Covid vaccination status?

[SectorZ]

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

I imagine your teacher would be fine with deferring your test if you feel like hell that day. It's such a common issue that you're not going to be questioned over it. Between all the covid positives in the first place they must have some plan to deal with the bevy of absences this year.

[hotdogPi]

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

I imagine your teacher would be fine with deferring your test if you feel like hell that day. It's such a common issue that you're not going to be questioned over it. Between all the covid positives in the first place they must have some plan to deal with the bevy of absences this year.

AP tests can't be delayed.

[Max Rockatansky]

I think the miserable feeling after the shot isn't technically an "adverse reaction", but rather the desired reaction–the miserable feeling is your body devoting resources toward to building up immunity to the virus, which makes you feel like shit.

Yes, well, I don't know how else to describe it.  I actually sometimes refer to it as "getting sick" from the vaccine, because–well, when you have a fever and chills and body aches and trouble breathing, "sick" seems like a rather appropriate word to describe the situation.

I don't think that people want to call it sick as it might make people less likely to get it.

I was hoping to call in sick, I was disappointed that I felt fine with all the hype leading into both my shots.

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

For context, I have over 700 hours of unused sick leave.  I didn't use a single hour of it during all of 2020 because I didn't feel sickly.  I wish that I could use it just because I want a day off now and then. 

[Mapmikey]

I think the miserable feeling after the shot isn't technically an "adverse reaction", but rather the desired reaction–the miserable feeling is your body devoting resources toward to building up immunity to the virus, which makes you feel like shit.

Yes, well, I don't know how else to describe it.  I actually sometimes refer to it as "getting sick" from the vaccine, because–well, when you have a fever and chills and body aches and trouble breathing, "sick" seems like a rather appropriate word to describe the situation.

I don't think that people want to call it sick as it might make people less likely to get it.

I was hoping to call in sick, I was disappointed that I felt fine with all the hype leading into both my shots.

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

For context, I have over 700 hours of unused sick leave.  I didn't use a single hour of it during all of 2020 because I didn't feel sickly.  I wish that I could use it just because I want a day off now and then. 

Are you able to get anything for unused sick leave when you leave employment (like civil service will add it to years of service credit if you retire as a fed)?

[Roadgeekteen]

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

I imagine your teacher would be fine with deferring your test if you feel like hell that day. It's such a common issue that you're not going to be questioned over it. Between all the covid positives in the first place they must have some plan to deal with the bevy of absences this year.

AP tests can't be delayed.

It's not an AP test. It's a final (in an AP class, which is annoying but whatever). He's letting us take it later if we need to.

[Max Rockatansky]

I think the miserable feeling after the shot isn't technically an "adverse reaction", but rather the desired reaction–the miserable feeling is your body devoting resources toward to building up immunity to the virus, which makes you feel like shit.

Yes, well, I don't know how else to describe it.  I actually sometimes refer to it as "getting sick" from the vaccine, because–well, when you have a fever and chills and body aches and trouble breathing, "sick" seems like a rather appropriate word to describe the situation.

I don't think that people want to call it sick as it might make people less likely to get it.

I was hoping to call in sick, I was disappointed that I felt fine with all the hype leading into both my shots.

I have a test the day after my second dose. I don't know if I want side effects or not.

For context, I have over 700 hours of unused sick leave.  I didn't use a single hour of it during all of 2020 because I didn't feel sickly.  I wish that I could use it just because I want a day off now and then. 

Are you able to get anything for unused sick leave when you leave employment (like civil service will add it to years of service credit if you retire as a fed)?

Yes, I am a Federal Employee so in theory that does work to my benefit if I stick around until retirement.

[wxfree]

I got my second dose this week.  I had a slight fever that evening and the next day.  I was also tired.  The day after, I was all better.

I stopped wearing a mask in places where it isn't required a couple of weeks after my first dose.  I'll wear it if there's a rule, but if there's no sign and the employees aren't wearing one, I won't, either.  Transmission levels are very low in my area.  I stopped wearing it where it isn't required because the number of active cases was at a low level and falling, and now daily new cases are in the single digits in my county.  In my area if we can keep vaccinating people we should have this just about kicked, until the new variants from India get here.  As much as it's spreading there, there must be something awful waiting to get out.  I remember one of the mRNA vaccine makers saying they can reprogram their vaccine to address a variant in six weeks.  Now would be a nice time for that universal coronavirus vaccine I've been hearing about for years.

[kkt]

I got my second dose this week.  I had a slight fever that evening and the next day.  I was also tired.  The day after, I was all better.

I stopped wearing a mask in places where it isn't required a couple of weeks after my first dose.  I'll wear it if there's a rule, but if there's no sign and the employees aren't wearing one, I won't, either.  Transmission levels are very low in my area.  I stopped wearing it where it isn't required because the number of active cases was at a low level and falling, and now daily new cases are in the single digits in my county.  In my area if we can keep vaccinating people we should have this just about kicked, until the new variants from India get here.  As much as it's spreading there, there must be something awful waiting to get out.  I remember one of the mRNA vaccine makers saying they can reprogram their vaccine to address a variant in six weeks.  Now would be a nice time for that universal coronavirus vaccine I've been hearing about for years.

Number of cases sucks here.  Looks like next week we move back to phase 2.

[Roadgeekteen]

I got my second dose this week.  I had a slight fever that evening and the next day.  I was also tired.  The day after, I was all better.

I stopped wearing a mask in places where it isn't required a couple of weeks after my first dose.  I'll wear it if there's a rule, but if there's no sign and the employees aren't wearing one, I won't, either.  Transmission levels are very low in my area.  I stopped wearing it where it isn't required because the number of active cases was at a low level and falling, and now daily new cases are in the single digits in my county.  In my area if we can keep vaccinating people we should have this just about kicked, until the new variants from India get here.  As much as it's spreading there, there must be something awful waiting to get out.  I remember one of the mRNA vaccine makers saying they can reprogram their vaccine to address a variant in six weeks.  Now would be a nice time for that universal coronavirus vaccine I've been hearing about for years.

Number of cases sucks here.  Looks like next week we move back to phase 2.

Why is Washington doing so bad when most of the country is drastically improving?

[wxfree]

I got my second dose this week.  I had a slight fever that evening and the next day.  I was also tired.  The day after, I was all better.

I stopped wearing a mask in places where it isn't required a couple of weeks after my first dose.  I'll wear it if there's a rule, but if there's no sign and the employees aren't wearing one, I won't, either.  Transmission levels are very low in my area.  I stopped wearing it where it isn't required because the number of active cases was at a low level and falling, and now daily new cases are in the single digits in my county.  In my area if we can keep vaccinating people we should have this just about kicked, until the new variants from India get here.  As much as it's spreading there, there must be something awful waiting to get out.  I remember one of the mRNA vaccine makers saying they can reprogram their vaccine to address a variant in six weeks.  Now would be a nice time for that universal coronavirus vaccine I've been hearing about for years.

Number of cases sucks here.  Looks like next week we move back to phase 2.

Why is Washington doing so bad when most of the country is drastically improving?

One of the reasons given for the big outbreak in Michigan that may also apply to Washington is that they did so well at containing earlier outbreaks, which leaves more people vulnerable.  The more contagious B.1.1.7 variant is widespread now.  It's different enough that the immunity imparted by previous infection by a legacy version is less effective, but any immunity is better than none, and places that contained the outbreak better early on have more people with none.  On the Worldometer web site, the total cases per million in Washington is low, the fifth lowest of all states.  That leaves them in a bad situation, because we're now at a point where earlier success works to their detriment.

[Duke87]

Why is Washington doing so bad when most of the country is drastically improving?

They're not. 15 states (and Puerto Rico) currently have higher per-case counts than Washington does.

The difference is that Washington's state government has a far lower risk tolerance than that of most other states, and is reintroducing restrictions under circumstances most other states would shrug at and not deem worrisome.

In other words, it's all politics. Most of the rest of the country has moved on and is working on reopening everything. Washington isn't comfortable with that yet... which isn't all that surprising since they've been one of the most jittery and restriction-happy states from the getgo.

[kkt]

One could argue that embracing death, doing nothing effective to stop it, and even in some states actively preventing others from doing anything to stop it, is politics.

[Rothman]

Why is Washington doing so bad when most of the country is drastically improving?

They're not. 15 states (and Puerto Rico) currently have higher per-case counts than Washington does.

The difference is that Washington's state government has a far lower risk tolerance than that of most other states, and is reintroducing restrictions under circumstances most other states would shrug at and not deem worrisome.

In other words, it's all politics. Most of the rest of the country has moved on and is working on reopening everything. Washington isn't comfortable with that yet... which isn't all that surprising since they've been one of the most jittery and restriction-happy states from the getgo.

So...WA is ranked 34th...still not good.

[Max Rockatansky]

Didn't Washington have some of the most strict rules also?  I seem to recall there was a point in time last year where visiting other households was outright banned.

[hotdogPi]

Washington's cases aren't going up. They're remaining flat while most of the country is going down.

[kkt]

Washington's cases aren't going up. They're remaining flat while most of the country is going down.

Um, no.  The decision about covid phase is made on a county by county basis.  Here's a couple:

King County (Seattle)
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/daily-summary.aspx
See the positive cases graph on the top right:  in early March the 7-day average was about 140 to 160.  Now they're up around 340 to 360.
King County population est. for 2019 is 2.253 million.

Pierce County (Tacoma)
https://www.tpchd.org/healthy-people/diseases/covid-19-pierce-county-cases/
They use a 14-day moving average, which was 80 to 90 in mid March and is now around 190.
Pierce County population est. for 2019 is 904K.

Each county health department makes its own covid dashboard.  Feel free to google for them yourself if you want more counties...

[hotdogPi]

Washington's cases aren't going up. They're remaining flat while most of the country is going down.

Um, no.  The decision about covid phase is made on a county by county basis.  Here's a couple:

King County (Seattle)
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/daily-summary.aspx
See the positive cases graph on the top right:  in early March the 7-day average was about 140 to 160.  Now they're up around 340 to 360.
King County population est. for 2019 is 2.253 million.

Pierce County (Tacoma)
https://www.tpchd.org/healthy-people/diseases/covid-19-pierce-county-cases/
They use a 14-day moving average, which was 80 to 90 in mid March and is now around 190.
Pierce County population est. for 2019 is 904K.

Each county health department makes its own covid dashboard.  Feel free to google for them yourself if you want more counties...

Okay. The New York Times graphic that I'm looking at shows today compared to 14 days ago. It doesn't look farther back than that.

[Duke87]

Shot 2 obtained.

Now nothing to do but wait out the 2-week buffering period.

[kphoger]

I went back to the gym for the first time in over a year last week. There were only three other people there (plus one employee), and none of them were wearing masks, so I didn't bother to wear mine. It's hard enough for me to catch my breath doing strenuous exercise without a mask blocking my airflow.

Saturday evening, my wife and I went to the gym for the first time since before COVID.  Sometime in February-March of last year, we just kind of stopped going because "other life" got in the way.  When we were ready to resume going, things were shut down.  After they had opened up again and we were ready to resume going again, COVID cases bad become high in our area and we didn't feel comfortable being around a bunch of strangers who were breathing hard.  Now that both of us are fully vaccinated, we decided there was no better time to return.

A couple of thoughts:

1.  What once was invigorating is now tiring.  Man, we must have been doing a lot of just sitting around this past year.

2.  Every other treadmill, stair stepper, elliptical machine, and stationary bike was blocked off for physical distancing–except for one row of them.  What's up with that?  It didn't make a difference anyway, because the gym is never crowded at the hour we go there.  But still, I thought that was weird.  On the other hand, it was kind of different using the same kind of machine as my wife but it not being the one right next to hers.

[Roadgeekteen]

https://abc7ny.com/covid-vaccine-india-coronavirus-charges/10572704/

Good news!

[tolbs17]

So Moderna is behind.

[SectorZ]

https://abc7ny.com/covid-vaccine-india-coronavirus-charges/10572704/

Good news!

I want to know if it's really 100% effective or "better than 99.5% effective". Nothing is 100% effective.

[Roadgeekteen]

So Moderna is behind.

Moderna isn't even approved for 16-17 yet.

[1995hoo]

So Moderna is behind.

I'm glad I got Pfizer, then. I'd rather have the injection in my arm.

[tolbs17]

So Moderna is behind.

I'm glad I got Pfizer, then. I'd rather have the injection in my arm.

Same here