Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/vaccine-worries

Comment #4269

2021-01-15T14:18:21Z

Brenda, what do you mean by "Except for New York"?

I'm now inclined to believe that Porter's speculation is correct, at least in accounting for some of the difference. I believe we can credit 2004 for a good deal of Central Florida's excellent response. That was the year we were slammed by four hurricanes in a row—after some 40 years of peace on the weather front. It was a huge wake-up call that our emergency response infrastructure needed some work, and we rose to the occasion. Of course, hurricane preparedness is not the same thing as preparing for a pandemic, but I'm sure it's easier to repurpose infrastructure than to create it from scratch.

Plus, we have big buildings. Talking to people in other states, I hear stories of auditoriums being used as spaces for distributing "large numbers" of vaccines. Compare this to Central Florida, where they use the huge Orange County Convention Center parking lot for that purpose, with drive-through vaccinations, roving doctors on skateboards, and dedicated areas of the lot for the mandatory "let's see if you're going to pass out, go into shock, or grow horns" period. Plus there are mobile vaccination sites that target individual neighborhoods. Even tiny Seminole County has already administered some 18,000 doses.

Comment #4268

2021-01-15T13:48:12Z

My understanding from the press conference was that each state is handling the distribution through its own priorities and infrastructure. So there is variety among the states. Except for New York.

Comment #4267

2021-01-12T17:13:43Z

I've heard that's true in some other states, too. I wonder why—I thought it all came through the CDC.

Comment #4266

2021-01-12T16:35:57Z

Florida is way ahead of Indiana. To get the vaccine here, I would have to be over 80.

Comment #4265

2021-01-12T10:18:35Z

V1Day+1: Some soreness in my vaccine arm. Nothing else to say at this point.

Comment #4264

2021-01-12T01:54:55Z

It's done. Well, the first half, anyway. Next one in three weeks. I was very impressed by how well-organized the process was, and how smoothly and quickly it went. The only surprise was that we received the Pfizer vaccine instead of the Moderna as stated on the original paperwork. I guess they give out whichever they can get their hands on.

Since we've been warned that the second dose of the Pfizer has been known to wipe recipients out for a day, we'll see what happens with our dentist appointments, currently scheduled for the day after.

Comment #4263

2021-01-10T10:40:43Z

I've been debating about getting it. I didn't it in the first round of Moderns vaccines, but there is a second round next week.

There is definitely pressure to get it from various places.

As I understand it, you can still pass the virus onto others even after having the vaccine, like other vaccines.

I'm leaning towards getting it, but I don't really know.