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8 months- I was one of the first in the state to get vaccinated.
The CDC recc a "booster" administered between 6-12 months after last injection. They are suggesting, but not confirmed, that an annual vaccination will be required, much like the annual flu shot. CDC and NEJM have currently recc pregnant women get their initial vaccination, which is a departure from last winter.
Currently, the only ones recc for the "booster" are immunosuppressed. I would assume that recc will be expanded to the general population by late fall.
Our hospital is now being OVERWHELMED with Covid. The interesting thing is that most of the ventilated patients are younger, not older, as was not the case with the first wave. This is having an indirect effect on every service, as nurses are redirected to the Covid ward and the ICU, thus the rest of us are very short staffed and are having to limit schedules. We have not stopped elective surgery at this time.
MOST viruses mutate to a less virulent strain in nearly all cases. Herd immunity and such mutations is how epidemics end. The Covid virus is not behaving in that fashion, unfortunately.
Two things stopping me from an ( unauthorized) third shot right now:
My last shot was at the end of April, just 3 + months ago, and
It could take a first dose away from someone else.
Alabama and Mississippi alternate last place for a fully vaccinated rate. Alabama had to dispose 65,000 doses that reached their expiration date and no takers. Whack job Marjorie Greene gleefully iterated the destruction of these doses at a fund raising event and as expected, the crowd cheered their approval. It went over as well as her instructions to the crowd to take up their arms, exercise their 2nd amendment right, when the knockers come to your door and try to force a vaccine on you. The crowd ate it up.
Many countries are begging for the first dose. They said the first dose of moderna provided 80 percent of protection, some experts said 94 percent. If you have had covid, and also received first shot, you are well protected.
I finished my second shot in the middle of July. I see no point of getting a booster shot this year.
8 months- I was one of the first in the state to get vaccinated.
The CDC recc a "booster" administered between 6-12 months after last injection. They are suggesting, but not confirmed, that an annual vaccination will be required, much like the annual flu shot. CDC and NEJM have currently recc pregnant women get their initial vaccination, which is a departure from last winter.
Currently, the only ones recc for the "booster" are immunosuppressed. I would assume that recc will be expanded to the general population by late fall.
Our hospital is now being OVERWHELMED with Covid. The interesting thing is that most of the ventilated patients are younger, not older, as was not the case with the first wave. This is having an indirect effect on every service, as nurses are redirected to the Covid ward and the ICU, thus the rest of us are very short staffed and are having to limit schedules. We have not stopped elective surgery at this time.
MOST viruses mutate to a less virulent strain in nearly all cases. Herd immunity and such mutations is how epidemics end.
The Covid virus is not behaving in that fashion, unfortunately.
I heard you need a doctors note for third shot , it’s all honor system
No one asked for a doctor's note when I got my third one yesterday. Just check a box that says something like "I need the second dose or a third for the immunocompromised". Give them your vax card and they fill in line 3. That's it. For people like me who got shots early on, it seems strange to just log in and have an appointment for two hours later after all we had to go through to get those first shots.
My neighbor just told me he walked into the grocery store yesterday and got a Moderna shot. (He was previously vaxxed with Pfizer twice in April). So he's had 2 Pfizer, 1 Moderna.
My question is, shouldn't he have gotten the Pfizer as the 3rd shot????????
My neighbor just told me he walked into the grocery store yesterday and got a Moderna shot. (He was previously vaxxed with Pfizer twice in April). So he's had 2 Pfizer, 1 Moderna.
My question is, shouldn't he have gotten the Pfizer as the 3rd shot????????
Either should do. Past studies have suggested mixing the 2 endows a bit better immunity, but possibly more side effects.
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