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As per the CDC press release.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThe list of qualifying underlying conditions.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginIncludes being a minority."Long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put various groups of people at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19, including many racial and ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities."The list of qualifying medical conditions is quite broad. I think if you add up all the people that qualify there is a majority. They should have made it less confusing and just said to go get a booster if it's been more than 6 months since your second shot. Instead, the confusing messaging continues.
The New Jersey Department of Health is directing our vaccination partners in the state to begin administering booster doses to eligible individuals immediately. Individuals will self-identify according to the categories above and will not be required by vaccination providers to provide proof of a medical condition or a note from a medical provider in order to receive a booster dose in New Jersey.
Anyone know a place we can get it this weekend without having to fib and say we are immunocompromised? He doesn't like to lie.___________Never mind. We booked an appointment at CVS for tonight!
I seriously thought of doing that but like your husband (and like my late father), I too have a conscience. One expert on MSNBC said if you got Moderna or J&J and you are either a front line worker or a resident of a nursing home, you may have to consider getting the Pfizer booster. So far, I’m not willing to mix my vaccines.For now, I will wait until the Moderna booster comes out. The end of October will mark six months since I’ve been fully vaccinated. However, if we get to the first week of November and Thanksgiving is the time the Special Edition event takes place (and I did get a badge), then I might need to make some hard decisions.Either way, I hope Delta doesn’t find me first.
The people that got moderna are still well protected. That triple sized dose is doing it's job. They had durability in mind when they picked such a large dose. If I had gotten the J&J one and done, I would have gotten a second dose long ago.I got pfizer. I'm already over 6 months. I'm getting the third dose as soon as possible. I hope that I can get a flu shot at the same time. The new qualifications are so soft that a lot of people should be eligible. High blood pressure alone qualifies about half of all adults.
The new qualifications were intentionally soft. Basically, it says if you're worried that you are at risk, you can get the shot.
I need to keep whatever brains I have left.
I wish my daughter qualified. She got Pfizer and is at 6 months right now, but she's 17. What do you think? I could always say she's immunocompromised.
California really is the golden state. At least the CDC thinks so. It's the only state that doesn't have a high level of community transmission and so is colored yellow instead of red.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThe administration in California has done a great job dealing with covid. I'm lucky to live here. San Diego is also doing awesome. Today's numbers had a dramatic drop down. The positivity rate is under 1.5%. The number of cases were so low that I thought it was a low testing day. Then I saw the number of tests which is at high end of the recent range. A lot of tests with a low number of positives is what I want to see.Another way to go is to have her doctor write a prescription for her. Since Pfizer is FDA approved, a doctor can prescribe it off label.
Yeah, but it's a group, not a private practice. They tend to follow the policy of the group, which follows government guidelines.
I wonder if the "qualifying underlying conditions" will be handled the same as they were during general vaccine rollout last spring: via 'honor system.' Meaning, if someone scheduled an appointment via, say, Albertsons, no one was checking to see "oooh: I see on your medical record you have asthma + high blood pressure so you healthy-looking teenager def. needs to get their booster shot ahead of other teenagers." I'm not saying lie, but as pointed out the incredibly soft, broad conditions could apply to likely most folks in some way.