Apparently Johnson&Johnson is running trials on their vaccine here. I think theirs is single dose. I'm wondering about seeing if I can get in on that. I haven't yet had a chance to read up on this version though.

I think theirs is single dose.

I really hope vaccine developers can move towards a single-dose vaccine, especially if it turns out that we need to get the coronavirus vaccine every year, like the flu vaccine. Because it's just going to be difficult to get some people to go back for a second shot, especially if the first dose has notable side effects. (I say that as someone who stepped in an open pipe while wearing shorts and scraped my leg up terribly, up to the knee, went to the hospital for a tetanus shot -- which was a 2-dose shot -- and never got the second dose. That was probably 20-ish years ago, so I was damn well old enough to know better, and yet I skipped the second dose, because people are ridiculous sometimes, and I am a people.)

(In my defense, why the hell was there an open pipe in a sidewalk, City of Cincinnati? Good lord.) (Hil and flea, it was across the street from the Skyline on Ludlow, in front of where the fountain is. For years I said the fountain was built to commemorate the day I stepped in an open pipe.)

I really hope vaccine developers can move towards a single-dose vaccine, especially if it turns out that we need to get the coronavirus vaccine every year, like the flu vaccine. Because it's just going to be difficult to get some people to go back for a second shot, especially if the first dose has notable side effects.

I really hope so too.

Skyline on Ludlow

I lived just up the road from that Skyline!

I really hope vaccine developers can move towards a single-dose vaccine, especially if it turns out that we need to get the coronavirus vaccine every year, like the flu vaccine. Because it's just going to be difficult to get some people to go back for a second shot, especially if the first dose has notable side effects.

Me, three. (She said, looking at her calendar, which tells her she can go for her second shingles dose any time now... )

Skyline on Ludlow

I lived just up the road from that Skyline!

Gaslight District, represent!

she can go for her second shingles dose any time now...

Is the shingles vaccine a 2-dose thing? Ugh. (Because yes, I'm getting it as soon as I turn 50, because both parents and my brother have gotten shingles, and I really don't know how I've avoided it, but I'd like to keep it that way.)

Is the shingles vaccine a 2-dose thing?

Yes. [link]

That's the Skyline Chili my mom waited tables at when she was a teenager.

I have twice had the pneumonia vaccine - at the urging of the doctor - and both times I got sick from it. The first time I spent two weeks with a fever, cough and generally feeling miserable; the second time - the doctor really pushed it and said it was a different vaccine - I only felt miserable for a few days. I'm perfectly happy to get the flu vaccine, keep my tetanus shot current (the one that comes with diptheria and pertussis), but I do not want the pneumonia vaccine again. And I've had the shingles vaccine twice; I had chicken pox as a child, so I'm at risk for that. I asked about measles, if my near-death experience with it when I was three gave me life-long immunity ... once the nice young doctor got over the shock of someone who had HAD measles, she checked with her supervisor and assured me that, yes, I was immune.