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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by dmix on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:38PM (#25393214)
The other half of it, for the early days at least, is the fear of lining up with hundreds of people who are more likely to be high risk people. Putting yourself in higher risk.

My pharmacy does COVID testing but only if you show no symptoms. The gov health networks tell symptomatic people to be tested in hospital set up centers. But high risk people are still high risk people, whether they are showing symptoms or not.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by notatoad on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:29PM (#25395195)
I have enough faith in my local health authorities to assume that the line won't be a literal lineup with hundreds of people.

If my local bike shop has figured out the concept of no-contact service appointments by now, I'm pretty sure the health department can do it.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by dmix on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:34PM (#25402827)
idk about where you live but in Toronto 3+ million people will have to be vaccinated. It's going to be a chaotic mass experiment in the first few weeks. Which I intend to wait out.
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by tmhrtly on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:46PM (#25393300)
It's worth separating the two types of 'high risk': There's 'high risk of having a severe response to COVID' and 'high risk of getting COVID'. The former (e.g. elderly) are not always the same as the latter (healthcare workers) - but there are some overlaps (e.g. care homes).

My hunch is most of the queues for vaccines will be type A e.g. the elderly. Not necessarily more likely to have COVID, but more likely to be at risk of severe symptoms if they were to get it.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by scarface74 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:03PM (#25399645)
CVS does a complete no touch COVID testing via the drive thru.
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by dmix on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:39AM (#25414223)
We don’t have that in then city I live in. I just remember the lines for H1N2 that went out the door and took an hour and required you to sit there for 10min in case you had a reaction.
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