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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, not eligible (42) and even if I was I think I'd delay until fall to see if there is a better booster/vaccine. I didn't get the first booster until just before Christmas last year, and I was glad I'd put it off because I think I wound up better protected against omicron and subsequent variants than people who pushed hard to get boosted earlier (including people I know who lied to get it). And that wasn't really just luck -- I'd been putting off getting the booster because I didn't want to lose a day of work to it but then was motivated to schedule it when they announced the omicron surge coming at the end of November. So I wound up getting vaccinated basically as that surge ramped up, and hit peak immunity from it right around the time my kid's school was quarantining all but three classrooms from an outbreak. Never got it.

I have a kid turning 5 this summer and we are also thinking about delaying his vaccine shots to August so that he starts school with peak immunity (whatever that is in the 5-11 set) and maybe gets access to an updated vaccine as well. I know there was technically a summer surge last year with Delta, but it's nothing compared to what we've seen with the colder weather surges, and it just makes sense to be most protected during the time of year when we will be spending more time inside with other people. Basically same reasoning as the flu shot.[/quote]

I also got my second booster a week before Christmas (at the same time my kids got their second shot, which we spaced to six weeks from the first (would have loved to space longer to increase longevity of protection, but wanted them protected by January)), and none of us ever got Covid despite my kids only wearing cloth masks at school.

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