You can get a booster shot @ CVS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 79 year old healthy mom was told by her dr to get a booster now if she wanted. She called CVS who told her there is no specific definition for immunosuppressed. I know she wants me to get one too..but I am 50/healthy/JJ first shot only 5 months ago. I am waiting.

Immunocompromised can include people who are stressed. I agree that it's not a definitive group of people.

[OP]

The CDC clearly defined immunocompromised groups that should get the shot now. No, stress does not count.

People with medical conditions or people receiving treatments that are associated with moderate to severe immune compromise.
*Active or recent treatment for solid tumor and hematologic malignancies
*Receipt of solid-organ or recent hematopoietic stem cell transplants
*Severe primary immunodeficiency
*Advanced or untreated HIV infection
*Active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids, alkylating agents, antimetabolites, tumor-necrosis (TNF) blockers, and other biologic agents that are immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory
*Chronic medical conditions such as asplenia and chronic renal disease may be associated with varying degrees of immune deficit


Why lie now, when boosters will be recommended for all in a matter of weeks?

I think people would counter, why wait, when boosters will be recommended in a matter of weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 79 year old healthy mom was told by her dr to get a booster now if she wanted. She called CVS who told her there is no specific definition for immunosuppressed. I know she wants me to get one too..but I am 50/healthy/JJ first shot only 5 months ago. I am waiting.

Immunocompromised can include people who are stressed. I agree that it's not a definitive group of people.

[OP]

The CDC clearly defined immunocompromised groups that should get the shot now. No, stress does not count.

People with medical conditions or people receiving treatments that are associated with moderate to severe immune compromise.
*Active or recent treatment for solid tumor and hematologic malignancies
*Receipt of solid-organ or recent hematopoietic stem cell transplants
*Severe primary immunodeficiency
*Advanced or untreated HIV infection
*Active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids, alkylating agents, antimetabolites, tumor-necrosis (TNF) blockers, and other biologic agents that are immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory
*Chronic medical conditions such as asplenia and chronic renal disease may be associated with varying degrees of immune deficit


Why lie now, when boosters will be recommended for all in a matter of weeks?

I'm talking about reality, not an incomplete CDC list. Stress weakens your immune system. If I was dealing with a lot of stress, I'd seriously consider getting the booster at 6 months.

[Anonymous]

For those who went and got the booster early, what were your side effects? I happened to be pretty sick with my second shot of Pfizer so I’m a bit concerned I may be unwell when I get my third shot September 20

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whyyyyy?!? The experts are still saying it’s unclear that it is necessary!! I have a colleague who is 79 and her husband is 85 and on immunosuppressants for cancer treatment. They got vaccinated in JANUARY. They got their immunity tested last week to see if boosters are necessary and their tests were just as strong as when they first got it. Boosters for all makes no sense, particularly when the majority of the world still hasn’t had access to even a first shot! Variants are going to develop from those people not from y’all fully vaccinated people with zero need for another shot. And do t get me started about the fact that safety of boosters is completely untested!

Let the selfish people get it and suffer the consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whyyyyy?!? The experts are still saying it’s unclear that it is necessary!! I have a colleague who is 79 and her husband is 85 and on immunosuppressants for cancer treatment. They got vaccinated in JANUARY. They got their immunity tested last week to see if boosters are necessary and their tests were just as strong as when they first got it. Boosters for all makes no sense, particularly when the majority of the world still hasn’t had access to even a first shot! Variants are going to develop from those people not from y’all fully vaccinated people with zero need for another shot. And do t get me started about the fact that safety of boosters is completely untested!

The blood levels checked in your colleague and her husband have no clinically predictable relationship to ability to mount immune response to COVID infection. If I were their age I would get one now.

So now the antibody tests being positive mean nothing too? There are no words anymore. None.

I have friends who have gone this whole pandemic with no masks, no social distancing, etc. I honestly thought they were nuts, but none of them got Covid. None. And I’m trying to reconcile that with all I’m being told all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whyyyyy?!? The experts are still saying it’s unclear that it is necessary!! I have a colleague who is 79 and her husband is 85 and on immunosuppressants for cancer treatment. They got vaccinated in JANUARY. They got their immunity tested last week to see if boosters are necessary and their tests were just as strong as when they first got it. Boosters for all makes no sense, particularly when the majority of the world still hasn’t had access to even a first shot! Variants are going to develop from those people not from y’all fully vaccinated people with zero need for another shot. And do t get me started about the fact that safety of boosters is completely untested!

The blood levels checked in your colleague and her husband have no clinically predictable relationship to ability to mount immune response to COVID infection. If I were their age I would get one now.

That’s nice, their expert doctors at Georgetown Medstar and Sibley say otherwise. What are your credentials so I can relay that to them to bring to their oncologist team and primary doctors?

Public health people know more than doctors. Haven’t you learned that by now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no point. I had covid last year. I was just vaccinated in July and I have covid right now. Delta doesn’t care how high your antibodies are.

or your vaccine weakened your natural immunity.

Since you are clearly a super educated scientist, please explain how this works to us laymen.

Start with there has never been a medically verified case of having covid twice. Add to this, that the tests are quite imperfect, and have been for a long time; they pick up dead virus, for instance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whyyyyy?!? The experts are still saying it’s unclear that it is necessary!! I have a colleague who is 79 and her husband is 85 and on immunosuppressants for cancer treatment. They got vaccinated in JANUARY. They got their immunity tested last week to see if boosters are necessary and their tests were just as strong as when they first got it. Boosters for all makes no sense, particularly when the majority of the world still hasn’t had access to even a first shot! Variants are going to develop from those people not from y’all fully vaccinated people with zero need for another shot. And do t get me started about the fact that safety of boosters is completely untested!

The blood levels checked in your colleague and her husband have no clinically predictable relationship to ability to mount immune response to COVID infection. If I were their age I would get one now.

So now the antibody tests being positive mean nothing too? There are no words anymore. None.

I have friends who have gone this whole pandemic with no masks, no social distancing, etc. I honestly thought they were nuts, but none of them got Covid. None. And I’m trying to reconcile that with all I’m being told all the time.

It is hard, isn’t it? Especially for those of us with friends and family in other parts of the country. We live in the DC metro bubble where we are inundated with the way we should do things and we see others who are more relaxed. I have friends and family who have contracted Covid but just as many of them have been from here and very strict for the past year and a half. Some in other parts of the country have, some have not. There doesn’t seem to be any pattern to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whyyyyy?!? The experts are still saying it’s unclear that it is necessary!! I have a colleague who is 79 and her husband is 85 and on immunosuppressants for cancer treatment. They got vaccinated in JANUARY. They got their immunity tested last week to see if boosters are necessary and their tests were just as strong as when they first got it. Boosters for all makes no sense, particularly when the majority of the world still hasn’t had access to even a first shot! Variants are going to develop from those people not from y’all fully vaccinated people with zero need for another shot. And do t get me started about the fact that safety of boosters is completely untested!

The blood levels checked in your colleague and her husband have no clinically predictable relationship to ability to mount immune response to COVID infection. If I were their age I would get one now.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no point. I had covid last year. I was just vaccinated in July and I have covid right now. Delta doesn’t care how high your antibodies are.

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Damn this is depressing.

[Anonymous]

Not until the CDC approves it, and recommends it. I'm not immunocompromised, so I'm not rushing it.

[Anonymous]

My mother is in her upper 70s. On the phone last night she told me, “CVS is now taking appointments for booster shots”. She said her friends have gone to get theirs but she is going to wait until her community has a clinic. I asked her if any are compromised and she said they are not. So I asked if CVS is specifically making booster appointments or if they just went for a third dose. Her reply was that all she knew was they said they went for their boosters. I have a feeling they just went but CVS didn’t give the shot as a booster.

[Anonymous]

I’m not getting a booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ve wasted at least 15 million doses (probably more) in the US. There isn’t a shortage. Do what you want.

We're a selfish country who should have sent those 15 million doses to another country who wanted it. There are still plenty of unvaxxed in Canada, even.

[Anonymous]

My parents are in Texas and got a booster from their doctor's office. They're not immunocompromised. Texas is giving away shots!!