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

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Anonymous wrote:I've been living my life normally for over a year. There's no way I have not been exposed to covid multiple times, yet I have never gotten it. Healthy, no comorbidities, and have had 3 shots.

It's been about 6 months since my booster. If you're in a similar circumstance, are you getting a 2nd booster? I don't react well to the shots and have to plan a day off, otherwise it would be no big deal.

Not yet.

My plan is to wait it out through the summer. I'm hoping that by August or so, things will have calmed down again, or we'll know more about what the variant-of-the-moment is. I'm hoping for lots of outdoor social events this summer anyway. So I figure maybe I'll get boosted before the kids go back to school.

My previous booster was in December. I had pretty heavy side effects, but for less than a day.

50, no specific risk factors

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I'm 46 with similar circumstances.

I am glad I'm not technically eligible. If the CDC recommended it, I'd be first in line, but it seems like it's really diminishing returns for my age and status. I'll get one this fall when it's a new formulation and hopefully a bit more protective against this subvariant phases of waves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Can you clarify? Because I'd assume someone with 2 boosters (the last one being quite recent) should be essentially asymptomatic or have an extremely mild case at this point if they are infected. So even a day of fever or malaise could seem like being hit hard compared to those people...but many of us have a fever and day of malaise with each shot. Are 3x vaccinated, healthy people really getting that sick from Covid at this point? (I totally get the "I'd rather not get sick at all" but it seems to me you'd have to get boosted every 2-4 months at this point if that were your goal.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been living my life normally for over a year. There's no way I have not been exposed to covid multiple times, yet I have never gotten it. Healthy, no comorbidities, and have had 3 shots.

It's been about 6 months since my booster. If you're in a similar circumstance, are you getting a 2nd booster? I don't react well to the shots and have to plan a day off, otherwise it would be no big deal.

Same as above (been exposed, never gotten it.) I've actually only had one shot -- the J and J (before we knew it was dangerous for women my age!). I have no plans to get another shot.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Can you clarify? Because I'd assume someone with 2 boosters (the last one being quite recent) should be essentially asymptomatic or have an extremely mild case at this point if they are infected. So even a day of fever or malaise could seem like being hit hard compared to those people...but many of us have a fever and day of malaise with each shot. Are 3x vaccinated, healthy people really getting that sick from Covid at this point? (I totally get the "I'd rather not get sick at all" but it seems to me you'd have to get boosted every 2-4 months at this point if that were your goal.)

For most of us, it was a sore throat, some congestion, and a lot of fatigue. I slept the entire day I tested positive and am feeling fatigued today, on day 5. My brother in law has a horrible cough.

So maybe I shouldn’t have said “hit pretty hard,” since that’s subjective, but certainly I would consider my symptoms to be more than “extremely mild,” though I guess it’s all relative.

I do know some who have temporarily lost sense of taste/smell. Luckily that hasn’t happened to us.

[Anonymous]

I just got Covid so there’s my natural booster (turning 49 next week so I wasn’t technically eligible anyway). I figure now I’m good through the summer at least.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Can you clarify? Because I'd assume someone with 2 boosters (the last one being quite recent) should be essentially asymptomatic or have an extremely mild case at this point if they are infected. So even a day of fever or malaise could seem like being hit hard compared to those people...but many of us have a fever and day of malaise with each shot. Are 3x vaccinated, healthy people really getting that sick from Covid at this point? (I totally get the "I'd rather not get sick at all" but it seems to me you'd have to get boosted every 2-4 months at this point if that were your goal.)

DP. My parents are both double boosted and they both got Covid this spring. It was very mild but they were still sick. Basically a very mild cold that I think a lot of people would have chosen to just work through pre-Covid. My mom had actually also had it before getting the second booster and she was more sick that time (so she is now triple vaccinated AND has had Covid twice).

My dad actually had a pre-op appointment while he was still testing positive for Covid, and his doctor had him come into the office anyway for the appointment (they took extra precautions for this) because by the time of his appointment he was totally symptom free and they really did not want to reschedule his operation. I was pretty surprised about that but I guess doctors/hospitals are having to find solutions like that otherwise you'd be rescheduling all kinds of procedures due to asymptomatic Covid in people with multiple vaccinations. I'm really glad my dad could have his surgery when he did.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Can you clarify? Because I'd assume someone with 2 boosters (the last one being quite recent) should be essentially asymptomatic or have an extremely mild case at this point if they are infected. So even a day of fever or malaise could seem like being hit hard compared to those people...but many of us have a fever and day of malaise with each shot. Are 3x vaccinated, healthy people really getting that sick from Covid at this point? (I totally get the "I'd rather not get sick at all" but it seems to me you'd have to get boosted every 2-4 months at this point if that were your goal.)

DP. My parents are both double boosted and they both got Covid this spring. It was very mild but they were still sick. Basically a very mild cold that I think a lot of people would have chosen to just work through pre-Covid. My mom had actually also had it before getting the second booster and she was more sick that time (so she is now triple vaccinated AND has had Covid twice).

My dad actually had a pre-op appointment while he was still testing positive for Covid, and his doctor had him come into the office anyway for the appointment (they took extra precautions for this) because by the time of his appointment he was totally symptom free and they really did not want to reschedule his operation. I was pretty surprised about that but I guess doctors/hospitals are having to find solutions like that otherwise you'd be rescheduling all kinds of procedures due to asymptomatic Covid in people with multiple vaccinations. I'm really glad my dad could have his surgery when he did.

I was supposed to have a non-urgent surgery on June 14th. I called Johns Hopkins to ask what to do, given that I tested positive for COVID last week. They pushed my surgery out to July, but told me I would not have to test negative for COVID prior to the surgery, since people can test positive for such a long time, despite not being contagious anymore.

[Anonymous]

DH and I in our 50's got our second boosters in mid-April because we had several events and traveling in May and June. As far as we know we haven't had Covid, but I did get all the symptoms a couple of weeks ago after being in Boston/NYC. I never tested positive though.
(we switched the type of booster we got too - DH had gotten all Pfizer & a Moderna booster, I was the opposite)

[Anonymous]

My 50+ spouse got the second booster in anticipation of a spate of work travel coming up. I'm not eligible, so not getting it yet. Hoping for the omicron-targeted booster this fall.

[Anonymous]

Healthy mid fifties here. DH and I got it. I did it earlier in April because I was traveling. DH got it about a month later. Easy to get, no reactions or side effects.

We’re educated and don’t listen to Tucker Carlson so we aren’t afraid of a booster shot.

[Anonymous]

I got the initial two shots but no booster. I’ve been living life normally (going to the office, restaurants, the gym) since Sept 2020 when my kids went back to school in person. I had Covid in January, along with the rest of my family. It was no big deal for us. I’m not getting any boosters at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Can you clarify? Because I'd assume someone with 2 boosters (the last one being quite recent) should be essentially asymptomatic or have an extremely mild case at this point if they are infected. So even a day of fever or malaise could seem like being hit hard compared to those people...but many of us have a fever and day of malaise with each shot. Are 3x vaccinated, healthy people really getting that sick from Covid at this point? (I totally get the "I'd rather not get sick at all" but it seems to me you'd have to get boosted every 2-4 months at this point if that were your goal.)

I know many double boosted people who had Covid and symptoms ranged from mild to severe. I know someone who is currently hospitalized with Covid pneumonia who was fully boosted but has a pre-existing condition. I don’t believe the boosters offer as much protection as we’d like to think.

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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?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

[Anonymous]

I'm 52 and haven't gotten any of the boosters. I had COVID in November but without symptoms. I'll probably just wait for the new one that people are talking about. I really haven't kept up with the booster situation, I don't even know how many have been made available.