When I know it's safe to take, yes. And coming from me that means a lot. I refuse to take a flu shot (too many types of flu and each shot is a crap shoot), but this one will target one virus that spreads much too quickly unlike a flu bug. I won't take the first set until I know it's perfectly safe though.

I have not decided. While I would like to until more is known I have worries about how affective the vaccine would be. Would I take it if I thought it would do any good such as lowering the health problems with the virus, yes. If it is only a hope, no. The current flu vaccines are a mixture with a hope that the viruses do not mutate or another be more active that year.

I don't like to take a vaccine early in its life. I held off on, I think it was a new chicken pox vaccine, for my child because it was too new for me. Turned out the vaccine was soon taken off the market because of a life-threatening complication. They were later vaccinated when the new vaccine came out and was around for a year or two. I'll be the same with this one. Especially because it will be rushed.

Yes I want it, but maybe not right away. I also "held off" on the shingles vaccine until the 2nd phase....then we paid, it was discounted, to get it. I'm thrilled that we did! Oddly, a side effect of shingrix, no fever blisters every time we get highly stressed. Not so much as a tingle on my lip for a year now. And if a pandemic didn't stress me....a LOT.....yeah.....:0)

Eventually. But not until it's been around for a bit. I feel about it much the same way Maifleur stated.

Ditto to what Elmer said.

I'm on the fence. That is a long way off to worry about it now. It depends on the formulation of the vaccine.

I'll be first in line :-)

Assuming nothing fishy happens to make me doubt it.

When FDA approved, yes.

I won't be a part of the testing program.

Probably not.

Probably, but not right away. Not too comfortable with a vaccine rushed to market. Will the developers really know how long it could be effective, know of any longer term side affects? No.

" It depends on the formulation of the vaccine. "

You're qualified to assess the formulation of a vaccine?

Being long retired and with pensions arriving (though some sitting here undeposited) I'm not under financial pressure and living on the country with 150 acres and no walkers (but a few cyclists with both legs and lungs pumping) on the road, and son doing most of my shopping, though I am of advanced age, I'm not feeling under major pressure.

So I'm also with Elmer and maifleur, would be inclined to wait for the second generation, after major evaluations found and the bugs mainly ironed out.

ole joyful

I will follow my doctor's recommendations.

I'm with Lars.

Probably.

I think, yes. I would like to be me again... I want out from under the rock.

I would think, one could always take another one, if/when a new and improved option arrives.

Moni

I’ll read all the details of the FDA advisory committee meeting and approval and then decide.

On the other hand, I’d probably sign up for a vaccine clinical trial except they might not take me because of my age.

Absolutely not for quite a while. . I fully expect the same endorsement as the meds being pushed hard for covid, covid tests now deemed faulty ( our local hospital deemed 35,000 tests faulty weeks later), Vaccine rushed into production with not much oversight. I was recently doing an online survey ( thru a company I’ve taken surveys with before) and it was mostly about covid changes personal,y and in the community. Then it asked if I would take a vaccine for it if it were $5000. I bet they will price gouge but I can’t picture it being that much!

No

Some of the problems, like the faulty tests, are because FDA is giving Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) instead of approvals. The products given EUAs do not have anywhere near the same safety and efficacy requirements as those getting a full approval. If they do an EUA for a vaccine it would be a good idea to be more cautious than if they gave it a full review and approval.

Yes I'll be happy to have the vaccine...but I won't want to be in the first round...and most likely I wouldn't be anyway. I have a feeling that, just as they've so botched the testing roll out, the vaccine roll out won't be any faster. So by the time they get to me, they should have a good sense of any side effects from it.

Annie D, I'm hoping to have more confidence in "them" by the time a vaccine is ready.

Yes I will take the vaccine and pray it works!!!

If I'm able to. I am not able to take many vaccines.

I did the same as bpathome regarding the first chickenpox vaccine. Early indication were that the immunity was not long lasting, and would wear off just as the child was approaching adulthood - when chickenpox can often be a much more serious illness.

I will wait until there is really solid evidence - over time - that the vaccine is effective and safe. Or even just safe, if not necessarily super effective.

I would but under the same circumstances Annie mentioned.

For years I never got the flu vaccine. Other than a mild cold I never got very sick. I started getting the flu shot about 4 years ago since my doctor thought it was best. For each of those 4 years I've gotten really sick in February or March, including this year.

My infant/toddler brother was one of the first people vaccinated for measles back circa 1960. He lucked out because we then lived in NYC, where much of the first batches were sent to. He also lucked out because *I* (obviously living in the same apartment) had a terribly serious case of measles, that lasted a couple weeks or so).

I am glad it worked out for him. I wish the vaccine had been around sooner.

At any rate, I'm not going to be first in line for this coronavirus vaccine. I'm going to remain careful until actual data are in, and I think with my immunological training, if I have access to some source data and journals, I'll decide for myself if ready for the vaccine.

I also hope other types of treatments are properly vetted - various drugs and what-not - that will cure or mitigate the disease. I don't necessarily expect cures from that source, but it is very likely that the disease can be mitigated following proper research.

PS. I don't take the flu shot every year - but I did for about six years after having the flu so severely I went to a walk in clinic and they supplied me with a high oxygen humid air treatment for an hour or so. Before I'd gone there, the only time I didn't cough was when I was in the shower, steam coursing all through me. AS SOON AS I stepped out, I was coughing again.

Yes, I would get the vaccine....as long as it was approved and found to be effective. Even some iffy side effects are better to deal with than death!

Yes, good point gardengal!

Yes!!!!

I work in healthcare (administrator, working from home, but will have to go back soon), have an underlying health condition, and related to several someones with underlying health conditions.

ETA: glad some have the luxury of waiting.

Whoa! I've got our local news on right now in central FL and the station has been running a poll all day online about whether you would take a vaccine for Covid and 73% said no! https://www.wftv.com/

I wonder what the no percent would be in NYC, drewsmaga?

I'll do the vaccine, when depends on how prevalent CoV2 is once a vaccine is available. It could turn out to be like SARS and disappear by the time a fully tested and approved vaccine is ready.

I have never done the annual flu shots but all of this has made me think, are any of the typical strains of flu asymptomatic in some people, where it gets spread by those who don't know they carry it?

That has just never occurred to me, I've never had a cold so bad I thought it could be a flu, but maybe I'd caught one and had no symptoms or just thought it was a cold and infected others, some to their death. That thought makes me think it could be wise to start getting the flu shot, to not be an accidental spreader.

Probably not. I have autoimmune diseases so I don't get vaccines. I've sort of been practicing for isolation for a lot of years now. ; )

Dee-can1,

People with autoimmune conditions can take vaccines. Why do you think you cannot?

I'll see what my oncologist says about people with multiple myeloma getting any Covid-19 vaccine. DH and I always get the annual flu shot in autumn. We've both had the pneumonia shot. We both had the earlier vaccine against shingles, and he had the new two-stage shots in December.

I should check if we need boosters for anything.

I won’t be the first in line. I am concerned that it will be rushed through. However, understand that I am eagerly awaiting it. I don’t think we will be dropping any of the precautions we’re taking any time soon though.

We’re in NYC.