Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

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I will be getting my first COVID-19 shot (Moderna) on Thursday, this time for real.

I live in Riverside County, and everyone aged 16 and up has been eligible for their shots since yesterday.

I am worried about California, though.

The Governor wants to get rid of almost all COVID-19 restrictions by June 15th.

I don't know if that is a good idea or not.

I’m happy to hear you’re getting the 1st shot Thursday :slight_smile: .

Personally I wish that CA would hold off on getting rid of all restrictions so soon but I wish even more that other states would be more conservative on their openings.

Just my opinion of course.

Yep, that's my opinion too, but I understand that it can be a controversial subject.

Pa is picking up the pace. Signed up for a shot on Friday. Moderna.

And, I got my first shot!

I haven't had any side effects so far, but those tend to turn up with the second shot.

I'll be getting that in about four weeks.

My side effects came the next day….

I expect corona shots will be similar to the flu shot

Will require yearly updates
because flu and corona shots, dont produce lifetime immunity

unlike measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox vaccines, that are not needed yearly.

I got the J&J corona vaccine 1 month ago. I dont know how long my body will retain antibodies… 3 months, 6 months, a year?

I would have preferred J&J if it was available since boosters are in the works anyway.

Moderna here, nothing after #1; after #2 I spent 2nd day in bed with 101.7f fever. Next day tired butt no other symptoms. All good now.
Wife had no concerns other than shot location soreness for a couple days.

I basically had the same experience. 1st shot no big deal, just a sore arm. 2nd shot I had flu like symptoms starting in the evening but fortunately went away the next day. And my wife also only had a sore arm for a few days :slight_smile:

My wife and I got the Moderna shot today. Very well run clinic. In and out in no time. I read today we are reaching a point where we will soon have more doses than willing people to get them. No where close to herd immunity yet so not good.

When I got my Moderna vaccine yesterday, it took at least half an hour of waiting before I got the shot.

The facility was packed full of people waiting in line.

The good news is that I still haven't had any side effects.

(We'll see if I'm so lucky with my second dose.)

Not good for a second reason too: the rest of the world is desperate for those vaccines :frowning:

I hope that with the first world using less and less vaccines in a few months time, the production stays in place or even ramps up to vaccinate all the less rich countries, and fast enough to force the remaining pool of coronavirus to become so small that new variants stop emerging. That is decent and to our advantage too.

One of my adult daughters and her husband, got the J&J vaccine yesterday.

10 minutes later, my daughter fainted. She recovered fine, paramedics informed her they see 1 out of 200 faint. No other side effects.

This was a location in San Francisco that treats 8000!!! people a day. They see one person faint every 45 minutes, from the J&J vaccine.

I got the J&J vaccine a month ago, no side effects at all.

I think this is the latest (March 22) what is known about the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19:

What is concluded is that with the often limited or poorly performed trials sofar no positive effect is proven, and therefore for the EMA there is no reason to approve ivermectin for use on COVID19. It is a matter of waiting for a good trial for a definite conclusion, but personally I have no high hopes for this one.

So today a friend told me that a person we both knew has died from Covid. Did not believe covid was a real threat. Did not wear a mask unless absolutely forced to, did not want a vaccine, etc. Sadly his wife and part of his family are also covid deniers.

You mean he died of a heart-attack, while having flu, covid or whatever?
Seriously, people should start realising that covid is not the only cause of death.
I live in a relatively small village and so far I haven’t noticed more deaths overall. But I noticed that the few deaths that did occur - all were attributed to covid

True!

You know what else is true? If many people didn’t get infected, they would probably still be alive, even with underlying conditions!…