Thread: Covid Vaccine: Had yours yet?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Not strictly true. That's the regimen they used for testing. They don't know if it will diminish the effect much if there is a longer gap.

Well I got a jab of Moderna and my second appointment is in four weeks. Been a few hours now and the arm is starting to feel sore after all.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Well I got a jab of Moderna and my second appointment is in four weeks. Been a few hours now and the arm is starting to feel sore after all.

That will pass. Just take a Panadol or something.

It's just the chip going into your DNA.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It's just the chip going into your DNA.

5G it is.

The good news is that two weeks after your first dose your protection is already over 92%.

Polack et al. (Dec. 31) report a vaccine efficacy of 94.8% against Covid-19 after two doses of the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech). The authors also report a vaccine efficacy of 52.4% from after the first dose to before the second dose, but in their calculation, they included data that were collected during the first 2 weeks after the first dose, when immunity would have still been mounting. We used documents submitted to the Food and Drug Administration to derive the vaccine efficacy beginning from 2 weeks after the first dose to before the second dose. Even before the second dose, BNT162b2 was highly efficacious, with a vaccine efficacy of 92.6%, a finding similar to the first-dose efficacy of 92.1% reported for the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2036242

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The good news is that two weeks after your first dose your protection is already over 92%.

Well that is great news. Cheers for posting that little gem.

The health department called and canceled my second dose appointment today. The vaccine delivery has been delayed by the inclement weather up north.

It is now being reported at the other forum that the government is considering eliminating or modifying the 14 day quarantine .

Since they announce something new every day, I would take it with a grain of salt, but at the very least it is encouraging news.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

but at the very least it is encouraging news.

Possibly for the awaiting tourists, but for the Thai population?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Possibly for the awaiting tourists, but for the Thai population?

Done properly and in accordance with scientific data , it is encouraging for the Thai population that derives a benefit from tourism also.
13% of GDP is nothing to sneeze at.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

It is now being reported at the other forum that the government is considering eliminating or modifying the 14 day quarantine .

Since they announce something new every day, I would take it with a grain of salt, but at the very least it is encouraging news.

It's certainly nothing to get excited about. They are "mulling" quarantine at home - which for a tourist is a pointless tweak - or having "mobile quarantine" supervised by a government chaperone (which is one of those really dumb shit ideas that some bigwig has come out with and none of his underlings have got the balls to say "Oh shut up, you fucking moron").

I'll be getting the Sputnik vaccine later this week or early next week. Mongolia has allowed the private market to import the vaccine, not just the state. This seems to have got things moving pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

I'll be getting the Sputnik vaccine later this week

...do you have a choice?...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It's certainly nothing to get excited about. They are "mulling" quarantine at home - which for a tourist is a pointless tweak.

Except for the many, many people looking to enter on a tourist visa who...oh never mind, it’s pretty damn obvious.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Except for the many, many people looking to enter on a tourist visa who...oh never mind, it’s pretty damn obvious.

Don't want to waste a week of their holiday sitting in a hotel room?

Had my first dose of Sputnik and so far the worst side effect was tearing off the band-aid. Not even a sore arm today. I'll get the second done in April.

I get my second jab of Moderna on Thursday.

Where I work the chain of command asked several weeks ago who was willing to get the shot and I responded in the affirmative. Really thought it would have been done for us by now. But really haven’t heard Jack Shit.

Not sure how bsnubby has gotten a jab already here in Wa state. For some reason I thought he was several years younger than me and healthy as a horse. But I’m not eligible yet per the WA state website. How’d ya pull that off bsnubbs?

Lookin now to get registered with the VA to expedite the process since they’re already getting it.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

How’d ya pull that off bsnubbs?

I got an appointment online through King County for the mass vaccination site in Kent. I only had to flub one question to get the appointment.

It is all on the honor system and once you get down to the vac site all they care about is sticking vaccines in arms only thing you need is a state ID of some kind.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Had my first dose of Sputnik and so far the worst side effect was tearing off the band-aid. Not even a sore arm today. I'll get the second done in April.

Have you developed an overwhelming crush on Putin?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Have you developed an overwhelming crush on Putin?

harry never disappoints...

A very mild elevated temperature on the evening of day one, aside from a slightly sore upper arm, I feel normal today in day 2. Some coworkers are still laid flat by it though.

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

A very mild elevated temperature on the evening of day one, aside from a slightly sore upper arm, I feel normal today in day 2. Some coworkers are still laid flat by it though.

It wasn't glowing was it?

Originally Posted by bsnub

I get my second jab of Moderna on Thursday.

My first dose this afternoon.