Today V-E Day (Vaccination Elisberg Day…). O huzzah!
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I was able to get an appointment at Ralphs Pharmacy -- part of a grocery store chain, which is owned by Kroger's -- when they screwed up and jumped the gun, posting an online sign-up schedule early, before the Los Angeles County Board of Health had approved the plan. But though they shut the appointments and initially cancelled them, they later said they would honor what they had. (I'm not sure if that's totally true, since Ralphs is now saying that they're cancelling later appointments -- though that might change when they get more vaccine in.) But I did get to keep mine -- a process made all the nicer since it's my own main pharmacy, and I could even walk over to the place. It was a very simple process – in fact, I almost wondered if I went to the wrong Ralphs. There was no line for the shot, just one person ahead of me picking up his prescription. And when the woman at the pharmacy seemed almost surprised to see me, I was even more wary that I might have screwed up and so showed her the confirming email I’d printed out. My guess is that I might have been the first shot of the day, and since I was eight minutes early, they weren’t ready yet. There was about 20 minutes to wait for the pharmacy to prepare the shot, which was the Moderna vaccine, then the 15-Minute Obligatory Wait and the walk back home. What's nonetheless odd is how few people were there for shots. I suspect that's because this was part of that Ralphs' screw-up, so not too many people signed up before the list was closed. But still, I expected more people. Anyway, now, all that’s left is to see when the side effects kick in and hopefully it will be minimal. And then assume and hope that the pipeline will be working smoothly in 28 days.
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