Djxfactor511
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My local CVS was accepting everyone as long as you made an appointment.
Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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You're eligible 6 months after your second shot, unless you did J&J, then you are basically immediately approved for a booster (it's 2 months after your J&J shot). I am waiting until January.
In MA I think there is also a requirement that you must be working in an office environment or with the public. They haven't fully opened the door for all people who meet the above requirements yet here. Working 100% remotely I'm not sure if I qualify or not.
I can't get mine at CVS as CVS is no longer in-network with United Healthcare. Like the flu-shot it just comes up as "not covered" when CVS tries to run it through their system and won't provide the shot.
I'm going to have to see if Walmart or Costco provide it. My doctors office is not providing them, but the medical group might be doing evening appointments at urgent care centers again for booster shoots like they did most of this year for the first round of shots. I can book an appointment via my patient portal for that, but it's pushed out until january for availability.
So like you @nolalady , I think I'm waiting until at least January to get mine.
dbarila
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What a week... (Sorry this is going to be long) Last week my son had a stuffy nose and a slight cough but no fever. We didn't think anything of it. On Thanksgiving night I had a sore throat that was gone the next morning but a little congestions and cough. Again, didn't think anything of it because I get the same exact cold every year like clockwork. Monday my wife got a stuffy nose and decided she better go get a rapid test before she returns to work on Tuesday. Results: Positive! They said that was the first person with a booster that tested positive at that site. Because me and my son had cold symptoms over the weekend we were considered assumed cases. Now, we had been around a ton of friends and family over the weekend so telling everyone was fun. So we've been home quarantining all week. In the meantime, both sets of parents tested negative, none of our friends we saw over the weekend had a single symptom. We called my son's pre-school and they wanted him to get a COVID test to see when he can return. So we got him tested today...Negative! So me and my wife went and got at home tests...just to see. Both of us tested negative. We are now very confused. We don't know if she got a false positive or what. It's apparently very rare. She also got a PCR test at the same time as the rapid but they never sent it out! We also have a daughter that has no symptoms at all. Very COVID confused right now!
Edit: Also had my bother and his family staying with us over Thanksgiving. My brother had a cough the day he left but he tested negative. No one else in his family has symptoms either.
Edit: Also had my bother and his family staying with us over Thanksgiving. My brother had a cough the day he left but he tested negative. No one else in his family has symptoms either.
Turbo
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Wow, how confusing! Sounds like either a false positive (maybe human error?) or you guys have just already recovered, given the vaccination. No way to get your wife tested again? I wouldn’t know what to think either.
dbarila
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She actually just left to get another rapid test and if that comes back negative will get a PCR test to make sure. Honestly, we're all feeling fine. Our biggest concern is that because my son tested negative his pre-school can't count his cold last week as an assumed case so he would have to be out of school 7 days AFTER my wife's 10 days is up. So with Christmas in there he basically wouldn't be able to return until January. My daughter's school on the other hand said it's up to us when we want to send her back as long as she doesn't have symptoms. (we kept her home this week.)
Turbo
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Right. We have similar rules here too. something similar happened to my wife’s business partner. Her daughter tested positive last june but the rest of the family was negative. She moved to her parents cottage to shorten the quarantine to 14 days, while her husband stayed behind and had to be out 24.
Hhabelt
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I had a wildly similar situation in my household last year. Unfortunately, we weren't able to leave in order to get second tests. The county sent a sheriff with a court order requiring quarantine and they came to the house every day for two weeks to be sure we were staying at home. (I don't think they do this now.)
Also, a friend was in the hospital a few months later (unrelated to COVID) and one of the nurses said it's more likely that the positive test got mixed up with someone else's than for it to have been a false positive.
I don't really know what's real.
Gotta scratch that booster itch.
Dtknuckles
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Yep… tested negative on Sunday positive on Tuesday. Wife is negative kid not tested. None of us have symptoms. Me not working, my wife and the kid are at the mother in laws. He’s strangling the dog getting on everybody’s nerves. I go in tomorrow to get tested and see if it was a false positive. May get back into work next week. Haven’t got word what that will mean for the kid to go back to school.
oldschoolkirby
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Barely slept, alternating chills and sweats all night, woke up with headache, ugh... I was hopeful the booster reaction would be milder but turns out not really
Sighs
Mr Moustache
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when you said she got a rapid test, was it an antigenic at home test? these have a high false positive rate. Basically, if you get positive with these rapid antigen test, it is recommended to get a PCR test, just to be sure.
edit: forget about it, you state she got at a test site.
This whole thing has been a sh*t show for this very reason. Corporations are unable to do what is best for people because it will interfere with profits.
When looking at the book an appointment options for a booster, I the choice of which vaccine I want to get and can mix and match.
My first two shots were Pfizer. Should I go with the Maderna for the booster?
My first two shots were Pfizer. Should I go with the Maderna for the booster?
Turbo
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I had a wildly similar situation in my household last year. Unfortunately, we weren't able to leave in order to get second tests. The county sent a sheriff with a court order requiring quarantine and they came to the house every day for two weeks to be sure we were staying at home. (I don't think they do this now.)
Also, a friend was in the hospital a few months later (unrelated to COVID) and one of the nurses said it's more likely that the positive test got mixed up with someone else's than for it to have been a false positive.
I don't really know what's real.
Gotta scratch that booster itch.
That was my first thought when I was saying human error. I think you can trust the tests most of the time, but these things are bound to happen. It might be a low percentage, but if it happens to you it sucks.
Turbo
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The actual spike antigen that's expressed for pfizer and moderna is completely identical. I've looked at the sequences. The differences are in the untranslated regions and in the composition of the lipid delivery capsule. Theoretically no difference at all and completely interchangeable in terms of immune response. In practice, the slight differences in the untranslated regions and lipid capsules might favor the expression levels of one or the other. Maybe the lipid capsule serves as an adjuvant of sorts too. But there don't seem to be much differences in the wild, other than the Moderna apparently keeping antibody titers a little longer IIRC.
I got an AZ-pfizer 1-2 combo, which is slightly more different, mostly because AZ also includes an adenovirus vector to act as an adjuvant and further tweak the immune system. I think the expressed S molecule is the same again though.
Basically everyone used the initial spike sequence published in Jan 2020.
LeSamourai
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I know it's not the same as a commercial lab, but when I worked in a research lab in college (mainly doing DNA/RNA analysis), I got a broad education on all the many, many ways you can accidentally (and easily) contaminate and screw up a sample.