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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The comparison to the flu shot is dumb.  Did you get a flu shot under emergency authorization?  Did you have to go back for a flu shot booster 5 months later? And then another one 5 months after that?  With no knowledge of when you'd need another one?  And you really wouldn't have questioned this at all?

Our ped recommended we wait and get a booster for our kids at the end of the summer- he seemed to think anyone getting it now would need another late fall.[/quote]

So, you’re saying you don’t know how vaccinations and the immune system work and you refuse to learn.

Vaccine schedules are spaced out because the immune system needs to respond to the first shot before getting the next. If you didn’t know the 2-3 week gap between the first and second shots in the primary schedule meant we’d almost certainly need a booster, then you weren’t paying attention.

You see some of this play out with the flu vaccines. While they are unusually annual, kids getting flu shots for the first time need two shots spaced apart.

And the flu vaccine wanes in efficacy over time as well, but we only need protection from the flu for about 6 months out of the year. If the flu was able to efficiently spread in the summer, you probably would see some people get two flu shots a year.

[b]I don’t think we’re going to keep doing twice-a-year Covid shots. At least, not recommended for everyone.[/b] But you should have expected the booster shot would come up in the first year.
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No one really knows anything at this point, I think that is part of the point.

While it doesn’t seem to be a concern among US scientists/public health officials that I’ve seen, experts elsewhere have expressed caution about repeated boosters. We really have no idea how many will be needed or the effects on the immune system.  Heck, the folks at Phizer and cdc didn’t know when the first booster would be needed either, but you think laypeople should have expected a booster within the first year? Ok.[/quote]

I don't think *laypersons* should have expected a booster in the first year, but experts did.  The public messaging has been a mess.  I suspect they didn't want to tell people early that they'd probably need a third shot because they were worried it would discourage people from getting the first two shots.  Of  course that decision came back to bite them, just like their early remarks around masks.[/quote]

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