So, COVID is going up again. Are you scared?
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shareTriple jabbed - nope.
shareWill you go for the 4th? I'm debating.
shareYep! I’ve spent my whole life travelling all over the world, meaning regular jabs for Malaria, Yellow Fever, Typhoid etc, so to me it’s just one more jab.
shareI have had three mRNA vaccines so far (2 shots in primary series, plust one booster six months later), last one in the winter, just got Covid in June. Each vaccine, I was in bed for 2 days, felt bad for a third day. With Covid infection, I was in bed for 5 days, felt bad for at least 2 weeks. I'm 51. Same for my husband who also had 2 shots plus one booster. My friend who had his fourth shot (age 57) also got Covid at the same time (we all got it from the same source we think) and didn't have to modify his activities for covid at all. He just got a mild cold.
My plan was to get my fourth shot (second booster) at 6 months after my third shot. But I got Covid before I could get my fourth shot. Overall, I probably would have been better off getting the 4th shot, not in terms of severe illness, but in terms of fewer days of being unable to do my daily activities, and getting back to normal faster.
What threw me off is that I was getting notifications from my vaccine provider suggesting I get a fourth shot as soon as 2 months after my third. I thought: isn't the fourth shot just going to wear off after a couple of months, the same way the second and third shots do? I'm not really willing to get vaccinated every two months. I think it would have worked better if they had spread the recommendations out a bit. At my age, over 50, I think I would be willing to get boosted as frequently as every 4-5 months, but no more frequently than that.
I know there has been a lot of criticism of the CDC over how they handled Covid but I have followed the CDC Covid vaccine team meetings (many of the key meetings are viewable by the public, and my degree is in bioscience) and I think they are being very careful. For example, they have not yet approved a second booster for adolescents, which suggests that they are paying attention to the risks of the Covid vaccines in this age group.
I'm triple jabbed, pretty isolated compared to many...
And just got covid couple days ago.
I'm confident I'll live but this is not fun.
Get well soon.
sharethanks! Guess I should have had a 4th by now. didnt realize. crap.
shareI haven't had the 4th shot yet, but I'm not out and about much. Strangely, except for me, everyone in my family has had Covid, even though most of them were vaxxed and boosted. The only exceptions are the youngest who weren't eligible to get vaxxed. We are very lucky because all cases were fairly mild.
shareGet well 👍
It’s the utter lack of energy that feels the worst!
Sorry to hear this. I hope you get better soon!
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