What It’s Like Getting Both COVID-19 Vaccines

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We finally got it

My husband and I waited another 10 days or so and heard nothing from the pharmacy. Then we started to worry. There were drive-up locations in our city we were told would give us the second dose, but we were also told there were multi-hour waits for those – that tripled on weekends. We finally just walked back over to the pharmacy, checked in in person, and low and behold again, they had vaccines expiring without hours. So we got our second dose. We’re still unsure why the alleged wait list we were on played no role in this, but we also understand these are crazy times, and pharmacies are overwhelmed with how to handle this. But if you take away anything from this, it should be this: advocate for yourself. Don’t wait for someone to call you, because many medical institutions are underwater and getting new orders from the CDC about priority groups every day. It’s nuts out there.