Teachers - Covid Booster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I'm an elementary school teacher surround by unvaccinated students who wear masks but remove them for lunch and other times. I got my second Pfizer dose Feb 12th and just got my booster this morning! Best time for a teacher to get the booster is BEFORE they are exposed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was literally coming on here to ask about teachers getting a Pfizer booster- apparently Joe Biden named teachers as "front line workers" in his remarks yesterday.

I teach preschool, got my second Pfizer shot in late March 2021; I will gladly get a third booster, but just wondering/curious what other teachers are thinking/doing re timing, etc.

Yes, early childhood educators are eligible for the boosters right now and IMO you should get one sooner rather than wait for an outbreak at your school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who got Pfizer are. Teachers who got Moderna are left hanging or have to get an off label third dose.

I know several over 65 people in Maryland who got Moderna boosters. They didn’t lie, CVS gave it to them and added the 3rd shot to their original card. I imagine teachers who got the Moderna vaccine can go do the same.

[Anonymous]

I just got my booster this morning. I am a teacher. This past week I had Covid cases in my class.

[Anonymous]

I asked my doctors his thoughts this week. I got Moderna so no booster yet but it will likely happen soon. My doctor said they don’t really have any data to know if it will help but in his opinion, it wouldn’t be harmful. I’m inclined to wait. I don’t want to get another shot just because it’s available if we don’t even know if it is needed.

I understand breakthrough cases are happening but there is not any research to know if a third shot will reduce the risk of this happening. Everyone is guessing right now.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and my second dose was Feb 7. I will be getting the booster next week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I watched the committee meeting about this. Basically the members were all over the place on this one. If your goal is only to prevent hospitalization and death, your two doses probably still do that at this point. But if you’d also rather not get mild or moderate Covid, which can still have long term side effects, or if you want to have a higher chance of not getting infected and passing it along to someone else, then get a third dose.

The main reasons people argued against opening it for everyone were:

-Logistical - hard to give out that many shots
- We should focus on unvaccinated (other members spoke up and said, we can do both - this is not either or

A lot of the committee members wanted it to be universal. So basically they split the baby and made it so people can decide for themselves.

Another reason for not recommending a booster for everyone is that the risks of an adverse reaction to the booster shot begin to outweigh the benefit of preventing moderate disease in younger people with less exposure and less fading of protection. In particular, the risk of myocarditis in young men (which is very low) is higher than the risk of Covid problems if this population caught Covid while vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I'm an elementary school teacher surround by unvaccinated students who wear masks but remove them for lunch and other times. I got my second Pfizer dose Feb 12th and just got my booster this morning! Best time for a teacher to get the booster is BEFORE they are exposed!

PP here. From where did you get your booster? I have Kaiser and I received an email that said they would contact us when we can get the booster. I didn’t know that they know I’m a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I watched the committee meeting about this. Basically the members were all over the place on this one. If your goal is only to prevent hospitalization and death, your two doses probably still do that at this point. But if you’d also rather not get mild or moderate Covid, which can still have long term side effects, or if you want to have a higher chance of not getting infected and passing it along to someone else, then get a third dose.

The main reasons people argued against opening it for everyone were:

-Logistical - hard to give out that many shots
- We should focus on unvaccinated (other members spoke up and said, we can do both - this is not either or

A lot of the committee members wanted it to be universal. So basically they split the baby and made it so people can decide for themselves.

Another reason for not recommending a booster for everyone is that the risks of an adverse reaction to the booster shot begin to outweigh the benefit of preventing moderate disease in younger people with less exposure and less fading of protection. In particular, the risk of myocarditis in young men (which is very low) is higher than the risk of Covid problems if this population caught Covid while vaccinated.

I am the previous poster who watched the committee meeting and yeah one or two people brought this up. They discussed amending this to over 30 rather than over 18, but that would have left out, for example female medical professionals or teachers under thirty who don’t have underlying conditions but still want the extra protection.

No one asserted definitively that the third shot would be risky for men under thirty. A couple people just said that the risks benefits analysis meant it wold be good for more data to be gathered first to see if the very small risk its is worth the additional benefit for healthy men under thirty. The counter argument is that the language speaks to an individual risk benefit analysis - ideally people in this group talk to their doctors and decide whether to get it. You don’t need a doctors note to get it though.

[Anonymous]

Also a teacher and got my booster this morning. The pharmacist did not ask me any qualifying questions, at all.

It's ridiculously easy to get a vaccine right now, I chose Safeway because it was the closest pharmacy to my house. The whole process took 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I watched the committee meeting about this. Basically the members were all over the place on this one. If your goal is only to prevent hospitalization and death, your two doses probably still do that at this point. But if you’d also rather not get mild or moderate Covid, which can still have long term side effects, or if you want to have a higher chance of not getting infected and passing it along to someone else, then get a third dose.

The main reasons people argued against opening it for everyone were:

-Logistical - hard to give out that many shots
- We should focus on unvaccinated (other members spoke up and said, we can do both - this is not either or

A lot of the committee members wanted it to be universal. So basically they split the baby and made it so people can decide for themselves.

Another reason for not recommending a booster for everyone is that the risks of an adverse reaction to the booster shot begin to outweigh the benefit of preventing moderate disease in younger people with less exposure and less fading of protection. In particular, the risk of myocarditis in young men (which is very low) is higher than the risk of Covid problems if this population caught Covid while vaccinated.

I am the previous poster who watched the committee meeting and yeah one or two people brought this up. They discussed amending this to over 30 rather than over 18, but that would have left out, for example female medical professionals or teachers under thirty who don’t have underlying conditions but still want the extra protection.

No one asserted definitively that the third shot would be risky for men under thirty. A couple people just said that the risks benefits analysis meant it wold be good for more data to be gathered first to see if the very small risk its is worth the additional benefit for healthy men under thirty. The counter argument is that the language speaks to an individual risk benefit analysis - ideally people in this group talk to their doctors and decide whether to get it. You don’t need a doctors note to get it though.

Hi, I just posted and wanted to add to my post above - I disagree with your sentence that “the risk of myocarditis is higher than the risk of covid problems if this population caught covid while vaccinated.” Some on the committee just said the additional benefit of a third dose perhaps was not justified yet for healthy men under thirty - that most of them could stand to wait another couple months until we have more data to assess the risk benefit analysis. Not everyone agrees with that though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who got Pfizer are. Teachers who got Moderna are left hanging or have to get an off label third dose.

I know several over 65 people in Maryland who got Moderna boosters. They didn’t lie, CVS gave it to them and added the 3rd shot to their original card. I imagine teachers who got the Moderna vaccine can go do the same.

I'm surprised. I asked the pharmacist hypothetically just this scenario and he said it would be a violation of code of ethics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also a teacher and got my booster this morning. The pharmacist did not ask me any qualifying questions, at all.

It's ridiculously easy to get a vaccine right now, I chose Safeway because it was the closest pharmacy to my house. The whole process took 10 minutes.

Did it cost anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19.

I'm an elementary school teacher surround by unvaccinated students who wear masks but remove them for lunch and other times. I got my second Pfizer dose Feb 12th and just got my booster this morning! Best time for a teacher to get the booster is BEFORE they are exposed!

PP here. From where did you get your booster? I have Kaiser and I received an email that said they would contact us when we can get the booster. I didn’t know that they know I’m a teacher.

Walgreens.

They have updated their website to allow you to click your category (18+ with medical conditions, employment risk etc.)

https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp

CVS also updated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers who got Pfizer are. Teachers who got Moderna are left hanging or have to get an off label third dose.

Do you understand why? It is not the government’s fault? Moderna submitted their clinical trial data after Pfizer.

Be happy you got the brand with longer lasting protection!