Abbott said 10 million Texans have recovered from Covid, but the state dashboard says just shy of 2.3 million cases confirmed. So ... either they have been grossly under reporting, or ... something.
Post by gerberdaisy on Mar 2, 2021 18:33:52 GMT -5
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
Even just keeping the mask mandates until summer would make a huge difference in sparing lives if we can have enough vaccines for every adult by May. Why is this difficult?
Also eyeroll to banning future mask mandates. Our country is full of fucking morons.
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
If I were literally presented with two needles, one Pfizer and one J&J, and asked which one I wanted, I’d go with Pfizer. But the option that is much more likely for most people is being presented with one needle vs. no needle. In that scenario, either vaccine option is the definite choice over no vaccination.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The Texas morons have already started calling for masks to be removed from schools. My district has already stated they will be following local health expert recommendations. Thank goodness.
Our district said it will wait for "guidance from TEA" so, yeah, we're fucked.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The Texas morons have already started calling for masks to be removed from schools. My district has already stated they will be following local health expert recommendations. Thank goodness.
Our district said it will wait for "guidance from TEA" so, yeah, we're fucked.
Post by gerberdaisy on Mar 2, 2021 19:17:59 GMT -5
timorousbeastie, 100% agree would take one needle vs. no needle. We're just in the likely scenario right now that we can choose (at least for a little bit). Although I know it seems like the "right" answer is likely Pfizer, it is tempting to only get one shot.
I'm just so glad that things seems to be looking up so much on the vaccine front vs even a few days ago.
I’ve been learning / retraining myself to view TX et al. as suppressed states with swathes of marginalized people, instead of as red states, and this mask business amplifies the tragedy of this new fuckery.
timorousbeastie, 100% agree would take one needle vs. no needle. We're just in the likely scenario right now that we can choose (at least for a little bit). Although I know it seems like the "right" answer is likely Pfizer, it is tempting to only get one shot.
I'm just so glad that things seems to be looking up so much on the vaccine front vs even a few days ago.
Last night, Rachel Maddow basically said that, while she would take any vaccine offered to her, she would prefer J&J because she is needle-phobic. I appreciated her saying it because I think it sends a good message that the J&J should not be seen as a “bad” vaccine. I was happy to see her push that message without being over the top or preachy about it. She was very clear about saying that any vaccine would be good and that she wasn’t promoting refusing a vaccine if offered.
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
I got Pfizer (no choice) but I’d opt for J&J because getting my second dose was annoying logistically.
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
So, I don’t have a needle phobia, so one shot vs two doesn’t affect me. The best shot to get is the one you *can* get! But, I think I’d prefer an mRNA one, but all there prevent something like 100% of hospitalizations. So even if one is slightly better at infection, they all turn a potentially serious virus into a common cold. Plus, I can’t recall if I’ve seen anyone who did the stats to show that they actually are different. Raw numbers are different, but is it an actual significant difference?
if I care about side effects, j&j is better. I hate to be a one trick pony, but after 20 rounds of chemo, I just roll my eyes about a few side effects to SAVE A LIFE (see also needle thoughts). Edit, I added a chart I saved (don’t recall the source) regarding the side effect profiles, and compared to other common vaccines.
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
Given the choice I would do Pfizer (and I got moderna). My husband can’t have any vaccines with live or attenuated viruses and I would feel the need to quarantine from him for 14 days if I got one (we don’t know whether or not that’s overkill, therefore I would likely do it to keep him safe).
My coworker is terrified of needles and of vaccine reactions, so the only way I see her getting the vaccine is if it’s J&J. I’m thrilled for her sake that it’s out and will have been available for a while before she’ll be eligible because it gives the rest of us time to prove to her that it’s safe and a good idea because she agrees it’s important in theory but is terrified for herself.
In Iowa, we are using our J&J allotment to send teams into meatpacking plants to get that population taken care of quickly. I think that is very smart use of the shot. They are a prioritized population, but tricky to work out logistics of 2 shots, especially if it can’t be given at work.
Welp, I am pretty livid about Texas. My parents who live there are thankfully fully vaccinated, but my sister and her family aren't and won't likely be anytime soon. It still baffles me that my ultra liberal family chose to move to Texas. I feel like there are a lot of things like this that they couldn't have predicted but have really not worked out great for them.
Welp, I am pretty livid about Texas. My parents who live there are thankfully fully vaccinated, but my sister and her family aren't and won't likely be anytime soon. It still baffles me that my ultra liberal family chose to move to Texas. I feel like there are a lot of things like this that they couldn't have predicted but have really not worked out great for them.
Do we need to have another not-all-Texan-residents-are-idiot-conservatives argument again? Because I’ll do it.
Texas is purple, and many “ultra liberal” people live here. We already hashed through this in the storm thread a week and a half ago.
Welp, I am pretty livid about Texas. My parents who live there are thankfully fully vaccinated, but my sister and her family aren't and won't likely be anytime soon. It still baffles me that my ultra liberal family chose to move to Texas. I feel like there are a lot of things like this that they couldn't have predicted but have really not worked out great for them.
Do we need to have another not-all-Texan-residents-are-idiot-conservatives argument again? Because I’ll do it.
Texas is purple, and many “ultra liberal” people live here. We already hashed through this in the storm thread a week and a half ago.
I understand where you're coming from, but I do think there is a distinction between the people that live there and the local government unfortunately.
@@@@@@@@@@@ I'm not going to say I don't get why people would move there. But for me honestly unless something drastic happened in my life I'm never going to move to a "red" state (by that I mean mostly run by republicans) due to the lack of comprehensive health care options for all people, including undocumented persons and the lack of access to reproductive health care options, specifically abortion care.
I 100% commend the people living there doing the hard work for those things to change and I work closely with colleagues in those areas, but for me personally, nope. I would not be able to live and work there (there are literally restrictions in TX that would make it impossible for me to do the same kind of work in TX that I currently do in my city).
That is not saying there aren't lovely people in TX. Plenty of Black people live in the south and I of course would love to live in a city with a lot of Black people, but that doesn't mean I agree with the politicians there and would move there.
Anyway, as far as covid goes, I'm glad that it's definitely coming to fruition that covid vaccine is going to uptick. I hope that access continues to improve especially for people like seniors, the homebound, incarcerated persons, etc.
Our county just announced their vaccine clinic will operate 24 hours a day starting Friday, with j&j vaccines overnight. That’s 1000s a day just at that site.
Which leads me to a question, if you had a choice, which would you get? Pfizer or J&J
Given the choice I’d choose Pfizer, simply b/c the study outcomes were a bit better, but I wouldn’t hesitate to get J&J.
J&J also had their trial in areas that had the more infectious variant like South Africa and Brazil. I don't think they were out yet when moderna and pfizer were doing their trials.
Welp, I am pretty livid about Texas. My parents who live there are thankfully fully vaccinated, but my sister and her family aren't and won't likely be anytime soon. It still baffles me that my ultra liberal family chose to move to Texas. I feel like there are a lot of things like this that they couldn't have predicted but have really not worked out great for them.
Do we need to have another not-all-Texan-residents-are-idiot-conservatives argument again? Because I’ll do it.
Texas is purple, and many “ultra liberal” people live here. We already hashed through this in the storm thread a week and a half ago.
No. My comment was not about individuals but rather about the values and policies of state government. Whether there are liberals there or not, the state government is not liberal and the bullshit decisions like this are a result of that.
Teachers in MA are now eligible for the vaccine at CVS! That was fast! CVS gets vaccines directly from the federal government. Let’s see if Baker follows suit at the state sites. Wahoo!
Back to the “which vaccine” discussion. I just stumbled on some interesting data on efficacy in J&J for people with comorbidities. Potential to weight into discussion with a doctor to help make you decision.
It’s a tweet thread, but this is the chart most useful. This is an oncologist I follow.
Tweets: More importantly- it protects from severe infection and death, as has been noted by public health experts far more eloquently #JnJ This to me, is the far more important clinical endpoint. 3/6
But, this breakdown by comorbidity (acknowledging the small number of volunteers) suggests not so great in people with immunocompromised state, including #HIV and had lower effectiveness at 28 days in volunteers w/ #diabetes or #hypertension 4/6
MH just text me that his work has been helping people get signed up for vaccinations as they come available. I feel like they're in a grey area between 1C (current group) and 2 (next giant group) so I am happy to hear it. He's been working in person this entire time but they have taken it seriously and avoided any outbreaks. They're understandably prioritizing the older employees first but I am hoping this means he might get his first dose by the end of the month.
Post by BlondeSpiders on Mar 4, 2021 12:39:25 GMT -5
So my 70-yo mom got her first shot yesterday, and they would not schedule her for a 2nd dose. They said she had to schedule it herself. Of course, she can't find anything for 30 days out, so she's panicking. Ok, it's me who's panicking. How stupid is that???