Boyfriend and I got ours Saturday. We were worried too about the shot not being covered at a pharmacy so we went farther to a Target that had a CVS Clinic in it (since we usually get them at CVS and we know it's covered there). We both hate getting the shot - Boyfriend has severe needle phobia due to a bad experience as a teen with a nurse who could not get an IV in him, and I always feel really sick after getting it.
But it's done! I hold Boyfriend's hand while he gets it. I laid on the couch and moaned for the rest of the day but by morning felt OK. And, free money! We are buried in emergency vet bills right now so any little bit helps. We spent it on dish detergent, some snacks to bring to work, and some child latches for our kitchen cabinets to thwart our kitten who has been opening cabinets and pulling breakable stuff off the shelves where it then shatters all over the floor.
Side note: I haven't yet seen anything yet about this year's shot's effectiveness? Because - AND YES WE ALL SHOULD GET THE SHOT REGARDLESS - for the first time last year we both got the flu anyway despite getting the shot. Which I hear happened to a lot of people. Got the shots in October and got sick in January so it wasn't a case of the shot not being effective yet. So, that sucked. But I was better after 5 days or so, which from what I hear was pretty quick, given last year's severity. I know a guy who didn't get the shot last year and was in bed for 3 weeks! Also, as I told Boyfriend, we didn't die or end up in the hospital, so, yay?
Did the thing!
FYI, the Target/CVS pharmacist told us that United Healthcare doesn't pay for pharmacist flu shots, you have to go to your doctor to have it covered (through them). Cash price is ~$28 after they apply a discount. (I did it bc I didn't trust myself to plan for it a second time.)
Boyfriend has United Health Care and it was covered - as noted above, though, we went to a Target that had the CVS Clinic inside it so that may have made a difference as it wasn't technically a pharmacist-only place.