First dose should have been August , now recommending 2nd dose ?
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The CDC also said its recommendations allow for flexibility for those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised to consider additional doses (three or more). in consultation with their health care provider.

I’ve kept up with CDC schedule from the start. I had my 24-25 trivalent shot Oct 14, ten days ago.So they are saying I’ll need another within 6 months? I kinda figured that. Only more like 4-5 months. Why the recommendation now?

They are probably looking at "real time" data from any in the impacted groups who routinely have blood tests that can show their immune response, and can pick up how the immune response declines over time (and the rate of that).

The current variant shots were approved near the end of August - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-fall-2024-fda/

I expect there may have been some who immediately got one when they hit the doctors or pharmacies the last week of August or some time early in September, so they might have a couple months worth of data on those people and determined that the drop off is following a similar rate of waning that would warrant a 2nd shot in the 6 month period (which would be around February for those early birds).

used to be the clock change months but you could still use those months that were burned into our memories, but replace with "vax".

Recovery is taking much longer than I expected.

My daughter got COVID (first time) at the convention in Chicago, and she is in a vulnerable category, so trying to time the next vaccine, and her doctor advised early November, two or three weeks before Thanksgiving.

Were you able to take Paxlovid? My daughter was able to get it a couple hours after she tested positive (she started feeling sick the day before, but didn't test positive), and within 24 hours she felt much better.

I hope you feel better soon!

Then again, I was never that seriously ill. Just a slight fever, runny nose, and sneezing. Cough has been mild. Right now, just feeling slightly "crummy." I should be 100% within a couple more days.

kind of booster shot, and I was ready to get the new one when I was about to go out of town. But the rural area where I live didn't have the new shot in yet...it was supposed to be in the day after I flew out of town. So I figured I'd get it when I got back Sept. 16 +/-. I'm sure I got infected with COVID on the plane.

Now I have to wait 3 months AFTER I had COVID to get the new vaccine, that is more targeted to the current strain, which is the strain I got!

Really pisses me off! I'm 75.

I thought I was gonna die. Continuous head ache and body aches like I was getting beat up with a rubber hose. Taste, gone. Smell, gone..no appetite and had to force fluids. Temp between 98.6 and 100.5. Back and forth, up and down for about two weeks.NO RESPIRATORY ISSUES.
I'm ok now but taste is still off and Im tired all the time..
I sleep 9-10 hours a nite, with a afternoon nap thrown in for good measure.. I get about two things done a day and then have to sit down. This sucks....
I would not wish this on anyone.
GET THE VACCINE...
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I’ve had eight jabs and a bout of covid in the middle of them, so pretty much every six months

I will get the additional booster when it is time

Mom can get it under Medicare, but I still have almost 1 1/2 months to go before eligible.

to see if they still have remaining vaccine stocks from their original funding and are offering limited no-cost vaccines. Since so many have stopped even getting this anymore, chances are they may still have some that were already funded.

Wondering if they've found that out in any way.

Got one round in September. So I guess February for the second.

so they're not there yet. But I expect if people were able to utilize as many additional precautions as possible (the usual masking and handwashing, etc.), they could potentially get away with it once a year unless they are in an immuno-compromised and/or age-specific group.

Winter holiday wave starts in November and go through February. Summer wave starts in June.

I base it a bit on when I'm going to fly.

Otherwise masking. One of the few lately.

I have heard them talk about "the summer wave" and then the "fall wave". I think they pick that up as a story whenever CDC must be sending something out about it. When this latest version got approved in August, the "wave" mention happened as well.

I think too, they did it more this year due to the concern that fewer and fewer people were getting COVID vaccinations, let alone any OTHER type like flu (and notably those basic ones needed by children).

because those folks have compromised immune systems, vaccinations are less/not effective.

it's plenty strong enough to keep the rest of us from contracting severe cases.

As a result of covid - combined possibly with vaccine - I ended up with a condition that can be seen as immune related.

So I'm in a grey area. I feel like we're on our own with this one.

My issue (my own diagnosis) was that my antibody level got too high between covid and a recent vaccine shot.

Thus, it kicked off a condition. Which by the way is resolved.

Covid/Flu duo vaccine. Was offered the flu shot yesterday while at the doc's office, so I gave up and went ahead on getting it. I'm now behind on Covid by at least one, if not two shots. Anybody know if these vaccines are such that if I get the latest shot, it includes whatever changes were made in the one or two I missed? I've gotten Moderna from the first, and have stayed with it throughout.

both parts are up to date for current prevalent strains.

Got mine 1 1/2 months ago should get a booster come spring time.

As you age your immune system becomes less and less robust.

have to force myself because I get sick 3-4 days with every shot.

I have only had covid once few years ago when family who said they had a cold were near me.

Kamala has to win, idiot Trump is going to put the anitvaxers in charge of health this time.