I'm confused when people say they signed up in all of these different places. As far as I can see, signing up for vaccines is all done through my county. Is it different in other places? I could sign up in other counties, but I don't see options for pharmacies, doctors offices, hospitals, etc like people talk about here.
It doesn't really matter as I am still a long way from being eligible, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something. When I am eligible, I want on all the waiting lists.
Where do you live?
Here in Pennsylvania, there is no centralized portal where people can sign up or get on a waiting list. Instead, they provide a list of places that "might possibly" have the vaccine, and it's completely on each person to contact all of these places individually to see if there is any vaccine availability. Some of these places on the list were approved to have the vaccine, but they never actually received any shipments of it yet. This information is listed on a website. Since Pennsylvania is still in the process of trying to get through health care workers and the VERY elderly, the elderly person's family members or volunteers are hopefully trying to help them navigate this.
Allegheny County is the county where Pittsburgh is located. Allegheny County has no centralized portal, but they set up a phone number on one specific day (this past week) where elderly people could call and ask volunteers to help them try to sign up for an appointment. This number was geared towards elderly people who having trouble accessing and using the internet. The phone number was completely swamped within something like twenty minutes after it first opened. Some people were on hold for hours, trying to get through. Allegheny County shut down the phone number after only a few hours because they determined that there were no more open appointments for people trying to get through. What's worse, someone figured out how to hack into the phone number, and they were scamming some of the people who tried to use the number.
I know people who have attempted to call up some of the places that were listed on the website as potentially having the vaccine. Many did not actually have it. The ones that did, had no appointment availability. These places refused to take names for a waiting list because they had no way of knowing what their future supply would look like.
It's a real shit show in Pennsylvania.
I'm in Asheville. As far as I can tell, you sign up on a wait list through the county. Right now, only the first two groups are able to sign up. When they expand to group 3, they will open the wait list for that group. It seems pretty well organized, but moving slowly. I haven't seen any other places to sign up, but someone up thread posted that they are in NC and signed up on the hospital sites and Walgreens. I'm going to look into those as well.
I'm confused when people say they signed up in all of these different places. As far as I can see, signing up for vaccines is all done through my county. Is it different in other places? I could sign up in other counties, but I don't see options for pharmacies, doctors offices, hospitals, etc like people talk about here.
It doesn't really matter as I am still a long way from being eligible, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something. When I am eligible, I want on all the waiting lists.
It is available where I am at grocery stores, county department of healths, and doctor offices.
My co-worker and her MIL got appointments. I just got my email saying I will get another email with my code to sign up. I actually got my first shot already but an automated system wouldn’t know that. This confirms my experience that I am phase 1B, but to get anyone to actually say it for my profession for my county health department is like pulling teeth.
I'm confused when people say they signed up in all of these different places. As far as I can see, signing up for vaccines is all done through my county. Is it different in other places? I could sign up in other counties, but I don't see options for pharmacies, doctors offices, hospitals, etc like people talk about here.
It doesn't really matter as I am still a long way from being eligible, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something. When I am eligible, I want on all the waiting lists.
Here locally they are actually encouraging eligible people to sign up through pharmacies. We have two grocery chains plus Walgreens vaccinating people at pharmacies. I think the HD did run a clinic mainly doing just those over 65.
I hope we can track every asshole that went to these things and force them to quarantine or something. I know that’s not going to happen but fuck. I wish we (Tampa, Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and any other surrounding area )set up curfews, I don’t know if that is even possible, but Jesus.
I hope we can track every asshole that went to these things and force them to quarantine or something. I know that’s not going to happen but fuck. I wish we (Tampa, Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and any other surrounding area )set up curfews, I don’t know if that is even possible, but Jesus.
I'm also near Tampa. My H commented earlier in the week re the Godfrey's party and said he thought it would be a covid disaster just cause of how packed WTR has gotten for other things in the past. From what quotes I've read from the police this week I don't think anything more will be done. I hope I'm wrong, but this doesn't bode well for our area that hasn't been doing well with basic covid protocols to begin with.
PA is a fucking mess. I have a friend who is trying to help seniors get signed up, because it is like the Hunger Games. If you aren't monitoring like 8 different sites simultaneously at all hours of the day, you will miss out to people who are.
She sent me a link last night and I used it to get appointments for my parents, only to get an email today that the link wasn't supposed to be for the public. Of course by then my parents had shared the link with their entire church saying that Id found it for them, and now I've been fielding calls from all their church friends about what to do now.
PA is a fucking mess. I have a friend who is trying to help seniors get signed up, because it is like the Hunger Games. If you aren't monitoring like 8 different sites simultaneously at all hours of the day, you will miss out to people who are.
PA is a fucking mess. I have a friend who is trying to help seniors get signed up, because it is like the Hunger Games. If you aren't monitoring like 8 different sites simultaneously at all hours of the day, you will miss out to people who are.
She sent me a link last night and I used it to get appointments for my parents, only to get an email today that the link wasn't supposed to be for the public. Of course by then my parents had shared the link with their entire church saying that Id found it for them, and now I've been fielding calls from all their church friends about what to do now.
I don't know. This whole system blows.
That sucks!
I am pissed off about how poorly this is being handled in Pennsylvania.
PA is a fucking mess. I have a friend who is trying to help seniors get signed up, because it is like the Hunger Games. If you aren't monitoring like 8 different sites simultaneously at all hours of the day, you will miss out to people who are.
She sent me a link last night and I used it to get appointments for my parents, only to get an email today that the link wasn't supposed to be for the public. Of course by then my parents had shared the link with their entire church saying that Id found it for them, and now I've been fielding calls from all their church friends about what to do now.
I don't know. This whole system blows.
That sucks!
I am pissed off about how poorly this is being handled in Pennsylvania.
My mom is in PA and is pretty frustrated as well. At this point, she has resigned herself to just waiting for the J & J one since it's only one shot
My dad has been trying for weeks to get an appt in nyc. I finally got him to give me his Walgreens info yesterday morning so I could help look. Well, I logged on yesterday afternoon and managed to snag him an appt today! It’s all the way on 10th Ave, but thankfully he has a car and can drive there. They automatically scheduled his second dose too, at a much closer location. I can’t wait until my mom is eligible!
My dad has been trying for weeks to get an appt in nyc. I finally got him to give me his Walgreens info yesterday morning so I could help look. Well, I logged on yesterday afternoon and managed to snag him an appt today! It’s all the way on 10th Ave, but thankfully he has a car and can drive there. They automatically scheduled his second dose too, at a much closer location. I can’t wait until my mom is eligible!
Walgreens app is saying that they have to review my records to approve my sign up. I'm like, WTF, just let me sign up for the vaccine.
this doesn't seem like a reason to panic though, right (asking you as a medical professional? I heard about this last month and thought that the date of his second dose was really close to when he was possibly infected, so his body may not have built up the immunity yet.
No I wasn't posting it for that. I was posting to show that the vaccine did help protect him. What the data shows is that the neutralizing antibodies peak at 2 weeks after the 2nd dose for both moderna and pfizer vaccines. So he was likely infected right as he was getting the 2nd dose or right before. I obviously don't know his medical history, but he is a little bit older, so at some risk for at least being symptomatic or worse from covid. The first vaccine likely protected him from having symptoms at all. He found out he was positive on routine testing.
The vaccines aren't 100% against preventing covid infections, but it seems to be very very good at preventing severe illness and death. Even when tested with the new variants.
Covid isn't going away. We just need to have better protections against people getting very ill and also from dying.
this doesn't seem like a reason to panic though, right (asking you as a medical professional? I heard about this last month and thought that the date of his second dose was really close to when he was possibly infected, so his body may not have built up the immunity yet.
No I wasn't posting it for that. I was posting to show that the vaccine did help protect him. What the data shows is that the neutralizing antibodies peak at 2 weeks after the 2nd dose for both moderna and pfizer vaccines. So he was likely infected right as he was getting the 2nd dose or right before. I obviously don't know his medical history, but he is a little bit older, so at some risk for at least being symptomatic or worse from covid. The first vaccine likely protected him from having symptoms at all. He found out he was positive on routine testing.
The vaccines aren't 100% against preventing covid infections, but it seems to be very very good at preventing severe illness and death. Even when tested with the new variants.
Covid isn't going away. We just need to have better protections against people getting very ill and also from dying.
You should totally put the bolded in your signature. It’s so true & you remind us often (and I definitely need the reminder)!
My dad has been trying for weeks to get an appt in nyc. I finally got him to give me his Walgreens info yesterday morning so I could help look. Well, I logged on yesterday afternoon and managed to snag him an appt today! It’s all the way on 10th Ave, but thankfully he has a car and can drive there. They automatically scheduled his second dose too, at a much closer location. I can’t wait until my mom is eligible!
Walgreens app is saying that they have to review my records to approve my sign up. I'm like, WTF, just let me sign up for the vaccine.
Ugh, that’s bizarre. Hope you can get it soon! It’s insane to me that they haven’t made it easier for teachers to get vaccinated. Teachers got pushed back in line here in NJ and aren’t eligible yet, yet are still expected to teach in person. 😫
this doesn't seem like a reason to panic though, right (asking you as a medical professional? I heard about this last month and thought that the date of his second dose was really close to when he was possibly infected, so his body may not have built up the immunity yet.
No I wasn't posting it for that. I was posting to show that the vaccine did help protect him. What the data shows is that the neutralizing antibodies peak at 2 weeks after the 2nd dose for both moderna and pfizer vaccines. So he was likely infected right as he was getting the 2nd dose or right before. I obviously don't know his medical history, but he is a little bit older, so at some risk for at least being symptomatic or worse from covid. The first vaccine likely protected him from having symptoms at all. He found out he was positive on routine testing.
The vaccines aren't 100% against preventing covid infections, but it seems to be very very good at preventing severe illness and death. Even when tested with the new variants.
Covid isn't going away. We just need to have better protections against people getting very ill and also from dying.
My sister is a physician, and her employer did antibody testing after first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine. She just turned 44, and 2 weeks after her first dose, she had a very high level of antibodies, but a coworker who is in his mid-50s had a much lower level. This isn't to say that those of us who are younger shouldn't get a second dose, though!!!
Walgreens app is saying that they have to review my records to approve my sign up. I'm like, WTF, just let me sign up for the vaccine.
Ugh, that’s bizarre. Hope you can get it soon! It’s insane to me that they haven’t made it easier for teachers to get vaccinated. Teachers got pushed back in line here in NJ and aren’t eligible yet, yet are still expected to teach in person. 😫
TBF, most teachers around here did get vaccinated when the portal first opened, I just had to wait per the advice of my doc (hindsight, I should've just done it!).