5-11 Vaccine appointments thread

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo. Can I take my child to VA or DC? I can’t get a CVS appointment nor can I get one at Walgreens or Safeway. Thanks!

If you haven't checked recently, Walgreens seemed to have just opened up a bunch of appts in MoCo

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Walgreens in Bethesda is open for next week.

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Anonymous wrote:This is like being back in spring of 2021. Can't find appointments anywhere for 5-11 year olds at CVS. Am in MoCo. Will just have to keep looking. Ridiculous that nearly 2 years into this pandemic and we still can't roll out of vaccines out smoothly and make them widely available.

MoCo is inept.

Come see us in Georgia. Some pediatrician's offices are turning people away outside of the metro Atlanta area because the pediatrician's office says there is not enough evidence of safety of the vaccine in kids.

Whoever wants a shot in Atlanta can find one pretty easily.

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Anonymous wrote:This is like being back in spring of 2021. Can't find appointments anywhere for 5-11 year olds at CVS. Am in MoCo. Will just have to keep looking. Ridiculous that nearly 2 years into this pandemic and we still can't roll out of vaccines out smoothly and make them widely available.

MoCo is inept.

Come see us in Georgia. Some pediatrician's offices are turning people away outside of the metro Atlanta area because the pediatrician's office says there is not enough evidence of safety of the vaccine in kids.

Whoever wants a shot in Atlanta can find one pretty easily.

Oh no. That doesn’t make me feel better!!

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Anonymous wrote:I have an appointment today and am calling now to confirm they have it before I drive out there.

Just called the Walgreens I have an appointment at and they do not have it!! But I have no email cancellation. So if you have a Walgreens appointment call to confirm.

Walgreens is not starting this age group until Saturday. Was your appt today?

Yes I had a confirmed appointment for today

All Walgreens are starting Saturday.

Yes but that wasn’t know yesterday when I made the appointment, which the system allowed me to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in MoCo. Can I take my child to VA or DC? I can’t get a CVS appointment nor can I get one at Walgreens or Safeway. Thanks!

You should be able to. Call to confirm. I'm also in MoCo and going to VA. Or post on here and someone may tell you.

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Anonymous wrote:Please if you got a Walgreens/CVS appt this weekend, could you report back if you were actually able to get the vaccine? I'm a bit nervous that I'm going to drive 45min to my Walgreens appt on Monday and they won't have any supply.

No one should have to drive 45 minutes....you can do better than this. What's your zip, we'll help you.

+1. You have a lot of obsessed crazy parents on this thread. Let us help you.

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45 min away was the only place I could get an evening appointment. It's hard for me to take time off next week.

Did you check the Tyson's clinic when they opened that up? Open until 7:35.

https://vase.vdh.virginia.gov/vdhapps/f?p=535:100:::NO:100100_ZIP_CODE,P100_DISTANCE_RANGE:22102,5

I clicked on this link. All of the Pfizer appointments cite 12+. I'm not seeing anything for kids younger than that being made available.

PP above here - my bad; I scrolled down a bit and found appointments for 5-11 starting 11/10. Signed up for 11/13; I can wait 3 days and avoid driving to Tysons on a weeknight. I keep checking my Pediatrician's website but they don't have the supply yet. If anything changes within the next week, can always switch if I wish (DH wanted to take DC to Peds instead of mass vax site). I just want to get it done before the holidays and before a medical procedure at the end of December that DC will be having.

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City of Alexandria just opened another clinic for tonight at Nova CC campus in Alex. They had a few for later in the week which filled up yesterday and must have just posted this one tonight. >150 appointments available as of right now...

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Anonymous wrote:City of Alexandria just opened another clinic for tonight at Nova CC campus in Alex. They had a few for later in the week which filled up yesterday and must have just posted this one tonight. >150 appointments available as of right now...

Sorry, here is the link to the list of clinics. I now see there are 3 new ones for 5-11 tonight, tomorrow and Saturday:

https://www.alexandriava.gov/Vaccines

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Anonymous wrote:There are a gazillion kid vaccine appts at Rite Aid in Baltimore. There are clinics by the health department which have appts. Why can't people find them? Or are you hoping to get your kid vaccinated by the end of the week?

Yes, I think this is it. They want to go to their nearest pharmacy of choice and get it done before their friends. They don't want to wait in line at a walk-in clinic or drive more than 5 minutes down the road. The frustration last year at the adult roll out was legit, but this is just hand wringing for the sake of hand wringing.

There are currently about a thousand (A THOUSAND) daytime slots on Tuesday at Fairfax Co Government Center. That's open to anyone, not just Fairfax residents. If you care THAT much, pull your kid out of school and take them on Tuesday. Or take them to Baltimore if that's easier. There are options.

Uh, no. I have no idea what my kids' friends are doing and frankly don't care. We just want as much protection as possible before our Thanksgiving travel.

So what's holding you back? Go to a DC walk-up clinic tomorrow or next week (or one of the Fairfax sites) and you can have the first one done 2-2.5 weeks before Thanksgiving.

Nothing. Found an appointment for later today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:City of Alexandria just opened another clinic for tonight at Nova CC campus in Alex. They had a few for later in the week which filled up yesterday and must have just posted this one tonight. >150 appointments available as of right now...

Sorry, here is the link to the list of clinics. I now see there are 3 new ones for 5-11 tonight, tomorrow and Saturday:

https://www.alexandriava.gov/Vaccines

Thank you very much!

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Anonymous wrote:There are a gazillion kid vaccine appts at Rite Aid in Baltimore. There are clinics by the health department which have appts. Why can't people find them? Or are you hoping to get your kid vaccinated by the end of the week?

Yes, I think this is it. They want to go to their nearest pharmacy of choice and get it done before their friends. They don't want to wait in line at a walk-in clinic or drive more than 5 minutes down the road. The frustration last year at the adult roll out was legit, but this is just hand wringing for the sake of hand wringing.

There are currently about a thousand (A THOUSAND) daytime slots on Tuesday at Fairfax Co Government Center. That's open to anyone, not just Fairfax residents. If you care THAT much, pull your kid out of school and take them on Tuesday. Or take them to Baltimore if that's easier. There are options. [/quote


I think some of us with high risk kids are panicking. However, now that I learned that we can go into DC or MD and it's fine I will just do that. Thanks other posters!

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Anyone from Maryland get a shot with the Department of Health in Virginia yet? Like Tysons etc.? Are they letting you? I work in VA if that matters but my kid doesn't.

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Is the Tyson's site a drive thru?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Tyson's site a drive thru?

No I think it's IN Lord and Taylors.