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Rene Rountree's avatar

I’ve gone twice to get the Novavax. In my area, Upstate NY, CVS is the only one carrying it. On the CVS website it says you do not need an appointment to get Novavax yet the first time I showed up I had an appointment as I also wanted the flu and RSV vaccine. Unfortunately, they had no doses of Novavax on site. The second time I showed up, the pharmacy tech told me I had to make an appointment. I told her that the CVS site, and the sign on the door stated that was incorrect. She reiterated that without an appointment I couldn’t get the vaccine. So, I left without the vaccine. The next closest CVS in my area is 35 minutes away. I’m still am planning on getting it, it is just so frustrating that something that should be so easy is not.

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Since the CDC “recommended” schedule is really a “commandment” for non-quack” MDs what does severely ” immunocompromised ” effectively mean in practice? It seems unlikely to be interpreted as applying to us seniors who comprise the overwhelming numbers of severely ill and dying from the disease. Why the hell not!! Why are those who are at almost as much - or maybe even as much as - at risk not singled out explicitly for extra doses!! Personally I believe it is a decision based on PR considerations - commonly referred to as “messaging” - which are believed by the CDC to be most likely to persuade more people to get the vaccine. And, perhaps, a lesser secondary fear of being chastised for picking an “arbitrary “ cutoff age defining “seniors”. Callous, cowardly and medically/scientifically unsubstantiated. Will you and others - who I believe know better- please call them out on this. There are millions upon millions more older people than “immunocompromised”. We are being ignored. All 30+ million of us.

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