Stopped by my local grocery chain with pharmacy and asked about #Covid shots.

Good News/Bad News..

Good news, yup you can get one w/o prescription

Bad news, its $150-$175 without #insurance.

#CovidShots
#NorthCarolina

Foolhardy, Dangerous

β€œU.S. Will No Longer Recommend #CovidShots for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the vaccine would not be included as part of the immunization schedule for healthy children.” NYT

@MuseumShuffle @mergesort

My local Chicago news says there's been a lot of confusion about insurance coverage for the new #CovidBoosterShot. If you call your insurance company yourself, you might be able to get it fixed. But too many of the insurers have not yet updated their systems to include the new CDC guidelines about the latest shot, so a lot of folks are getting automatically rejected.

#Covid #CovidBooster #CovidShots #Vaccine #Vaccination #Vaccinations #CovidVaccine #BoosterShot #BoosterShots #insurance #HealthInsuranceClaims #HealthInsurance

@thatkatharine

My local Chicago-area news reported last night that new #Covid #vaccine #boosters would begin to be available "sometime next week" (Sept 10-17) for people over 50. Usually, other groups are added to the list soon after the "over 50" crowd gets their shots. You should start checking the #CDC website for which date you can 1st get yours.

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidShots #CovidVaccine #BoosterShot #BoosterShots #Covid19

(Found a link to a similar news story.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-booster-shots-expected-early-week/story?id=102943545

COVID-19 booster shots expected as early as next week

The shots are expected to protect against severe disease and death.

ABC News
Rare myocarditis after COVID shots: Study rules out some common culprits

Researchers ruled out overexuberant antibodies in an autoimmune response.

Ars Technica

The result of Post-covid complications starting back in January. 1 in 10 gets problems with their eyes that can last for a month up to a year.

My productivity went down into the ground and i could only code on a few days when my eyes were good enough to see, and even then i had to use sunglasses to counter the light sensitivity.

It wasn't until in late April that i was able to start working properly.

TLDR: This is you reminder to take your #CovidShots

Quartz - #Pfizer plans to sell its #covidvaccine at a 10,000% markup in 2023. Pfizer will charge as much as $130 for Comirnaty, which costs an estimated $1.18 per dose to produce. This will make it a lot more likely that new variants will spread with abandon as more people go #unvaccinated - #Covid is a Killer but also a #MoneyMaker for #BigPharma . Will #medicare cover #Covidshots? Will #insurance cover them? #publichealth consequences? Not good.