Just look up how to be a good patient advocate for yourself and ask smart questions to your doc(s).
I mean, the general practitioners doling out the shot aren't going to know much more than you do. Given the stress endemic to the American medical profession, they also aren't heavily invested in your personal outcomes so much as they are in cycling through their workload as quickly as possible. If this shot is safe for 98% (or 99.9% or 99.99%) of the population , your physician may not know, have the resources to check, or have a vested interest in finding out which bucket you're in.
The impact that the second shot has on people varies significantly. My father-in-law and a friend of mine both had 102+ fevers after that second dose, while a couple of pharmacy friends who got it mostly just complained of sore arms.
Nobody is predicting how it'll hit you, personally, in advance shy of some very broad indicators (extreme age, immune deficiency, etc). They're just jabbing arms and moving on.
While I agree its better we're doing this than not, I don't think it's fair to make this a "patient advocacy" issue when there's simply not enough information or resource to make a call more informed than "Getting real COVID would probably be worse for me".
This whole process is geared towards "reopening quickly" rather than "minimizing loss of human life".
I mean, the general practitioners doling out the shot aren't going to know much more than you do. Given the stress endemic to the American medical profession, they also aren't heavily invested in your personal outcomes so much as they are in cycling through their workload as quickly as possible. If this shot is safe for 98% (or 99.9% or 99.99%) of the population , your physician may not know, have the resources to check, or have a vested interest in finding out which bucket you're in.
The impact that the second shot has on people varies significantly. My father-in-law and a friend of mine both had 102+ fevers after that second dose, while a couple of pharmacy friends who got it mostly just complained of sore arms.
Nobody is predicting how it'll hit you, personally, in advance shy of some very broad indicators (extreme age, immune deficiency, etc). They're just jabbing arms and moving on.
While I agree its better we're doing this than not, I don't think it's fair to make this a "patient advocacy" issue when there's simply not enough information or resource to make a call more informed than "Getting real COVID would probably be worse for me".
This whole process is geared towards "reopening quickly" rather than "minimizing loss of human life".