4th shot for healthy adults?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take it without hesitation. Straight into my veins.

I take a flu shot every year, it's no big deal. Add a COVID shot every six months, just fine with me.

When modern medicine presents me with a miracle cure, you can be darn sure I'm not going to pass it up.

“Miracle cure” is not the descriptor I would use. Perhaps the next COVID vaccine will do a better job, but this one is basically useless after 6 months.

I had two shots and COVID. No more vaccines for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It can't be healthy for the body to get 4 shots of the same drug (or varied version) over a one year period.

Guess you don’t have any children. The immunization for brand new immune systems, ie babies, is much much more than four shots.

Yeah but you know when you start the shots how many the kids needs. They aren’t new vaccines and have been around for ages and are for diseases that can really really harm children. It’s not like you’re going to find out in a few months that you thought you only needed 2 rounds of the polio vaccine but really you need more. In fact when we first received the covid vaccine most people thought it was 2 shots and done!

I don’t know the history of the polio vaccine, but I imagine they tweaked the dosage in the first years after its discovery. Covid is a brand new virus that continues to mutate. It will take awhile to figure out the protocol.

Yeah but that is the downside to the expedited process for the Covid vaccine development/approval- they had enough info to assess the short term safety and efficacy but not answer the long term questions. For elderly folks, who cares- not a real need to worry about any long term effects of repeated vaccinations and keeping this group out of the hospitals as much as possible benefits society overall. But for lower risk age groups, I think it makes more sense to figure this out before pushing repeated boosters on the fly.

[Anonymous]

I really wish they were working on an actual vaccine.

I feel like the current one is marketed as such but is really just a preventative treatment like those medications that are advertised as a "once yearly injection".

[Anonymous]

I'm not rushing out to get a fourth shot. Seems like the 3 dose series, especially waiting so many months in between dose 2 and 3, is effective at preventing severe illness and may be for life or at least for many years.

That said, during this acute phase, I'd consider getting another shot (not now, as we are heading into lovely outdoor weather and cases are still so low, but in the event of another surge). I do think therapeutics will continue to improve and that will be a preference for many people. The Pfizer pill is insanely effective at reducing risk for high risk people who get COVID. They are still scaling up production but I think by the end of the year it will be widely available.

For the rest of us, I could see something like Tamiflu treatment for COVID available next year. You are vaxed and boosted, you test positive in your house, you get a prescription and stop the virus in its track before things like long COVID or feeling crappy for a week come into play. Bonus is your body has gotten another boost of the virus and you have some antibodies for the next few months. You probably won't need to do that many more times.

I could that being another way out of the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It can't be healthy for the body to get 4 shots of the same drug (or varied version) over a one year period.

+1000000

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It can't be healthy for the body to get 4 shots of the same drug (or varied version) over a one year period.

Guess you don’t have any children. The immunization for brand new immune systems, ie babies, is much much more than four shots.

Yeah but you know when you start the shots how many the kids needs. They aren’t new vaccines and have been around for ages and are for diseases that can really really harm children. It’s not like you’re going to find out in a few months that you thought you only needed 2 rounds of the polio vaccine but really you need more. In fact when we first received the covid vaccine most people thought it was 2 shots and done!

I don’t know the history of the polio vaccine, but I imagine they tweaked the dosage in the first years after its discovery. Covid is a brand new virus that continues to mutate. It will take awhile to figure out the protocol.

It is interesting to read about polio. The trials were much larger, for one thing.

[Anonymous]

Thinking about it as we await the rise of the Omicron 2 variant later this spring. Also, we are going on an international trip in June and I might be interested in the protection another booster would offer. That being said, I am 50 and DH is 60, so that plays into it as well. And I agree with the earlier PP that CDC will not be timely with their recommendations leading up to this next surge.

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Anonymous wrote:2 years from now : "I think I am to get my 9th shot. My neighbor did it, she still got covid but who know how severe it would have been without it". I stopped at 2. Those shots make me way too sick for what they are worth now.

+1 I also stopped at 2. I'm starting to doubt whether I do the flu shot next year.

This year, the flu shot was ~20% effective. I stopped at 2 Covid shots and I will most definitely not be getting a flu shot next year.

This year the flu shot wasn't very effective, so next year I won't get a flu shot.

I don't understand your logic. Is there some sort of mathematical property that stipulates if something happens one year, it will happen the next year too? Or might a better way forward be to look at long-term data?

A lot of you sound like 5-year-olds trying to work out whether they should eat their broccoli.

[Anonymous]

Well, Moderna just applied for EUA for a 4th shot for ALL adults.

[Anonymous]

done with this hoopla

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wish they were working on an actual vaccine.

I feel like the current one is marketed as such but is really just a preventative treatment like those medications that are advertised as a "once yearly injection".

Like the flu vaccine?

Strains change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll take it without hesitation. Straight into my veins.

I take a flu shot every year, it's no big deal. Add a COVID shot every six months, just fine with me.

When modern medicine presents me with a miracle cure, you can be darn sure I'm not going to pass it up.

“Miracle cure” is not the descriptor I would use. Perhaps the next COVID vaccine will do a better job, but this one is basically useless after 6 months.

I had two shots and COVID. No more vaccines for me.

Just because the efficacy wanes over time does not mean that it was useless for the first six months. You have no idea what your COVID would have been like had you not had vaccines, no idea if you would have gotten it twice, no idea if you would have gotten it sooner, no idea if you would have passed it on to more people had they not been vaccinated.

I hope people change their minds...

[Anonymous]

I plan to as soon as I am able. My last shot was in November so I hope I can get another by May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take it without hesitation. Straight into my veins.

I take a flu shot every year, it's no big deal. Add a COVID shot every six months, just fine with me.

When modern medicine presents me with a miracle cure, you can be darn sure I'm not going to pass it up.

These don’t go into your veins. I mean, if you can’t even get the basics right….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I plan to as soon as I am able. My last shot was in November so I hope I can get another by May.

Same here. I got my third shot in late October and hope to be able to get another one in April. I've been in the office five days a week since June 2020 and have been exposed multiple times. I have yet to test positive and want to keep it that way.