[Diabetes-Talk] Diabetes and vaccine eligibility.

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Veronica,

It depends on your states eligilibility requirements. In Iowa, regardless of
disability/health conditions, if you're under 64, you do not meet
eligilibility for the vaccine. Starting tomorrow though, it's supposed to
open up eligilibility to people under 64 who have certain conditions,
diabetes being one. I'm 40, so, hopefully, I can get an appointment
tomorrow. We will see once I actually visit a site.

You can just go to www.change.org and find the petition. I did sign it and
shared it around social media. I will try to find it again and share it
here.

Bridgit

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Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Diabetes and vaccine eligibility.

Hi everyone.
I was prowling around on a site for getting vaccine appointments and there
was an area where people could list underlying health conditions that would
put them on a more prioritized list. Did you know that Type 2 diabetes is
considered a vulnerable condition but type 1 is not? I have heard that there
is a petition on change.org but I don't know how one finds such things.
Just wondering if the rest of you had run across this. Hopefully I'm getting
my second dose on Tuesday. Crossing my fingers that they don't cancel any
more appointments this week.
Veronica


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