Last week, BuzzFeed News asked to hear your stories about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. We received nearly 400 responses in less than 24 hours. People from all over the country, ages 19 to 85, wrote in about their experiences.

When the FDA authorized the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for emergency use in December, a mass rollout still seemed, after nearly a year of the pandemic, like a faraway goal. After a slow start, the nationwide vaccination drive has smashed expectations, especially in the past few weeks. More than 118 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far, and President Biden has said that all adults in the US will be eligible to be vaccinated by May 1.