4th shot for healthy adults?

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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...

Actually, we have VERY good data to guess how the PP would have fared. We have two years worth of data from all over the world that shows certain risk factors lead to worse Covid outcomes (age, obesity, smoking). This is exactly why the shot should not be pushed for everyone, but rather be targeted towards those who would really benefit (65+, immunocompromised).

If the PP is a healthy-weight, non-smoker, non-diabetic, 43 yo female? She likely would have been okay, even if she was not vaccinated.

If the PP is an obese, asthmatic, hypertensive 70 yo male? He likely would have a worse outcome if he is unvaccinated.