Have you have Covid Vaccine yet?

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@MaroonBells said:
I had the sniffles a few months ago and took hydroxychloroquine like the president said. i'm fine now...except for the fact that I'm now a blonde. Also, every time the wife turns on the vacuum, I wet my pants and hide in the closet. I'm sure all that will eventually go away. 

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Woohoo, scheduled for vaccination on 2nd of March!  Helps to be a old baby boomer!

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My girlfriend works in a cancer center, so she got her shots about a month ago. No side effects whatsoever. 

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My mom is 83 and got her first dose. Her second dose is coming up soon. I am very relieved. I can't wait to see her. 

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The real estate market in South Florida is OFF THE CHART. New York, Philly, Boston, etc. residents are flocking here and building/buying homes, fleeing the lock downs and population density. We built here 3 years ago and we tore down an old house to do it....the land value alone has gone up +65%. A neighbor who has an old house built in the 50s (small ranch style) had a guy from Manhattan knock on his door and offer him a million dollars just for his small plot of land. Realtors have been inundating us with requests to sell our house (its a very unique mid-century modern style that gets a lot of attention) and told us we could get easily over $2 million for it. LOL. It's nuts. My wife and I have done well investing and we only want to work 5 more years (retire at 60) but if we sold the house we could retire tomorrow. But we love this area, its a great neighborhood with walkability to shopping, dining and the ocean. It fits our lifestyle perfectly. 

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My wife is 66 and got her first vaccine not long ago. 2nd one early March and she's retiring after 30 years end of March.

My dad is 87 and got his 2nd vaccine just this week. He's lucky, in that he lives in a town-home and not in communal living this past  year. 
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I am not anticipating getting the poke in the arm till May/June. 

Edit: the fact we're talking about a vaccine a year later is still mind-blowing to me. MRNA has been in development over 10 years now - thank goodness...

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2 women dressed up as 'grannies' to get COVID-19 vaccine, Florida health official saysDr. Pino says the women were probably 'in their 20s,' although the sheriff's office says they were in their 30s and 40sORLANDO, Fla. — Two women tried to get their second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by disguising themselves as "grannies," an Orange County health official said Thursday. 
Somehow, they had been successful getting their first dose, Dr. Raul Pino of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County said during a news conference.
Dr. Pino said the women wore bonnets, gloves, glasses and "the whole thing" to appear older and said they were probably "in their 20s." He said he didn't know how the women were able to get their first shot. 
"We also have people faking to be old to be vaccinated," Dr. Pino said. "Yesterday, we realized a couple of young ladies came dressed up as grannies to get vaccinated for the second time. So I don't know how they escaped the first time, but they came to get vaccinated [wearing] the bonnets, the gloves, the glasses, the whole thing. And they probably were in their 20s."
In light of this, Dr. Pino added they have also increased security.
In Florida, people eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine are adults ages 65 and up, health care workers and assisted living residents and staff.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office tells 10 Tampa Bay deputies were asked to give trespass warnings to two women who arrived at a COVID-19 vaccination site because their birth dates did not match ones they had used to register for the shot. However, their names did match ones listed, the sheriff's office said. 
The sheriff's office says deputies did not take any further action aside from the warnings and could not provide information on whether the women were wearing disguises or how they were dressed.
According to the sheriff's office, the two women given warnings were 44-years-old and 34-years-old. 
You can listen to Dr. Pino's comment here:

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Pfizer says vaccine can be stored in normal freezer temperaturesPfizer and its collaborator BioNTech on Friday said they were seeking an update to their emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration that would allow their COVID-19 vaccine to be stored at normal freezer temperatures.
Currently, the vaccine is required to be stored between -112°F to -76°F and is shipped in a special thermal container full of dry ice to keep it at its ultra-cold temperatures. 
Pfizer and BioNTech said new data show that doses remains stable when stored for up to two weeks between -13°F to 5°F, which are more common temperatures for pharmaceutical freezers. 
The companies said the new temperatures can be an alternative or complement to the existing ultra-cold storage, which keeps doses viable for up to six months. Doses can also be stored for five days at standard refrigeration temperatures, between 36°F and 46°F, before they must be administered.
Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine is highly effective in preventing COVID-19, but public health and logistics experts have said its ultra-cold storage requirements are one of its limiting factors in making the vaccine widely available around the world.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/heal...496634001/

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It just came out that British scientists said just ONE shot of the Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective.

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Nobody has asked this one yet; Why hasn't the Astra Zeneca been approved for U.S.?

J&J is taking a while too. 

Supply???