I'm going to pm you to see how it goes if you don't mind

What I haven't yet determined is if our insurance will refuse coverage. I am assuming not, but as you know our insurance is in a bit of flux.

… but we can’t give them until we get the go-ahead from the powers that be (govt and corporate). I expect that will happen in the next week or two.

From what I understand, you can simply state you’re a smoker (past or present) and that should get around the stupid Rx angle because how could they prove you’re lying? *shrug*

and to some extent pharmacy. I will say the smoker thing is something I actually can't do since our insurance had a smoking attestation that I have signed for well over a decade. I think my heart history is more than enough anyhow. The pharmacist basically said he would likely take my word for it anyhow.

or in my case, the self insurance that the state does. But I do fear for my coworkers who healthier than I am since they won't qualify and I fear for lowly paid service workers who may not be able to afford to get prescriptions.

There is no such requirement in Illinois.
In fact, I went to a pharmacy today to pick up a Rx for my wife.
The first question was "Do you want a vaccination today?" They brought it up, not me.

very much regret now that I didn't decide to stay.

My wife too. We both went to college here too.
State is pretty much ok until you get south of Champaign or Peoria. Then it turns into Kentucky.

are pretty much Kansas.

Federal cuts.

Seriously it’s so sad what is being cut and somehow the state government is doing its best

I am proud to be from Illinois and Chicago.

they don’t have the vaccine pending CDC approval - do we still have a CDC?

An acquaintance under 40 was able to get the new covid shot no appt no waiting. About an hour from Houston.

I'd like to know what they do. If RFK, Jr is opposed to all immunizations, and djt has no use for bad news, doesn't that pretty much do away with the purpose of the CDC?

and then getting the vaccine. Walmart says it will be in around middle of the month which coincides with my appointment. I also think my doctor might actually have the vaccine.

Keep my fingers crossed. We in VA. Pharmacy and hospital did not have vaccine. They got it me pharmacy needs script, doc gave us a script, going to pharmacy Friday for COVID shot unless RFK finds out about it.

once I get the script I will be calling pharmacies like crazy.

especially any independents, if you can find them. The original rules said you just had to attest to being high risk, you didn't have to "prove" it. Per CDC/FDA, so that's national. My pharmacist said she took people's word for it and didn't note anything in their records. That's per the original rules. If you continue to hear otherwise, consider asking where they got their information on those requirements -- and I'd like to know, if they tell you (and not just mutter incoherently).

As to what an insurance company will cover... Well, as little as they can get away with. You can always contest a denial and see what happens.

I figure I can wait a couple of weeks. Not super happily mind you but it seems a bit extra to bother my doctors for a script merely to get the shot a couple of weeks early.

Stupid racist, science-denying mf'ers.

Thank you, Gov. Newsom and Democratic legislators.

I received the flu shot, asked if they had the new COVID shot. They did and the pharmacist asked if my husband and I wanted that today, too. Yes, please! So we both got both vaccines.

so other than COVID I am all good.

making America "great" again... NOT.

It's damn-right CRIMINAL.

of they course they will keep screaming about FREEDOM

I had been planning on getting both the flu and COVID shots the last weekend of August but got a positive COVID test on Wednesday.
I had had it two years ago after having a shot and just ran a slight temp for 2 days and had a cough and runny nose. That was it and I attributed it being that mild because I was vaccinated. This time I ran a higher fever for 5 days, had chills, body aches, no appitite, no energy, hacked until my ribs felt like they had been broken, had a sore throat, sneezing spells a couple times a day, diarreah, and a stuffy nose. I still have a cough but it is now loose and not constant. I am just now getting about half of my energy back, have lost 5 pounds, have little to no appetite and sleep for hours on end.
My advice to you is to get a shot ASAP because it is also going around in SW Pennsylvania and I caught because it is going around where I live. You are in the middle of the two.

today at CVS.

I've got the underlying conditions part and I'm 72, so that's not a problem.

It's the politics that scare me.