I wish I was retired. I have been very grateful to have found another position with a different company that has allowed me to work from home after being furloughed without pay due to COVID back in March/April. However, just had a mandatory end of year all-staff meeting in which we were “encouraged” (strongly) to get the vaccine so we co…
I wish I was retired. I have been very grateful to have found another position with a different company that has allowed me to work from home after being furloughed without pay due to COVID back in March/April. However, just had a mandatory end of year all-staff meeting in which we were “encouraged” (strongly) to get the vaccine so we could return to business as usual. I am disheartened by this and worried - especially after reading that there has been at least one severe allergic reaction to the vaccine. I have had an allergic reaction to a different vaccine and worry that it could happen again. So now my ‘safe haven’ of a job doesn’t feel so safe anymore.
Here is my earlier commentbon allergies and tge COVID-19 vaccine. You should not be rushed to get it until we know more, and possibly have a safer vaccine from a different company: "Folks with allergies can still get the COVID vaccine, it just must be done in a very controlled environment with epi-pen and IVs and airway support at the ready. Currently we can effectively treat allergic reactions, but we can't effectively treat COVID-19 (unless of course your name is Trump or Dr. Ben Carson or Giuliani or...). There may also be a difference in allergy risk with the different vaccines produced by different companies. Since your student will be low on the vaccine priority list, by the time it is available to her, there may be a safer option."
Sometimes the news is full of commotion that makes no logical sense. Given that the vaccine is going to be scarce at first anyway, prioritize to whom it is offered and encourage anyone more at direct risk from vaccine reactions than covid to wait. Let anyone worried about it for any reason wait. Once everyone who actually wants the vaccine has it, which is maybe half the population, there will be more evidence of effects and there will have been time for a second round with improvements to have come available. Then, bring out the advertising campaigns.
I wish I was retired. I have been very grateful to have found another position with a different company that has allowed me to work from home after being furloughed without pay due to COVID back in March/April. However, just had a mandatory end of year all-staff meeting in which we were “encouraged” (strongly) to get the vaccine so we could return to business as usual. I am disheartened by this and worried - especially after reading that there has been at least one severe allergic reaction to the vaccine. I have had an allergic reaction to a different vaccine and worry that it could happen again. So now my ‘safe haven’ of a job doesn’t feel so safe anymore.
Here is my earlier commentbon allergies and tge COVID-19 vaccine. You should not be rushed to get it until we know more, and possibly have a safer vaccine from a different company: "Folks with allergies can still get the COVID vaccine, it just must be done in a very controlled environment with epi-pen and IVs and airway support at the ready. Currently we can effectively treat allergic reactions, but we can't effectively treat COVID-19 (unless of course your name is Trump or Dr. Ben Carson or Giuliani or...). There may also be a difference in allergy risk with the different vaccines produced by different companies. Since your student will be low on the vaccine priority list, by the time it is available to her, there may be a safer option."
Oh, dear God. Now I am really worried. I will just have to cross that bridge when it comes, I guess.
Sometimes the news is full of commotion that makes no logical sense. Given that the vaccine is going to be scarce at first anyway, prioritize to whom it is offered and encourage anyone more at direct risk from vaccine reactions than covid to wait. Let anyone worried about it for any reason wait. Once everyone who actually wants the vaccine has it, which is maybe half the population, there will be more evidence of effects and there will have been time for a second round with improvements to have come available. Then, bring out the advertising campaigns.