40-somethings fucked again (no booster)

[HJ40]

Too old for Pfizer, too young for a booster. Yet again feeling like we're bottom of the pile.

And many of us likely to have kids at the big school Covid-19 party. Super.

Sorry - what do you mean?

Since most younger adults will not receive their second Covid vaccine jab until late summer they may not need a booster this winter.

Found it now.

Not bottom of the pile. Older people will have been vaccinated longer ago so need boosters.

I mean you can have my medical conditions if you want? I'm 36 and CEV so I'll get a booster but I would rather swap that for not being immunocompromised with no idea if I have any protection from covid

Surely you can get Moderna, Pfizer or AZ? You have more scope than younger people. The booster is for over 50s and vulnerable younger people. I think that seems fine.

Old people vote Tory. Young people won’t die (hopefully) your the stuck middle. Same as with wages the squeezed middle.

It doesn’t say you won’t get one, it says as younger age groups had the second vaccine later, there age group will be considered for a vaccine at a later time. Not exactly fucked over is it, it’s just a fair order of doing things, there has to be a line somewhere.

By ‘booster’ do you mean no second dose or no third dose?

Isn’t it to do with the time you had your second dose?

If a CEV 30 something had their second dose in February and I have mine in July, isn’t it logical they’ll need a booster before me as their initial vaccination was completed before mine?

I’m not seeing the issue tbh?

I would am mid 40s. I am fine with that. Of all the fucked over people, I don't feel the most fucked over.

Hang on, we're not saying we shouldn't be behind older age groups or CEV in the queue. Of course we should be. But we'd like to be IN the queue behind you. Risk from covid increases for over 40s, certainly from 45s which other countries applied as a threshold in vaccination programmes. Many of us in our late 40s so no quite old enough for a booster, and with chronic conditions that aren't quite bad enough for group 6, and who have had our 2nd vax by June (and we're being told immunity wanes after 6 months...), do feel like sitting ducks because there are quite alarming stats re our risk of a serious case, or of long covid, and because we have kids in the school germ pit with no real mitigations in place from Sept. A kick in the teeth after being deemed at risk enough of Covid, to be worth giving us the AZ vaccine - it was only under 40s who get to choose not to. I am grateful to the NHS for my jabs and grateful not to be CEV, of course I am, but I'd still like to be considered for a booster please.

I mean the 40s were well into being vaccinated with AZ when it was said it wouldn't be used on under 30s and then they were on about 42 year olds when they said not under 40s.

So we were too old to be ask highest risk of clots but too young to be at highest risk of Covid and had to accept the clot risk or choose not to be vaccinated.

And now we're too young to receive the booster. I'm trying to be positive and look on the bright sides, but I'm fed up of constantly being on the cusp and falling on the 'worse' side of things.

Have you been vaccinated?

Too young to receive it yet you mean... not never.

If you aren’t offered one it’s because you don’t need one. Would you prefer to be immunocompromised?

I'm 47 and had my 2nd dose this week.
I do hope it keeps me ticking over until next Jan / Feb. I can't afford to get ill. I'd pay for a booster if necessary.

@Ceara

Hang on, we're not saying we shouldn't be behind older age groups or CEV in the queue. Of course we should be. But we'd like to be IN the queue behind you. Risk from covid increases for over 40s, certainly from 45s which other countries applied as a threshold in vaccination programmes. Many of us in our late 40s so no quite old enough for a booster, and with chronic conditions that aren't quite bad enough for group 6, and who have had our 2nd vax by June (and we're being told immunity wanes after 6 months...), do feel like sitting ducks because there are quite alarming stats re our risk of a serious case, or of long covid, and because we have kids in the school germ pit with no real mitigations in place from Sept. A kick in the teeth after being deemed at risk enough of Covid, to be worth giving us the AZ vaccine - it was only under 40s who get to choose not to. I am grateful to the NHS for my jabs and grateful not to be CEV, of course I am, but I'd still like to be considered for a booster please.

I do agree. At 49, working in a school, with DC at another school and with chronic conditions that didn't quite make the CEV/ECV list, I really, really hope to be on the booster list for what could be a rather worrying Winter for Covid.

I'm trying to be positive and look on the bright sides, but I'm fed up of constantly being on the cusp and falling on the 'worse' side of things

Gosh. If this is you trying to be positive, I’d be concerned what you’d be like if you let yourself go.

Is there a back story? Do you suffer from anxiety or hyochondria?

Immunity doesn’t wane after six months. It’s that the current study only has results at the six month point showing excellent protection. More data is coming.
Andrew Pollard from Oxford thinks protection will last far longer than that

So asthma sufferers on the flu list will get it then…interesting for those of us who weren’t in group 6 the first time round!

@Raaaaaaarr

Totally get it. Waited forever to get vaccine and offered one that people only a few years younger would not be offered. Now don't get a booster bit in age bracket where need to work, have kids at school etc so more exposed than say an older person. Feel like we are the shitty middle ground on everything but we contribute so much to society at this age. This will sound really bitter but we are yet again losing out to baby boomers (there, I said it!)

Wow. How long ago was your second vaccine and why do you feel you need a booster? And I assume you were not ill from your vaccines so got a suitable one?

@TheKeatingFive

If you aren’t offered one it’s because you don’t need one. Would you prefer to be immunocompromised?

Of course not. But it's not that we don't need one at all, it's just that a cut off point has been decided upon and yet again we're on the wrong side of it.