I’ve had the same experience. I’ve had a few appointments and my husband has had more. No one has asked me and the only person who asked H was his cardiologist. We are surprised that it isn’t even discussed. I don’t know why the doctors aren’t taking the opportunity to bring it up.
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In California a lot of doctors/medical providers are checking the vaccine registry before their patients come in.
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It’s possible your provider already had your record from your state’s immunization information system, so didn’t have to ask you.
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My state doesn’t have a registry.
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I ask the office if they are vaxxed before I go.
I was surprised, but happy, that my parents cancelled their dentist appts when the office said they weren’t all vaccinated.
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I had a recent visit with a specialist - my vaccination status was on my medical records (which are all at the same medical system). They didn’t ask, because it was there for them to see.
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My PCP has an online system that I can access. Shows all my test result, medication and immunizations. As soon as I received my COVID vaccine at Riteaid, it was reported to my PCP and entered into my record. I can check all of my records by logging n.
I really love this system, we can see our results right away, confirm appointments and check in.
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I’m in metro-NYC. Our local elementary schools were fully in-person with masks/ventilation for the entire 2020-21 school year. They did well. Now, teachers, staff, parents, grandparents, babysitters, coaches, and older siblings can all be vaccinated, forming an extra ring of protection around the under 12’s.
Delta spreads faster than previous variants, but there is no evidence that it spreads differently. If the community does not hold big indoor gatherings without masks, I think we will have a similar outcome to last year for the under 12’s, but a better outcome for the most vulnerable teens/adults, who should now be vaccinated.
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I wonder what the difference is between animal and human ivermectin, I remember giving Ivermectin to horses and if I wanted to find some on a Saturday morning, feeling ill and worried, the feed store would have been my first thought.
I think figuring out the right dosage would be difficult. Then there could be a question about purity, like if animal medicine meets the same standards as human medicine, and if the “fillers” would be safe for humans.
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Did we discuss hair “loss” in this thread or elsewhere? Anyway, posting here.
I brought up somewhere (not sure if it was this thread) about somebody I knew who had this kind of hair loss from the vaccine.
It’s not uncommon to lose hair after a viral or other febrile illness.
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Just heard that vaccine efficacy wanes after 90 days. For that reason, and because I feel like crap, I’m on the way to my first covid test.
Wishing you the best! 
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Re: British study shows COVID-19 vaccine efficacy wanes under Delta | Reuters
That page refers to this study: SSO Login Service - Stale Request . It also says the following vaccine effectiveness after two doses:
| Vaccine | After two weeks | After 90 days |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer - BioNTech | 85% | 75% |
| Oxford - AstraZeneca | 68% | 61% |
Although the headline may be interpreted by some to say that your vaccine lasts only three months, that is not what it is actually saying.
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Good to know our vaccines can help us get to 8 months post VAX safely when we should be able to get the boosters we qualify for.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-are-the-vaccines-affected-by-the-delta-variant-
The study concludes that yes, there is a drop in effectiveness, but not by all that much. As in trials, Pfizer was found to be initially more effective than AstraZeneca, and its effectiveness against the Delta variant held up slightly better. Among those given the AstraZeneca jab, vaccine effectiveness (the protection against symptomatic infection) fell from 75 to 67 per cent. Among those given Pfizer, effectiveness fell from 94 to 88 per cent. The study also looked at the protective effect over time and concluded that the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine has been falling by 22 per cent per month and the effectiveness of AstraZeneca by 7 per cent per month. Through extrapolation (as opposed to real world data) the team concluded that the effectiveness of Pfizer and AstraZeneca would be similar around four to five months after vaccination.
Seems like it’s time for boosters for everyone.
I’d like to hear about moderna but there’s not much there.
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What are they getting at here? Not sure I understand. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/opinion/long-covid-treatment.html
So the fall from 94% to 88% for Pfizer was a comparison of effectiveness against Alpha versus Delta “Initially.” But the Pfizer vaccine lost 22% effectiveness per month. So does that mean that at 4 months post vax it is only 12% effective and not effective at all at 5 months? But we are supposed to wait 8 months? And will this mean vaccines three or four times a year?
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