There's no value proposition to vaccination at this point.
And there is still the issue of long COVID which may affect young people in the future.
Especially as there are active discussions in the insurance industry about its implication for future coverage.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-covid-may-be-long-tail-of-...
Second time was far milder. I was fine after a week. It felt like a cold. It guess COVID-19 is bound to become similar to the other coronavirus which would make sense. At that point why risks injecting a whole population with a barely tested booster?
Secondly, people need boosters because immunity wanes to both the vaccine and natural infections. In about a year, you will get just as sick again if you get a natural infection, so why wouldn't you get a booster that will give you mild discomfort for a day at most.
I’m sorry: you can’t call a vaccine tested for six months excessively tested. None of of the Covid vaccines were properly tested.
It was fine. The urgency required it. This is not the case for the booster.
> Secondly, people need boosters because immunity wanes to both the vaccine and natural infections. In about a year, you will get just as sick again if you get a natural infection
Immunity wane but we have no data which would allow you to affirm that. We know that reinfections can reoccur quickly with milder symptoms. We don’t know how long this ability of your immune system to fight more efficiently last.
There are very little data suggesting that a booster for omicron is actually useful. There is a reason European countries don’t recommend them to healthy adults.
Why not? Your making an assumption based on a single variable: time. There are plenty of other variables that may be even more significant.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-did-we-develop...
https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/were-the-covid-19-vaccines...
For me personally, the flu vaccine usually means a few days of feeling lousy in return for maybe not getting the flu that I don't know if I've ever had to compare (flu testing has never been something I could access). Otoh, a couple incidents of maybe flu and smaller reactions to the flu shot over many administrations make me intend to get it every year.
Testing positive for COVID this summer was icky and disruptive, I'm going to get the new booster and hope it helps, cause I don't want that again.
"I wanted to travel and go on my trip".
SMH.
They forced our parents to get these legacy vaccines for a variant that hasn't been seen in a year, and held Juicy cruises over their heads.
Next, there will be a vaccine requirement to play Bingo!
Could you share these facts about the ba.1 and ba.5 updated boosters?
Given that, reducing the severity of the illness is arguably counterproductive, as it reduces the odds that the person will go out and about as opposed to staying at home away from others.
Sounds like misanthropy to me.
[1]:https://www.gbe-bund.de/gbe/abrechnung.prc_abr_test_logon?p_... (vaccination rates among child school starters)
What I should have said was "nobody should take the pre-bivalent boosters with any expectation of seeing a reduction in infection chances, or severity of disease, based on our current understanding of omicron, while bivalent boosters seem promising, even though we have extremely limited data and won't know for sure until after the winter cycle."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_in_Virology