I'd wait for the Moderna triple-variant booster myself.
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I'd wait for the Moderna triple-variant booster myself.
That explains the 65+ and not the general population. The fact is if you're vaccinated and under 50 COVID-19 is far from a death sentence, regardless of the variant.
User name change is because of social media. Have had issues with harassment.
Ugh.
The Spanish Flu rebuttal into the COVID argument now has seen better days and can be put to bed..
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And the way things are going, the numbers projected for January don't look good, either..
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The Spanish Flu rebuttal into the COVID argument now has seen better days and can be put to bed..
COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.
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And the way things are going, the numbers projected for January don't look good, either..
BL.
Another step forward:
Pfizer possibly will have U.S. approval for the vaccine from ages 5 to 11 by late October. A third of the dose of what is administered to teens/adults, were used in the trials for children. More specifically, 2,268 students consisting of kindergartners and elementary age students were trialed. Interestingly enough, the trial students also had lower symptoms with little to no effects.
amp.theguardian.com
Pfizer possibly will have U.S. approval for the vaccine from ages 5 to 11 by late October. A third of the dose of what is administered to teens/adults, were used in the trials for children. More specifically, 2,268 students consisting of kindergartners and elementary age students were trialed. Interestingly enough, the trial students also had lower symptoms with little to no effects.
US children aged 5 to 11 on track to receive Pfizer vaccine by Halloween
Company chairman announces first results from ‘pivotal trial’ showing effectiveness against Covid at reduced dose
Oh, that's good news!Another step forward:
Pfizer possibly will have U.S. approval for the vaccine from ages 5 to 11 by late October. A third of the dose of what is administered to teens/adults, were used in the trials for children. More specifically, 2,268 students consisting of kindergartners and elementary age students were trialed. Interestingly enough, the trial students also had lower symptoms with little to no effects.
US children aged 5 to 11 on track to receive Pfizer vaccine by Halloween
Company chairman announces first results from ‘pivotal trial’ showing effectiveness against Covid at reduced dose
It is good news so long as the vaccine presents insignificant risk to children. I am vaccinated, and I understand that no medication is 100% risk free. But, I would not support a program to vaccinated young kids just to contain community spread to adults that refuse to get vaccinated. The risk of death to children from COVID is incredibly small, so the vaccine better be essentially risk (probability x consequence) free of side-effects for kids or it’s a no go in my book. We don’t put kids at risk to protect adults, especially those refusing to get vaccinated.
Let’s hope the vaccine is very safe and effective for kids. I can’t imagine health officials approving something that isn’t, but the bar is high as far as I am concerned.
My daughter is afraid of needles.
My daughter is completely afraid of needles.
My daughter is absolutely, unequivocally completely deathly afraid and terrified of needles.
She is looking forward to the approval of COVID vaccines for kids 5-11 in mid-late October.
Did I mention she's deathly afraid of needles?
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My daughter is completely afraid of needles.
My daughter is absolutely, unequivocally completely deathly afraid and terrified of needles.
She is looking forward to the approval of COVID vaccines for kids 5-11 in mid-late October.
Did I mention she's deathly afraid of needles?
BL.
Even to this day I look away whenever they put a needle in me. But it works. A couple weeks ago I got my flu shot, and I didn't even feel the needle go in.
Now bloodwork is another story. I can always feel the needle pressing against the side of my vein and it's very uncomfortable.
That's where it's coming from. All of her shots were from when they gave vaccines at the same injection spot, or a blood draw. This one I barely felt, so she might be okay there as long as she doesn't tense up.
BL.
My 62 year old brother is also afraid of needles. Growing up, we had an old school family doctor (house calls and everything), but he used to literally throw the needle into your arm. It bugs my brother to this day.
I offered this advise and it seems to help him. When getting a shot or giving blood, press your thumb nail into the tip of your pointer finger. You can do this in such a way that no one can see you, thus avoiding possible embarrassment. This gives you control of the sensation and anticipation of pain. Basically, replacing a feeling you can’t control with a feeling you do control. It helps my brother.
It's interesting that now they're saying you can get boosters 6 months after the second dose instead of 8 months.
I heard 6 to 8 months. I got the Moderna vaccine. Six months from my second dose is the end of September. Moderna will not have approval for a booster by then. So, I wonder if there will be a different regimen after 8 months.
I heard 6 months as well. If it is indeed that, that will be October for us, so that puts us in line with the kids being able to get vaccinated should approvals for 5-11 go through. If they don't, we're then stuck until January for one and 2.5 more years for another.
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I will just wait until whenever Moderna gets the official approval and will have that as my booster shot, even if it is beyond six months from the time of my second Moderna jab in March, which it will be, since we're now nearly at the end of September. I am leery of the idea of receiving a booster shot of Pfizer or anything else since I started with Moderna.
I don't even know when will people (like me) inoculated with the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine will be eligible for a booster shot. I think Moderna is working on a booster, but who knows. 🤷♂️
Moderna is in clinical trials and I think that they've done at least one report on them. They have other vaccines:
Beta: clinical trial
Delta: clinical trial
Beta + Delta + Legacy: preclinical
This was in a report from August I think.
Went on a vacation for 8 days and it was nice and relaxing. First trip since last Fall when COVID numbers were at their low in our state. We spent half in MA (rural) and half in VT (rural). VT is the best state for fully vaccinated right now. MA is also near the top. People up in Vermont were going about and doing their thing and living their lives. Many with masks, many without. Though you carried them with you depending on the requirements. It's a bit of normal post-Delta for me. The active cases in my state have dropped from 4,000 to 3,500 recently and that's nice to see. I saw something that said that new cases have peaked - I really hope so.
Cases seem to be trending downwards nationwide.
Nationally, over 77% of adults have had at least one shot of the vaccine.
Moderna was rumored to be working on some form of actual ‘medicine’, as in -tablet form- in addition. I’d wager at this point, all these pharmaceuticals are experimenting with alternatives to combat the constant cycle of mutations.
FYI, this email from Dartmouth-Hitchcock hospital provides a good summary of the booster guidelines for anyone who may be looking for clarification:
| CDC recommendation of Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot |
| On September 24, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that certain individuals should or may get a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot. The booster shot needs to be given at least 6 months after completion of the primary vaccine series and can only be given to patients who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The CDC recommends booster shots for these individuals:
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Looking good, but for those of us living in the Northeast U.S., we probably won't know how large of a Delta spike we'll have for at least another month.
Deaths are still at a more than 700,000/year-pace, though.
Early results on masking in schools coming in.. a study just released by the CDC finds schools without mask-mandates had 3.5-times the chance of a COVID outbreak than those with mandates.
This data was during the Delta outbreak, so it bodes well for masks in general working well against Delta too.
This data was during the Delta outbreak, so it bodes well for masks in general working well against Delta too.
Personally, I think all of this guidance is confusing and a waste of time. We already went through this time phased risk based approach when we issued the first round of shots. How about just saying boosters for those that got their last shot 6 months ago. That will pretty much grab everyone in this group. I am so tired of all of these muddled messages. Just keep it simple. At this point there should be plenty of vaccine.