Booster Shots: When will you get a booster (3rd) shot of the vaccine?

[jesselivermore]

yes why stop at 3 ?

Makes me want to wait for the 4th next year. instead. I do that with Flu shot, every other year to get variants.

Pfizer CEO says fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected...

[scripta]

@jesselivermore

I do that with Flu shot, every other year to get variants

That makes no sense. The flu vaccine contents can change every year and the reason it’s annual is the same reason we need COVID boosters – immunity wanes over time. The difference is that flu is seasonal, so getting a shot near the beginning of the season should last the whole season.

I too think at this rate we’ll be getting COVID boosters every 6 months for who knows how long. I have no reason to believe 3rd time is the charm. Unless… is it possible to get sick with multiple variants at the same time? I’m not sure if I read or imagined that once your nasal passages are gunked up, you can’t catch another virus that attacks the same way. If that’s the case, then a more contagious but (hopefully) less virulent / deadly variant (like O) might bring the end of the pandemic.

[xerty]

@jesselivermore

yes why stop at 3 ?

[jesselivermore]

@scripta

@jesselivermore

I do that with Flu shot, every other year to get variants

That makes no sense. The flu vaccine contents can change every year and the reason it’s annual is the same reason we need COVID boosters – immunity wanes over time. The difference is that flu is seasonal, so getting a shot near the beginning of the season should last the whole season.

it’s an educated guess and cocktails about which variant will be included. Some years they get it right, some they don’t.

I disagree about the wanes to 0 hypothesis( same reason while I’m waiting for a C19 booster). Now if they had a different variant booster I’d be in. Why not go straight to 4th? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/omicron-pfizer-ceo-says-we-may-need-fourth-covid-vaccine-doses-sooner-than-expected.html

To be clear I’m low risk, and the high risk people around me have been boosted.

[Honkinggoose]

@shinobi

but J&J worked for me

“worked for me” = “didn’t kill me?”

I don’t understand any other definition unless you purposely tried to get the Chinese flu, or the Delta, XI, or Omicron variants, and the J&J vaccine worked by stopping you from getting infected.

[Honkinggoose]

@xerty

Critics mock ‘The Atlantic’ after it

I thought this was another of the Babylon Bee send-ups. Obviously global warming and rising sea levels are a hoax. The Atlantic is dropping precipitously.

Sorry for the confusion @Scripta, but Discourse recommended putting multiple responses in one post.

@scripta

I too think at this rate we’ll be getting COVID boosters every 6 months for who knows how long.

@Zaos predicted this back in July. I still think they will push for it be monthly. Why not? We’re told ad infinitum that the vaccines are perfectly safe and eff ahem, ahem, effective.

When will you allow yourself to be vaccinated?

I’d expect they’ll see much competition soon from the likes of Moderna, Novavax, etc. $150? No, even $20 a shot, at quantities of hundreds of millions of shots, seems non-competitive to me. Regular shots - Since preventative vaccines are 100% covered by health insurance (ACA), why not take a shot every 6 months?

And someone is going to regret reminding me about the Bee. They’ve uncovered evidence of the future boosters.

New Pfizer Punch Card Lets You Get Free Sub Sandwich Every 10th Booster

[shinobi]

@Honkinggoose

“worked for me” = “didn’t kill me?”

Not exactly. To the one and only J&J shot I have received so far I had no reaction whatsoever. And that is precisely my preferred outcome. So when it comes to the booster I will opt for (what I hope will be) a repeat performance by J&J.

In addition and only somewhat off topic:

I do not trust the mRNA vaccines, which have not been around long enough to satisfy me. So when booster time rolls around I will seek actively to avoid Pfizer and Moderna. That leaves J&J as my only option unless I choose to go abroad to obtain my booster. And that’s not gonna happen.

[xerty]

EU edging closer to mandatory ongoing boosters for travel

The EU executive commission proposed in November a nine-month validity limit for COVID-19 passes from the completion of the primary vaccine doses. If applied, EU citizens wanting to travel freely next summer across the bloc would need a booster shot

[xerty]

age 16+ approved for boosting.

PFIZER AND BIONTECH RECEIVE U.S. FDA EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION OF COVID-19 VACCINE BOOSTER FOR INDIVIDUALS 16 YEARS AND OLDER

[jesselivermore]

@shinobi

@Honkinggoose

“worked for me” = “didn’t kill me?”

Not exactly. To the one and only J&J shot I have received so far I had no reaction whatsoever. And that is precisely my preferred outcome. So when it comes to the booster I will opt for (what I hope will be) a repeat performance by J&J.

In addition and only somewhat off topic:

I do not trust the mRNA vaccines, which have not been around long enough to satisfy me. So when booster time rolls around I will seek actively to avoid Pfizer and Moderna. That leaves J&J as my only option unless I choose to go abroad to obtain my booster. And that’s not gonna happen.

Yes I want to go the other way too (mRNA to JNJ/ AZN booster) but that’s not a choice here in the US… yet or ever. Why is JNJ still the laggard with boosters (even though 2 doses with them are just as effective as mRNA)

[jesselivermore]

@harish7631

@xerty

BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralise the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test and they could deliver an Omicron-based vaccine in March 2022 if needed.

Interesting that two doses didn’t really work but a third dose will. I’m a true believer in vaccines but this news is hard to swallow.

hard to swallow or inject in this case

per Fauci it has to do with increasing the “breadth and height of the AB response” Maybe someone here can shed more light

[pattyb53]

@shinobi

I do not trust the mRNA vaccines, which have not been around long enough to satisfy me. So when booster time rolls around I will seek actively to avoid Pfizer and Moderna.

We all are allowed to have our own opinion regarding the various types of vaccines. Whether it’s mRNA, JNJ/AZN, booster or something else.

Everyday we hear a new story. I’m going to follow along with my instincts and get the third mRNA booster. My appointment is tomorrow morning.

Actually I’m thinking now or never.

[Honkinggoose]

@pattyb53

I’m going to follow along with my instincts and get the third mRNA booster. My appointment is tomorrow morning.

Good luck. I’m going for my third test tomorrow afternoon.

[Honkinggoose]

[xerty]

UK on Omicron

• UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY: SEEING EVIDENCE OF IMMUNE EVASION WITH OMICRON

• COVID: UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY: SEEING REDUCED VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS OF BOTH ASTRAZENECA AND PFIZER COVID-19 VACCINES AGAINST MILD DISEASE WITH OMICRON

• UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY: 2 UK EXPERIMENTS SHOW OMICRON DECREASE LAB NEUTRALISATION 20 TO 40 FOLD COMPARED TO ORIGINAL VIRUS, 10 TO 20 FOLD COMPARED TO DELTA

• BOOSTERS GIVE 70-75% OMICRON PROTECTION, U.K. STUDY SAYS

[pattyb53]

@Honkinggoose

Good luck. I’m going for my third test tomorrow afternoon.

3rd mRNA booster received today. I asked the nurse about needing a 4th vaccination. She said, she couldn’t say. Big deal!!

Hopefully good results from your Covid-19’s testing today. Do you find out immediately?

[pattyb53]

@Honkinggoose

Good luck. I’m going for my third test tomorrow afternoon.

3rd mRNA booster

[jesselivermore]

this will be the way to go soon:

Novavax to push forward with COVID-flu vaccine combo

[xerty]

@jesselivermore

this will be the way to go soon:

Maybe, but maybe not. Moderna had an mRNA based flu vaccine in trials and they gave the early results of that this am. Market was unimpressed.

Moderna data shows mRNA isn’t a quick fix for the flu vaccine

Moderna released its first results during an investor phone call and presented slides showing that the mRNA flu shots did generate antibodies — but the levels of those antibodies weren’t higher than those for other flu shots already on the market. They also had more side effects than existing shots.

All the microchips, none of the benefit beyond what we have for flu

[jesselivermore]

Novavax is using spike proteins and not mRNA, so more traditonal?. I’m hoping combo vax (like MMR) work out whether nanobots or traditional