Had to point out that I noted asthma, etc., on the form. He said, “Oh, then I guess you qualify”. He clearly hadn’t bothered to read the form beyond my birthdate. That was this spring and was my first time using pharmacy for the Covid vaccine. I had been using the drive-through set up by our county until they stopped doing them. I’ve listed all my underlying conditions each time and nobody’s ever questioned me until then.
The CDC lists many “underlying conditions”, including asthma, being overweight, smoker, etc. I would think half of America would fit into some category, but it’s all self-reporting and not sure why a pharmacy would question it now that there’s plenty of shots available for everyone. I’ve had other people say that they were told they couldn’t get it because of age and I’ve pointed them to the CDC pages to view the underlying conditions that qualify.
On a side note, Fred Meyer pharmacy almost gave me the wrong shot the other day. Good thing I asked “that’s the HepB, right?”, because it wasn’t. They had grabbed the wrong thing. Lesson learned, I will always verify from now on!
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