Covid-19 Vaccine Information

[Bill Robertson]

In two weeks, my wife will be a week past her second Moderna shot. I'm planning a nice restaurant date for the third week of April to celebrate.

My birthday is April 23. The dinner I started a thread about may be that night. We'll both be just over a month past shot #2.

[ctchandler]

The independent living center (old folks home) that I live in placed condiments on the dining room tables for the first time in over a year. Butter, jelly, salt and pepper, and coffee creamers. We're getting there, slowly but surely.
C. T.

[Richard at Remax]

Got my 2nd pfizer shot yesterday at 830 am. 24 hours later all I have is a sore arm. I hope this doesn't jinx it

[DowntownMan]

Got my 2nd pfizer shot yesterday at 830 am. 24 hours later all I have is a sore arm. I hope this doesn't jinx it

My arm is less sore this time than the 1st shot. And no other symptoms as well with Pfizer

[TheTravellers]

Two interesting pieces of news.

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effective Up To 6 Months Later, Study Finds (thought it was supposed to be a year, which they may eventually find out it is, though)

Factory Mix-Up Ruins Up to 15 Million Vaccine Doses From Johnson & Johnson

[dankrutka]

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effective Up To 6 Months Later, Study Finds (thought it was supposed to be a year, which they may eventually find out it is, though)

Wow. This is a really crappy write up with almost no information. Maybe don't link to HuffPost for this stuff. The study only has 6 months of data so all it is saying is that they can verify that the vaccine is effective at 6 months. As more data comes in, they can verify that it lasts longer. There is really no reason to think the vaccine would only last 6 months.

[TheTravellers]

Wow. This is a really crappy write up with almost no information. Maybe don't link to HuffPost for this stuff. The study only has 6 months of data so all it is saying is that they can verify that the vaccine is effective at 6 months. As more data comes in, they can verify that it lasts longer. There is really no reason to think the vaccine would only last 6 months.

Yeah, I know, it was just the first article I ran across, verified it with other articles, but that's about all the other articles say too. Huffpost generally links to source articles in their articles, not sure why this one was just a stub). And yes, my comment allowed that we need more time to see if it lasts a year, we just haven't hit that yet). Still interesting.

[SEMIweather]

Got my second Pfizer dose yesterday morning. Yesterday I just had a sore arm, today I've had general dull body aches, though the arm soreness is better. No fever at any point, and the aches never got to a point where I felt the need to take any Ibuprofen. All in all, really not too bad, though definitely more noticeable than my first dose. I anticipate that the body aches will go away with a night of sleep.

[Richard at Remax]

Got my 2nd pfizer shot yesterday at 830 am. 24 hours later all I have is a sore arm. I hope this doesn't jinx it

Def spoke too soon. Around noon yesterday I got overwhelmingly tired and fatigued. Went home and took a 5 hour nap. Woke up feeling like a million bucks.

[OkiePoke]

It makes me happy so many people are getting vaccinated. What a good sign.

It took about 12 hours after my 2nd Pfizer to start feeling tired. I went to sleep but overnight I had all the symptoms, aches, headache, fever/chills, which made sleeping difficult. I was tired the following day. I woke up this morning feeling pretty great, maybe just a little tired.

[FighttheGoodFight]

42% of Oklahoma adults have at least one shot. 57% of seniors are fully vaccinated.

[Bill Robertson]

42% of Oklahoma adults have at least one shot. 57% of seniors are fully vaccinated.

I wonder what the percentage vaccinated of the 6 or so surrounding states are. I know I could spend the time to look but I'm not that inclined. Reason being is that OK and the surrounding states all have 7 or 14 day average new cases flat or dropping when about 25 of 50 states are rising. A handful rising at a scary rate.

[SouthOfTheVillage]

Ended up using some PJ time to get the Moderna.
Wanted the J&J, of course.
Will be interesting to see the incentives offered to the stragglers.

[kukblue1]

I have talked to several people that I used to work with in the fast food industry and non of them have gotten vaccinated yet. Some say they never will while a few are waiting for the J&J cause it's one shot.

[Bunty]

OSU is opening a Johnson & Johnson vaccine clinic to the public at Gallagher-Iba Arena beginning April 8: https://www.stwnewspress.com/covid-1...55510fd5d.html

[soonerguru]

Ended up using some PJ time to get the Moderna.
Wanted the J&J, of course.
Will be interesting to see the incentives offered to the stragglers.

Thank you.

[Bunty]

I wonder why Stillwater in vaccine alerts always has so few appointments available while considerably smaller towns, such as Sayre and Holdenville have well into the double digits.

[FighttheGoodFight]

I wonder why Stillwater in vaccine alerts always has so few appointments available while considerably smaller towns, such as Sayre and Holdenville have well into the double digits.

Offered through the university health system, so they don't show up there?

[TheTravellers]

I wonder what the percentage vaccinated of the 6 or so surrounding states are. I know I could spend the time to look but I'm not that inclined. Reason being is that OK and the surrounding states all have 7 or 14 day average new cases flat or dropping when about 25 of 50 states are rising. A handful rising at a scary rate.

And speaking of scary, this is probably related and unsettling...

Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Next COVID-19 Wave In U.S. Is Inevitable

[Bill Robertson]

And speaking of scary, this is probably related and unsettling...

Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Next COVID-19 Wave In U.S. Is Inevitable

Hopefully in a few weeks we can look back at this prediction as not so accurate. Any statement like this that also raises the party line flag gets a question mark from me.

[Bunty]

Offered through the university health system, so they don't show up there?

It won't be offering vaccines to the general public until Thursday. When I went to the county expo center east of Stillwater, there were around 35 people in the 15 minute waiting room. Vaccines are often out of stock in the Wal-Marts and drug stores. Maybe appointments are going a lot faster in Stillwater than in many of the smaller towns, well dah.

[FighttheGoodFight]

We have now fallen to 28th in the country for one dose of the shot so far. I think now is the time to get these targeted to areas with lower rates instead of big vaccine events. Mobile units and at local doctor's offices would be a good start. We now are in the phase of getting people who won't go out of their way to get a shot but will if it is convenient.

[Bunty]

We have now fallen to 28th in the country for one dose of the shot so far. I think now is the time to get these targeted to areas with lower rates instead of big vaccine events. Mobile units and at local doctor's offices would be a good start. We now are in the phase of getting people who won't go out of their way to get a shot but will if it is convenient.

There is probably too many people believing the outrageous misinfo that has been going out about the vaccines. At the risk of offending them, maybe that's why so many towns in the rural counties have a good supply of vaccines in stock.

[soonerguru]

Hopefully in a few weeks we can look back at this prediction as not so accurate. Any statement like this that also raises the party line flag gets a question mark from me.

Right. Even Fauci said this morning that there is not a high likelihood of another major surge. There will be a lot of anti-vaxxers who will die by their own decisions, however.

[Bunty]

Right. Even Fauci said this morning that there is not a high likelihood of another major surge. There will be a lot of anti-vaxxers who will die by their own decisions, however.

It's not even mainly about dying. It's also about the bad after-effects 1 in 3 have: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/third...223000621.html

Who knows altogether the percentage of bad after effects? This firefighter had it so bad he had to have a double lung transplant: https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/st...00e9ad543.html