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General Category => Board News and General Announcements => Topic started by: Kiva on December 20, 2020, 03:56:09 AM
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Hi all,
Today I received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Because I’m a healthcare worker (yes, I really am one) who has direct contact with COVID patients, I was designated in the top tier priority. Except for a mildly sore arm, no problems so far.
COVID-19 is a terrible virus. Only when we have achieved widespread immunity will life be normal again. I realize many people have questions and reservations about receiving the vaccine. My hope is that when the vaccine becomes available for you, you will obtain all the information you need and consider your decision carefully. The best source is the CDC website https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/index.html
I will be happy to share my experiences with COVID but I have no desire for this post to be a debate or a forum for different opinions. This is just a PSA.
Stay safe and have a wonderful holiday season.
Kiva
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I'll sleep a lot more soundly in my bed tonight knowing that Kiva and Santa Claus have both been vaccinated. Now if they'll just do Kelli, Babs and David Attenborough. :)
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Thank you for your dedication
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family
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I love the fact that Kiva got her vaccine ahead of Santa, Dr Fauci and the President-elect!
Makes perfect sense though, seeing as wot she's Emma Peel, Florence Nightingale and Virginia Woolf rolled into one – a skill set that only comes along once every few dozen millennia. :)
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Monkey see, monkey do
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Getting my first round this week. Not frontline, but at risk and occasionally work near some frontline folks.
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I'll sleep a lot more soundly in my bed tonight knowing that Kiva and Santa Claus have both been vaccinated. Now if they'll just do Kelli, Babs and David Attenborough. :)
Attenborough's done. Keilli? Barbara?
https://twitter.com/timjhanderson/status/1348976961973051392?s=20
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In interest of full disclosure, I received the second dose on Saturday. That evening, I developed fever, nausea, and a headache. These symptoms were gone in the morning and I showed up for work fine on Sunday. These side affects are common and annoying and inconvenient. But they are short term and I would do it over again. My point is not to preach to everyone to get the vaccine. My hope is that you will carefully consider your decision and obtain your information from appropriate sources. All the best and stay safe,
-Kiva
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Good to hear and thank you for being a hero.
I will definitely get it as soon as its available to me. I got a flu shot for the first time this past year and had no side effects (just some soreness in the arm). I've been vaccinated plenty of times before without problems (including BCG vaccine against tb) so hopefully this will be the same.
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Got round 1 (Modera vaccine) on Thursday. No arm soreness for me, and I've never had a headache so that wasn't a concern, but they weren't lying about fatigue. Got the shot around 10am and took 3-4 naps during the day. Felt great for spurts of 1-2 hours, but the fatigue would come on quick and I'd be out for a nap within a few minutes, just to wake up feeling like I had gotten the best night of sleep ever.
Looking forward to round 2 in early Feb.
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Got round 1 (Modera vaccine) on Thursday. No arm soreness for me, and I've never had a headache so that wasn't a concern, but they weren't lying about fatigue. Got the shot around 10am and took 3-4 naps during the day. Felt great for spurts of 1-2 hours, but the fatigue would come on quick and I'd be out for a nap within a few minutes, just to wake up feeling like I had gotten the best night of sleep ever.
Looking forward to round 2 in early Feb.
Thanks for sharing. I received the Pfizer vaccine but I’m not aware of differences between side effects. In talking to my work colleagues, it seems at least half have some combination of fatigue, fever, headache, lasting 1-2 days. We did have a few call-ins of workers needing a day off. It’s recommended that hospitals consider staggering their staff’s vaccination schedule to avoid staff shortages but we haven’t needed to do that.
The good news is that these reactions indicate your immune system is kicking in. For me, it’s worth feeling lousy for 1-2 days to avoid getting COVID. I hope you’re getting your energy back. You’re halfway there!
-Kiva
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I got both parts of the vaccine (Sputnik-V). I received the first part of the vaccine on March 10 and the second on March 30. Mild shoulder pain on the first day after the vaccine is the only side effect I have received after the vaccine.
I totally agree with the topicstarter. You need to take care of your health and the health of the people around you and get a vaccine as soon as possible.
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two Moderna shots I'm good.
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Got my 2nd Pfizer shot last week. I had some muscle pain and fatigue after the first one and only shoulder pain after the 2nd shot. Our state just got past the 50% mark so hopefully we'll get to the goal of 70% by the end of summer. I know close relatives that got Covid in March and they were bed ridden for almost two weeks, trust me this is not something you wanna mess around with. Take advantage of the vaccine so you don't regret it later, especially with all the variants going around.
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Thank you all for contributing to this thread. In recent months, the U.S. has seen a sharp drop in COVID cases and many restrictions have been lifted. However, there has been a rise in cases this week in states with low vaccination rates. The delta variant, which transmits more easily than the original strain, seems to be a factor. In my hospital, we’ve had the busiest week with new COVID cases since May. None had been vaccinated. One of my patients is a healthy young man in his thirties, now with his lungs filled with COVID pneumonia.
Whatever country you live in, if you haven’t been vaccinated, I hope you will consider. It’s a bad virus and the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks. Every immune person contributes to the protection of all of us.
-Kiva
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I had some arm pain on day 1 and smaller arm pain on day 2 after receiving the 1st shot (Pfizer) and day 2 arm pain after getting my 2nd dose, no other effects for me - just do it folks, I endorse it and think, what is the trade , ouch my arm hurts a bit for NO MORE MASKS , a little pinch when they stick the needle in for I get to travel and do things normally as I did my entire life - time to end this folks, get a shot or I will give you a chair shot to the head :)
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I had the German one (Pfizer/BioNTech) and apart from the inevitable slight discomfort in the arm the next day, which you get with most injections, I had no side effects at all. It's crazy not to get vaccinated when a failure to do so could ruin (or end) your whole life!
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O.K. I'll weigh in here, because in the state I live in our numbers have risen almost every day, since March. And some hospitals in this state have reached FULL capacity again!
Every day we learn more about the virus, but NOW, with 99% of ALL new cases in our state being from the unvaccinated. If you do not get the vaccination, you are an IDIOT! And THANK YOU for culling the heard. But you are not killing yourself if your one of the MANY Asymptomatic carriers. You are killing your friends, family, and other unsuspecting victims. And in fact you should all be sporting a scarlet letter. (Either I for Idiot, or a U for unvaccinated)
One further note, YES, there are people that could and might die from the vaccine. At first I was one who was taking some medications that made me think I was better off without the vaccine. But after my doctors cleared me, I found I was acting on only part of the information, and not well enough informed. So by my estimation, 99% of you are most likely not taking the vaccine because you are uneducated or a Trump supporter. ;D
GET VACCINATED (Unless told not to by a physician that knows EVERY medication that you take) BEFORE YOU KILL SOIMEONE YOU!
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I had the Pfizer, first shot no reaction, very little soreness. The second shot caused leg cramps that night keeping me awake so I didn't feel like going in to work the next morning. Since my employer was offering paid time off for vaccination reactions, I took advantage. Slept in until noon and felt great the rest of the day. Would do it again to protect myself and others.
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My family of 4 all got the Pfizer vaccine. My parents (in their 80s) both took the Moderna. Other than the usual sore arms, the only reaction out of all 6 of us was me having a fever and feeling crappy for about a day following my 2nd shot. I really don't understand people not getting it if they have the chance. Especially since hundreds of millions of doses have been administered all over the world with only a handful of serious side effects.
It takes a special kind of conspiracy theorist to believe that multiple companies on multiple continents have conspired with multiple governments to secretly what, cause you some unnamed harm while pretending to protect you from a disease that has provably killed over a million people world-wide? Seriously, what do you think it is going to do to you that would be worse than dying? You won't catch covid? Sure, go ahead and pull that trigger. After all, MOST of the chambers are empty right?
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Well, having had covid, I feel I have to comment on this subject. My family and myself got the shots, because we had a a hard go of it. That being said much respect for the others that have taken the shots as well. I also honor those that decide not to. They have every right not to take it. They should not be demonized or cutoff from society. I respect their decision. Maybe they help, maybe they don't, but it has become a major issue. Can't we all just get along?
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Well, having had covid, I feel I have to comment on this subject. My family and myself got the shots, because we had a a hard go of it. That being said much respect for the others that have taken the shots as well. I also honor those that decide not to. They have every right not to take it. They should not be demonized or cutoff from society. I respect their decision. Maybe they help, maybe they don't, but it has become a major issue. Can't we all just get along?
I dearly hope this will not escalate, yet on the other hand won't mind if my comment would be removed. Much like in the US, here in Belgium, well over 90% of the newly hospitalized are people who decided not to get vaccinated, and caught the delta variant, which is worse than the original strains. In addition to not observing the mask mandate and social distancing (because individualism is stronger than germ theory to some people), their carelessness has led to a variant in the US well before this one.
Live and let live only applies to situation where one is in total control, and this ain't it.
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Hi all,
I appreciate everyone’s comments. Special thanks to those of you who contacted me to share your own battle with COVID or the grief of loss of loved ones to this virus. I’m not really a fighter, I just write stories, lol. But I do take care of critically ill patients, including many with COVID over the past 18 months.
I started this post last December to call attention to the availability of the vaccine. Since then, much has changed. In the US and in many countries, there had been a marked decline in cases and a increasing relaxation of restrictions (thank goodness). I restarted the post ten days ago in response to the sharp rise in cases in the US and elsewhere, driven by the delta variant and the vulnerability of the unvaccinated. It has since gotten worse.
My purpose is to reach the unvaccinated who may be on the fence or perhaps procrastinating. I fully realize some people are firmly against receiving the vaccine for a variety of reasons which I find unfortunate. These include my friends and relatives who I love and I know I will not persuade by arguing and name calling. So, I hope to continue that same spirit here and avoid political and heated discussions.
Maybe my strongest pitch to get vaccinated is this. Most of my COVID patients over the past two weeks expressed deep regret about not receiving the vaccine. Please don’t be that person.
Wishing you all health and happiness. Stay safe.
-Kiva
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The chief science advisor in the UK had to correct himself on Twitter after he misspoke at a press conference, creating confusion and chaos by saying 60% of newly hospitalized have been fully vaccinated, when the opposite is true.
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Hello all,
This will (hopefully) be my last post on this thread. Later today, I will ask the admins to consider blocking it. To be clear, I’d like to close it to new posts but not delete it.
I believe all the necessary points have been made. I’d like to thank everyone who contributed to this thread and those who shared their stories with me either publicly or privately. When I started this post, I fully realized this topic could be a touchy issue. I want to thank you all for being polite and respectful. But I would like to remember it that way. I think to continue the discussion at this time would add little and run the risk of heated exchanges and troll activity. So I think now is a good time to close while we’re all friends. As my grandmother used to say, “Don’t stay at the dance too long.”
Feel free to pm me if you’d like to discuss COVID some more. See you in my next story and, as always, stay safe.
-Kiva