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which might be useful for you. Whether to get the 2nd booster depends on you and your situation. The CDC website also has recommendations for specific age groups as noted in the article below. I can't give medical advice, I'm not a medical expert.
According to this report and others, seniors and people with compromised immune systems don't mount as strong a defense against Covid. Leading health professionals have also claimed for months that the shots likely wane in effectiveness in 4-6 months. I hope this is of some help and good luck.
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- CDC, 'Covid 19 Vaccines, Recommendations for Specific Groups,' April 19, 2023.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups.html
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Yale Medicine, April 21, 2023. Should You Get an Additional Covid -19 Bivalent Booster? Ed.
An additional bivalent booster offers extra protection for those at high risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization and death. The number of cases of COVID-19 may be dropping, but the disease is still a concern for those who are 65 and older (more than 53 million people in the United States) and those with weak immune systems (about 7 million people). Those two groups are more likely than others to get severely ill or die from COVID-19—that’s why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are offering a second bivalent booster shot.
This booster is identical to the reformulated, or "bivalent," booster introduced in fall 2022 in that it targets two virus strains: Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. The bivalent boosters are available from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. “I support the booster for those who are eligible and want to get it,” says Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist Scott Roberts, MD.
Studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccines can prevent COVID-related hospitalization and death. What’s more, the vast majority of the more than 1.1 million deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have been in people 50 and older, and the numbers increase with age, according to CDC data. Still, only 42.4% of people 65 and older—and 16.7% of all eligible people in the U.S.—have gotten the first bivalent shot, according to the CDC. “I consider that number to be quite poor,” Dr. Roberts says. ..Below, Dr. Roberts answered common questions about the FDA's decision to offer an additional COVID-19 booster to certain groups.
1. Should you get an additional COVID-19 booster? It depends. The CDC recommends that everyone 6 years of age and older receive an updated (bivalent) mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of whether they previously completed their (monovalent) primary series. But if you’re age 6 & older and have already received an updated mRNA vaccine, you don’t need to take any action unless you are 65 & older or immunocompromised. If you are 65 & older, you are eligible for an additional bivalent booster if you had your primary COVID-19 vaccine & are at least 4 months out from a previous bivalent booster shot. * The CDC website has specific recommendations based on your age & other factors. You are also eligible for an additional booster 2 months out from your last shot if you are moderately or severely immunocompromised, meaning you’re an organ transplant recipient, you receive immunosuppressive medications or treatments [such as chemotherapy] , you’re on certain medications that weaken your immune system over time [such as corticosteroids], or you have a weakened immune system due to a medical condition [such as cancer] ...Read More, https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-you-get-a-covid-19-bivalent-booster
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