Ok, fess up, who has gotten the vaccine, and how was it?

kuksul08

kuksul08

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So it more or less sounds like the flu shot...

BuT tHe FlU sHoT cAn'T gIvE yOu ThE fLu!!!

I've had the flu shot before and 12 hours later im feeling nauseus, horrible headache and body aches, sore arm, fever, etc. for a day and a half. Sure as hell felt like the flu. Twice, immediately after getting the shot.

For COVID that's still better than getting the respiratory effects and ending up in the hospital I guess!
 
bikewanker

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Got first Pfizer shot yesterday at the San Mateo County (run by Carbon Health) SFO parking garage site. Took almost an hour in the traffic line, don’t think it be possible to walk or bicycle up. Almost funny that I had an appointment. Rather spacey today but no soreness.
 
matty

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DucatiHoney said:
Question: do you have to show up in a car or can one arrive on foot or bicycle/motorcycle?
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You could, but it's a long queue that zig zags through a large parking lot and moves at a snail's pace, so you would be working the clutch a lot or duck walking if it's flat enough. Also, you'd be huffing the tail pipes of about 500 idling cars. And you also have to park for 15 minutes after, to make sure you don't have any allergic reactions. What you gain in time by lane splitting wouldn't be worth the misery of duck walking a motorcycle for an hour, in my opinion.
 
matty

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UDRider said:
I guess if someone doesn't have a car they are kind of out of luck.
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Can't say, I was only relaying my observations. It's such a well run operation, I'd be surprised if they didn't have a contingency for walk/bike/transit. I did see two AC transit buses in the parking lot, whatever that means.

Edit: Your question made me look for an answer:

"With BART nearby, there are drive-through and walk-up stations."

https://abc7news.com/7000-coliseum-way-oakland-vaccination-site-my-turn-ca-gov-fema/10345855/
 
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Akira-R

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Abacinator said:
The flu shot didn't "give you the flu." You're experiencing your body's immune response.
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I will admit I went through life with the same attitude that the flu shot gives you the flu. The one time I took it, i got the nasty flu like symptoms. But even a stubborn person like me can learn from science sometimes :)
 
DucatiHoney

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kuksul08 said:
So it gave me flu symptoms that lasted a few days. That feels awfully like the flu.
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I have not-so-great lungs, so I make sure to get the flu vaccine every year, now. Some years my reaction is nothing-burger. Other years I can be pretty wiped out for a day+. I even got the flu one year after going to the doctor's office for a shot! I (and she) suspected that I probably picked it up in the waiting room right before, but it wasn't nearly as bad a flu as I might have otherwise gotten had I not had the shot.

But I have to tell you, once you get a bad bout of the flu, you know it. One year, when I was in my 20's, I woke up feeling pretty bad. Went to work from Emeryville in SF and by 11 a.m., didn't know if I could muster up the strength to get home. I was on the couch for 5 days straight and still feeling pretty puny 3 weeks later. And then I got pneumonia a few weeks later as a result because I'm an idiot and didn't pay attention to how sick I was. I honestly was scared that I wasn't going to pull through. At 26. And that took me a full six months to recover from. My lungs have never been the same because they're scarred. The shot is ALWAYS worth it.
 
UDRider

UDRider

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My mom got second shot. After the first one there was no reaction. After a second one temperature spiked to 106 at night. She said it was rough, but passed in a day.
 
berth

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What groups are you folks in that are getting the vaccine?

It looks like we're in Phase 1B still for delivery, with Phase 1C just peeking it's nose under the tent starting Mar 15.
 
sprorchid

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berth said:
What groups are you folks in that are getting the vaccine?

It looks like we're in Phase 1B still for delivery, with Phase 1C just peeking it's nose under the tent starting Mar 15.
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I am an educator in the public schools. I work in coco county, but live in alameda county. Alameda opened up for 1b before Coco county.

Most of my colleagues signed up for notification thru the coco county website. None have gotten an appt as of today.
 
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splat

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UDRider said:
My mom got second shot. After the first one there was no reaction. After a second one temperature spiked to 106 at night. She said it was rough, but passed in a day.
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Same here. First one, nothing. Second one I was out for a day. My wife had the same issue. Stagger your vaccination if you and your significant other have kids or fur kids to take care of. I've never had a reaction to another vaccine, but this one knocked me silly. Fever, chills, nausea, all that good stuff.

berth said:
What groups are you folks in that are getting the vaccine?

It looks like we're in Phase 1B still for delivery, with Phase 1C just peeking it's nose under the tent starting Mar 15.
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My wife and I are both 1A (Healthcare workers) but we're still as strict as we were last March/April because we have two very young kids who cannot get the vaccine, and although there's 94+% effectiveness with the vaccine, it doesn't mean you cannot infect others.
 
Abacinator

Abacinator

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My wife got her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday afternoon. By evening she was exhausted and aching, and this morning she's running a slight fever and her legs are aching like crazy.
 
sprorchid

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There is a new study out last week, claiming after the 1st phizer shot, 2 weeks after the injection, 85% in preventing transmissability.
 
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