Jumping the Vaccine line?

Casii I can’t remember the town/area you live in, but try CVS and zip code 21666. Many appointments available!!

I sometimes feel that I am the last to be vaccinated - I mean I am in the last group, but even so it feels like everyone else already has been.
But, like others have said, the more of my compatriots who are reduces my risk.
I'll be eligible on the 15th.

Thank you! My Dad got his 2nd shot today but my husband needs it ASAP (heart issues)! I will PM you! 

I’ll sit on that bench and wait (impatiently) with you, casii. My DH has had his first shot but I don’t begrudge him that at all since he is the one going out into the world every day to work and has a couple comorbidities that would make getting Covid really bad for him. I keep checking my clinic’s website and the vaccine locator thing for my state but I’m not willing to drive for three hours one way to get it.

I’m hoping that it won’t be too long before availability opens up a little more in my area. What I have working against me is that our governor opened up vaccines for everyone 16+ all at once instead of dropping it down in age brackets more gradually, so now allll of those people are scrambling for shots right along with me.

I’m not sure where you live, but both of my kids were vaccinated last week. DS in Annandale and DD at a theater in Minneapolis. I’m grateful that both were eligible so soon. 

Super helpful. Thanks for sharing this perspective.

@dottyscrapper thank you! You are always such a big help for me. It has been a HUGE struggle getting her paperwork in order. She has her pre-settlement papers, but they told her it would take 3 months to get an NHS number (I think that is what she said - the number is important, right?). They told her to go into doctors' offices, and she has randomly walked in to them, but no luck yet. I promised her I would stop asking weekly because I know it's stressful, but I will tell her to ring 119 (I see that's the nonemergency number) and tell them that. You rock!

I've felt from the very start that it is more unethical to let a vaccine go to waste than it is to get one before it is your "turn". No waste lists are absolutely not jumping the line.

For a while there was a large pharmacy chain in a nearby college town that was vaccinating people in congregate living situations - i.e. students living in apartments/dorms. It was a checkbox on their online screening form, despite not actually being an eligible category in this state at the time. So students were checking the box and getting their shots. Confused parents were calling the pharmacy to clarify. The situation was that the chain had plenty of shots and weren't filling up their appointments. So they found a use for their vaccine allotment. I was perfectly fine with that too. College students are not great at mask wearing, distancing, and isolation when needed. So getting that population vaccinated helps the community these colleges are in. May not seem "fair" but that is the reality of where we are.

The goal should be getting as many people vaccinated as possible, as quickly as possible. It defeats that goal to waste time waiting on people in an arbitrary tier group to get their shots before moving on to  the next arbitrary tier group.

I do think it is icky to check the box saying you have diabetes in order to get the vaccine if you don't actually have diabetes. Don't do that.

But also, as I said in my first post on this thread, I'm not going to spend time being upset about it. Every single person that gets vaccinated helps protect all the rest of us.

Here is a helpful bit of info for those who haven’t gotten and would like to get and appt and are tired of trying internet resources for signing up. I have been spending a good bit of time lately helping some friends, neighbors and relatives who have been able to get an appt. I have even done it across lines. It takes some patients and the ability to wait on hold for sometimes as much as an hour on more-I use speakerphone for this part. Make sure you have Full name, maiden name or middle name, last name all spelled correctly or according to what’s on ID, DOD, known life threatening allergies, best time, best times are from 11-3 so get the person to agree to those times, address, phone number, cell phone number cell carrier, any comorbifities such diabetes, heart disease, high blood press, overweight and the correct email address. Now find out you cities health department and county health department numbers. Also fing out which hospitals they may gone in the last 12-18 months. Now call the city or county numbers first asking to speak to representative and remain on hold until someone comes on and wait and wait, etc until someone comes, then ask the assist you in scheduling an appt, make sure to tell you have no preference for whichever vaccine or location, just that you would like soon as possible, be nice, be thankful, be grateful and they will help you, because they know when the next locations are opening. Try all the numbers and hospitals. I have helped 36 people all ages with just one to three calls each, usually the county one!