Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of COVID Vaccines :: WRAL.com

[dragonlady7]

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Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of COVID Vaccines :: WRAL.com https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/millions-are-skipping-their-second-doses-of-covid-vaccines/19645369/:

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“More than 5 million people, or nearly 8% of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is more than double the rate among people who got inoculated in the first several weeks of the nationwide vaccine campaign.“

Jesus fucking Christ.

Article mentions that some of them were sent to locations where they couldn’t get the second dose because the facility only had the other vaccine stocked ie if they’d gotten moderna only pfizer was available, and if you’re taking time off work or if that’s the only place kinda close to you it would make it difficult to get that second dose

I also want to see statistics on how many people had to try several times to schedule that second appointment. For example, I scheduled my first vaccine in a city 60 miles away from my house, because that was the only place I could get it so I drove an hour and a half for it, but then I cancelled the second appointment and rebooked for one across the city from me, and then cancelled that one and rebooked for one down the street from me, because there were successively more appointments available at more desirable (for me) locations. And in my case, they were all within the same system so it was easy enough and I can assume the organization understood that I wasn’t skipping that dose– but I’ve seen other people complain that it was prohibitively confusing to change appointments in other systems.

So, I understand that people are upset at this statistic, but I would argue that there are mitigating factors.

Additionally, many people understand it to be that the first shot makes you half-immune and the second gets you the rest of the way there, but that’s not the case; for most people, that first shot makes you more like 85% immune. No, it’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than nothing, and in fact since fairly large numbers of people in my county got that first shot our infection rates have plummeted. No we’re not at herd immunity and it’s not over but it looks tentatively like we’ve broken the back of the mass transmission events.

Now: kids, we need to do something to protect them. (Your picture was not posted)

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[heartofoshun]

I had to play a two-day long telephone game--my daughter and I but dialed over and over again until we finally got through--to get my first shot. Then when it was time to get the second I got a call telling me not to come in for the second that they were out of Pfizer and they would call me back and re-schedule. They never did. So I finally did the endless phone call method again and final got my second shot. I suspect a large number of people had similar experiences and not every were as relentless and persistent as I was.

[rmc28]

I know Oxford is running a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine in children right now. I've been fully vaccinated, spouse has had first dose, second is booked for early July, but the children are still the ones going into school every day and mixing with other children and their teachers while we are WFH.