My doctor's office has a message you have to wait through when you call. They don't have it and don't expect to get it so don't ask. And they're a decent sized Internal Med practice connected to a fairly large hospital.
This is going to vary by state. At least here, at this point in time, doctors are not getting the vaccine to vaccinate their patients or the public.
I think the difference is your husband's doctor called him. This means they had the vaccine and had the ability to do it. Many more places aren't there yet. I mentioned yesterday about one of the main hospital systems was reaching out to the 65+ patients.
Not a surprising reaction. They have created this problem by designing a system with zero public access while other states have been vaccinating at the retail level for weeks.
True, I remember when I saw that story about Safeways in D.C. I remember thinking..well isn't that interesting that people are already able to get it there.
California and Arizona have mass imunization sites that have been operating for a while already. Other states have sites where you can actually sign up for an appointment rather than just sign up to be notified when they start taking appointments. Of course people are starting to question what the heck is going on and when can we at least have a chance at this.
Some states can use what they have, some states are just getting it out there, some states have more healthcare workers than another state, some have less, etc.
According to CDC tracker CA is behind KS in terms of distribution/100K residents, behind KS in terms of 1st doses administer/100K residents. Arizona is as well. I wish MO would update their vaccine website with numbers but according to CDC tracker at least MO is behind KS as well (though like I said Parsons didn't seem unhappy about how the distribution was going).
CA announced that age 65+ were eligible for the vaccine. L.A. said that 65+ could make appointments, but then announced that they only had 55,000 doses for that age group. Pretty sure that there are more than 55,000 people over age 65 in L.A. who want to be vaccinated. I don't understand why CA is doing so badly at this. Riverside County announced several vaccination clinics for seniors through early this week, but said they only had enough vaccine to last through last weekend. Sigh.
I know it's not a lot, but it's 55,000 more doses than what they have made available here for 65+.
Oh, that's great they will unblind the study. I tried to get on the Pfizer study and got passed up because I was not high enough risk. I understood the study would be full blind for at least 2 years though - a risk I was willing to take. I would do what you are doing in a heartbeat.
I thought of doing one in summer but was afraid of the 2 year blinded portion. Now Pfizer and Moderna are unblinding and giving vaccine to those that got placebo—wish I knew that in summer! I guess there is still a chance they don’t get authorization, but they are part of Operation Warp Speed, and their early date from other phases is promising. Fingers crossed!
