Social Media and the Covid Vaccine - Page 5

Mersha · ‎03-10-2010

@pitdakota wrote:
@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
@KailaS wrote:
I so hear you. I cannot even get my 94 year old mother on a waitlist. I have given up on myself. In my county, last week only 20 people were vaccinated who are not healthcare professionals. My area is poor and primarily non-white. We seem to have been ignored. I tend right now to ignore friends who claim their doctors got them into a medical center for their shots, and I have stopped celebrating the " look what I got" posts with the golden vaccine ticket. With cancer and diabetes, I just want to know when my turn is.

This is true inequity that all of us should be outraged about. Sorry is not adequate @KailaS

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That is so very true. There are very real issues with inequity. @KailaS , I will hope that things will improve so that both you and your mother will receive the vaccine soon.

I wish they could fund traveling vans for vaccinations to reach the underserved. Maybe there will be hope when the Johnson & Johnson vaccine becomes available since they can ship that vaccine freely and it can travel without such restrictions. I will keep my fingers crossed.

@pitdakota I was so happy to hear that MedStar Health in the DC Metro area has begun to utilize a traveling van with the vaccine to aid in the underserved areas.

A news story was featured on them while in the Baltimore, MD area and residents were profoundly happy to see them.

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." - J. Carter

Tessa Mendoza · ‎01-27-2020

@KailaS - That is truly sickening. No denying inequity exists. I read that underserved communities were supposed to be getting ample supply of vaccine doses. I hope that will happen ASAP.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Trinity11

Please contact your local Health Department, the one for your county.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

pitdakota · ‎03-16-2010

I know @Mersha, those stories just make my heart happy and I wish we could do so many more of them! Still have to have the vaccine but hopefully with 200 million doses being ordered in early Feb., that will help a little.

It will help, but they can't pump that amount out overnight and also have contracts with other companies they have to fulfill. But any little bit will help.

I am just hoping that the J&J vaccine will open things up with more vaccine being available in early March. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

* Freedom has a taste the protected will never know *

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

@Drythe wrote:
@Trinity11

Please contact your local Health Department, the one for your county.

@Drythe , I did but got the run around. There are plenty of vaccines but difficult to access. I have many friends with concierge medicine that have received them. My daughter knows people in her age group that she works with that received them here on Long Island. All "know" somebody that can get them access.

Bhvbum · ‎07-18-2010

@pitdakota wrote:
I know @Mersha, those stories just make my heart happy and I wish we could do so many more of them! Still have to have the vaccine but hopefully with 200 million doses being ordered in early Feb., that will help a little.

It will help, but they can't pump that amount out overnight and also have contracts with other companies they have to fulfill. But any little bit will help.

I am just hoping that the J&J vaccine will open things up with more vaccine being available in early March. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

I know exactly how folks feel, I did everything starting with applying to the VA Dept. Health site and then as things opened everywhere else. Luckily the very first place I registered, the VDH is who contacted me. As I saw my friends and neighbors get vaccines and I didn't, it gave me some hope.

Advice: I learned I should be checking my emails when everybody else was sleeping, and I am sure at 6a.m. when I checked, it paid off, there was my email from the VDH to select an appointment time, that was the reason I got it. No we shouldn't have to do that, and six months from now it won't be like that, but I was not willing to wait.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
The more people that get fully vaccinated, the more it adds to the goal of general immunity.

Unfortunately it's a case of the haves and have nots, like so many other things in this country.

@Greeneyedlady21

I am neither wealthy, nor privileged. We received our vaccines at the small local health department which serves our county, staffed by volunteers. I was fully expecting to wait ‘till Summer.

DH is age eligible. When he made his appointment for 7:15 AM on a Sat. he asked about future availability for me. I am not age eligible, although I have 2 autoimmune diseases. He was told to bring me along as they had 10 cancellations but had not found anyone who wanted to come that early on a Sat. 😲! These potential slots were posted on the county web site. I went, and was gratefully processed through. I feel no privilege, or guilt, and would do the same again.

My hope is that everyone who wants a vaccine gets one soon. I too have lost loved ones.

My joy is for the potential success I see for our country; at one time I was hopeless for all of us.

~Be Well-Be Safe~

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

jannabelle1 · ‎09-12-2010

No, I sure don't think people are thoughtless and inconsiderate to share that they have had the vaccine. Mercy.... While I haven't seen one person on Facebook doing what you've seen, I don't care that they were successful. I know quite a few people who have compromised immune systems who have received the vaccine, and I'm happy for them as well (even though they haven't shared the news on Facebook). I don't worry about things like that.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Trinity11 wrote:
@Drythe wrote:
@Trinity11

Please contact your local Health Department, the one for your county.
@Drythe , I did but got the run around. There are plenty of vaccines but difficult to access. I have many friends with concierge medicine that have received them. My daughter knows people in her age group that she works with that received them here on Long Island. All "know" somebody that can get them access.

@Trinity11

Have you looked on your county webpage? That is where we found ours.

Best wishes.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

Deree · ‎06-30-2018

I see it as an important motivational tool for everyone to get on board. The more people who are resistant to getting the vaccine who see others getting the vaccine en masse, the more likely they are to change their minds. Eventually, everyone who wants a vaccine will get one.

Wear a mask. Social distance. Be part of the solution - not part of the problem.