COVID Booster Shots

[Seriously Serious]

5 reasons why FDA advisers did not recommend Covid-19 booster shots for everyone | CNN

FDA vaccine advisers declined Friday to recommend the agency approve booster doses for everyone who got vaccinated six months ago or longer.

www.cnn.com

Retail folks. What are you guys doing about booster shots? Before the latest announcement, I kept hearing that CVS & state department are giving them to everyone regardless of if they are immunocompromised (allegedly).

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[WorthlessOxygen]

Retail but not CVS. Only giving them to those who are immunocompromised but we don't require any sort of proof.

 

[alpha12]

I agree with the FDA. Just focus on the unvaccinated.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Even in a retail setting, been screening booster inquiries @ drop off having Lexicomp criteria highlighted. Denied many "old entitled folks" without any objective criteria; done a few with primary immunocompromised diseases and Chemo patients

Myself and I am sure many others on this site are getting tired and fed up with all this garbage reporting by the media (creating artificial wants as opposed to identifying those who NEED a booster)

Other rant...people purposely now wanting to mix COVID-19 vaccines like they "got to catch'em all" PoKeMoN in real life...><....no data supporting, TS

 

[Sine Cura]

3rd doses

The "additional" dose is for those "moderately to severely immunocompromised people" due to having a decreased immune response from 2x compared to the gen pop. Technically just having HIV dx (for example) isn't sufficient to meet that criterion.

The "booster" dose is to shore up waning immunity for those who received 2x.

Good thing about working in an anti-vax area is you will rarely come across the additional-dose seekers.

As for heterologous vaccines, that is going to be a thing eventually (perhaps Q2 2022 or later) as the recombinant protein vaccines get auth as non-mRNA boosters become avail (Q1 2022?). In reality not a few people have gotten "heterologous" immunization (either by vaccine or by infection)

(Edited for lolspelling, loltime)

 

[Seriously Serious]

3rd doses

The "additional" dose is for those "moderately to severely immunocompromised people" due to having a decreased immune response from 2x compared to the gen op. Technically just having HIV dx (for example) isn't sufficient to meet that criterion.

The "booster" dose is to shore up waning immunity for those who received 2x.

Good thing about working in an anti-vax area is you will rarely come across the additional-dose seekers.

As for heterologous vaccines, that is going to be a thing eventually (perhaps Q2 2023 or later) as the recombinant protein vaccines get auth as boosters become avail (Q2 2023?). In reality not a few people have gotten heterogeneous immunization (either by vaccine or by infection)

Regardless of the technical terminology, "3rd dose" or "booster", [as you know] is the same product being given. I've realized that when referring to it as a "booster", people think it is a new and improved vaccine.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Regardless of the technical terminology, "3rd dose" or "booster", [as you know] is the same product being given. I've realized that when referring to it as a "booster", people think it is a new and improved vaccine.

I know like seriously, it's F'd up what the media has done to confuse people

 

[Chrish]

The "additional" dose is for those "moderately to severely immunocompromised people" due to having a decreased immune response from 2x compared to the gen op. Technically just having HIV dx (for example) isn't sufficient to meet that criterion.

The "booster" dose is to shore up waning immunity for those who received 2x.

Good thing about working in an anti-vax area is you will rarely come across the additional-dose seekers.

As for heterologous vaccines, that is going to be a thing eventually (perhaps Q2 2023 or later) as the recombinant protein vaccines get auth as boosters become avail (Q2 2023?). In reality not a few people have gotten heterogeneous immunization (either by vaccine or by infection)

California is supposed to be an educated state? Do you really have that many anti-vaxers?

 

[Sine Cura]

California is supposed to be an educated state? Do you really have that many anti-vaxers?

Trump received over 6 million votes in 2020

2020 United States presidential election in California - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also anti-vaxxery inversely correlates with "increasing" socioeconomic status., e.g., techs who either won't get any vaccine or are close in their personal lives who won't get a COVID vaccine, are careless with their lives outside of work etc. The more northern and eastern you go, the more nuttery you come across.

No coincidence that delta hit most of the techs, and somehow you are supposed to cover a pharmacy 12 hours a day with 1 tech, 1 cashier and no OT. Sure that's fine on a Sunday when you sell 180, fill 180 (18 shots part of that total) but not on weekdays

 

[Chrish]

COVID-19 vaccination in the United States - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

States with % of immunized population. Southern states including where I am at are the lowest. Blue states are doing pretty good.

 

[confettiflyer]

California is supposed to be an educated state? Do you really have that many anti-vaxers?

Oh hell yes there’s a ton here, and they run the gambit…you get highly educated folks SOOOO educated they “know better” all the way to the townie “don’t tread on me” trumpers in the far interior.