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6 Mar, 33 tweets, 6 min read
At the Javits Center for my first shot. Will update.
Arrived at the 36th Street Javits entrance at 2:42. Line extended past the entrance, but only barely—was in the building within about a minute.
About ten minutes after getting in the building, they checked my appointment sheet printout, then put me on the next line.
Lines are orderly, distanced, and moving pretty quick—at least as much walking as standing, so far.
Just got out of the Javits Center lobby and into another huge room that’s all line.
(Livetweeting mostly for other New Yorkers who may be poking around Twitter for info on what to expect. Happy to answer any and [nearly] all questions.)
They’re taking people in arrival order, not appointment order. They say not to arrive more than an hour early, but I don’t know if that’s being enforced.
Better than any other line I’ve been in in NYC, and mask compliance is literally 100%. It helps that there are six-foot-distance dots the whole length of the line.
From what I’ve seen, Tuesday specifically was a shitshow—far worse than before or since.
Staffing is pretty much all uniformed military, with 100% mask compliance among them, too. Big difference from my NYPD experiences this last year.
Fun fact: The after-the-lobby room has 18 switchbacks, so you can estimate wait time by timing each switchback and multiplying. Currently averaging about 2.5 minutes per.
(I think it’s 18. May be one or two more.)
No bag check, BTW. I tried and failed this morning to find out if there’s a contraband list. They’re handing out bottles of water near the end of the line.
They’re being real stringent about not letting people take photos.
Just about to the front of the line, an hour and thirty-seven minutes after arrival on site.
Very quick check-in process—just reviewing ID and appointment form—then onto another line.
No chairs and no place to sit. There’s a box to click on the form if you have difficulty walking or standing for long periods, so that’s definitely something to address in advance.
When we checked in they asked if we were both getting vaxxed, so they’re definitely fine with people accompanying loved ones.
Two hours after arrival on site, we’re almost to the end of the last line.
Done!
They took us in together, so we were vaxxed at the same table. The folks who processed us and gave us the jab were super lovely.
And the cards they gave us are our tickets for the second dose, three weeks from today. Same process, no separate processing, but we can come at any time during the day.
For anyone Twitter searching “Javits Center for info on the vax, scroll up from here. I just livetweeted my experience and answered a bunch of questions.
Boom.
Someone else's livetweet from yesterday at the Javits Center—she arrived about 40 minutes after I did, waited about 20 minutes longer because the line stretched outside a bit.
From what I've heard in replies to this thread, outer-borough NYC megavax sites seem to have much shorter lines than Javits, so if you can get in at one of those it's probably a better bet. But Javits was pretty much fine—just a slog.
(Feeling fine this morning, BTW—a bit of soreness in the upper arm, but that's all. Any other issues much more likely due to walking ten miles yesterday than to the shot itself. [And yes, they say the second shot is the doozy.])
And just received an automated confirmation of my appointment for the second shot, three weeks from yesterday. The email says to go at the same time, but a guy at the site said you'll be let in any time that day if you can't make the same slot for the second dose.
Probably best logistically, all things being equal, to go at the same time so they can predict volume, but I'm planning to poke around Twitter in the lead-up and see what times of day seem to be slowest, and maybe plan on doing that.
And I guess I'll say again: If anyone has any questions about how the Javits Center setup works, feel free to ask—Mel and I were talking on the way home last night about how much more relaxed the second dose visit will be, just because we know what to expect and how to prepare.
Oh, one other weird thing: The nurse giving the shots told us not to take NSAIDs (Advil, Motrin, etc.) if we had pain, and I looked it up after—apparently one study has found that they may reduce effectiveness of the vaccine somewhat.
Annoyingly, there was no warning about that in the materials we got in advance, and M and I both took an Aleve before leaving the house. It seems the effect is probably minor, though, and we won't take anything around the second dose.
Yeah, there's a thing in the signup form that asks if you're taking steroids, but nothing about NSAIDs that I can recall.

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