#I got the moderna shot

[endlessgalore]

got my covid shot yesterday and it's kind of just like. everything hurts

#both arms hurt bc i got my flu shot in the other one. my back hurts because????????? no clue #my nose is stuffy and i'm sleepy because i have moderna disease from the covid shot #and i had to drive 2.5 hours to get back to school since i was home for the weekend #i will be going to bed So early tonight. #talkin

[shoku-and-awe]

Met up with @todayintokyo for year-end brunch at the place with real bacon! Both of us had dramatically different hair than when we saw each other last, and I got to try beetroot hummus for the first time! Also, she had the brilliant idea that the two new shots in my arm (Moderna and influenza) might appreciate the company of a third (Irish coffee), and her hypothesis could not have been more correct! Good fun and good food.

#sorry it took me til almost february #to post these photos basically unedited! 😅 #thank you again for a lovely afternoon 💜

[hypaalicious]

Y’all, go get the new Covid vaccine!

I’m sure others on here have talked about it already and ima just be late, but it’s important!

You can still get updated Covid vaccines/boosters for free if you’re uninsured through December 31, 2024 via the CDC’s Bridge Access Program and participating pharmacies.

Considering that the US government is in full “there is no war in Ba Sing Se” mode about Covid being “over” 🙄 not a lot of people even know a new vaccine exists! It was approved on September 12th and started distribution.

If you go through any CVS or Walgreens, I know for sure they’re a part of the Bridge Access Program and will specify online that you’re getting the (2023-2024) Covid vaccine formulated to target the new nasty variants. For most ppl, I’m gonna assume that the last time y’all got vaccinated was a whole year ago. 😬

Beloveds, it’s like we raw dogging Covid in 2020 again; those old shots ain’t doing shit for you now. You’ll need this new vaccine (it’s not a booster, it’s a whole new beast) to be best protected especially as we go into flu and holiday season.

Some things to note:

Always call the pharmacy to confirm your appointment and that they have the shot you’re looking for.

If you are uninsured, you may have to remind the pharmacy that it should be free for you. CVS was going to charge me $190 for one (1) shot so I called and had to explain to them what they’re enrolled in. Nobody working there even knew about it. This country is very ghetto so you’ll have to be diligent on getting what you need.

There are no multiple rounds this time, just one shot. Moderna and Pfizer are approved rn, Novavax I hear just passed some trials and should be available later as well if you prefer a non-mRNA dose.

This new one knocked me on my ass faster than the previous ones, but idk if that’s cause I actually got Covid back in April and my system is still sensitive. Either or, it’s working!

I will always push taking measures against Covid because our healthcare system is too busted and our government is pretty much leaving us to fend for ourselves during a deadly pandemic. So we gotta milk whatever we can to stay protected.

And as always, vaccination status or not:

#WEAR UR MASSSSS #but yeah I just woke up from an unintended HARD nap #that vaccine knocked me straight out lmao #and my arm is sore but I know that’s normal #but yeah I want y’all suited UP to protect against COVID #it’s no joke and Long Covid will beat your ass in ways you don’t expect #you do NOT want to be disabled in this ableist ass world I’ll tell you that #but yeah I hope this helps someone! 🥺

[finnglas]

I got a flu shot in my left arm and a covid booster in my right arm this afternoon and whew moderna ain't playin' around. the flu shot is a little sore but the covid booster h u r t s

[tomorrowusa]

So I got the latest update for the COVID-19 vaccine before the weekend.

The pharmacy section at a large local supermarket was offering it and it was free. They were also giving this year's flu vaccination for free so I got one of those as well.

This was my 5th COVID shot since March of 2021. Contrary to what former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil once claimed about COVID vaccines, I did not turn into a crocodile.

One change I noticed is that the Moderna vaccine now has a brand name: SPIKEVAX. But the pharmacists still referred to it as the Moderna type.

The latest subvariant is called JN.1. It now accounts for about a quarter of the cases in the US. It originated in the US, so that is something the "America first" stans might be happy about.

There has been a recent spike in COVID hospitalizations (orange), though the weekly deaths (green) from the virus remain relatively low.

COVID has become a permanent feature of our disease landscape – much like influenza. And as with the flu, vaccinations reduce the possibility of infections and make them less serious if you do get them.

Even if there is not a deadly variant like Omicron (winter 2021-2022) on the horizon, it's worth getting vaccinated just to avoid getting sick at an inconvenient time.

#covid-19 #jn.1 #coronavirus #vaccinations #moderna #spikevax #pandemic #public health

[inspectorseb]

I like that in Butch’s Moderna commercial they specifically got a shot of him shooting to the toy department lmao

#isles lb

[meret118]

These vaccines are the first that aren't rolled out by the U.S. government, and without funding that was directed to public health programs in the state of emergency, the outreach is nowhere near what it was at the height of the pandemic, said Lori T. Freeman, the CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).

. . .

All insurers are legally required to cover the COVID-19 vaccine, and the federal government is stepping in to pay for vaccines for those who lack insurance through the Bridge Access Program. But insurers have been slow to implement these vaccines into their systems, leading to the stuttered rollout of the vaccine, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease and health policy professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"There have already been people who have gone to their pharmacies and physician's offices looking for the vaccine and have discovered that they haven't been covered yet, so that means they're going to have to come back again," Schaffner told Salon in a phone interview. "A vaccine deferred is often a vaccine that is never received, unfortunately."

. . .

Nationally, COVID hospitalizations have been steadily increasing since June, along with the rise of Omicron variants like EG.5 (nicknamed "Eris") and FL.1.5.1 (nicknamed Fornax.) The vaccines are predicted to work against these strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which evolves naturally in ways that will sometimes render vaccines next to useless. This is why new shots must be developed with some regularity.

. . .

Meanwhile, approximately 18 million Americans have developed long COVID and data suggests that number will continue to rise with more infections. Although the immunocompromised, elderly and people with other health conditions are the most vulnerable to severe infection, COVID-19 continues to be one of the top 10 leading causes of death for children in the U.S.

This rollout, including mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, boosts immunity toward Omicron variants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended the shots for everyone 6 months and up and projects that this could prevent 400,000 hospitalizations and 40,000 deaths over the next two years. 

. . .

Regardless, the question remains about how many people will take the new vaccines. Only about one in five people got last year's bivalent booster and one in four adults in the U.S. are completely unvaccinated, according to CDC data and the KFF survey. Although it has been improving over time, uptake has been particularly low in Black communities, in part because vaccination sites are disproportionately located in white neighborhoods but also because of decades of mistrust built up in response to prior medical malpractice.

Notably, just 6 million doses have been put aside for the uninsured through the Bridge Access Program, when at least 27 million people in the U.S. are uninsured, Freeman said. The demand for vaccines is a moving target that distributors are trying to balance without losing money, she added, especially because these vaccines have to be kept cold and take resources to store and administer.

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Absolutely get the vaccine! I recommend calling your insurance and pharmacy first though.

#COVID 19 #Health

[mornington-the-crescent]

Personal covid vaccine experience

I got: painful symptoms that arises soon after the original second shot that has given me ovary pain that has no origin based on MANY tests since and my advisor (who grew up and fled the USSR) getting ridiculed by the whole department for daring to question the trends of the “vaccine” he was seeing

They got: another statistic for their totally not politically motivated research paper despite people my age literally collapsing for no reason

The only things that the Fauci Ouchies actually did was 1) make Pfizer and Moderna metric fucktons of money, and 2) demonstrate who could be scared and/or socially pressured into compliance.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Weird question time!  Can getting an injection that includes something you have a food allergy to* make you more sensitized/reactive to that thing, or to your allergies in general, for a while afterwards? I’m allergic to acetic acid, and there’s acetic acid in the Moderna vaccine (and booster). I still got the vaccine (and boosters), even though I had an allergic reaction every time**, but some things with tiny amounts of acetic acid I used to be able to eat were an issue for a while after each shot*** Oh wait side note: same question but for taking the thing you are allergic to as in inactive ingredient in pill form (found out the hard way that some inactive ingredients in pills are made from acetic acid! still trying to figure out if that’s the thing I was allergic to in that pill, or if I’m just separately allergic to one of the inactive ingredients in it) *like, not those desensitization shot things allergists can do, but as an inactive ingredient in a different thing **it was kind of a “better the devil you know” situation. The allergic reaction I had to the Moderna one was unpleasant but handleable. I have no idea if I’m allergic to the Pfizer one, or how bad the reaction would be ***generally not a good idea to eat a food you know you’re allergic to, but I’m on a lot of antihistamines and sometimes you just want refried beans in your burritos even though you know vinegar is on the ingredients list. It’s the last ingredient on the list, and vinegar is only like less than 10% acetic acid, so I can usually tolerate it just fine

#the person behind the yarn #tj asks weird questions #medical mention #injection mention #allergy mention #my allergic reactions tend to have five different categories of symptoms (not including hives which I pretty much don't get anymore): #nausea headache high blood pressure tachycardia and low blood pressure #all of them are unpleasant but the nausea/headache (causing more nausea)/high blood pressure (making the headache worse) combo #is the one that lands me in the hospital #not everything I am allergic to causes all five reactions #and generally once I get past the nausea stage my blood pressure drops dramatically #injected and pill form acetic acid both skip the nausea/high blood pressure stage and most of the headache #and just land HARD on low blood pressure/tachycardia #which sucks! I am stuck on the couch for days! but I have meds for that #and don't need to go to the hospital for that #(I end up in the hospital because the nausea/migraine/hypertension loop gets me to the 'can't orally rehydrate' state very very quickly) #(also because doctors really don't like when your resting heart rate is in the 160s) #(because of my other health issues I am RIDICULOUSLY susceptible to dehydration) #(I've mostly learned to head off those reactions though)

[heartmarierose]

i got my covid booster wish me luck re: migraines

i’ve never had less than 50 hours worth of migraine after a covid shot - over 100 hours after the first dose of moderna

got novavax this time though, hoping that means less migraine

#marie rose original #i’m bad at needles #even though my migraine preventative is a monthly shot i have to do myself (aimovig for those of you familiar)

[owltypical]

hoo boy, i got my covid booster yesterday and it really started kicking my ass around noon today, i am barely upright and functioning at this point, most of my day has been spent horizontal

the shot i got last year had zero impact on me at all, but i think it's because all my previous shots have been pfizer, and this new one is my first moderna

also a little miffed because the cvs lady insisted on sticking me in my right arm since i was getting multiple shots that day, and that's limited my ability to do things even more

but ah well, it should hopefully only be for another day or so, i've yet to catch The Big C and i much prefer this to the alternative, remember to get boosted y'all

(like earlier yesterday i was at the dmv and the only person in the entire warm crowded building wearing a mask, and when i was finishing up with the lady at the final counter she was all 'haha yeah we're all working sick today' to a coworker, and when i immediately put my mask back up on my face she chuckled

like, bruh)

#the illustrious life of owltypical

[existentialflirt]

So I got the flu/covid double shot baby, so I might be a little guh for the next few days. Pfizer doesn't fuck me up the way Moderna's did. Like it's a few days vs a week of misery, you know? So I might try to knock out my drafts if I don't just get high and nap.

#i've been sleeping like shit lately and it's making me feral #tbd