{"id":3912,"date":"2021-03-08T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:53:41","slug":"buhealth-i-am-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2021\/03\/buhealth-i-am-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"BUHealth: I am vaccinated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wise friend who read my previous BUHealth post comparing different vaccines warned me that it could be interpreted as saying \u201cWait to get a vaccine until you get the one you like the most.\u201d I do not recommend that. I care too much about my friends. Instead, you should get a vaccine the first time it is offered to you, whatever one it is.\u00a0 For me, the first offer was yesterday, when a friend alerted me about a small surplus at one community health center. It was Moderna. I had found it hard to sign up via the weblinks. (I am over age 65, which has blanket permission to get a \u201cjab\u201d in the US now.) Look at how happy it made me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/iamvaccinated3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ellisrp\/files\/2021\/03\/IAmVaccinated3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IAmVaccinated!3\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3914\" width=\"298\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2021\/03\/IAmVaccinated3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2021\/03\/IAmVaccinated3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You too could look like this when you get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a little pain in the arm and a low-grade temperature 99.2<sup>o<\/sup> F compared to my norm of 97.7 for the first 24 hours. But it ended. And now I can<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\"> party<\/span> continue wearing a mask carefully out of solidarity and because of the nasty new strains that are still popping up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wise friend who read my previous BUHealth post comparing different vaccines warned me that it could be interpreted as saying \u201cWait to get a vaccine until you get the one you like the most.\u201d I do not recommend that. I care too much about my friends. Instead, you should get a vaccine the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2021\/03\/buhealth-i-am-vaccinated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BUHealth: I am vaccinated!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,7238,10942,10943,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}