Healthy people living life normally - did you get 2nd booster?

[Anonymous]

You’re not eligible so why are you thinking about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two people have told me that their doctor told them to hold off for a booster coming in fall that will be good for omicron and it's variants.

That is what I'm doing.

I’m approaching 51 and an ES teacher. Only had slightly sore arms with the first 3 Pfizer doses. I had the booster on October 10, so it’s been 8 months. My doctor said I should wait until the start of the new school year for the second booster.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t even get the first booster. Doing just fine.

[Anonymous]

Are you even eligible for a second booster at 43?

[Anonymous]

I've read through the clinical trial data-- it looks like a fourth dose provides some protection against infection (compared to 3 doses) for about 2 months, and then begins to wane. And honestly, the severe cases were so low in the Israeli trial (5.5 cases per 100,000 in the three-dose group) that even though this was reduced in the four-dose group, it seems that the three-shot efficacy against severe illness has not waned enough (and/or we don't have a lethal enough variant) to recommend a fourth shot for healthy people.

Assuming, for now, that the vaccines against Covid have these properties-- initial strong efficacy that wanes, most rapidly against infection and much more slowly against severe disease and death-- as a healthy person I see no pressing need to get a second booster right now.

[Anonymous]

My understanding is if it's been more than 6 months since your last shot, you can get boosted. I've had 4 doses of Moderna so far, and so far no Covid. I go everywhere without a mask, except where required.

[Anonymous]

You are not eligible for a second booster unless your are 50+ or immunocompromised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t even get the first booster. Doing just fine.

Same. Not getting any more boosters unless something changes as this one doesn’t seem to work.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t even get the first booster and I’ve never had Covid. Living normally since early 2021. 49 female.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've read through the clinical trial data-- it looks like a fourth dose provides some protection against infection (compared to 3 doses) for about 2 months, and then begins to wane. And honestly, the severe cases were so low in the Israeli trial (5.5 cases per 100,000 in the three-dose group) that even though this was reduced in the four-dose group, it seems that the three-shot efficacy against severe illness has not waned enough (and/or we don't have a lethal enough variant) to recommend a fourth shot for healthy people.

Assuming, for now, that the vaccines against Covid have these properties-- initial strong efficacy that wanes, most rapidly against infection and much more slowly against severe disease and death-- as a healthy person I see no pressing need to get a second booster right now.

This. The evidence that the second booster does anything beyond giving you a very temporary antibody boost is non-existent. I'm 49 and not getting another one of these same shots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

I do not understand. You are 43 and healthy. You’re not eligible for a second booster.

I will get one the second I am eligible personally.

[Anonymous]

I have not gotten it yet because: (a) I have a strong reaction to the shots; (b) I am waiting for the Moderna version modified for Omicron; (c) I want to wait until just before some big travel later this year; (d) I'm not eligible; and (e) (the real reason) I got COVID for the second time 3 months ago.

[Anonymous]

No, not eligible (42) and even if I was I think I'd delay until fall to see if there is a better booster/vaccine. I didn't get the first booster until just before Christmas last year, and I was glad I'd put it off because I think I wound up better protected against omicron and subsequent variants than people who pushed hard to get boosted earlier (including people I know who lied to get it). And that wasn't really just luck -- I'd been putting off getting the booster because I didn't want to lose a day of work to it but then was motivated to schedule it when they announced the omicron surge coming at the end of November. So I wound up getting vaccinated basically as that surge ramped up, and hit peak immunity from it right around the time my kid's school was quarantining all but three classrooms from an outbreak. Never got it.

I have a kid turning 5 this summer and we are also thinking about delaying his vaccine shots to August so that he starts school with peak immunity (whatever that is in the 5-11 set) and maybe gets access to an updated vaccine as well. I know there was technically a summer surge last year with Delta, but it's nothing compared to what we've seen with the colder weather surges, and it just makes sense to be most protected during the time of year when we will be spending more time inside with other people. Basically same reasoning as the flu shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, not eligible (42) and even if I was I think I'd delay until fall to see if there is a better booster/vaccine. I didn't get the first booster until just before Christmas last year, and I was glad I'd put it off because I think I wound up better protected against omicron and subsequent variants than people who pushed hard to get boosted earlier (including people I know who lied to get it). And that wasn't really just luck -- I'd been putting off getting the booster because I didn't want to lose a day of work to it but then was motivated to schedule it when they announced the omicron surge coming at the end of November. So I wound up getting vaccinated basically as that surge ramped up, and hit peak immunity from it right around the time my kid's school was quarantining all but three classrooms from an outbreak. Never got it.

I have a kid turning 5 this summer and we are also thinking about delaying his vaccine shots to August so that he starts school with peak immunity (whatever that is in the 5-11 set) and maybe gets access to an updated vaccine as well. I know there was technically a summer surge last year with Delta, but it's nothing compared to what we've seen with the colder weather surges, and it just makes sense to be most protected during the time of year when we will be spending more time inside with other people. Basically same reasoning as the flu shot.

I also got my second booster a week before Christmas (at the same time my kids got their second shot, which we spaced to six weeks from the first (would have loved to space longer to increase longevity of protection, but wanted them protected by January)), and none of us ever got Covid despite my kids only wearing cloth masks at school.

[Anonymous]

Only the 65+ folks in my family got the 2nd booster. We all ended up with COVID after a family trip last week. I’ll say that those of us with 1 booster have been hit pretty hard, compared to those with 2 boosters.