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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

So I am currently on hold, waiting to speak to the NH vaccination information line. I'm trying to find out if they will be able to move up my appointment for the second dose, to within the recommended time--at the moment it's 8 weeks out, its supposed to be 3. The frustration for me as an MD is realizing how much is simply unknown. I'm used to being able to look up studies or data on most things, and if the data isn't there, there's usually enough related info to take a good guess. With COVID, there just hasn't been time to do the studies, and there's simply no information. If I get a second dose of Pfizer in 5 weeks, or 8 weeks, or 12 weeks, what does that mean? Should I go back and start all over? Is it just as good? I gather (I think) that England has decided to extend the interval to 12 weeks, but based on what? Meanwhile, life goes on, or doesn't. There's an overall sense of "floating," not entirely unpleasant, but gets old. I'd love get treatment for some minor but annoying medical issues. There are people I miss, and the social vicissitudes of telling people you now don't feel safe seeing them when you did before (because of the ore contagious variants now out there) are hard to navigate. I'm listening to a long, detailed message for the fifth time. Giving me information that is different from what's on the website. Still on hold. But I'm glad I'm dealing with NH--if I were at home in MA, I gather it's a zoo, and it would be a long wait.