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Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by 314 »

purpleblue wrote: post #107
xracy wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to point out (to the original commenter's credit) that your post has been flagged, that this comment of yours is a little haughty, and that based on the other comments the title for this is misleading and could more accurately read "Denmark no longer offering Covid [boosters] to adults under 50" Which suggests to me that that you knew what you were doing when you posted it with that title. It seems somewhat…

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Why are people aged under 50 not to be re-vaccinated? The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by rajup »

nope96 wrote: post #76
version_five wrote: post #73

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It's really funny to see this kind of covid hero discussion where one accuses people who aren't ok with vaccine policies of being "conspiracy theorists" (ignoring the difference between disagreement with compelled vaccination and believing in some imagined conspiracy) and then getting a reply theorizing that there is a conspiracy amongst "adversaries of the west" that's driving disagreement with authoritarian vaccine…

"authoritarian vaccine policy", what are you talking about?

Need (or at least used to need) a vaccine to work, eat and travel in the USA sounds authoritarian to me, I believe that's what the GP was taking about.

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by eesmith »

emptysongglass wrote: post #122
goto11 wrote: post #121

The headline is somewhat misleading. At least many in this thread have misunderstood the issue. Danish health authorities still recommend everyone to get vaccinated against COVID, including healthy people under 50. Everyone should get two jabs, everyone over 18 should get a third "booster" shot. The vaccine talked about in the OP are the fourth vaccine jab, i.e. second booster shot, which is only offered to above-50…

Still, why stop offering boosters for your population? Most Danes I knew were dutifully getting their boosters when called in by the health authorities. This sets a bad precedent.

Addressed in the Q&A section of the page:

> Why are people aged under 50 not to be re-vaccinated?

> The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.

> People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.

> It is important that the population also remembers the guidance on how to prevent the spread of infection, including staying at home in case of illness, frequent aeration or ventilation, social distancing, good coughing etiquette, hand hygiene and cleaning.

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by msylvest »

emptysongglass wrote: post #122
goto11 wrote: post #121

The headline is somewhat misleading. At least many in this thread have misunderstood the issue. Danish health authorities still recommend everyone to get vaccinated against COVID, including healthy people under 50. Everyone should get two jabs, everyone over 18 should get a third "booster" shot. The vaccine talked about in the OP are the fourth vaccine jab, i.e. second booster shot, which is only offered to above-50…

Still, why stop offering boosters for your population? Most Danes I knew were dutifully getting their boosters when called in by the health authorities. This sets a bad precedent.

Denmark is still offering boosters - in a prioritized manner. First those aged 85+, second 50+, even below that if exposed by diseases. From what is written I would expect (third) general 50- boosters to occur during winter if needed.

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

wvenable wrote: post #51
mywittyname wrote: post #30

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To each their own, but I'll happily pay the $10 or so to reduce the likelihood of getting sick over the next few months. I hate being sick so much. I would be worth it even if it only prevented a mild case of sniffles.

I got COVID just a few months ago and I've had a worse flu but it's definitely comparable. The worst of it was over in a few days but the general feeling of sickness stayed for the next 3 weeks . I'll happily take anything to avoid that again.

I got Omicron twice. The first time was pretty much what you described: a sore throat and minor fever for four days followed by a month of tiredness.

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?

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by toast0 »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #32
dekhn wrote: post #5

There's no value proposition to vaccination at this point.

...not getting as sick? We've had the annual flu vaccine around for decades and not a peep about "value propositions" because it was obvious. Same will go for COVID.

There's different approaches to the flu vaccine. Flu doesn't seem to be quite as widespread most years as covid has been these past two years.

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.

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by cbg0 »

AnonCoward42 wrote: post #53
mrtesthah wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The narrative of anti-vaxxers has flip-flopped so often that it's pretty unclear what they think vaccines are actually doing.

I am from Germany and I am - like 95% or so of my fellow Germans - vaccinated myself, so what are you talking about?

How can you and 95% of your fellow Germans be vaccinated when the vaccination rate is below 80% in Germany? https://www.google.com/search?q=germany+covid+vaccination+ra...

Re: Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

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Post by stingraycharles »

peter422 wrote: post #128
scoofy wrote: post #63

I listen to TWiV, and the prominent virologists there are suggesting that we don't actually know what to do. In some of the latest episodes, they discuss frankly the fact that yearly boosters may or may not actually have any meaningful impact for normal healthy folks. They get into the details of why we know annual influenza boosters are effective, and that we really don't know yet whether COVID boosters will have th…

I really wish all the anti-vaxxer types would just listen to TWiV. The hosts and guests both openly and candidly talk about some of the disagreements they have with the prevailing public health guidelines while at the same time give so much detail and depth into virology and immunology so as to show how full of shit the big anti-vax misinformation peddlers are. So many anti-vaxxers say you can't have any disagreement…

In my experience, it’s usually not about finding out the actual facts / truth for these groups of people, but rather based mostly on emotion. I have an extremely hard time believing that letting them listen to TWiV would have any meaningful impact.
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