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Just scheduled my Moderna booster at CVS this weekend.
I scheduled it for my dad this morning. What's up with CVS? When I scheduled mine a few weeks ago it was super easy, it only took a couple of minutes. I had to spend 2 hours this morning to schedule dad's. There were a variety of technical errors and information not available. The availability also kept changing. At first today was wide open, later the first available appointment was tomorrow but then it changed back to today being wide open. When I scheduled mine I didn't need to upload my insurance card, today they wanted front and back picts of dad's. It was also browser picky. I lock down my browsers for privacy and security. In the end, I had to use a fresh install of a browser at default settings(thus wide open) for it to complete the schedule.
Mine was easy, they didn’t ask for a photocopy of my insurance card. However my Chrome browser is known to act unpredictably so it could be an issue with the browser.
For my third shot, I had my standard sore arm for a few hours. That's mechanical since there's a big blob of fluid in my muscle. The next day, I felt like I was on the verge of a cold. But I think that was more psychosomatic than anything else. My temperature never budged from 98.6 the several times I took it. Then by that night I was over even that.
i think i got a temp of 101 but the worst was over in 12 hrs- I just need to be in a situation where i can't infect others and make myself as comfortable as possible
So, I would call the CVS you have an appt for tomorrow and see if they really do have any Moderna vaccine.
Hopefully, they will come up with another type of vaccine (I heard they are working on non-mRNA vaccines). I have a feeling they are not working on Johnson and Johnson boosters for variants, but who knows.
There are already a lot of vaccines that aren't mrna. The 3 vaccines in use in the US are only a fraction of the vaccines being used in the rest of the world. The two big ones are Sinovac and AZ. Those two aren't available in the US. But mrna vaccines have proven to be the most effective and thus they have become the gold standard. The technology also makes it easy to adapt to variants. So I think mrna is here to stay at the forefront of vaccines. You may want to try the other brand of mrna vaccine if there's a next time. The ingredients are different between the two brands.The Japanese are working on a broad spectrum coronavirus vaccine. It's early days but in lab research the technique is effective against SARS 1/2 and MERS among other coronaviruses.Also, that silver lining I was hoping for last year may actually be a thing. Since what causes the common cold is a coronavirus, I was hoping that the covid vaccine would offer some immunity against that. Since having a common cold does offer some immunity against covid. In the lab, using mice as living test tubes, it has been shown that plasma containing covid antibodies does neutralize a coronavirus that causes the common cold.