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More and more people are stating openly that these vaccines will become annual events (if not biannually).
I suspect for those used to annual vaccines (for the flu) this is no big deal. For others (like me) who haven't had a vaccine since we can remember, this is a bigger deal. For those who completed their vaccine regimen, how do you feel about this?
Excerpts from the article:
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First assessment of national vaccination programme reveals two doses of Pfizer's jab prevent 98% of deaths
Note that from nearly 100% we have fallen to 98% in preventing deaths. Their efficacy is constantly being adjusted downwards with more real world data.
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Two weeks after receiving both doses, a person's chances of infection fell by 96.5 per cent, hospitalisation by 98 per cent and death by 98.1 per cent, according to the findings published in The Lancet.
The results were just as strong among the elderly, with over-85s getting 94.1 per cent, 96.9 per cent and 97 per cent protection, respectively.
Protection against symptomatic and asymptomatic infection was 97 per cent and 91.5 per cent.
This is data from Israel. Note that depending on the variants circulating in Israel, these numbers maybe lower or higher in our country.
Re annual boosters:
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Covid will be treatable like flu by next year and this year's autumn vaccine booster drive for over-50s may be the start of annual jab programme, No10's vaccine minister said today.
A COVID/flu combo vaccine (if that's even possible) would be the best bet. I usually get a flu shot but if a COVID one becomes an annual thing I would probably skip the flu one altogether and just get the COVID shot since it's way more effective.
Yea right. After seeing how bad the shots are, zero chance I or anyone else in my family ever gets a booster. We basically only got the vaccine to not cause a stir at our jobs and get back to normal. An annual booster is a non starter for at least 50% of the people who have been vaccinated.
I’ll do it but not annually. I will do flu shots off & on. I don’t like chasing vaccines or medicine in general, but I will get them every so often. I thought the 2 Moderna shots were pretty easy, didn’t miss a beat with either one.
I take the influenza vaccine annually, so I'll apply the same logic to the coronavirus variants. My primary goal is to minimize the likelihood of hospitalization. I haven't had the flu in a couple of decades, so I'm not sure how my body will respond at my age.
I get the flu shot every year. It's absolutely a nonissue to get the covid vax every year.
Regarding costs and side effects - both are a drop in the bucket compared to the risk factors and cost of covid. It's a silly argument to make.
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