Nadene Goldfoot
The FDA granted an EUA to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, expanding availability in December 2020. Early 2021: Rollouts expanded gradually to older adults, essential workers, and eventually the wider general population. Other types followed.
I live in an assisted Living Center. People here want to be informed and perhaps even helped to remember an important date, especially those of us about medical needs. That's why we live in ASSISTED LIVING and pay a fortune for it. Communication between staff and residents may need to be improved.
Yesterday turned out to be a big disappointment. We found out from the staff that the vaccines for the residents that come from Safeway, had come and gone. They were told that some had received the vaccine. My CT asked me if I had received any vaccines. Of course, I hit the ceiling realizing that what I had questioned our head about early in September had been ignored at this proper timing.
A staff member of some authority has even lied to us saying we had notices on our doors about it. No such notice came. We who I asked are in agreement to that. Now we have found out that this special staff member hadn't even started working here still a few months after last years' vaccines had been given to us.
Not all people want vaccines. They are not getting them. Some of us do want them. My history demands them; a history of asthma, age of 92, weak immune system, wearing a pacemaker to keep my heart pumping...
Now, we face the problem of how and when to get the vaccine before we catch the viruses.
I feel it was the vaccine that kept me out of the hospital and being fairly healthy.
What we need:
Covid-19
influenza (flu)
RSV-respiratory virus
Shingles
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