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You might try Patong Hospital. But I would still register now on the phuket.win site for a first time jab.

I would use the register for first jab on phuket.win, get an appointment and explain the situation at your appointment. I would register at the cyan colored button How long since your first and what brand? >>>>>>> Vaccination Registration for Non-Work Permit Foreigners <<<<<<<<<< However, if you actually have a Phuket-based Yellow House Registration Book I would register at that button (yellow). After registering see if you can book an appointment for first jab at the gray button. If you're near one of the vaccination centers on a day when they are vaccinating people you could drop by and see if they can help you. Sometimes that works.

Phuket.win is the website at which to register. You will probably only get AstraZeneca or Sinovac delivered at one of the 6 vaccination centers in Phuket. You have to check daily for appointments you likely won't get notified.

No, I tried that. Nothing. I think I'm at the point of diminishing returns. Best to cut my losses and move on.

I guess we can just agree that I have no idea what thought you were trying to convey by your original comment.

This has happened to other people as well. When you registered do you remember uploading your passport photo ID page and the page that contains your current visa/extension of stay? Many people had problems doing that so in fact they only uploaded one of those things rather than both. That might be the cause of the error you're seeing. I don't know what fix is available for that problem as you cannot easily edit your registration data.

Not sure I fully understand your comment, but would you like to expound on what way you think Americans have been prioritized for receiving vaccinations in Thailand?

So you agree the US (like China, Switzerland, and France) could have specifically imported vaccines (in conjunction with the authorities) for their own citizens and distributed through private hospitals. But decided not to do that. Those are two different scenarios because the US government decided not to follow the scenario that China, Switzerland, and France followed. Entirely the decision of the current US administration. The result of that decision is that there are American citizens in Thailand who will not be receiving Pfizer doses that have been sent to Thailand. Doses that American taxpayers paid for through their taxes.

What a bizarre comment. We know what President Biden did and is doing now regarding making sure American Citizens can get vaccinated in Thailand. In other words, nothing beyond donating 1,500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine with "no strings attached." We have no idea what President Trump would have done regarding making sure American Citizens can get vaccinated in Thailand.

I'm very sorry you have not been able to get a vaccination yet, especially as you qualify for prioritization based on both age and medical condition. My suggestion is to keep trying, register at as many websites as you hear about. I would offer the advice that when you sign up at a particular website don't wait to be notified by email or SMS or phone call that they have an appointment for you. Check back on the websites on a daily basis. I have received a vaccination from one of the sites I registered at but I never received any sort of notification (no email, no SMS, no phone call). I only discovered I could book an appointment when I checked one day on the website and a screen popped up that allowed me to pick appointment times and places. The US government donated 1,500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Thailand with "no strings attached," which was a decision made by the Biden administration. When you don't "attach strings" to a donation you are basically absolving the donee of any accountability. That's not what the US government did when they brought Pfizer vaccine in for government personnel stationed in Thailand like at the US Embassy Bangkok and Consulate in Chiang Mai. That's not what China, France, and Switzerland did when they brought vaccine into Thailand. That is what the Biden administration decided to do. If you want to comment about that decision you can contact the White House. You can also contact your two federal senators and your member of the House of Representatives. As it's a federal issue you are more likely to have more of an effect at the federal rather than the state level. The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/ US Senate: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm US House of Representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative You can also give your opinion to the person in charge of the US Embassy Bangkok, Chargé d'Affaires Michael Heath: https://th.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulate/

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003974 The US government could very easily have specified who should receive their vaccines. After all China, France, and Switzerland managed to do that quite nicely.

I would imagine at some point there will be a database maintained probably by Ministry of Public Health that will keep everyone's Thai covid vaccination history, once all the hospitals input their vaccination data. So, of course, it could be detected. Will it be? I have no idea. But, for example, when you get the Thai National Vaccination Certificate it contains a QR code that takes you to a MOPH website that lists the covid vaccinations you have had in Thailand. I don't know what it lists for people who have participated in multiple vaccination programs. Maybe some people will have some explaining to do. Maybe not. Time will tell.

Thank you for sharing your interesting point of view. You are being much too modest: some people make their own luck. The American Government donated Pfizer to the Thai government with absolutely no strings attached (according to the Chargé d'Affaires of US Embassy Bangkok). They left it entirely up to the Thai Government to administer as they saw fit but expressed the hope that everyone would be eligible for it, including foreigners). I am an American citizen, but I'm also able to follow the rules laid out by the Thai government in their vaccination program. I'm also lucky to be living in Phuket where it's been relatively easy for everyone to get vaccinated (some have still fallen between the cracks even in Phuket).

1. ASQ is for 14 days. 2. Generally, you have to wait 14 days after your final jab to be considered fully vaccinated. But your vaccination status doesn't impact ASQ quarantine period anyway as it's 14 days for everyone. 3. It's true you can get stuck in the Phuket Sandbox in the sense that if you test positive for covid during your time in the sandbox you will be hospitalized. However, the exact same thing is true if you are in ASQ (Bangkok) or ALQ (Pattaya). The advantage of ASQ/ALQ over the Phuket Sandbox is that you will usually not be required to enter quarantine if any of your close contacts test positive for covid like you might be in the sandbox. In ASQ/ALQ you are less likely than in Phuket Sandbox to be required to be quarantined because you are already quarantined and since you are already quarantined you are much less likely to have any close contacts.

Is the expatvac@consular website one of those that were prioritizing vaccines for those over 60 years of age or people who had one of the specified underlying diseases?

The Com-Cov study out of the UK investigated the effects from a shot of either AZ or Pfizer and then followed by a shot of the other one four weeks later. AZ first, followed by Pfizer in four weeks, was found to be the most effective scenario of the ones looked at. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57636356

Interesting point of view. "As screwed up as the system is here one hand doesn't know what the other is doing." and "You know some time in life you have to with hold information." "... when I signed up for the Pfizer vaccine I did not tell them I had already received a dose of AZ." I wonder if those two statements could be related somehow? Having the right hand know what the left hand is doing is probably aided a bit when people don't, you know, withhold information. "I live in Pattaya and just got tired of being left out of the loop. I had to go to BKK but i got my first dose of AZ the 30th of June..." But as of June 30th you were in the system. Not only had you just been vaccinated with AstraZeneca just as they promised you, but you received your appointment date for your second AstraZeneca jab. No reason to believe you wouldn't have received your second dose of AZ as scheduled either. Instead you signed up for a program that you understood was for people who had not been vaccinated at all, and in doing so purposely withheld the information that you had received a dose of AstraZeneca already. There are people who have still not been able to be vaccinated despite their best efforts to register. But it's really difficult for me to see how exactly the system failed you.

You probably know this already, but unless you live in Phuket (can show e.g., yellow house registration book) or work in Phuket (e.g., have a letter from your employer), are vaccinated and have a negative covid test within 72 hours of entry you most likely won't have much success passing the Tha Chatchai checkpoint in Phuket.

The interval between jabs of Pfizer should be 21 days. The Pfizer vaccination you received at MedPark didn't come with an appointment for the second dose? Generally, when you get your first jab in Thailand you will be given an appointment for the second jab. Didn't that happen for you at MedPark? If you've been given an appointment for a second jab at MedPark then you should cancel the Kanchanaburi Hospital appointment. Actually, you should cancel the appointment on Monday because it is too soon (not 21 days) after your first jab. All the different sites for vaccine registration makes this situation understandable. I doubt you would actually be given the second jab on Monday but I wouldn't want to find out. ????

Not an entirely correct comment. First being vaccinated doesn't get you anything with regard to entry into the USA. Second, if talking about the AstraZeneca manufactured in Thailand it is accepted in Germany and France. It is not currently accepted by the EU Medicines Agency, however EU member states make their own decisions on whether to recognize the vaccination (see Germany and France).

and American taxpayers. I believe any Pfizer currently in Thailand was part of the donation from the US.

To the people on Phuket who make their living in the tourist industry which is the vast majority of people living in Phuket I'm guessing that the Phuket Sandbox doesn't sound like a joke. The people on Phuket who feed their families with money earned in the tourism industry are exactly the people who were losing their livelihoods and are only now seeing a small light at the end of the tunnel.

There are two or maybe even three issues here: 1) What does the US require? Here it is pretty clear, the US will accept rapid antigen test for entry (or alternatively, RT-PCR test). 2) What does your airline require? Not so clear here. The airline is going to require what is needed for entry to your destination at a miniumum. But the airline CAN require anything they want to require (specifically, something above and beyond what is required by the destination). So unless you are completely convinced that your airline(s) is/are going to be satisfied with a rapid antigen test then it is probably safer to get the more expensive RT-PCR test, even though the US would be quite happy with just a rapid antigen test. 3) If you have to get off of one airplane and board another airplane at an airport you need to be interested in what, if any, requirements that airport has regarding the type of covid test you need to show. The only thing I can say about this issue is that RT-PCR seems to be the gold standard for covid testing. Not sure I would want to get caught out in an airport that has it's own testing requirements with a rapid antigen test (which, yes is good enough for US entry) that may not meet their own specific requirements. I'm not even sure airports have their own testing requirements. All in all, it seems more prudent to get the RT-PCR test which I think everyone agrees will satisfy all three issues. Even if the abundance of caution standard seems too high for you it's at least good to have a heads up that it could be an issue. Do you own due diligence.

This is an example from a testing center in Phang Nga. However, it does say that it is only available for Phang Nga residents. I'm not sure what that means exactly. I think you might need to contact the testing center and ask if you can book an appointment even if you are not a Phang Nga resident (maybe at a higher cost?): https://www.traveloka.com/en-th/activities/thailand/product/phang-nga-clinic-lab-phang-nga-8782750153389 I have heard that people have been able to get a rapid antigen test done at Takuapa Hospital in Phang Nga for 620 baht: http://hospital.moph.go.th/takuapah/eng-info.html In either case I think you would want to contact them and ask if you can in fact get the rapid antigen test you want. It might be that you have to book the appointment ahead of time. Remember that there is a requirement to demonstrate that the person seeking to enter Phuket has regular work that must be done in Phuket. A letter from the employer for instance. I'm not sure your friend would qualify for that exemption and if not they would not be allowed to enter. In other words, generally people cannot enter Phuket domestically unless they can demonstrate that qualify for one of the limited exceptions for instance they are returning to where they live or work regularly. I don't know how strict they are about this, but it would be unfortunate to find out at the checkpoint that it was stricter than you thought after having travelled all the way to Phuket from Bangkok.

You can do ALQ in Pattaya. ALQ Hotels in Pattaya: https://asq.in.th/aslq-pattaya-chonburi-thailand-hotels The only thing that could put a crimp in your plans is if you test positive for covid during your quarantine. If you do you will be taken to the hospital associated with your ALQ hotel. If you never test positive then I don't see any problem with your plans. Alternatively, you could do ASQ in Bangkok and after you graduate after 14 days you could travel to Pattaya and stay at the condo you booked. ASQ Hotels in Bangkok: https://asq.in.th/