Should Covid-19 vaccine mandates include a booster shot?

In the second part of the article, Dr. Stephen wrote:

> "I know firsthand the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, including the booster. I was infected with COVID-19 in May 2020, before any vaccines existed, and I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and blood clots. It took me four months to recover. Then, on Dec. 21 this year, after exposure to a colleague who later tested positive, I developed a fever and sore throat; one day later, I tested positive. This time, with two vaccines and the booster in me, I was better in four days..."

This doesn't seem to be a well-controlled experiment. How does he know that it's specifically the booster that allowed him to recover in four days? The two primary shots may have been sufficient to have that effect, and the antibodies acquired from his previous severe infection could have contributed. For that matter, he could have just been infected with a milder variant of the virus the second time.

Archive link: https://archive.fo/6ftlE Author of the first section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit I suppose this is a condensed version of Offit's views shared on TWiV 844.

For young people in the current situation with Omicron it does not seem it should.

Austria is already planning to scrap the idea for a mandate altogether. I think it is time to return to normal operation to be honest.