You can get a booster shot @ CVS

[Anonymous]

FYI - The online registration asks if you are immunocompromised; you can select no and get an appointment.

There are vaccines expiring in this country… why wait?

[Anonymous]

Seriously, get it. I am in TX and they can’t give the vaccine away here. I am immunocompromised but no questions were asked at CVS when i got my booster last week. Another pharmacy in my city had about 1500 doses that were getting ready to expire and plenty of people went and got their third dose there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, get it. I am in TX and they can’t give the vaccine away here. I am immunocompromised but no questions were asked at CVS when i got my booster last week. Another pharmacy in my city had about 1500 doses that were getting ready to expire and plenty of people went and got their third dose there.

Absolutely. Thank you for your post, especially your being immunocompromised.

There really is no reason to wait, guys. I just got mine (a few days past my 6-month mark).

[OP]

[Anonymous]

CVS’ site requires you to click this:

I need to schedule an extra dose (weakened immune system only)
Remember, you're eligible if you've received a complete vaccine and have a weakened immune system. By selecting this, you're confirming this applies to you.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CVS’ site requires you to click this:

I need to schedule an extra dose (weakened immune system only)

Remember, you're eligible if you've received a complete vaccine and have a weakened immune system. By selecting this, you're confirming this applies to you.

Beyond that, there’s a list of yes/no questions where you can select that you are not immunocompromised.

[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!

But they aren’t sending our boosters to those people, whether we take them or not. I got Moderna, which is having less breakthrough, but I might send my husband because he got Pfizer.

[Anonymous]

I’m getting mine next month.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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!

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.

[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.

🙁 How do you feel? Wishing you well.

[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.

But do you realize that all the booster will do is raise those same antibodies that are not proven to be protective higher? A booster will not provide different antibodies than their prior vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Because how do you know that there won't be a stronger variant in a couple months? How do you know that a Delta specific booster won't be out in the fall? What will you do then - run and get shots #4 and #5 just because hey they're available and CVS lets you schedule no questions asked? I want to be protected but also not turn myself into a science experiment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because how do you know that there won't be a stronger variant in a couple months? How do you know that a Delta specific booster won't be out in the fall? What will you do then - run and get shots #4 and #5 just because hey they're available and CVS lets you schedule no questions asked? I want to be protected but also not turn myself into a science experiment.

Are they working on a Delta specific booster? In the meantime, Delta is everywhere and people's immunity is waning.

[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.

Wow, I’m so sorry. Did you ever have your antibody levels tested?