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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What was the reason for not approving for everyone? I’m am ES teacher and I’m wondering if I really need to get the booster or if it can wait. I had my second Pfizer dose on Feb 19. [/quote] I watched the committee meeting about this. Basically the members were all over the place on this one. If your goal is only to prevent hospitalization and death, your two doses probably still do that at this point. But if you’d also rather not get mild or moderate Covid, which can still have long term side effects, or if you want to have a higher chance of not getting infected and passing it along to someone else, then get a third dose. The main reasons people argued against opening it for everyone were: -Logistical - hard to give out that many shots - We should focus on unvaccinated (other members spoke up and said, we can do both - this is not either or A lot of the committee members wanted it to be universal. So basically they split the baby and made it so people can decide for themselves.[/quote] Another reason for not recommending a booster for everyone is that the risks of an adverse reaction to the booster shot begin to outweigh the benefit of preventing moderate disease in younger people with less exposure and less fading of protection. In particular, the risk of myocarditis in young men (which is very low) is higher than the risk of Covid problems if this population caught Covid while vaccinated.[/quote] I am the previous poster who watched the committee meeting and yeah one or two people brought this up. They discussed amending this to over 30 rather than over 18, but that would have left out, for example female medical professionals or teachers under thirty who don’t have underlying conditions but still want the extra protection. No one asserted definitively that the third shot would be risky for men under thirty. A couple people just said that the risks benefits analysis meant it wold be good for more data to be gathered first to see if the very small risk its is worth the additional benefit for healthy men under thirty. The counter argument is that the language speaks to an individual risk benefit analysis - ideally people in this group talk to their doctors and decide whether to get it. You don’t need a doctors note to get it though.[/quote]
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