Subj : Re: FWIW - Shingrex To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Wed Jan 29 2020 22:59:42 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 22-Jan-2020 10:10 <=- So... today we were unexpectedly at the pharmacy to pick up antibiotics, and did have some extra time, so I asked again about the Shingrex... I could have had the first shot today, but it turned out my copay from my drug insurance would have been $80-90, probably for each of the shots... So I decided to wait a little longer... And probably just as well, as the info that came with the antibiotics advised against getting any immunizations while taking it... BM>>> I inquired at my pharmacy this morning -- the Shingrix vaccine is BM>>> still on backorder/coming in in small quantities, so I'm still on the BM>>> waiting list. NB>>> Interesting... I wonder if your store chain has the same supplier NB>>> that mine does... since we do seem to be getting a supply now... NB>>> enough so that they are advertising the availability.... but then, NB>>> they did also just scrap the waiting list, and tell people to just NB>>> come in and get theirs now, when asked about it.... BM>> So think I should ask? They might have told me back when I got on BM>> the waiting list: the supplier was creating the vaccine from a lab in BM>> a single floor and due to the popularity of the vaccine was builing a BM>> whole building. NB>> That was the story back then here as well.... I'd think by now that NB>> building would have been built, though... :) BM> One would think so. Maybe a bit of a delay in getting the lab BM> equipment, then 'cooking' the vaccine... I expect a month or so. The BM> pharmacy didn't say; I gently inquired but they didn't know. I do BM> know their stock comes from the main pharmacy site outside of Des BM> Moines, so they're bound by what their main site is supplied. Interesting.... I suppose that there might be some sort of hierarchy as to where the supplies go first.... and/or there might have been a waiting list for the pharmacies requesting the supplies.... BM> ... Charity: generous impulse to give away items not used. In some cases, that does seem to be the case, I must say... ;) ttyl neb .... ש ><> רת<>< ><>.תר It's fish! --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .