Giving out medical advice like this can be dangerous. There may be lots of other factors that you and I aren't aware of.<p>Its an interesting thought but be careful urging everyone else to avoid the recommendation.
I got mine a few weeks ago in a hall the size of a football field, we were well spaced out. This may apply to more cramped venues but to me it’s a bit dramatic. We have to queue for the vaccine, I have to go to the shop otherwise I don’t eat, you can’t isolate yourself from every little possible exposure, when I observe those who try it’s not long before I notice contradictions.
> You can call someone on the phone for 15 minutes who can monitor you for side effects. Or, walk back in after 15 minutes, tell the pharmacist you are OK, and then leave.<p>There is a reason vaccine sites don't do this. When someone has an allergic reaction the response needs to be quick.<p>The local health department runs pop-up vaccination clinics in concert with the local research hospital. They considered issues like this during planning and they choose not do it.<p>When someone sitting in the car starts to have an allergic reaction how does a response get there quickly.<p>Best case the patient is on the phone with a monitor in the clinic. That monitor has to notice there is a problem and inform a responder that there is a problem.<p>Right away you have a problem. An in person monitor can monitor more people than someone juggling phones. The clinic needs more people. Also, seeing someone get flushed or slump over is easier than noticing, hey NNN stopped responding. The monitors can respond quicker.<p>Once a monitor informs a responder they have to find the right vehicle in the parking lot, the patient may be slumped over. There's other people sitting in their car. Hell, 25% pf vehicles are white these day. Finding the right car takes a while.<p>Then they have to get into the car which might be locked or parked in. Only then can they provide care.<p>What the clinics do instead is keep traffic to a level where they can have people wait safely. Both in terms of waiting space, patient spacing, and availability of monitors. They know how many doses they're getting over time so this isn't hard to plan.<p>When vaccination throughput needs to go up they open a parallel pop-up that can also keep people safe.
Waiting outside or in your car is not "declining" the waiting period. It's a reasonable thing to do if you're more worried about remaining indoors around strangers. Unless you've got serious mobility problems, there's fundamentally no difference between waiting at the point of vaccination and waiting outside.
My friend who is immunocompromised is getting his first dose tomorrow. They will be drawing blood for anti body test and then give the vaccine. Waiting period of 15 mins to see if any side effects. If there is something serious you go to the ER. It would be best not to be alone if there is that risk
Why are vaccination places making you wait 15 minutes in a small space close to others?<p>I know there's actual medical professionals that won't get vaccinated and refuse to even give it to others, but those clowns don't run the facility.<p>So you'd think the waiting areas would be following CDC distancing guidelines.
Friend just got the vaccine, they asked her to sit in her car and call them if anything happened.<p>Part of her arm went numb, they said that was normal. It freaked her out a bit and she yelled to someone else waiting in their car, and they said they were quite nauseous.<p>Seems like a reasonable compromise.
Sometimes, people who have easy access (and habit) to write blog posts, etc. forget to ask themselves whether they have some standing or weight to comment on the things that they think during the day. Or responsibility.<p>Why would I listen to a software developer on whether I should follow medical guidelines in a health crisis, over some source more involved/accountable to the vaccine distribution system?<p>There's absolutely no consequence for him to give 5 minute advice that he has no accountability for. Will he accept responsibility for advising people to do this?<p>He might be right, even, but for some reason this morning I got set off irritably by such a person giving others medical advice. So for that, I apologize in advance.