Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered? (1 Viewer)

Will you get the covid vaccine when offered?

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Optimus Prime said:
got both the covid booster and flu shot yesterday

other than my arm being a bit sore no effects

weird that the only shot I had any reaction to was the first one

zero problems with any of the boosters after that
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I got the chills big bad last night. Bad enough if it carried over to today I think that would have been my last shot. Passed quick though, I seem to be on an "every other shot" trend with side effects.
 
Doesn’t seem anyone knows why some people react to the shot and some do

And those that do react may not on the next shot and vice versa
 
Very few people have received the updated Covid boosters that were released nationwide in September, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Little more than seven per cent of adults and two per cent of children had gotten the shot by 14 October, the numbers show.

The new findings were recently presented to scientific advisers at the CDC, per The New York Times.

Americans, in large part, also ignored the vaccine that rolled out last fall: Only a quarter of US adults got the bivalent booster that was made available in September 2022, according to data from KFF, a health policy research group.

According to a poll from KFF released in September, about half of adults in the country said they would likely get the new vaccine: 23 per cent said they would definitely get the shot, while 23 per cent said they probably would. About 33 per cent of participants said they definitely wouldn’t, and 19 per cent said they probably wouldn’t.

The CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have both said the shot is safe for everyone six months and up.

Deaths from Covid have risen in October, per the latest data from the CDC. From 15 October to 21 October, deaths rose 12.5 per cent. During that same time frame, there were 16,186 hospitalisations from the virus, and the national test positivity rate was 8.7 per cent. Less than 1.5 per cent of emergency department visits during that time were due to Covid.

The CDC also recently warned of the potential of another “tripledemic”, in which cases of influenza, Covid, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), all peak at the same time. Experts said the agency’s projections for the winter months were cause for concern. “When a disease is endemic, it means that the levels are mostly predictable. So it’s nice to see the CDC putting out their predictions this fall,” Dr Ellie Murray, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, tweeted in response to the outlook. “[On the other hand], it’s not so nice that their best case scenario is almost twice as many respiratory hospitalizations as pre-COVID.”

During last year’s tripledemic, the peaks of the three viruses overlapped, causing chaos in emergency care centres. RSV, in particular, took a massive toll on children—at one point, every single paediatric hospital bed in the state of Rhode Island was full, according to reporting from NBC News.

Experts have said it will be vital for Americans to stay up-to-date on all vaccines this fall and winter. This is especially true for those who are at high risk of severe disease from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes illness with Covid-19, such as pregnant people, the elderly, and the immunocompromised............

www.independent.co.uk

US Covid booster rates are far too low and could contribute to a ‘tripledemic’

Experts have warned of a possible ‘tripledemic’ this cold and flu season
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
 
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Can't speak for others ... but our entire household had COVID a few weeks ago. Were it not for that, we'd have our 2023 COVID boosters by now. Now we're all having to wait until January 2024.
 
Nisey55 said:
Got our booster last month, easy peazy. Now the shingles vac. I had 2 months ago, whoa! That crap hurt for weeks. I felt funky for a day. Too bad you need the 2nd one.
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The COVID shots weren't much of a bid deal. Jab #2 of Moderna felt like a low-grade hangover.

The day after my second shingles shot, I felt AWFUL. But still probably better than getting shingles.
 
GW93 said:
The COVID shots weren't much of a bid deal. Jab #2 of Moderna felt like a low-grade hangover.

The day after my second shingles shot, I felt AWFUL. But still probably better than getting shingles.
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My Mom had shingles at least 3 times. They were not visible on the skin. It was inside near her spine. Few times have I seen someone suffer that much.
 
Nisey55 said:
My Mom had shingles at least 3 times. They were not visible on the skin. It was inside near her spine. Few times have I seen someone suffer that much.
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My MIL repeatedly drilled into our heads (wife and I) the importance of getting the shingles vax. That's a proven vax well worth getting. Sorry to hear your Mom went through that.
 
An old wives tale i've heard about Shingles is that if they go all the way around and touch, you will die. I don't know enough about Shingles to know if thats even remotely true (although i do know Shingles can kill you). But a lot of poeple don't know you can't get Shingles unless you have had Chicken Pox. Since there is now a vaccine for Chicken Pox and children don't get it like they used to, I am assuming the cases of Shingles in the future will drop drastically.
 

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