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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Roll up your sleeves for a 4th booster, or will some of you wake up to the fact that boosters do not prevent transmission?

"In the fall, officials say, Americans of all ages, including anyone who gets a booster this spring, should get another shot." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/politics/biden-second-booster-shot-older-americans.html

You know what comes next, a mandate for the 4th. If that is the recommendation, colleges will mandate again.

Seniors, choose your college carefully if this matters to you.[/quote]
I'm vaxxed and so is DS, but I do not want him to get a booster. He's already had covid in January (we all did). I worry about the slight risk of heart problems among young makes who get the vaccine,. He now has an extremely low risk of getting covid after being both vaxxed and having a case of covid.

I don't know how to get around it because the college he wants to attend requires boosters. Maybe they'll back off by the fall? I hope so. I don't want my kid getting heart problems. [/quote]
But you're not concerned about the heart problems associated with getting covid? (Delta didn't protect against Omicron, so no guarantee that his previous bout with covid will be protective.)[/quote]
The kid above already is vaxed AND also had COVID. A booster is not going to reduce his risk of severe disease from COVID any further.

More generally (pre Omicron), UK study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v1.full.pdf

Explained below vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myocarditis-stratified

[quote]1. It is now clear for men <40, dose 2 and dose 3 of Pfizer have more myocarditis than sars-cov-2 infection, and this is true for dose 1 and dose 2 of Moderna.

2. Pfizer boosters (Dose 3) have more myocarditis for men <40 than infection.

3. Myocarditis post infection is more common as you get older, in contrast with myocarditis post vaccination, which is more common as you are younger (reverse gradients)

But the truth is STILL WORSE than these data.

1. If the authors fixed the denominator for viral infection (i.e. used sero-prevalance), it would look even worse

2. If the authors separate men 16-24 from 12-15 and 25-40, it would likely look worst in 16-24 age group.[/quote][/quote]

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