D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

I don't think our app requires any details.

Use of it isn't very high though except when there's a leak or scare.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

My arm hurts after my first shot of Pfizer. It feels like having a bruise on your arm. Other than that, no side effects.

My bruise from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine lasted nearly a week, and I could barely move my arm the first two days. My other symptoms only lasted the first day after the shot, though.

 

[Cadence]

My bruise from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine lasted nearly a week, and I could barely move my arm the first two days. My other symptoms only lasted the first day after the shot, though.

My first pfizer had basically nothing (except my imagination in the minutes after), the second I had a headache the second day for an hour or two.

On the other hand, I definitely had some arm pain for a few days after my first shingles shot earlier this summer...

 

[Hussar]

One of my students just had her second shot. Here in Japan, masking has always been pretty much universal and it's been very common to mask up when you have a sniffle even before all this. But, I asked her if she'd go out without her mask, since she doesn't actually need it, and she said, "No, too many people will look at me funny."

Kinda similar to how folks here who aren't in cities that are under emergency measures, won't travel because their license plates have the same prefecture name as the city. My doctor student was lamenting he couldn't travel despite having his shots and not being in an emergency location just because of his license plates.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

One of my students just had her second shot. Here in Japan, masking has always been pretty much universal and it's been very common to mask up when you have a sniffle even before all this. But, I asked her if she'd go out without her mask, since she doesn't actually need it, and she said, "No, too many people will look at me funny."

Kinda similar to how folks here who aren't in cities that are under emergency measures, won't travel because their license plates have the same prefecture name as the city. My doctor student was lamenting he couldn't travel despite having his shots and not being in an emergency location just because of his license plates.

Ah, the Japanese. Taking community-mindedness to the next level! (This is meant with all the love of a friendly gaijin. I've been there several times.)

 

[ccs]

I got the Moderna version.
My 1st shot? Several hours later I got the munchies really bad. It was as if I'd smoked half a bag of pot.
My 2nd shot? Nothing. Then the next day I woke up with my shoulder aching a bit.
And that was that.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I had Moderna too. Sore arm. That's it. Haven't had my second yet, but I'll probably wind up with Pfizer. Don't expect anything from that either.

 

[Imaculata]

Shouldn't you be getting the same vaccine for your second shot? I'm not sure if a 2nd shot with a different vaccine will even work.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Shouldn't you be getting the same vaccine for your second shot? I'm not sure if a 2nd shot with a different vaccine will even work.

The mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) are considered pretty much interchangeable by many health authorities (they basically do the same thing). The main reason to match them, as far as I know, is because if you had little-to-no side effects from your first shot, you are considered very safe for your second (if you get the same one) whereas it's not certain if you'd have a potential reaction to a different shot. That said, there's still no reason to think that you would have a reaction to a different vaccine, it's just not known for sure. At any rate, doctors in my country believe that it's safe to mix them, and will give me whatever is available at the time (of those two, not any other ones). I know a number of people who have had both vaccines.

 

[Ryujin]

The mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) are considered pretty much interchangeable by many health authorities (they basically do the same thing). The main reason to match them, as far as I know, is because if you had little-to-no side effects from your first shot, you are considered very safe for your second (if you get the same one) whereas it's not certain if you'd have a potential reaction to a different shot. That said, there's still no reason to think that you would have a reaction to a different vaccine, it's just not known for sure. At any rate, doctors in my country believe that it's safe to mix them, and will give me whatever is available at the time (of those two, not any other ones). I know a number of people who have had both vaccines.

In Canada there's also a bit of mix-&-match going on because of supply issues and the problems with acceptance of the AstraZeneca vaccine, elsewhere. Given the number of Canadians to travel to the United States regularly and their lack of acceptance of that vaccine, many Canadians are receiving a mRNA vaccine as their second dose.