also, there was recently published a tool by ABC news, it is at the bottom of this link:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/find-covid-19-vaccine/story?id=74764103&fbclid=IwAR2Q9ADNJ-PXF1u-mMYiGbIFY81SvBECTqrmWjHH6yHPZYgug5USZYtj1Lc

that should help you figure out which "group" you are in, without telling anyone here what pre-existing conditions you may or may not have. Unfortunately the data is 4 days old now so which pre-existing conditions that might change a group assignment may have changed already.

Good luck and best wishes.

[Ronald Blue]

Phase 2 here but I should have a 90 pass as well. Although I would have preferred not to.

[Bill Dufour]

To be honest three reactions after one million injections may mean the reactions had nothing to do with the shots. I fully expect when they give it to oldtimers in care homes with a 90 day life expectancy, some will die in a day or two later. Same as if you had one million frail old timers drink a glass of warm water a few would be dead inside a week.
Bil lD

[Ronald Blue]

Phase 2 here but I should have a 90 pass as well. Although I would have preferred not to.

That was supposed to be a "90 day pass". I saw a study headlined yesterday that said they think immunity from reinfection may be 6 months now. I certainly don't want it again. EVER!!!!.

I saw there have now been 6 reactions out of the 1 million plus shots given. That's still a very tiny number. However there will still be those that say "see it's not been tested well enough". :eek:

[Ole Anderson]

This is from the Michigan Health Department, most of which is taken from the CDC guidelines: Most interesting to me is the graphic on the last page showing a timeline of which groups would be inoculated. Looking at 10 million per week ramping up to 20 million per week. I believe we will find that our local drugstores, CVS and Walgreens, will be doing most of the work once specific groups are taken care of at locations where there are sufficient numbers to warrant a group event. https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MI_COVID-19_Vaccination_Prioritization_Guidance_710349_7.pd f

Anybody else remember going through this with the polio vaccine back in the 1950's? I remember getting my polio shot at my local church.

[Ron Selzer]

This is from the Michigan Health Department, most of which is taken from the CDC guidelines: Most interesting to me is the graphic on the last page showing a timeline of which groups would be inoculated. Looking at 10 million per week ramping up to 20 million per week. I believe we will find that our local drugstores, CVS and Walgreens, will be doing most of the work once specific groups are taken care of at locations where there are sufficient numbers to warrant a group event. https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MI_COVID-19_Vaccination_Prioritization_Guidance_710349_7.pd f

Anybody else remember going through this with the polio vaccine back in the 1950's? I remember getting my polio shot at my local church.


Got my polio shot at school whole class was lined up and we all got our shots. Years later learned how to be an electrician working for a man whose arm was messed up by polio, you would not know it by how he worked and he was short so his shirt sleeve covered it up. Only on a hot day when no customers were around would he take his shirt off and work in a tee shirt did you see it was less than half the size. He never complained about it.

Politicians are sure making sure they get the vaccination early just like they got tested early and multiple times

Ron

[Erik Loza]

... I believe we will find that our local drugstores, CVS and Walgreens, will be doing most of the work once specific groups are taken care of at locations where there are sufficient numbers to warrant a group event...

My wife and I got our Shingles vaccinations at the local CVS recently. The nurse practitioner told us that CVS apparently is will be the biggest distributor for Moderna's (I think???) Covid vaccination once it's available to the public. She made it sound like there was not going to be any supply issues.

Erik

[Jim Becker]

Erik, Professor Dr. SWMBO and I both feel that the supply will resolve and come in such that it will meet the demand "in the moment"...after all, the local CVS and Walgreen's (the two biggest venues for general public shots, I believe) can only do so many in a day. An article I read yesterday was expressing concern that there are many areas that are somewhat devoid of the major pharmacy choices and that brings into question how the immunizations will get mass-delivered to populations there.

Moderna's vaccine is a little easier to distribute, by the way, because it doesn't require the super low freezing temperatures (-94F) for shipping and storage that Pfizer's does. Moderna's is fine with "merely freezing" which most pharmacies can accommodate already.

[Ronald Blue]

Got my polio shot at school whole class was lined up and we all got our shots. Years later learned how to be an electrician working for a man whose arm was messed up by polio, you would not know it by how he worked and he was short so his shirt sleeve covered it up. Only on a hot day when no customers were around would he take his shirt off and work in a tee shirt did you see it was less than half the size. He never complained about it.

Politicians are sure making sure they get the vaccination early just like they got tested early and multiple times

I remember getting something at school but I don't recall what it was. I don't think it was polio vaccine. I think Ole has some years on me. I didn't start school until 1963. I can remember in my childhood and probably early adult years a few people who had issues from getting polio when there was no vaccine. It was a crippling disease certainly. I don't know if it had the same impact on every unlucky person who contracted it or not. All I can tell people is Covid 19 isn't the flu and you never know how it will impact you when you get it.

[Tom M King]

Our Polio vaccines came on sugar cubes. There were two, some number of weeks apart. I was pretty young, in Elementary school then, but that was in the 1950's, if I'm remembering that correctly.

[Matt Day]

My wife got her’s yesterday (she’s in healthcare) and has been totally fine. Very slightly sore arm but has been doing everything as normal.

[Jim Matthews]

Remember to look both ways before crossing during Moose season.

[Ron Citerone]

Our Polio vaccines came on sugar cubes. There were two, some number of weeks apart. I was pretty young, in Elementary school then, but that was in the 1950's, if I'm remembering that correctly.

I am glad you posted that somewhere in the back roads of my mind I was thinking as young kid going to a local school and getting a vaccine on a sugar cube..........so I'm not crazy!

[eugene thomas]

got the shot yesterday. only side effect is sore arm like when get flu shot.

[Bruce Page]

My RN daughter received the vaccine last week and had no problems other than some soreness at the injection point.

[Bill Dufour]

And that vaccine on a sugar cube will protect you from covid but only for one month when you have to repeat the dose. I understand that is what the Russian medical people were doing before the modern vaccines have come out.
Bill D

[eugene thomas]

i was told first dose without thr second will protect. just to get the best protection need both. sure if wrong some"expert" will set me straight.

[Bruce Page]

i was told first dose without thr second will protect. just to get the best protection need both. sure if wrong some"expert" will set me straight.

I’m not an expert but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once...

From a respected source: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4826

“Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine efficacy was 52% after first dose and 95% after second dose, paper shows”

I did not find single dosage info on the Moderna vaccine.

[Bert Kemp]

I get all my shots at Walmart.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

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Was reminded of this meme.

[Scott Winners]

When I started this thread the major news channels I follow, ABC, NBC, CNN and The Guardian all had seven stories each about the seven people who had had reactions to the Pfizer vaccine, and no data about how many people had received the vaccine.

In the last 48 hours NBC has started tracking how many people have been vaccinated, so you can now start looking at your statistical risk online from a reputable source instead of just reading horror stories.

In Alaska, 8800+ vaccines have been administered, with two recipients requiring medical attention.

FWIW five clinicians in my department got the vaccine on Thursday 12-17. Now that seven days have gone by, 40% of 'us', two clinicians, should be immune in case of exposure. We had no lost time at work, though one of the five took a bunch of tylenol and felt like crap for a couple days, no medical attention was required.

I am heartened, within this thread, to read so many of you are willing to get the vaccine when it is available to you, and no one has gone off, I kid you not, about the lizard people being in collusion with the CIA regarding a microchip in the vaccine to be activated later.

As a group within 'all Americans' registered users here seem to have a remarkably low rate of infection. I am glad to be a part of this group, I think it is because you know how to convert knowledge into concrete decisions and actions.

God bless, and happy new year.

[Ronald Blue]

I am heartened, within this thread, to read so many of you are willing to get the vaccine when it is available to you, and no one has gone off, I kid you not, about the lizard people being in collusion with the CIA regarding a microchip in the vaccine to be activated later.

As a group within 'all Americans' registered users here seem to have a remarkably low rate of infection. I am glad to be a part of this group, I think it is because you know how to convert knowledge into concrete decisions and actions.

God bless, and happy new year.

Scott I wouldn't care is it had a chip in it. They would get so bored tracking me. However what is real is how it can affect your life. I will get the vaccine at the first opportunity. I know my immunity isn't permanent.

[Curt Harms]

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As a group within 'all Americans' registered users here seem to have a remarkably low rate of infection. I am glad to be a part of this group, I think it is because you know how to convert knowledge into concrete decisions and actions.

God bless, and happy new year.
I suspect that as a group we are not "social butterflies" so less exposure there. I try to minimize my time in enclosed spaces such as supermarkets. I certainly wear a mask in such situations but I'm not sure how effective the commonly worn blue masks are. I'm sure better than nothing but how much better is uncertain as far as I can tell. 5 different sources seem to have 5 different answers.

[Brian Elfert]

Based on what was said a few months back I expect I might be in about the last group to get a COVID vaccination unfortunately. I am middle aged with no health issues other than a bit overweight. There was talk that school kids and those 18 to 35 would come before the middle aged without health conditions. They want school kids back in school and they say that 18 to 35 year olds should come before the middle aged because they tend to engage in risky behaviors.

I am guessing that at some point, probably at about the 50% mark, those who haven't been vaccinated won't be able to go anywhere. Stores, restaurants, churches, and the like will simply not allow allow anyone in the door who hasn't been vaccinated.

[Clifford McGuire]

I am guessing that at some point, probably at about the 50% mark, those who haven't been vaccinated won't be able to go anywhere. Stores, restaurants, churches, and the like will simply not allow allow anyone in the door who hasn't been vaccinated.

How would they know? I can't imagine a restaurant or church checking an ID and then consulting a national database.

[Rob Luter]

Glad to hear Scott. My wife and I gained our immunity the , em, old fashioned way. We were fortunate to have mild symptoms. Happy all is well your way.

[Brian Elfert]

How would they know? I can't imagine a restaurant or church checking an ID and then consulting a national database.

Honor system maybe? I read an article maybe a month ago that said that Ticketmaster is planning to require proof of vaccine or a negative COVID test to attend concerts they sell tickets for.

[Ronald Blue]

Glad to hear Scott. My wife and I gained our immunity the , em, old fashioned way. We were fortunate to have mild symptoms. Happy all is well your way.
I'm glad you and your wifes cases were mild. They say our immunity is 90 days although I've saw where some think it could be up to 6 months. The more concerning thing for me would be getting it again and that has happened to a few of those who had it in the spring. I'm certainly getting the vaccine the first opportunity I have.

[Curt Harms]

Honor system maybe? I read an article maybe a month ago that said that Ticketmaster is planning to require proof of vaccine or a negative COVID test to attend concerts they sell tickets for.

I heard snippets of a story that airlines may start requiring a "vaccination passport". Perhaps something similar to a boarding pass on a cell phone serving as proof of vaccination. I could certainly see something like that for international travel.