I am getting my booster today at 4 update

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and frankly am of two minds. First, I qualify based on occupation (I am a teacher in a school where we have students attending in person). I made my appointment about an hour ago. I could have gotten it as early as 2 if I weren't at work. In short, no wait. My county's rate is 51 partial/ 44 full. Now, honestly, on one level it is a disgrace that I am getting my third shot before nearly half of my area has gotten its first and with over half not fully vaccinated. And if there were a line, I wouldn't be jumping it based on occupation. That would be, in a word, gross. So while I am grateful to be getting my booster, I am disappointed too.

And to be really honest. I still feel bad on some level here. I know that in a sane world we would be vaccinating everyone once before some get a third dose.

update you all should make sure to call the place you make the appointment with if you did so online. I showed up but they aren't doing them yet. this was Walmart so I tried Walgreens and the same thing happened (this time they hadn't defrosted the vaccine). So I will be doing tomorrow I guess. But call first is the lesson.

[KewlKat]

1. My spouses "Moderna booster" thru the VA turned out to be a FULL dose, not the half dose...

within 12 hrs of getting his "booster" he was as sick as a dog....I've never seen him like this and none of these symptoms had either of us experienced with our 2 full does prior. He was incoherent, shaking, chilled, said his legs were on fire and he was cold everywhere else. He really had me frightened.

I made a point of asking the clinic last week if they had the half dose and was told yes...will be phoning them today.

[gab13by13]

3. The recommendation was supposed to be for 1/2 dose.

That is what was approved by CDC. My pharmacy is still preparing the booster shots. Anyone who got full dose Moderna boosters was not what was authorized.

[KewlKat]

5. My spouse is immunocompromised, so that's why he got the FULL dose

Here's what they said -

What is the difference between a booster shot and an additional dose?

A booster shot is administered when a person has completed their vaccine series and protection against the virus has decreased over time.

Additional doses are administered to people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems. This additional dose of an mRNA-COVID-19 vaccine is intended to improve immunocompromised people’s response to their initial vaccine series.

[LisaL]

15. I got the full dose as well.

Got the fever the next day-it lasted for two days. Also got a Moderna arm that lasted for about a week.

[Ms. Toad]

23. That is exactly what is supposed to have happened.

(Although with Pfizer both boosters and additional doses get the full quantity.)

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4. I made clear on line that I am getting a booster

and have my card with me, so I will definitely ask.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Please do not feel bad at all. You are in a very valuable occupation in a high risk setting.

You are doing the responsible thing in terms of protecting yourself, students and the rest of the community the students have contact with.

I feel bad that you were not able to get the booster at the start of the school year. That is when it should have been given.

Thank goodness you have another layer of protection now.

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7. thanks

I wish our rate here were higher but in the meantime I am protecting myself.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yes, we cannot control the idiots out there.

All we can do is the right thing and hope others follow.

[doc03]

6. Kroger just texted me my 4th COVID shot is due. nt

[Irish_Dem]

10. Jebus, they must have cartons of the vaccine gonna expire soon.

[SheltieLover]

13. 4th?

Is that a thing?

[Hortensis]

9. You're being as responsible as you can be,

in the only way you can helping make your community safer in spite of those who are still refusing to be vaccinated -- even as OFFICIAL deaths exceed 750,000! There's no line jumping, just ethical and responsible people versus depraved indifference to life.

Crazy times.

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11. yep I extoll the vaccine when I can

the fact is I benefitted twice from people not lining up. Once when I got my first shot back in Feb (teachers got bumped as vaccine piled up) and now for the booster. I would prefer that people had lined up but I am going to get mine if they won't.

[Hortensis]

18. ? I don't quite understand the concept of a line.

We got our Pfizer boosters a couple weeks ago. We were both 6 months past our first two. But also I have a serious autoimmune disorder on suppression, and he's 81. Like you but for different reasons, we're supposed to get them. Zero guilt. We don't feel privileged, we feel lvulnerable -- and responsible.

After all, there's disagreement about whether most people need it at all yet, and we don't know anyone anxious to get it who hasn't been advised.

There were a couple others at the pharmacy getting their first or second shot at the time, but we just wondered what finally, belatedly brought them in and wished the other half of the county still refusing would show up too. It's pretty much like yours around here.

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21. I meant metaphorically

in terms of a line. When I got my first, vaccine was still scarce in some parts of the country (honestly all of it) but then people stopped wanting it here which allowed the governor to put teachers in the mix. We were put in on 23 Feb, I got my shot on 28 Feb.

[Hortensis]

24. Yes, and it was available to only the most elderly and first responders first.

Our son's work took him into hospitals, SNFs, etc, so he was among the first; our teacher DIL's whole district was asked to get vaccinated I think in March when it became pretty widely available.

Now I remember that we held off a bit at first getting my husband vaccinated because of limited supplies. We were retired, isolation no big sacrifice, and unvaccinated people were being forced to work in public every day. But with 80% of those of my husband's age group dying if they got it, we didn't want to wait long and were glad when it really started happening across the nation.

Everyone who voted to get government out of Republican hands did good. Death tolls among those who wanted vaccination would be a lot higher if we hadn't. And the overall vaccination rate for those over 65 is 91%, which includes a whole lot of tRump voters and parents of tRump voters. Most of them as early in line as scheduled.

[Hortensis]

25. Second duplicate in two days.

[SheltieLover]

14. Congrats!

Got mine a few weeks ago.

Interesting that occupation counts, but being a student apparently doesn't.

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16. well students haven't been vaccinated for 6 weeks yet in the vast majority of cases.

[SheltieLover]

17. 18+ college students have

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. You feel bad on some level? Because you are taking a vaccine instead of ...

... allowing the allocation to go to someone who is refusing to take it?

There's more vaccine than we need. You can have yours without depriving anyone. Get it and feel good.

If there was some other plan for the vaccines, such as innoculating the continents of Africa and South America, I might be willing to go without my third shot. Too late for such sentiment for me; I got my booster this morning.

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22. thanks

yeah it is foolish to let the vaccines rot for lack of use. It isn't my fault we had refusniks.

[secondwind]

20. I fly from the Caribbean to Miami for my shots... have 2 Pfizer so far... Miami airport has an

auditorium (take the elevator, I forget which floor), and they give shots up there...

I stay one night at the airport hotel right there and fly back home.. Am waiting for my sixth month, which is in December.

[Meowmee]

26. I am not sure what you feel bad about

Do you realize the reason the vaccination rate is low is because people are refusing vaccines that is the main reason. Get your booster and don’t feel any guilt whatsoever. This country absolutely does not care what happens to its most vulnerable citizens, especially the elderly, if they did they would’ve done the right thing from the start. And it is not all on dumpster. You need to do what you need to do to protect yourself and your family etc. There was a lot of cheating in the beginning with the first vaccines as well people who shouldn’t have been getting vaccinated were using family members IDs and stuff like that to get a vaccine when they weren’t even eligible. And the wrong people were made eligible before high risk which is what should have been done medically.

Everything that has been done in this country since the start of the pandemic was one big fuck up and it caused my father‘s death because he should’ve had a vaccine long before any young healthy frontline workers or other such people like that. Half of those people, at least, refused vaccines and some of those vaccines were thrown away- they could’ve been given to people like my father who really needed it. Do not feel any guilt, get your booster.


I had my booster a little over a week ago and I had a much worse reaction I am not sure if it’s because I have not been well with everything going on the past month which is very extreme which I am not going to detail here or if it was just a worse reaction this time. It was the full dose Pfizer. I had a worse immediate reaction and then I was pretty sick for about a week. At one point I was thinking I’m going to have to go to a doctor because I was worried my heart was being affected however I managed not to do that and the last place I want to go to right now any the hospital.