If this helps someone - I’m a woman who is not pregnant and under 65 with no serious health issues.
I made an appointment with CVS last week using their app and got the newest Covid booster yesterday. The pharmacist said they got a shipment in on Saturday.
My insurance covered it like all the ones before. Going forward who knows what will happen, but that’s my recent experience.
I’m at California’s biggest not for profit HMO, which is generally pretty good at covering stuff like this. They are still “reviewing” the FDA guidelines.
They’re probably stuck between a rock and a hard place. Fewer vaccinated people means sicker patients, and those costs get passed along to everyone else in the coverage pool. So higher rates.
But if you do give shots outside of recommended guidelines, you can sued by people who want to blame something on off label use.
Oh this is interesting! Good to know, I had no idea. Thank you!
The newest booster is out?
For some reason, I thought they were going to be on or after September 18.
Good to know.
Watching that jagoff sit there and LIE his ass off about vaccines and what he is doing - what he fucking well knows he is doing - was quite something, let me tell you.
You can just tell he hated every single one of those pointed questions.
Raises hand…I can, because Colorado is not run by idiots, thankfully.
As for those that cannot - it’s meant to be complicated, because a whole lot of assholes voted for Taco, who placed another asshole into a place where they could exact revenge for all the fantasy grievances the massive amount of assholes have about how Covid was handled.
They cried about vaccine and mask mandates and they were very butthurt that the reality-based community POINTED AND LAUGHED at their “cures” like horse dewormer and putting a light bulb up your ass, and now they don’t want YOU to have the vaccine, either!
Why? Because FUCK YOU is why. Voting for Taco is the last gasp of the Angry White Man and all their petty grievances against everyone else who is smarter, more attractive, more educated, and living their best lives, often in a coastal city. Taco and pals are ripping through a checklist of all those grievances against “the elites”.
I got one at a CVS in Louisiana but had to have my doctor call in a prescription. Insurance covered it. There’s also apparently some weird supply issues. A colleague (who is over 65 and clearly eligible) had an appointment at a large hospital and they told her they were out of COVID vaccines but had plenty of flu shots. She was ultimately able to reschedule and get a Pfizer shot but they were still out of the Moderna one and whatever the non-mRNA shot is called.
It all sort of smacks of disorganization (possibly deliberate incompetence considering we have a loon with brain worms in the driver’s seat). But it seems like some people are having access issues and other people just waltz into a Walgreens/CVS and get their booster in minutes.
Texas here and I just scheduled to get mine next week. However, it didn’t say anything on the scheduling page about needing a prescription. Should I expect them to surprise me with that when I go in?
I live in NY and got my flu shot today but couldn’t get the COVID vaccine without a prescription. Messaged my doc and they’ll send one in. I’m hoping NY drops that now that the governor took some action.
“Based on the current regulatory environment,” CVS said it’s offering COVID-19 vaccinations in the following states: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Alabama is more lax about it than New York? What the hell?
On Friday, NY Governor Hochul signed an order that removes the prescription requirement for COVID vaccines. It came out right after my doctor sent the prescription in. It may take a bit for the change to filter through our fucked healthcare system, of course.
Only for 30 days, it looks like. Everyone in New York get it while it’s easier to do so!
I am in another state, but I just registered on CVS’s website. When you select Covid, they have two questions, ‘Have you had a Covid shot in the last two months’ and ‘Do you have a condition that increases your risk for Covid’. They have a link with conditions CDC considers increased risk. There’s a bunch of stuff, including mental health disorders and having a BMI above 25. You could also just click yes on that question, since I doubt that they check.
Getting my booster and flu shot now! Thanks NY.
