Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
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Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#2Good cause if they are anything like the 2nd dose shots they should find a way to compensate people for missing 2 days of work with headaches, fever, chills, body ache, etc.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#3Good cause if they are anything like the 2nd dose shots they should find a way to compensate people for missing 2 days of work with headaches, fever, chills, body ache, etc.
The compensation is not missing weeks or years due to Covid... or in rarer cases, you know, dying.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#4Good cause if they are anything like the 2nd dose shots they should find a way to compensate people for missing 2 days of work with headaches, fever, chills, body ache, etc.
How about you introduce paid medical leave, like the rest of the developed world.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#5I think this is the correct analysis - the focus should be to provide vaccines to the rest of the worlds nations that have not yet gotten widespread access to vaccines. This is likely to cause the greatest benefit in the form of fewer global deaths, and reduced global spread of the disease.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#6This title is misleading. It isn't about them not being needed.
Instead, as per article, it is about how these shots will save more lives, if administered to people without access to first shots!
If vaccine doses were unlimited worldwide, 3rd shots (according to article logic) would by recommended for all.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#7I think this is the correct analysis - the focus should be to provide vaccines to the rest of the worlds nations that have not yet gotten widespread access to vaccines. This is likely to cause the greatest benefit in the form of fewer global deaths, and reduced global spread of the disease.
And, for a selfish western pitch: reduce the chance that bad new variants develop.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#8I can already see this backfiring later when that assessment changes due to more information or increased supply, like it did with the mask messaging.
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#9The paper is thoughtful. The reporting on it is reckless. An accurate headline would be: "Vaccine experts: Widespread booster mandates aren't needed now," or perhaps "recommendations"
There's a line between:
* Mandatory.
* Recommended.
* Allowed.
* Banned.
If I am flying to do humanitarian work in Vietnam tomorrow, I absolutely need a booster shoot. Right now, the only way to get that is to go to a state which doesn't require ids for vaccines, and get a shot.
The article discusses that boosters are clearly still appropriate in some circumstances:
"Boosting could be appropriate for some individuals in whom the primary vaccination, defined here as the original one-dose or two-dose series of each vaccine, might not have induced adequate protection—eg, recipients of vaccines with low efficacy or those who are immunocompromised2 (although people who did not respond robustly to the primary vaccination might also not respond well to a booster)."
Re: Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
#10This title is misleading. It isn't about them not being needed. Instead, as per article, it is about how these shots will save more lives, if administered to people without access to first shots! If vaccine doses were unlimited worldwide, 3rd shots (according to article logic) would by recommended for all.
Right. The problem is that those guys are pretty hard to convince with facts. I took my 3rd shot because otherwise this would go in the garbage. In that sense it does increase my protection and reduces the overall burden on the system so it does help.