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applegrove

(133,112 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:45 PM Sep 2025

Covid vaccines available in New York:

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

Maya Kaufman (@mayakaufman.bsky.social) 2025-09-04T21:27:30.485Z
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Covid vaccines available in New York: (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2025 OP
I hope Illinois does that soon. In Chicago I tried to sign up at walgreens and the mucifer Sep 2025 #1
I'd pick a preexisting condition and go for it Lefta Dissenter Sep 2025 #2
Bless Governor Hochul! BlueKota Sep 2025 #3
I got my shot in Ohio today the pharmacist doc03 Sep 2025 #4

mucifer

(25,729 posts)
1. I hope Illinois does that soon. In Chicago I tried to sign up at walgreens and the
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:57 PM
Sep 2025

website won't let you without a pre existing condition. Granted there are about 20 of them and inactivity is one that is very vague. But, technically, I don't qualify I am a few years under 65 and so far healthy.

Lefta Dissenter

(6,704 posts)
2. I'd pick a preexisting condition and go for it
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:05 PM
Sep 2025

I’m over 65, so got my Covid and flu vaccinations today, but the pharmacy tech was basically encouraging people to find themselves a condition that fits and get jabbed while they can. They’re stabbing people as fast as they can around here.

(I’m in Wisconsin)

doc03

(39,184 posts)
4. I got my shot in Ohio today the pharmacist
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:35 PM
Sep 2025

said you have to be 65 or have certain medical conditions to get them here.

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