I presume that like most vaccines, there is a gap between you receiving it and developing immunity?
I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.
Given some states' track records on how they handled other things that attracted a lot of people, such as in-person voting, I'm not at all confident that we won't have some states that manage to turn vaccination clinics into super spreader events, which should be deeply embarrassing.
A good way to handle it is the way Kaiser handled flu vaccinations this year in western Washington. They had 10 minute windows available. You reserved online your spot in one of those windows. When you arrived a person at the door asked your name, checked you off the list, and gave you a pre-printed label with your information, and sent you in.
There were two or three people administering the vaccine, so two or three people for each 10 minute window. You went an stood in line with the others who shared your window, with the line very spread out.
When it was your turn you went in to get the vaccination, gave the person their your label, got vaccinated, and were sent out a side or back door so you would not cross paths with the people waiting or arriving.
> I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.
I remember getting the vaccine and it was offered outdoors, with a line in a parking lot and a nurse having a tent or a table or something. So that was good (although we weren't wearing masks -- the level of concern and associated precautions with H1N1 felt high at the time but now seems pretty trivial compared to COVID-19).
I recently went to my doctor's office for a seasonal flu shot and the office had separated spaces in the waiting room, lots of air filters going, and all patients and workers wearing face masks. And I think they wouldn't allow more than 4 or 5 patients in the office at a time. So those same precautions would feel pretty decent to me for COVID vaccination.
Edit: I guess I'm reflexively thinking of San Francisco in imagining this -- the outdoor line-up seems perfectly fine here, but it might be pretty unpleasant in January in New York or St. Petersburg or Edmonton...
Several food trucks have sprung up in my neighborhood that seem to have an even better impromptu system. You walk up to the window, they hand you a small device and send you back to your car. When your device lights up, you go to the pickup window. There is no line at all.
I don't know how many hundred dollars it cost them to buy a couple dozen devices or how much it costs to wipe each one down and put it back under the infrared/anti-cootie lamp each use. But there are orders going out the window about every 2 minutes and no customers within 50 feet of each other.
that's why we need to stop treating phone numbers as personal identifiers... nobody in the world would dream of using IPv6 addresses as personal identifiers
to this point you (everybody, really) should have a burner phone number
FWIW, I found Kaiser's flu shot system to be a nightmare to navigate for my family. There were different appointment times for kids and adults, so it was going to involve multiple trips on multiple days.
We ended up just going to Target, which was much more risky, but actually something we could accomplish.
He points out that the standard being adopted by these studies for the point efficacy is 14 days after the second dose. That's honestly not too bad. It's no magic bullet, but it's survivable.
During covid time local clinic did drive through flu vaccination. It's as distanced as you can realistically expect. And with prebooking you're not overwhelmed.
I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.
Given some states' track records on how they handled other things that attracted a lot of people, such as in-person voting, I'm not at all confident that we won't have some states that manage to turn vaccination clinics into super spreader events, which should be deeply embarrassing.
A good way to handle it is the way Kaiser handled flu vaccinations this year in western Washington. They had 10 minute windows available. You reserved online your spot in one of those windows. When you arrived a person at the door asked your name, checked you off the list, and gave you a pre-printed label with your information, and sent you in.
There were two or three people administering the vaccine, so two or three people for each 10 minute window. You went an stood in line with the others who shared your window, with the line very spread out.
When it was your turn you went in to get the vaccination, gave the person their your label, got vaccinated, and were sent out a side or back door so you would not cross paths with the people waiting or arriving.