S/O: Double vaccination is a thing?

I had AZ first and my second shot will be one of the mRNA vaccines. They’ve determined it’s safe and effective here in Canada. I’m not sure if that’s what you mean by double vaccinated though.

Just the other day I heard someone say "I think everyone here is double vaccinated" - I personally am FULLY vaccinated having received both doses of the Moderna vaccine so I'm guessing that is what she meant. IMO it's not the correct verbiage to use... can be very misleading.

My 80 year old dad got the AZ vaccine in February and just got his 2nd AZ dose about 2 weeks ago outside of the US. He flew back home last week and plans to check with his doctor to see if he should get vaccinated here at some point. If, down the road he needs an AZ booster, that would likely mean he would have to travel outside of the US to get it, which at his age may not be possible for much longer.

I would guess my dad’s situation is pretty rare.

I would assume they mean they are FULLY vaccinated as in they have had two doses. I can't understand how someone can get 2 doses twice. Is there not a record somewhere of who has been vaccinated and who has not? How do they know how many have been vaccinated if they don't keep records ?
I would imagine it could be quite dangerous to get double vaccinated in the short time the vaccinations have been out there.

Most of what I am hearing here is that if/when boosters are needed, people will just get what is available, regardless of what their first dose/s were. 
There are also many people here getting 'mixed' vaccines - one dose of AZ and one of Pfizer. My DH had AZ as his first, and has been told by his doctor he'll get Pfizer next time around. There is research coming out of the UK recently that this may even give better antibody responses than 2 doses of the same vaccine. 

Wouldn't that stop someone having it twice - do they check the state records before they jab you?

No, they don’t check. My doctor didn’t even know I had the vaccine. His office manually put it into their system. And my doctor is affiliated with a major medical medical group that is doing a lot of the vaccines!

I took it to mean they had both doses. But it is a strange way of saying that. Most people say “fully vaccinated.”

My first thought when I read "double vaccinated" is that the person has had four doses -- two from one two-dose vaccine and two from another two-dose vaccine. Or maybe they've had both two-dose shots and then one J&J. Not sure why anyone would do that (unless there's a medical reason having something to do with their own compromised immune system or something like that). 

Around here when someone has had both doses they say they're "fully vaccinated".

As a healthcare employee I received the vaccination in December through my hospital. The CDC Proof of Vaccination card I received was the same as the ones my kids recently received with their vaccinations, but is hand-written and frankly looks like it could have been faked. Strangely, I didn’t have to give the employee health much information at the time to get my vaccination, unlike the full page of information I was required to fill out now for my kids.

I’m supposed to be going on a cruise in September (if it doesn’t cancel) and will need to provide proof of my COVID vaccination. I want to have additional, irrefutable proof that I have been fully vaccinated in case they don’t accept my card as proof, so I sent a request to the Washington state Department of Health for the record they should have received from my employer after I was vaccinated. They sent word back this week stating that they have nothing - no record of me being vaccinated. Now I’m having to get a hold of employee health and ask them why the state DOH has no record of me being vaccinated. I’m not sure what to do if I can’t get that secondary proof of vaccination for travel reasons.

I said that I had both shots and when the two week mark hit after the second shot I considered myself fully vaccinated.  It is confusing.  I know a lot of people that considered themselves safe after that second shot was administered.  I didn't.

Yes, if you think of 50 states as 50 countries, *sort of*, and about 330 or so million people, and no socialized medicine, messy it can be.