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Yeah, you and anyone with that severe of allergies should probably work with their doctor to see if they can even get the vaccine. My point is the news story my wife saw didn't even mention the allergy angle which does a total disservice to everyone who saw it. People who shouldn't have to worry about it are going to freak out now but people with severe allergies were not alerted to that aspect.
I had the same conversation today leading into a zoom call. The sheer amount of anti vax stuff might just mean they have so much stuff they can't give it away and it just becomes FCFS for everyone. I'm fine with that.
A true severe allergic reaction to vaccines are extremely rare. Most reported severe reactions that are reported are fainting or inject site related which likely aren’t allergic reactions at all. I’d say a true allergic reaction is more likely due to the active ingredient or how it’s developed (egg allergies).
Agree with @Biff84 A google search yields the following:
The anaphylactoid reactions reported in response to the covid vaccine would likely fall under the IgE-mediated umbrella, but I haven’t heard enough details to know for sure.
Yep. If a person wants to not get vaccinated, I'll respect their right to make their own health care decisions and gladly take their place in line.
Glad you're feeling OK.
Where I am in Chesco the number of cases seems to have gone down since last week. Still high positivity rate based on those being tested though.Yeah, not a great trajectory for the Commonwealth. Supposedly an announcement from Wolf today. Hopefully the plateau is coming soon - the rate of increase in ICU seems to at least be slowing (from covidtracking
11/3-11/10 : +31%
11/10-11/17 : +47%
11/17-11/24 : + 43%
11/24-12/1 : +17%
12/1-12/8 : +20%
Thanks for sharing and good luck. If you happen to overhear any information, I am specifically interested in if they would accommodate a spouse of an extremely high risk person if that high risk person is not a good candidate yet to get it themselves.
I’ll pass along anything I hear. We’ve got a call tomorrow that might give some more details. From what I’ve heard so far the focus is on the high risk individuals not on the close contacts. It’s likely too broad of a category but her CF doctor may be able pull some strings for you. She’d likely be close to the front of the line. With the mRNA being a new vaccine technology, I’m not sure what the recommendations are for immunocompromised people but I’d think any risk are far outweighed by the benefits. You may be able to take her place in line if she’s not recommended to get it but probably not right away.
That's not far off. Time to double down on social distancing, etc. so you don't snatch defeat from the jaws of impending victory. Don't pull a Gregg Williams.
So Pfizer has 100 million doses for US (50 mill people). Pfizer was like you sure you don't want more. US said we're good, we paid for this other one. Pfizer said, ok, we will sell to the rest of the world. Pfizer is first to market. US "double our supply". Pfizer sorry you said you were good. US now mad a Pfizer, and random order to try to make Pfizer give more but they can't.
I don’t know the exact numbers but that’s probably close. I wanna say they have a large amount of the AstraZenica vaccine ordered, like 500M.
I believe so but I haven’t looked much into it. Probably will still get approved. The original goal for vaccine development was only like 60% effective. That’s why these first two vaccines were so impressive.
Let's just say I'm not a fan but I think this is being a bit harsh. Had they committed to buying 500m doses and then it didn't work people would be pissed at wasting taxpayer money. Kinda tough to pick a winner and buy enough when also competing with the rest of the world.
I don’t believe any of the US vaccine orders were guaranteed, they were dependent on approval.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/07/22/us-government-engages-pfizer-produce-millions-doses-covid-19-vaccine.html
I assume we can buy the additional doses. We're just not getting those in the next 6 months as there is a queue ahead of us.
Now at least 5 employees are positive (very likely many more that I'm simply not aware of yet). Mine came back positive this PM. :(
The problem is the US is only working at warp speed while other countries are apparently working at ludicrous speed. The FDA and CDC predictably look terrible here. CDC says to expect deaths on the scale of 9/11 every day for 3 months but needs to wait till Sunday or next week to see if the 95% effective vaccine sitting around can be used? Meanwhile, everyone else bought it up so we won’t have enough for everyone til maybe summer or fall. In the meantime, be sure to wash your hands.
Sums up my feelings as well, including the snarkyness. I get it, checks and balances but for ####s sake, you can't sit on top of the mountain pointing a finger telling everyone what they are doing wrong and how they are endangering everyone by their actions and on then drag your ####### feet approving the very thing that might actually immediately have an impact on saving those endangered lives. #### all of them and their hubris, get this #### done!
