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Did The Team Get Their Vaccine shots?

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If they were completely immune by mid Feb doesn’t that change things? Assuming all other teams were the same. Wouldn’t that stop cancellations and shutdowns? Coaches and staff would need theirs also.
 
jibsey said:
If they were completely immune by mid Feb doesn’t that change things? Assuming all other teams were the same. Wouldn’t that stop cancellations and shutdowns? Coaches and staff would need theirs also.
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I’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
I’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.
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Is that the prioritization schedule in CT? In MA my college aged kids are getting it before me.
 
HooperScooper said:
Is that the prioritization schedule in CT? In MA my college aged kids are getting it before me.
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Really? That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s a recognition that college age kids become a transmission risk based upon their traveling to and from school and placing a higher priority on socializing than social distancing.
 
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CL82 said:
Really? That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s a recognition that college age kids become a transmission risk based upon their traveling to and from school and placing a higher priority on socializing than social distancing.
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He is wrong. College kids fall under the general public, which is last. Unless his kids are prison, then yes, they are top priority in Mass.
 
In lieu of no recent events whatsoever, our team should receive the 1st dosage of the vaccine and pause all games for the 4 weeks it takes until the 2nd dosage.
 
HooperScooper said:
Summer and fall? I thought everyone was scheduled to be vaccinated by June?
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That's probably about right. Over a million people a day are currently getting vaccinated. It should rise to over two million a day eventually. And since folks under 18 years of age are not in the vaccine pool that means we need to vaccinate about 220 million folks. We already have vaccinated 12 million and 14 million more are immune because they have recovered from the virus. The math is with your prediction of June.
 
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ucawn said:
In lieu of no recent events whatsoever, our team should receive the 1st dosage of the vaccine and pause all games for the 4 weeks it takes until the 2nd dosage.
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Or until Bouknight is back. Whichever comes first. 😀
 
Hurleyman216 said:
I’m not sure if you read the news but college age kids are the lowest on the priority scale for vaccines and probably won’t get shots until later this summer.
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Exactly, and people are not going to be jumping ahead for the vaccine just because of their occupation anymore once the first responders are all taken care of. For example Lebron James will be vaccinated at the same time another 36 year old high school gym teacher can get it. Professional athletes don’t get special treatment just because they are famous. At least that’s how I think it’s supposed to work
 
It’s unethical. I work for a well-known sports organization and trust me we are not asking to push athletes to head of the line.
 
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There's an argument to be made that distribution to college campuses should come early in the general public phase. Many schools have their own infrastructure to administer vaccines, so it'd be a good chunk of the population the state would not have to worry about administering the "last mile delivery." Instead, they can allocate and deliver the doses then be done and devote that last mile delivery capacity elsewhere.

For instance, up here in Boston both BU and Northeastern have infrastructure in place already to vaccinate the entire campus. That'd be ~100K people the state wouldn't have to worry about. Of course, those doses shouldn't be delivered until the general population has access. But at that point, in the interest of doing the most good to the public, a quick and seamless administration of hundreds of thousands of doses maximizes the public good.
 
HooperScooper said:
My kids told me that. I didn't even look it up. It's always a bad idea to listen to what your kids say. 😀 We are all in the general public. Hoping by June. 🤞
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Getting my shot Tues. in CT lost my hoops eligibility 55 years ago. I don’t even know if the vaccine for the follow up dose will be in supply.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Where do you teach? On Wednesday, we were able to start scheduling our first dose.
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We're supposedly getting ours early February. We don't have a schedule yet but our superintendent did send out an email asking who doesn't want the vaccine. So hopefully we're getting close.
 
Palatine said:
That's probably about right. Over a million people a day are currently getting vaccinated. It should rise to over two million a day eventually. And since folks under 18 years of age are not in the vaccine pool that means we need to vaccinate about 220 million folks. We already have vaccinated 12 million and 14 million more are immune because they have recovered from the virus. The math is with your prediction of June.
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I was able to schedule my vaccination for this week as I am a part of group 1b. However my school district sent a notice that group 1b has 1.3 million people and the state is currently vaccinating about 46,000 people a week, so it could take 7 months to work through just this group. I have not fully verified this info but it was sent out to all staff
 
Problem right now is getting vaccine, not distributing from what I’ve been told. But I agree that you could make a reasonable case that college students should be higher. It is a balancing act They tend not to get as sick but many places saw big spikes in the community when students arrived back on campus. My daughter teaches at UNC and said Raleigh, Durham and Chspel Hill all saw jumps when students returned last fall.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
There's an argument to be made that distribution to college campuses should come early in the general public phase. Many schools have their own infrastructure to administer vaccines, so it'd be a good chunk of the population the state would not have to worry about administering the "last mile delivery." Instead, they can allocate and deliver the doses then be done and devote that last mile delivery capacity elsewhere.

For instance, up here in Boston both BU and Northeastern have infrastructure in place already to vaccinate the entire campus. That'd be ~100K people the state wouldn't have to worry about. Of course, those doses shouldn't be delivered until the general population has access. But at that point, in the interest of doing the most good to the public, a quick and seamless administration of hundreds of thousands of doses maximizes the public good.
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My son goes to a small liberal arts school and they have been trying to secure the vaccine so they can give it to their students. They had a bubble in the fall semester and are trying to do the same in the spring. Students can't go off campus and no visitors allowed. They're not trying to "jump the line" but rather they don't want their students going off campus and most kids live far away so they figure this is the easiest way to get everyone vaccinated in a timely fashion and most safely. Makes a lot of sense.
 
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I signed my 86 year old mother up in Connecticut. Up here in NY my county exec just caused an uproar when he reported that all vaccinations scheduled for next week are canceled as the appointment openings were based on expectations of 21,000 vaccine doses, and they only received 7,000. They are now reassessing to see whether there is any clarity about the actual # in reserve so they can make sure those who already received will get their 2nds. Holding pattern. Cancellations. No clarity.
 
CL82 said:
Really? That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s a recognition that college age kids become a transmission risk based upon their traveling to and from school and placing a higher priority on socializing than social distancing.
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Current vaccines protect the person who gets it. They can still carry and transmit to others but at what rate is unknown right now.
 
ChampHusky said:
It’s unethical. I work for a well-known sports organization and trust me we are not asking to push athletes to head of the line.
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I get what you’re saying. But I think that only really should apply to the hospital and medical people and nursing home residents. After that it should be open to everyone in this country. If you want to get a shot register, first come first serve. Too many people who are in these first two tiers are not even getting their shots and delaying everyone else’s chance, prolonging the pandemic.
 
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I could have a very poor understanding of how vaccines work, so someone feel free to correct me, but even once people are vaccinated can they still "get" covid and test positive. Having a vaccine doesn't mean the virus can't enter your body, it just means that you can fight it when it does.

The current policy requires a team to go on pause even when someone who tests positive is asymptomatic.

Again I might be wrong about how vaccination works, but unless they change that policy and stop testing once the players are vaccinated (unlikely) then it doesn't make sense to prioritize them since they can still carry & transmit the virus, leading to asymptomatic positive tests and thus more shutdowns.
 
2north said:
Current vaccines protect the person who gets it. They can still carry and transmit to others but at what rate is unknown right now.
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I've wondered about this as well. Given that your antibodies are going to attack the thing, I have think you are less likely to act like a petri dish. It will be interesting to see if that's the case.
 
Given that the worst effects of the disease correlate almost perfectly with age, starting with older Americans and moving the demographic down with time makes the most sense as it will save the most lives. That puts college kids near the back of the line.
 
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