Who is getting the COVID-19 Vaccine?

[redline]

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What vaccination targets? Alberta doesn’t have any of those yet, so they could say that the target is 80% with two doses if they wanted to

And don’t worry, based on the camp sites this weekend, people have already said fuck it

on Friday the was a steady stream of trailers headed to the mountains...

but just missed the 70% mark ... 69.91%

[spikerS]

well, I am now at 58 days since I got my initial Pfizer dose. Still nothing on when I can get my second dose.

Not sure how some of you guys are managing it.

[killramos]

This is not a big enough problem to spend any amount of effort worrying about it.

[ExtraSlow]

Dose 2 is a much less important thing then dose 1 in terms of personal risk reduction. Like 1/10th as important. (@buster can check my marth)

[killramos]

Imo its much more valuable to you for Karen at the store standing too close in the frozen foods aisle to get that dose than it would be for you to get a second.

In terms of you getting sick, but more importantly in terms of societal and restriction benefits.

[ExtraSlow]

Although, don't misunderstand me, the instant it's available, you should get that second shot without delay. Just not a big deal if your second shot takes 2 or 4 or 6 months.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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well, I am now at 58 days since I got my initial Pfizer dose. Still nothing on when I can get my second dose.

Not sure how some of you guys are managing it.

I ain't keeping it a fuckin secret. Small, independent pharmacies are punished for not using all their doses. They must ensure that 100.000% of their needles end up in arms. When everyone's first, second and third calls are to pharmacy metroplexes like Costco, Wal-Mart and Shoppers, they arbitrarily decide that "nope - no more vaccines. Everyone else must be scamming. TPiM is a cheater."
If Remedy pharmacy in butt-fuck-River 30 min away doesn't have people lined up, and I mean literally lined the fuck up to guarantee that all their doses are given to those needing first shots, they will allow others to book for second shots as long as they're >28 days since their first shot.

I'm not doing anything wrong and I'm transparent about what I've done. Furthermore, I am connected enough that I could have easily got my first & second shots done before the end of February. But that wasn't something I felt I needed nor was it worth the risk to the others involved. I still can't even convince some of my friends of this fact, so that's frustrating, but I guess it's a symptom of our "unprecedented times".

Where there's a will, there's a way.
But fuck my sweaty ass does my arm ever hurt!!

[pheoxs]

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well, I am now at 58 days since I got my initial Pfizer dose. Still nothing on when I can get my second dose.

Not sure how some of you guys are managing it.

Some studies are suggesting the longer dose interval leads to the same (or possibly better) immune response. Also most companies are talking about boosters for next year anyways. I'd just hang on and be patient. 3 weeks from now we'll either hit 70% of the whole population with a shot or run into hesitancy issues and back onto second doses. Either way in June then gotta start doing 2nd's and it'll go quickly.

Assuming you are in a priority group you'll almost certainly get yours in the second half of June.

[kertejud2]

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What vaccination targets? Alberta doesn’t have any of those yet, so they could say that the target is 80% with two doses if they wanted to

I imagine they'll project where we'll probably be around Stampede, and that will be the target for having Stampede. Then work back and forth from there.

[mr2mike]

Stampede will really tell you the rate of vaccinated transmissibility.
If it's just the Syphilis or that and covid.
Stay tuned.

[redline]

70.2% today not that it really means anything... we shall see what kind spine Kenney has this week...

[FraserB]

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70.2% today not that it really means anything... we shall see what kind spine Kenney has this week...

There really isn’t any reason they shouldn’t just say that our Step 1 will follow Saskatchewan’s Step 2 for the most part.

Remove a bunch of outdoor limits next week since no one is really following them unless they can’t access a venue and then implement the same kind of removal of restrictions three weeks after 30+ hits 70% vaccinated. Would be right around the third week of June then

[redline]

I think the problem with this week is that icu still very high … hospitalization is dropping very fast

[ExtraSlow]

ICU is the laggiest of lagging indicators.

[Darkane]

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I think the problem with this week is that icu still very high … hospitalization is dropping very fast

161 is very high?? Down 26 in 5 days.

We’re in good shape. People aren’t getting tested either, therefore our active cases have crashed.

We’re almost at half in two weeks. That’s hilarious.

We need to reopen, we have enough people inoculated.

[ExtraSlow]

Hospitalizations was once an important metric for determining the easing of restrictions. That is poised to crash here, but is today still above previous guidelines for easing (which probably aren't relevant today, but still).

Politicians make decisions based on politics. I think the politics and the science will line up very shortly in Alberta. Much later on a federal level.

[redline]

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161 is very high?? Down 26 in 5 days.

We’re in good shape. People aren’t getting tested either, therefore our active cases have crashed.

We’re almost at half in two weeks. That’s hilarious.

We need to reopen, we have enough people inoculated.

Yes it is still high, we are over natural capacity of icu, I agree we need to reopen but business can’t afford to shut down again… so we need to hold on for a bit then we should be good

[SKR]

I know I'm probably the only one that still tracks active cases as a valuable metric, but I think it's neat that we're at 12,000 fewer active cases today than where we were two weeks ago.

[ExtraSlow]

Neat.

[D'z Nutz]

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I know I'm probably the only one that still tracks active cases as a valuable metric, but I think it's neat that we're at 12,000 fewer active cases today than where we were two weeks ago.

It's the metric I focus on the most too. Glad to see we're finally dropping ~1000 a day.