Got our first Covid shots today
Got our first Covid-19 shots (Moderna) at a Johnston County NC drive thru clinic this morning. Arrived at 7:20 AM, line started moving at 10:00, out of there (after 15 min waiting for adverse reactions) at 11:15. There were 500 doses available today, 2nd clinic this week. Our own county, Wayne, does it by appointment and so far we have heard nothing from them so we decided to take a chance on a neighboring county on a first come, first served basis. Next shot after 28 days.
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the need for a parking-brake checker was first realized it didn't result in more than slight injury and perhaps vehicle damage. Sounds like the kind of thing that'd be included in how-to manuals for projects like this. 
I'll need to keep my eyes and ears peeled. I've been worried about my husband because he has a host of ailments that would make a Covid infection very dangerous. We've already had an acquaintance die with the same pre-existing conditions.
Thanks! 
getting the injection as both anti-inflammatory OTCs would reduce the effectiveness of the body's response to the vaccine.
By Lynne Adkins KYW Newsradio
January 18, 2021 4:25 pm
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Many people complain about a sore arm after getting vaccinations, but doctors say it might be a good idea to live with the discomfort. Don't take a Tylenol or Advil before you get your COVID-19 vaccination and even if the shot hurts, you shouldn't take one for a day or two after you get it, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and member of the FDA vaccine advisory board.
"When you get a COVID-19 vaccine — one of these two mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer or Moderna — if you choose to take an anti-fever, anti-inflammatory medicine, know that you will probably be lessening your immune response to that vaccine. So, you're only really hurting yourself by taking those types of medications,” he said.
Offit said it's not known how much less effective the shots would be by taking ibuprofen or acetaminophen because no studies have been done yet. “But, if it's similar to what has been shown for the influenza vaccine or a variety of other pediatric vaccines, you can assume there will be a lesser immune response. How much less, one doesn't know yet,” he explained.
He said the same advice goes for any vaccination, even your yearly flu shot. Of course, if your doctor has told you to take these medications, talk to him or her before you stop taking them.
https://www.radio.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/can-you-take-pain-relievers-after-getting-covid-19-vaccine
I haven't yet had any reactions to vaccines except maybe a tetanus (DTP) shot years ago, because that is like this - intramuscular.
I never thought to take something although I have been in the habit of getting an aspirin and some acetaminophen in the morning just to move. 
to get some (instant) coffee and pop the OTCs. 
So funny. They have these things that make coffee before walking down those stairs. Teakettle and instant .... 
, though I bought the coolest black kettle for son and he left it at my house. I use it daily for... tea. You made me smile. Thanks. I feel so much better with Dems in control. Lordy the relief.
(not a timer one) and that gives me the option to try different flavored coffees or hot chocolate or teas if I want. Most of the day I am just sipping on water. But in the morning it's the teakettle ritual! 
Aren't 
great? 
has changed over the years... (I.e., the warnings of "Reye's syndrome", which has been required on every bottle of aspirin since the mid-80s, although I would expect that is a rare disease but still... it is what it is and is 
).
I think the issue here is that these types of vaccines have never been used before and everyone (doctors included) is "guessing".
I expect the thought process was that "symptoms" (like a fever) means that your body is "responding" to something "foreign" and I suppose in this case, you want your body to "respond" (and not "suppress" that response with anti-inflammatory meds) so that it generates the antibodies and gets them ready to go into action in case some spikey ball invader decides to come for a visit!
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been a major player in the whole national pandemic response and tracking and this doctor was also one of the members on CBER's Advisory Committee that reviewed the vaccines.
The very last sentence of the article I posted was this -
The mRNA vaccines are "novel" (new) just like this coronavirus. They do not rely on viral components that are prepared in a certain way (whether "live" but weakened, "dead", or "in fragments" ) to generate an immune response. They literally inject specially coded messenger RNA into you body to enter certain cells, have them actually help those cells morph some "COVID-19-looking spikes" onto them, and that will trigger your body to make some antibodies to attach to those "faked" spikes, making them ready to go after the "real spikes".
It's pretty cool tech but still not enough known about how suppressive meds may impact it since the cell changes basically create "artificial"/"counterfeit" structures to help your body generate the proper antibodies.
