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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Massachusetts and this news has me sick to my stomach tonight.

I had called around earlier in the week and nobody has the new vaccine in stock yet supposed to be released mid September but who knows - maybe they won’t let us have it at all. If the corporate shills at Walgreens and Walmart follow in CVS’s footsteps . . .

I’ve left a message with my doctor’s office to see if they can administer the vaccine but I’m sure they don’t have newest updated vaccine in stock yet either. And maybe this administration isn’t going to let it be released.

Canada needs to offer mass vaccination to US citizens at their border cities - obviously we’ll have to pay whatever they ask but this is a humanitarian issue.

RFK Jr. wants the ‘mitochondrially challenged’ to just die, I think.[/quote]

Hopefully they can administer it but if not they can write you an rx. [/quote]

CVS isn’t honoring prescriptions for COVID vaccine in Massachusetts - or New Mexico or Nevada. Not sure why we get totally screwed but that’s what they’ve decided.

One can only assume that other corporate shills at Walgreens Walmart etc. will follow suit as they attempt to curry favor with the fascist dictator in the WH.

Thanks MAGA voters. [/quote]

If they aren’t going to be able to be reimbursed, and their pharmacists aren’t legally allowed to administer according to state laws, then they aren’t really currying favor - they have no choice. The Covid vax is $150-200 per dose, quite expensive, and vials are multi-dose so all doses must be used within a certain time period or money lost.[/quote]

As has been reported extensively in the news in the last few weeks, the health insurance industry has no plans to cancel coverage of any vaccines regardless of whatever is going on at CDC. Health insurers recognize the indisputable science and that vaccination reduces serious illness and hospitalization, thus reducing healthcare costs overall by a very significant number. I already verified with my insurer that they will cover it; the hang up is that I live in a commonwealth with laws prohibiting vaccines not approved by FDA and RFK Jr. and his MAHA goons are holding up/trying to cancel that approval.

I have a qualifying condition, although in a free country I believe I should be able to consult with my physician and have any vaccine for which I'm otherwise eligible and willing to take for prevention of serious illness. I also work with a very vulnerable elder with profound dementia, and so both because my caregiving is essential work and because of wanting to reduce risk of transmission to him, I want to be vaccinated. Because through my work I have seen the ravages of shingles (which can be unrelenting and chronic, devastating quality of life) and pneumonia, I got vaccinated as soon as I was eligible. Having once been pre-med and having taken college courses in immunology, virology, etc. I have a hard time understanding vaccine skepticism in light of hundreds of years of efficacy and hundreds of millions of lives saved with countless others prevented from living lives of long term disability from the extreme manifestations of preventable illnesses. I can't grasp why some people in this country seem to want to see children dying of measles and ending up on ventilators in wheelchairs or bedbound with polio.

This is a sickness in our body politic and we are heading into a mini-pandemic of vulnerable people when covid hits hard this winter.
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The vaccine is approved. The problem is that regulations in some states also require vaccines to also be explicitly recommended by the CDC for pharmacists to administer them.

Everything about this is dumb, including those regulations. Allow parmacists to administer approved vaccines, at least when given a prescription.
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