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I Just Got the Covid-19 Vaccine — Now What Do I Do?
As excited as I am for things to finally go back to some version of normal, I’m also not quite ready for that yet
So, I got my first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine today.
It was completely spontaneous, completely unplanned. My husband had been refreshing the nyc.gov website for the past few days, trying to find an appointment for me and lo and behold, he actually did.
I was sitting at my desk at my apartment, typing out a work e-mail when all of a sudden, he informed me that he just booked me an appointment and that it was in two hours. Naturally, I panicked at first, but the process was quite seamless.
Once my appointment had been confirmed via e-mail, we drove to the vaccination site, which was about thirty minutes from our apartment. The drive itself actually took longer than it did for me to be in and out of there to get vaccinated— I went inside, immediately got the vaccine, and scheduled my appointment for my second dose all in under twenty minutes. It happened so fast that it felt all too surreal.
At first, leaving the vaccination site was a really exciting moment. I just couldn’t believe that after a whole year of living through this pandemic, the long-awaited vaccine…
