Just got my first Pfizer shot this morning!

[In It to Win It]

At one of the local Walgreens stores.

Eligibility just expanded to the 18+ club in my state last week, on April 5th. All the state and local vaccination sites were booked. All appointments at the several Publix, CVS and any other private entity locations were booked since I started checking.

One my elder aunts had passed away a couple of weeks ago and a few relatives had traveled down. This past Sunday, around 10 of us including my mother, a few aunts and a few cousins had gathered to see our relatives off who were now traveling back home. After me, the next youngest person in this gathering was my mother at 56. Out of the group, I'm the only one who had not received any vaccination shot. Everyone else had their vaccination shots through their job or church (or wherever else) months ago. All of my aunts were pressuring me to get this shot, which I had already planned to do.

All the previous times I had checked, they were all booked. To my surprise, I just randomly decided to check for appointments after this gathering on Sunday and Walgreens had open appointments all day Thursday and Friday. I thought I was in for a long wait before I saw any vaccination shots.

[Rorey]

1. Congrats!

Most of my family will be fully vaccinated within 3 weeks, except for the kids.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Congratulations

[Hortensis]

3. Terrific, In It, and glad to hear it, all of it.

[BoringUsername]

4. I got first Moderna shot on Monday

I live in the second largest city in my state and I had to drive an hour away to a much smaller town to get it. Everything in my area was totally booked. They opened it up for 16+ in my state on April 7th. Before that it was only for 50+. I tried looking on the 7th online for an appointment on multiple sites and could not find anything with a 50 mile radius of where I live. I checked again on the 8th and got lucky with finding these appointments that were an hour away. I got appointments for myself, my husband and our 18 year old son. My husband and I are in our 40s, so we only just became eligible too. Still have to wait longer for my youngest son who is close to 12.

[BoringUsername]

5. I ended up getting mine at a hospital

The pharmacies were all booked up.

[BoringUsername]

6. In Maine, where I live,

Most of the population lives in southern Maine and you can't find shot appointments there, so a whole bunch of people from southern Maine are traveling to the less populated areas in northern Maine to get an appointment. It's kind of dumb, but that's the current situation. People have been traveling farther than I did. Some are going two hours or more one direction. Northern Maine is both less populated, but also where the Trumpers reside in the state for the most part. A newspaper article on it that I read mentioned that typically northern Mainers drive to southern Maine to seek health care, so this situation is kind of an odd reversal of that.