Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and penicillin allergy

@tkanan- This is unfortunate that your wife was turned down. They should have coordinated this information and passed it on. I hope that she gets the information that she needs and then gets vaccinated.

Have you been vaccinated?

Here at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, that is not the case at all. I am a stage IV cancer patient over 65 and yet here it is almost April and I have not been called to receive the vaccine. My oncologist thought back at the end of January I would be called quickly as they did for many of their patients and advised me not to go elsewhere. As time went on, it was advised that I get the vaccine anywhere I could. It was pretty scary that I had to lie on the form that asked if I had cancer, had radiation, had skin biopsy or allergic to drugs. I have not been in the inside of any type of building except Mayo in a year yet felt very exposed going there so often for treatments due to the fact that many of their healthcare have decided NOT to accept the vaccine.

Glad you got the vaccine Merry! I first tried at a Publix grocery store, was online in a waiting queue for 3 hours and finally got through. That form asked if I was allergic to any medications. I checked "yes" and it had me list them. Penicillin & Sulfa. BOOM, I was told they could not administer the vaccine to me. In the meantime my neighbors were going to a Mall and never had to fill out any forms. I was just too nervous to be inside a mall, in a line so choose not to go that way. Then Walmart grocery store opened up for vaccines and I got online and had to fill out a long form. The 4 questions I had to lie about where: 1. have you had cancer 2. have you had chemo or radiation 3. Have you had a skin scrapping in the last 6 months 4. Are you allergic to any meds. Glad it is all behind me....I have one more week to go before I will slowly venture out to a grocery store with my N-95 one!!!