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My daughter's boyfriend, an RN, has been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. This week, on the advice of hospital management, he is getting the first of two jabs of the Moderna vaccine.

Anyone else heard of this double vaccination approach?

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That’s incredibly wasteful of him and unscientific.

Wasteful of his employer, not him.

It's not like they're forcing him to do it. He could just say "no"...

In many states there wouldn't necessarily be any protection from losing his job, if he did.

Let me explain how that would play out.

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Employer: We want you to take an extra and unnecessary vaccine dose, which you, as an RN, likely understand to be most-likely useless.

Employee: That's useless and unnecessary. No, I won't take it.

Employer: You're fired.

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What kind of magical world do you think people live in where their employer doesn't hold a stupid amount of power over them?

What kind of world do you live where (high skilled/paid) people get fired over something like that?

Depending on the employment contract, vaccinations of any kind may be required as a condition of employment. This is common for public school.

I do not know any of the specifics of OP's situation, but it does sound reasonable.

Trial lawyers are salivating over all kinds of constitutional and civil rights infringement. I can't wait to see them go to town on the woke employers mandating experimental vaccines on the sheep.

Disservice to the society at large but unscientific? Isn’t it going to very marginally improve effectiveness, like from 95% to 95.5%?

Well, I am skeptical. It's why I asked (and apparently pissed off some down-voting-inclined people by asking).

There's some evidence that this is actually dangerous. Getting repeat vaccines can confuse your immune system.

In the UK, there's data showing 3x to 4x the rate of adverse effects from the vaccine for people who already have the antibodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcQ3xVDSR8&t=690s

Is this a joke?

This seems strange, aren't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines built using the exact same mRNA sequence?

They're not identical, though similar. You can see them here:

https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV...

I am not aware of any published recommendations backed by evidence for this. Give that, this seems highly irresponsible and a waste of two doses of Moderna vaccine that would be far effective in the fight against COVID if given to someone who actually has not been vaccinated.

Not specifically. But when I got vaccinated the nurse told me she expected booster shots to come out later for the major vaccines.

If you complete all four lines on the vaccination card do you get a free sub sandwich or something?

No you get a free vaccine, obviously.

You do get free Krispy Kreme, but you don't need four lines of the card.

https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer

Much prefer this offer.

https://www.theonion.com/krispy-kreme-offers-vaccinated-cust...

Both vaccines are mRNA based, not sure what your daughter’s boyfriend is trying to achieve here. Really wasteful.

That's fine, it's not like we have a shortage or anything.

It's entirely location dependent, isn't it? Some places have an abundance.

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