You can check with your doctor if you have health problems--if not get it. We have both of ours and so glad to have gotten them/

You are referring to the Astra Zeneca vaccine, which is not in use here in the US.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clotting-0ab2c4fe13370c96c873e896387eb92f

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/clinical-considerations.html

The Astra vaccine is the one being paused in some European countries. How does this affect you? Are you in Europe?

I cannot wait to finally get my vaccination. Soon, I hope, soon. All my MD friends are fully vaccinated, zero hesitancy.

The words above suggest the co-worker was only sharing advice specific to their own medical situation, not giving general advice to others.

I agree with checking with your own doc, also refer to the CDC document mdln provided above. If you don't see or hear a reason specific to your own circumstances suggesting that you not get it, you should feel confident moving forward as millions of others have without significant adverse reactions and get immunized. Good luck.

The Astra v@&& the one being paused in some European countries. How does this affect you? Are you in Europe?

I cannot wait to finally get my shot. Soon, I hope, soon. All my MD friends are fully v'd, zero hesitancy.

As others have mentioned you need to talk to your own doctor.

It may also be that the person was advised that they should have the shot in a medical setting such as a hospital. The early information provided by the health department here only mentioned people who used epi pens were not eligible for the shot. When I went to have mine I was turned down because a medicine I took a long time ago made my face swell. They were concerned I might have internal swelling. They have since changed the recommendation and added allergies with swelling. I do remember thinking that the face in the mirror made me look like I weighed 400+pounds.

People can have reactions to anything so fear of a reaction should not keep people from seeking medical care of any type. Even getting up from bed can be fatal for some people but most do it every day without thinking about the what if's.

I'd be interested to know in what kind of facilities people have had their immunizations administered. I'll start a separate thread, I wonder if there's any interest in comparing experiences.

I will definitely check with my doctor before getting my shot due to a medical condition I have. I was surprised that my co-worker was advised not to get the vaccine by a doctor. Up to that point it was my understanding it was for everyone and it had not occurred to me that some should not get it.

Yes, Elmer J Fudd, I like to "hear" about it.

I started a thread and I don't see it. So maybe someone complained.

You will need to give it a code name. The title of this thread does not use the V word....

If it got nuked by a filter, then management decided that's what they want to do and they can do that. Their site, their rules.

FWIW, AstraZeneca is the name of one tentatively linked with blood clots, but the number of people who developed clots is small and it's not decisive.

Vaccines here in the USA are Pfizer, Moderna and now Johnson and Johnson - none of them linked with blood clots.

I just got my 1st shot today. I did have some nerves going in, but all went smoothly and so far feeling OK. Mine is from Pfizer.

Since the scanners did not like the thread you posted I will start here.

Where I went was the bottom floor of a community center with the shots done through the local health department. The room is used for basketball with areas surrounding the court for other activities. I entered and went to one of 8 tables then either gave my name or my drivers license. From there I was sent to chairs along the wall to wait. In the center of the room there were 5 rows of 6 chairs each. As people were vaccinated you moved over then up to the next row. I did not think this was a good idea because it basically did away with physical distancing. Although there were 6 tables where shots were to be given only 4 had people at them. I overheard that some of the staff had been there since before 7. Some of the shot givers were volunteers others were from local hospitals. If I had been successful I would have then sat in a group of chairs facing a large clock until the person in charge of that area said I could leave. This was the only area that I saw anyone wiping down chairs other than where the shot's were actually given. The people giving the shots wiped down everything including the chair then wiped it down a second time before signaling for the next person. With the people who were being given training in one corner I estimate there may have been 60 people in the room although there was room for more. It really did not give me a feeling of safety even though you had to be masked.

I am a person with occasional weird reactions to medications. No problems. I had Moderna. We got our shots at a Kaiser Clinic surrounded by nurses and somewhere in the mix doctors. If you were at risk you simply stayed longer under observation. It was sensibly done with no drama. This whole process is because normally with vaccines there is more time to look for adverse reactions. With so many dead I would take some possible reaction compared to dead. Our information source said that if you were at risk they would be able to manage that. Not necessary in my case but I figure I was more at risk on the highway driving an hour to get it than I was from the vaccine itself. If you have questions ask your doctor. If they say do it then do it.

My dad got his in his room -- an Assisted Living facility. A nurse friend got his at his hospital. Everyone else I know who has gotten one so far who has shared where they got them (six people) has gone to a mass vaccination event at a suitably large location: a school or a fairgrounds. (Man, would my 5th grade teacher approve a diagram of that last sentence? I'm not sure ... lol)

just outside of our tiny town here, there is a restaurant that has been there for a hundred years. it recently closed. this is where the county health department is giving covid shots. all of the tables/chairs were left so there are lots of places to sit and wait your turn.

i have been so surprised at the number of acquaintances i have who are poo-pooing the shots, and these are educated people, saying they don't trust them and spout off about how nobody knows what the long-term effects will be. could they potentially cause cancer? will they render young people sterile? will your skin turn green? will you grow extra fingers and/or toes? will you wake up one day, look in the mirror and discover you have a second head growing out of your shoulder? ok, i'm kidding about those last few things but it's almost that bad!

i got my second pfizer shot last thursday and had what seem to be the side effects many are having. it was like the worst case of flu on steroids. i got up friday morning feeling fine and at 10:30 a.m., it hit me like a train. went back to bed, got up to feed the dog supper, then back to bed and slept till saturday morning. by saturday evening, felt much better and back to normal sunday.

Both of us were in the 65+ group but got tired of waiting to get a state assigned appointment date, so we signed up at a local CVS 2 weeks ago and received shot #1 (Moderna). Shot #2 is scheduled on 4/1.....no side effects other than a sore arm for 48 hours, but that would be expected even from just the needle going into the muscle.

I received my first injection at a pop-up weekend vaccine site at a local middle school. My location (an island) is a bit too remote for much available locally - no pharmacies, etc. have vaccine available yet - and I didn't want to have to drive too far or ferry into the big city.

The 'event' was organized by the local Rotary club and seemed well thought out although it did involve a lot of walking! By appointment only, you parked in one area by school main entrance, check-in table next to parking lot. After one checked in, you were directed to follow a signed pathway around the building and a second parking lot to a back of building covered delivery area. A second check-in station, from which you were directed to one of 10 vaccine applicator tables where you received the injection. I got mine from a dentist :-) The applicator filled out all the necessary paperwork, gave me a time sticker (the 15 minute waiting period) and then sent me to a waiting area. Waiting area had socially distanced chairs and propane heaters, so out of the rain and cold.

Once released, it was another long walk back to where my car was parked......about a quarter mile. They did have a few electric golf carts available to chauffeur those with mobility issues.

I'll be repeating this process in another week and a half to receive the second vaccine injection (Pfizer).

ETA: In the week and a half or so since making the appointment and receiving my first injection the county has received more vaccines and opportunities to receive injections locally have increased substantially.

Here is as good a place as any.

We're both in the >65 group and have completed two doses of Moderna.

My wife (and some family members who are healthcare providers) utilized drive-through facilities in the parking lots of large sports venues. Some close friends got theirs at Disneyland. Reports from those who used them said the mass inoculation sites were incredibly organized and efficient, handling cars in something like groups of 20 or so every 10 minutes, and then directing them away from the inoculation tents to a staged waiting area all were released from after 15 minutes. There were ambulances parked there in case anyone had a reaction but nobody did.

I got mine from the pharmacy department in an unbusy location of a large grocery chain. It seemed the pharmacy scheduled appointments at 10 minute intervals so both times on quiet weekday mornings, the store was nearly empty and there were only one or two people around the inoculation room who were the next one in line, about to be walk in, or waiting the 15 minutes afterwards. I didn't ask but the pharmacist said they'd given hundreds of doses and no one had had an immediate reaction.

We both had fatigue the day after the second dose, enough so to nap and have a quiet day. No nausea or other symptoms typical of illness

DH got both of his at a clinic which is being run with the help of the national guard. You wait in your car until appointment time...they won't let you in before hand. You get in physically distant line then to the room where people are set up in spaced cubbies to do the paper work...then into the next room where shots are administered in well-spaced area...then into waiting room for 15 min for waiting for reaction time, again well spaced area.

I got my first at a drive up run by the National Guard. Very efficient....got in line, got a number on my car, went to the paper work station and did the paper work, went to the shot station got the shot, then pulled up to another area for the 15 min wait. Worked just fine.

DH had pfizer and just tired the day after the 1st one and essentially nothing after the 2nd.

I had my 1st moderna without side effect other than my arm was tender if I pressed on it.

We both received our two Pfizer shots at a local college vac site provided by a consortium of health organizations. You had to wait in the car until 5 minutes before the appointment. We waited in a socially distanced line, then were directed into cubicles for the shots and completion of our vac record cards. From there we went to an observation area for the 15 minutes. They put stickers on us indicating what time we could leave. There were lots of people monitoring how everyone was doing. It was very well organized and easy. Our arms were slightly sore after each shot but that's about it.

FWIW, the nurse I had for the first shot told me to take a photo of the vac record card with my phone in case I lost it before the second shot. After the second shot they reminded me to be sure and keep the completed record card in a safe place and maybe have it laminated.

DH and I are registered at our local hospital as patients of our primary care MD. The hospital notified me (79, cancer patient) that I could get my Moderna shot on February 6 at the hospital. I confirmed and took my DH (82, healthy) with me. Since he's in the system and would eventually have been notified, he got his shot then too. Hospital workers volunteered to work the facility, which was the former maternity section. We were checked in and shown to a room to be vaccinated. Then we waited in a waiting room for 15 minutes. We received registration cards and an appointment to return March 5. Each place we sat was sanitized the moment we got up to move on. Everyone was masked and distanced.

DH had zero reactions. I still have a silver dollar size bruise and now-fading red area nearly down to my elbow from Shot #2. The hot swelling began the day after the shot. I'm blaming this on the hospital chief of staff, who was our 'volunteer shooter'. haha

"Hospital workers volunteered to work the facility, which was the former maternity section."

That's very nice to hear. I heard a somewhat related sentiment expressed by the pharmacist when I got #1. While she was preparing the injection, I asked her how things were going. She responded to the effect " I like giving injections, especially the Covid vaccine, because the gratitude of the patients and the opportunity to provide care one on one give me greater personal fulfillment than preparing prescriptions."

I had my shots administered at The Auditorium of the Santa Monica Hospital by technicians from UCLA. There were a bunch of booths set up (very much like voting booths) in front of (or on) the stage, and then people had to sit in the auditorium seats for 15 minutes - most of the seats were roped off so that people would keep a safe distance.

I do not think I would want to go back to that auditorium for any other kind of event or performance, since parking is so expensive, unless they put on an extremely interesting play. There weren't all that many seats, and there were probably about eight booths in front of the stage.

I had to wait 30 minutes instead of 15 because I told them that I had a rash after getting my first shot, although it took at least a week to show up. Now, 10 days after my second shot, the rash seems to be coming back, but it is too early to tell if it will be as bad as the first one. I'm taking Benedryl for the rash, and that helps. It had mostly gone away by the time I got the second shot.

My parents got theirs (PNW; north of Seattle) in a fairgrounds horse barn; two doses Pfizer. They had to walk in, but I think my sister was able to drive them closer to the entry. Where I am (NE) our local BOH ran clinics for first responders, at nursing homes, etc. but now they are not allotted any more doses, so it's CVS, Walgreens, some larger hospitals, and some mega state run sites. The state run sites you can register and they'll text when a shot is available; the others people have to try to schedule a shot, catch-as-catch can. Kind of nuts.

We got ours at a fairground, it was so organized and we actually enjoyed it. We stayed inside our car and they had fifteen tents up and you get in line, they ask questions, give them your info and then roll down our car window and get the shot. She put a band aid on and we were told where the next line was which was the 15 minute wait which was also fun as fire men would come to the window and ask how you're doing and chit chat. The relief we felt after getting the second shot was amazing, it felt so good to be somewhat safe. That was three weeks ago and now we can see other people who are covered. We are so blessed.