Gonna get a 2nd booster ?

FDA advisors call for an end to never-ending booster shots as they try to map out a strategy for living with COVID
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-advisors-call-end-never-134636660.html

"The FDA and CDC both say that the current COVID booster strategy is "stopgap" and not sustainable.

Instead, new vaccines are needed that target multiple variants, or stop infections at the nose.

An independent advisory committee to the FDA is weighing which vaccine strategies to try next, and how."


I do not see a reason to get any booster when even the FDA and CDC see it is a never ending game
 
I got my second booster (fourth shot) yesterday, six months after the previous one. I had a very miserable night last night, just feeling poorly all over and not able to get much rest. Some chills and sweating. Odd, because I had no effects after getting the first three shots.
 
Not all that odd, Spectratg. I had absolutely no reaction to the first and third shot, but felt like I had the flu for a day or two after the second. Yet, most people said they had no particular reaction to the second one, except maybe a slightly sore arm.

I haven't had the fourth one yet, but plan to get it.
 
Buckeye said:
I'll be getting my 2nd booster in May at my local Publix. Since I hit the trifecta on co-morbidities, I'm not taking any chances.

I want to live long enough to see Ohio State win another football National Championship.
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I haven't lived in the Cleveland area for 55 years, but I am still an Ohio State fan (!), a Browns fan (groan), and a whatever-the-Cleveland-baseball team is now named :rolleyes: Like thousands of others, I still have nightmares about the seventh game losses to the Cubs in 2016 and the Marlins in 1997!
 
My Wife and I will be getting our 4th shot in the end of May, at our local Public Health Center here in Toronto. Both of us are immune compromised so it is sensible to do so. It amazes me that in the US getting vaccinated is a "political football " while in Canada it is a medical procedure. Our politicians, at all levels of Government, listened to the advice of the medical officers of health about how to deal with this pandemic. Science over panicky uninformed nonsense. JimB.
 
jimintoronto said:
My Wife and I will be getting our 4th shot in the end of May, at our local Public Health Center here in Toronto. Both of us are immune compromised so it is sensible to do so. It amazes me that in the US getting vaccinated is a "political football " while in Canada it is a medical procedure. Our politicians, at all levels of Government, listened to the advice of the medical officers of health about how to deal with this pandemic. Science over panicky uninformed nonsense. JimB.
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I am always amazed people have taken the media stereotype line so strongly ....

MOST people who made a medical choice To get a shot or boosters or NOT......... did not do it for political purposes that line is laughable....
Did some people Question items that in the current situation proved they were true not the media line
Many were scapegoated and painted as uninformed loons which is just insulting.
Assumptions were made about political mindset ...that is FALSE
many i know who made their choice did not even think of politics.
 
jimintoronto said:
It amazes me that in the US getting vaccinated is a "political football " while in Canada it is a medical procedure.
Our politicians, at all levels of Government, listened to the advice of the medical officers of health
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You got the clot shots because your politicians told you to do it, so you're the one who's making a political decision.
Likewise the so called medical officers are political lobbyists who are funded by and work for the vaccination corporations.
Getting shot with the clot shots is a worldwide "political football" - for those of you who buy into the panicky uninformed nonsense.

Thank goodness for those of us who can still make our own personal decisions, :) and who therefore continue to be healthy. šŸ˜Œ
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I wasn't going to get vaccinated at all, but finally did so and got my second shot in January. Didn't feel the first at all and arm was only mildly sore for a couple of days @Remy @PamfromTx. From what I've read on CDC's site, I'm not due for my booster until at least June. I'll take one step at a time and figure out if I want to take booster #2 once I get booster #1. I managed to remain COVID free for two years...even after being exposed.
 
Jeni said:
I am always amazed people have taken the media stereotype line so strongly ....

MOST people who made a medical choice To get a shot or boosters or NOT......... did not do it for political purposes that line is laughable....
Did some people Question items that in the current situation proved they were true not the media line
Many were scapegoated and painted as uninformed loons which is just insulting.
Assumptions were made about political mindset ...that is FALSE
many i know who made their choice did not even think of politics.
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No matter how often you tell yourself that, the fact is that in all but the rare cases with medical reasons, politics is ALWAYS behind it. Look at the charts, the regions of the country, which people are the most adamant about how bad or useless the vaccine is (in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary), demonizing the scientists, pharma corporations, etc. who have given us this life-saving vaccine... and keep barking into the wind about how brainwashed we all are to go along with them. What "stereotype line" are you referring to, Jeni? The stereotype that presents proven scientific facts instead of nonsense? And you refer to a "media line." What on earth does that mean? What you get over the media depends on what channel you watch, what newspaper you read, what social media you follow online. Every opinion imaginable is out there on the media.

You wrote a list of reasons that you believe most Americans have wrongly gotten the vaccine and are getting boosters, and why they claim the anti-vaxxers are wrong. Here's my list about why a diminishing group is still hanging onto their original argument. (This is the same group that originally claimed the disease was not all that serious, just a type of flu, that it would end in a few weeks, that masks do not make any difference, and so on.)

The vaccine is poison.
The vaccine contains some kind of evil "chips."
The vaccine affects fertility.
The vaccine changes your DNA.
The side effects are awful.
The vaccine kills people.
The vaccine exists only for one purpose: to make the drug companies rich.
Believing what serious, dedicated scientists tell us is being "brainwashed." (Or following a "stereotype?")
"In spite of no one I know being vaccinated, no one I know has died yet of the disease." So far.
Fauci is an idiot. (That one is my favorite.)
We are stuck in a medieval mindset, believing all kinds of superstitious nonsense because someone has told us so. The vaccine is bad. That is my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

I have to wonder, why is this still an ongoing argument? I doubt that all this online discussion has ever changed a single mind. We believe what makes sense to us.
 
I fit the category of someone who should get the second booster - I'm over 65 and my immune system is compromised (I've been treated for lymphoma). However, I am getting "vaccine weary". Flu shot, COVID booster, and the pneumonia vaccine. Of the three, I'll get the pneumonia vaccine (protects against certain bacterial strains that can cause pneumonia). I'm not sure about the other two at this point.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I had two Moderna shots and a Moderna booster so far. I'm open to getting a second booster, but am in no rush to do it. My booster was on 11/1/21. I think if I get a second booster it will be a Pfizer.
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I have an appointment tomorrow for my second booster, it will be Pfizer.
 

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