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Randi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:31 am Trimmed my hair last night. It looks pretty good from the front. I don't know about the back
Trimmed my knuckle a bit in the process, but it is fine today

Randi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:13 pm ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping

pommystuart wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:58 pm Janeece and I get our first jabs tomorrow (Sat). It's the Oxford stuff.

Michael wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:45 pm I get to make my appointment tomorrow...

Got it for April 6. Mary, too. Lucky for her she picked an older man. Couples within four years of each other can be vaccinated at the same time.

leelaht wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:33 pm I've been eligible for about 3 weeks, keep trying for an appointment, but all vaccines taken. Today they opened registration for a mass vaccination at the fairgrounds, don't know how many doses, but by the time I got through on the website (previous attempts timed out) I was number 7000 something in line with more than 1 hour wait. Which was about 5000 behind the last available dose. With that demand I'm confident they'll keep scheduling more events.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=18&emc=edit_hh_20210402&instance_id=28754&nl=well&productCode=HH&regi_id=79267039&segment_id=54721&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2Fb3fe8eaf-76f1-5990-ba35-3dae3eb5e2e6 wrote: Q: I took Tylenol before I had my Covid vaccine shots and had very little reaction to the shots. Did I make a big mistake?

You shouldn’t try to stave off discomfort by taking a pain reliever before getting the shot. The concern is that premedicating with a pain reliever like acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), which can prevent side effects like arm soreness as well as fever or headache, might also blunt your body’s immune response.

While it’s possible that taking a pain reliever before your shots might have dampened your body’s immune response, vaccine experts say you shouldn’t worry, and you shouldn’t try to get another shot. Studies of other vaccines suggest that while premedicating can dull the body’s immune response to a vaccine, your immune system can still mount a strong enough defense to fight infection. A review of studies of more than 5,000 children compared antibody levels in children who took pain relievers before and after vaccinations and those who did not. They found that pain relievers did not have a meaningful impact on immune response, and that children in both groups generated adequate levels of antibodies after their shots.

The high efficacy of all the Covid vaccines suggests that even if taking Tylenol before the shot did blunt your body’s immune response, there’s some wiggle room, and you are likely still well protected against Covid-19. “You should feel reassured that you’ll have enough of an immune response that you’ll will be protected, especially for vaccines that are this good,” said Dr. Offit.


Q: What about taking a pain reliever after the shot?

“It’s OK to treat” side effects with a pain reliever, said Dr. Offit, but if you don’t really need one, “don’t take it.”

While most experts agree it’s safe to take a pain reliever to relieve discomfort after you get vaccinated, they warn against taking it if you don’t need it, because it could potentially blunt your immune response. (In terms of the vaccine, there’s no meaningful difference if you choose acetaminophen or ibuprofen.)

During the Moderna trial, about 26 percent of people took acetaminophen to relieve side effects, and the overall efficacy of the vaccine still was 94 percent.

Randi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:18 pm Pandemic Strands 100,000 Merchant Mariners at Sea