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Covid vaccines have been in the news recently on many fronts. Have you gotten one? and which one?
I got mine and chose Johnson and Johnson. Part of my reasoning was upcoming travel and the desire not to have to deal with 14 day quarantines crossing borders. The "vaccine passport" thing got me. But the other part of my reasoning was talking to my doctor when I went in on something else. He is very good about doing his own research on medical issues and not just following the crowd in the medical field. He is also a neighbor and friend and we are close to the same age. He acknowledged he had reservations about all of the vaccines, especially the mRNA ones, but he is recommending his patients who are either over 60 or have any of the risk factors on Covid get the vaccine, as he himself has done. He said that weighing the risk factors for those in any of these categories indicated that the risks related to Covid significantly outweighed any vaccine risks. He also said that the vaccine risk with Johnson and Johnson were in his judgment substantially less than the mRNA vaccines. That was also the one he personally chose for himself.
I also have several doctors in the family, and all of them were slow to get vaccinated, but finally did, and all with Johnson and Johnson. They all expressed reservations about the mRNA vaccines.
Actually getting the J&J jab proved a bit challenging. My own doctor's practice was sold to a large medical company and he told me that the company had not stocked J&J for some time and he had not been told when or if they would get any more. I found none available in my town, and the closest the local Wal-Mart pharmacy could find was in a town 50 miles away, so I drove there the next morning and was first in line. That was fortunate because they only had ten doses left of J&J. The nurse who administered the shot said she was not getting any of the vaccines for herself because she had concerns about all of them. Moderna was widely available locally but it is an mRNA vaccine.
One of the hospitals here in eastern North Carolina closed its birthing center because all of its ob-gyn staff refused to get any of the vaccines. I read of the same thing happening with a hospital in New York.
My own doctor told me that for his patients who were under 60 and did not have any of the risk factors on Covid, he was recommending they do their own research, try to read two articles pushing the vaccines and two that were skeptical, weigh what was said and make up their own minds.
I got mine and chose Johnson and Johnson. Part of my reasoning was upcoming travel and the desire not to have to deal with 14 day quarantines crossing borders. The "vaccine passport" thing got me. But the other part of my reasoning was talking to my doctor when I went in on something else. He is very good about doing his own research on medical issues and not just following the crowd in the medical field. He is also a neighbor and friend and we are close to the same age. He acknowledged he had reservations about all of the vaccines, especially the mRNA ones, but he is recommending his patients who are either over 60 or have any of the risk factors on Covid get the vaccine, as he himself has done. He said that weighing the risk factors for those in any of these categories indicated that the risks related to Covid significantly outweighed any vaccine risks. He also said that the vaccine risk with Johnson and Johnson were in his judgment substantially less than the mRNA vaccines. That was also the one he personally chose for himself.
I also have several doctors in the family, and all of them were slow to get vaccinated, but finally did, and all with Johnson and Johnson. They all expressed reservations about the mRNA vaccines.
Actually getting the J&J jab proved a bit challenging. My own doctor's practice was sold to a large medical company and he told me that the company had not stocked J&J for some time and he had not been told when or if they would get any more. I found none available in my town, and the closest the local Wal-Mart pharmacy could find was in a town 50 miles away, so I drove there the next morning and was first in line. That was fortunate because they only had ten doses left of J&J. The nurse who administered the shot said she was not getting any of the vaccines for herself because she had concerns about all of them. Moderna was widely available locally but it is an mRNA vaccine.
One of the hospitals here in eastern North Carolina closed its birthing center because all of its ob-gyn staff refused to get any of the vaccines. I read of the same thing happening with a hospital in New York.
My own doctor told me that for his patients who were under 60 and did not have any of the risk factors on Covid, he was recommending they do their own research, try to read two articles pushing the vaccines and two that were skeptical, weigh what was said and make up their own minds.
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