We got appointments through Walmart when severe medical risk was approved by the governor through private pharmacies. A friend of my bride told her to go on the Walmart site right after midnight. It worked, we have appointments for this Sunday.

Ha, that is quite a picture. I'm not 60, yet, myself and I'm not particularly vulnerable to getting the virus so I won't qualify to get the shot. That said, I'm glad to see the vaccination being made available to the people in the higher risk categories.

I wonder if 55 will be the next group to be offered the shot or if they'll just make it available to everyone at that point.

The COVID-19 vaccinations are available for people age 60 and over on March 15th. However, no one is saying when the standby lottery signups will drop that age restriction from age 65 to age 60. The standby registration age limit should be lowered now, to get people between ages 60 and 65 registered for the standby lists, in preparation for March 15th.

The people that are vulnerable to COVID-19 that are under age 65, need approval by a medical doctor, and the vaccinations are given at a medical facility, not the vaccination sites.

Governor DeSantis talked about the demand decreasing recently. He said that the appointments for the pharmacy vaccination sites used to be gone in a couple of minutes. Now, it takes an hour to an hour and a half for all the appointments to be gone.

It will be interesting to see how many seniors don’t want or refuse the COVID-19 vaccinations. Perhaps 25% to 30% of the seniors don’t want the vaccinations. Now, It’s almost at 60% of the seniors that had at least one vaccination shot. That percentage is probably a bit higher than that because the reporting data lags by 3 to 5 days. The seniors are never going to hit 100%, because some of the seniors will always refuse the vaccinations.

moving to 60 and up
 

My friends and I have already had both shots. We are still getting calls to see if we need an appointment because we had registered at several different places. We all let them know that yes we already had our shots. This tells me that they are cleaning up all the old requests and are ready to give shots to younger people. Hooray! Florida has such a large older population and now that they have more vaccines I think they will be able to give everyone who wants a vaccination in very short order.

J&J
 

Yes my friend just got a call this morning to see if she wanted to get a J&J shot. She already had her first shot of Moderna 2 days ago so she passed on the J&J.

I've got a pretty good immune system, but I do have Asthma. I'm also glad they are giving it to the 65+ first.

I won't qualify until they get to 50+ since I won't be 55 until next year, so for me I figure it's whenever they open it up to everyone. My wife is older and she qualifies now, but we can't get an appt here in NJ for her. We own two houses in TV, so we have the right documents, and when we finally move down full time in April, she's just going to get it in TV.

As I said above, when the party is over I'll have the opportunity. No big deal, I'm taking IVM prophylaxis.

I suspect they will do it by age until they start having trouble filling appointment.

The DPA or the threat of the DPA has gotten recent increases in vaccines and distribution. Most likely that will work out for you. Florida has created much confusion for people in need of vaccination. It was very inept.

As an aside - Russia (with Sputnik) and the US (with J & J) are competing for the distribution of their vaccine to the 3rd world. Wonder which wins that competition?

I am NOT so confident that by opening up the shots to virtually everyone that there are currently enough doses and enough planning yet in place for proper distribution. I hope that someone can PROVE me wrong on this. I am especially dubious that Florida can handle it properly. There was that corruption scandal recently. That did NOT inspire confidence!

Florida's system of CV distribution has been strange and bad. If NJ's has been worse, I imagine that there are NO sane seniors left there by now!

NJ is a complete and utter cluster flock.

My 85+ FIL and MIL finally got shots _LAST WEEK_.

My friend who is 66 was only able to get a shot because his son is a first responder and called him to a Hospital that had several no shows. Getting his second shot the line was filled with 30 somethings.

In other words, NJ seemed to have ignored the seniors and prioritized people at very low risk of dying. Be thankful you're in Fl.

We are only up here in NJ because we're getting the house ready to sell. Call Florida's system bad, but up here it's a complete poop show.

Thanks for that knowledge!

I'm sure that there are still plenty of folks currently in the hospitals that would welcome a pill that would cure them. You do know that there are millions that still haven't been vaccinated, right? As for "choking to death on your own mucus" you paint a pretty grim picture when you consider that MOST of those infected have NOT had such a symptom. I know of at least a dozen that have had COVID that shrugged it off in a couple of days or suffered some cold-like symptoms for a couple or so days. I do not consider the idea of "pill OR vaccination." I consider the pill as a cure for those that have not or cannot get the the vaccination and have become infected.

I'm kind of thinking that by the time that I qualify for the vaccination there won't be much of a need to get it. The under 60 crowd who aren't at high risk have likely been exposed to the virus all year, many have gotten it and already have natural immunity. We've just about got to be reaching herd immunity thresholds here soon.

There is a percentage of the population that has a robust t-cell response to exposure. I read a few technical articles a while back about it. The idea was that exposure to certain corona viruses that present as colds get stuffed into memory tcells also can trigger a response to sars-cov2. I am not sure if there has been any follow up on the idea. It would certainly be interesting if there are less common alpha or beta corona viruses that also share enough motifs, like PRRA(a furin cleavage point unique to Sars-cov2) to trigger a robust immune response.

As for me, I've done a handful of flights this year, I do all the shopping, I work and interact with around 50 people almost every day. I've had people all around me get Covid. I may have had it in early March last year, well before you could get testing easily.

I give some credit to my daily Vitamin D and Zinc with Quercetin as the Ionophore I've been taking since Feb 2020. My doctor has me on IVM prophlaxis for a couple months now since the NIH updated their guidance in January. I've not so much as had the sniffles in over a year.