Adventures in vaccination
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edschweppeEarly in the morning on Tuesday (March 2), I somewhat idly brought up the state's vaccine appointment finder (https://vaxfinder.mass.gov/), expecting it to show its typical utter lack of appointments available. To my surprise, it was showing a small number of slots open at the Gillette Stadium site - presumably because some folks had cancelled their appointments for one reason or another. After several attempts, each of which brought me to a page showing a day's worth of unavailable times, I was able to find an appointment for the next morning (!) at 9:48.
So I toodled down to Foxborough bright and early Wednesday morning. The various online mapping services indicated that it was marginally faster for me to head east and take MA-128/I-90 to US-1 south, rather than head west and take I-495 to US-1 north, to get to Gillette. There are two vaccination sites at Gillette, and my appointment was at the "west" clinic (in the stadium in the Putnam Investments club). Traffic was non-existent, and parking was plentiful. One thing that didn't work perfectly; the directions told me to take the P6 entrance to Gillette, and I couldn't see any signage for P6 from US-1. (Instead, I saw signs for the P9 entrance at a traffic light, made a U-turn onto US-1 north, and took the P8 entrance that the directions specified for northbounders.)
Apart from that minor bit of navigational irritation, though, things went very smoothly. There was a very short line waiting to get into the site, but there were plenty of staff keeping things flowing. They had plenty of check-in stations; basically all I had to do was show one person the registration email and the completed health questionaire on my phone, and then I was heading up the escalator to the vaccination stations proper. Again, there was effectively no waiting, and I got my Moderna shot (and official CDC vaccination card) with no hassles. I spent most of the fifteen-minute observation period signing up (on my cell phone) for my second shot on March 31 - same location, same time - and was on my way home shortly after ten AM.
I haven't noticed any side effects from the shot; I'm going to plan on not being so lucky after the second dose. On the other hand, by mid-April I should be "fully vaccinated" - and in a position to do things like, say, visit my mom.
(Originally posted on March 11. Backdated to March 3, which is when I thought I'd posted this originally. Apparently I didn't.)
So I toodled down to Foxborough bright and early Wednesday morning. The various online mapping services indicated that it was marginally faster for me to head east and take MA-128/I-90 to US-1 south, rather than head west and take I-495 to US-1 north, to get to Gillette. There are two vaccination sites at Gillette, and my appointment was at the "west" clinic (in the stadium in the Putnam Investments club). Traffic was non-existent, and parking was plentiful. One thing that didn't work perfectly; the directions told me to take the P6 entrance to Gillette, and I couldn't see any signage for P6 from US-1. (Instead, I saw signs for the P9 entrance at a traffic light, made a U-turn onto US-1 north, and took the P8 entrance that the directions specified for northbounders.)
Apart from that minor bit of navigational irritation, though, things went very smoothly. There was a very short line waiting to get into the site, but there were plenty of staff keeping things flowing. They had plenty of check-in stations; basically all I had to do was show one person the registration email and the completed health questionaire on my phone, and then I was heading up the escalator to the vaccination stations proper. Again, there was effectively no waiting, and I got my Moderna shot (and official CDC vaccination card) with no hassles. I spent most of the fifteen-minute observation period signing up (on my cell phone) for my second shot on March 31 - same location, same time - and was on my way home shortly after ten AM.
I haven't noticed any side effects from the shot; I'm going to plan on not being so lucky after the second dose. On the other hand, by mid-April I should be "fully vaccinated" - and in a position to do things like, say, visit my mom.
(Originally posted on March 11. Backdated to March 3, which is when I thought I'd posted this originally. Apparently I didn't.)
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