Basketball player Elijah Bryant gets his first COVID vaccine while playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. He documents the quick clinic visit, mild arm soreness, and the 21-day wait until his second dose, praising how easy Israel made the whole process.
Yes, 1, 2.
Side effects because I'm just delirious.
Here he goes again, Elijah Bryant, dazzling dribble dancing.
All right, wish me good luck. Dad's going to see if he has corona. Always being super dramatic. All right, so I just made it to the hospital. Took forever parking. Um, now let's go see if I, uh, have COVID. Butters, Butters, time to wake up. Butters, did you sleep good?
You tired?
It's okay, take your time.
I love you. I'll have it on my phone.
Great.
The side effect that you might have, might not, it's maybe tomorrow a little bit of a headache or maybe you're going to be tired.
Okay, what's your name? Elijah Bryant. So which arm do you prefer? The left.
Okay, let's go.
Here we go. Nose going back.
First, first.
No, I play basketball.
Ah, you play basketball? Which team?
Here.
Maccabi Tel Aviv? Yeah. So, we have to— Okay. 3 weeks from now?
3 weeks, okay.
You have appointment?
No. Do I just come back here and do it?
Ask the secretary there.
Yeah, okay, that's the front.
Yeah, okay, I don't want to cover the— I know. Okay, great. Yes, 1, 2, 3.
That's it.
That's it.
So my insurance card I didn't have with me. Um. So they were doing it on my phone, and the lady took my phone to look at the insurance card, and I left and dropped my coach off, and I forgot my phone. So now I'm going back to get my phone. I don't want to complain playing, but good gosh, man, I just want to be in the bed sleeping. It's all right though, it could always be worse, right? It could always be worse. We could be in a pandemic.
I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna stop playing.
You want my phone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, thank you. I love you. Selfie, let's go, let's go. Is it better light? I will see you. Shabbat shalom. Yeah, I'll go here. We'll see. That's one thing I love about Israel. You literally can just pull over anywhere, put the hazard lights on, and you're good to go. I said I came here, I got the vaccine, right? And I had to— we had to wait a second to get it, me and Tim. Me and my coach were getting it, right? So we get it. And my insurance card is on my phone, right?
Mm-hmm.
So I'm talking to ladies, take a picture, whatever, right? Well, I end up leaving my phone.
Well, it's nap time.
Nap time for sure. I got practice today.
What? What time?
I don't know, later today. I'll be home in a second. I love you. Is Bluey asleep?
Yep, just went down.
All right, I love you.
I love you. Bye.
All right guys, so it's been about 5, probably 5 to 7 hours since I got my first, uh, shot for the vaccine. And, um, I'm starting to notice a little bit of soreness in my arm, but nothing, um, abnormal. I'm very tired from the flight, so I wouldn't really know, um, any side effects because I'm just delirious because I didn't sleep all night on the plane. So I'm gonna track just my process every 10 days after I get my second shot. So I have 21 days until I get my second shot, and it was super easy process to get the shot here in Israel. Literally take my insurance card, show them, wait in line, boom, shot, done. So shout out to Israel Healthcare. All right, does anyone have any advice for Dad on his last corona shot? We'll go to speaker number 1, you.
Honey, anything you say. No. Mom.
Thank you. Okay, we'll be back.
The wheelie on the left or the right? Okay, sit here please. Okay, you can walk.
Okay, all right, so I got my vaccination certificate. Supposedly in 7 days I'll be immune. What a— what a year, guys. Like This has been a wild, wild year, to say the least. Now it's time to scoot back home. I want to see the gym.
This is lit.
So crazy, it's so peaceful in here, but when the fans get in here, it gets, it gets rowdy. I suppose we're supposed to have some fans soon, 1,000 fans this next game. And actually, like, I want to say something real quick. I appreciate all the fans this year who supported us through the ups, the downs. Y'all some real ones, for real. Wait, what? Look what I found in the elevator. What?
Wait, how did you— did you just come in here?
I just got back.
Yeah, but where, where were you coming from? I didn't see you get in the elevator. This is ground 1.
I got on ground 2.
And then it went down? Down, yeah.
It was meant to be.
It was meant to be.
It was meant to be, Stretch.
Dad's fully vaccinated.
