Are you getting the booster if you’re not vulnerable?

[Whathefisgoingon]

Just curious. Are you?

I am able to receive a booster. I am early 30’s with no health conditions that I am aware of.

I feel like the push for the boosters for healthy folk isn’t really there; in fact I am seeing more and more professionals say it’s unnecessary at this stage. Of course, safety is my main concern and much like before the first two, I am feeling somewhat anxious about it.

There are huge ethical issue here. Rich countries making their already very safe populations even safer while poor countries get nothing.

I am absolutely not against booster/third primary dose programmes for people particularly vulnerable to Covid but the vaccine inequity across the globe makes me really sick.

I'm going to try and get it, it'll be 5months next week, hoping I can book then on grounds of being fat.

Booked mine for a few weeks' time. 50s and asthmatic.

I am absolutely not against booster/third primary dose programmes for people particularly vulnerable to Covid but the vaccine inequity across the globe makes me really sick.

Agreed

@User135644

I'm happy to get one every winter - like the flu vaccine - but every 6 months is not sustainable.

I very much doubt it will be every six months, as respiratory diseases aren't really an issue in summer - it will be a yearly vaccination like the flu jab. Sensible to have imo, but not mandatory unless you work with vulnerable people.

I'm unsure - the first vaccine triggered an interesting set of autoimmune responses, and I'm still having to take large doses of daily folic acid as my folates are still suppressed. I've been doing the ONS covid study for some months now and was asked to do the blood antigen test in our visit this month so I'm waiting for the results from that before I decide. I was off work sick for a month after my first vaccine and am very nervous about that happening again.

Regarding vaccine inequity - to be honest the ‘poorer’ nations would rather our overweight unhealthy population get the vaccine as they seem to be coping well! India emulating a western diet seems to be suffering but also cos of the south Asian predisposition to an adverse reaction to a covid infection. I have a friend in Kenya who said let the US/Europe and UK have the vaccine they’re suffering more than us! Plus we’re only sending them the ‘second class’ AZ vaccine (or equivalent via China and Russia). No need to turn into white saviours on this one!

Regarding vaccine inequity - to be honest the ‘poorer’ nations would rather our overweight unhealthy population get the vaccine as they seem to be coping well!

Nonsense. Absolute entitled nonsense.

You ask any healthcare professional in those countries if our health, younger members of the population should be getting third doses or they should be getting their first, you’ll get one answer.

Yea I’m 34 and healthy, had it in September (I’m a midwife)

For those worried about short term side effects; thought I’d update.

After my 2nd I felt quite achy and as if I was coming down with the flu, this time after the booster I felt sleepy the evening of and then back to normal today!

I'm not vulnerable but I am able to have it as I work in social care. However, my left arm and arm pit have not been right since the jabs so I won't be getting the booster at this stage. I have no idea what has happened to my arm and arm pit but sometimes they hurt so much and I can no longer lie on that side in bed as it is too uncomfortable. Really worries me that no one can tell me what's wrong either.

I don't know. I have a needle phobia and it was traumatic enough getting the first vaccinations. I will consider whether or not I can do it and whether there's a suitable place for me to have it and then make the decision. I will not be having 6 monthly or annual boosters though, I can't do it.

yep, and have had it.

@SkinPaperThin - a friend of mine had problems with her shoulder after her flu vaccination last year. She was told in certain rare cases, a muscle could be "nicked" (I think it was a different expression) which can take a long time to recover. She even had done physio to help.

So it might be nothing to do with Covid per se and more to do with the needle that carried the vaccine.

It's rare and therefore unlikely to happen again.

Don't know I'm only just counted as eligible and I think that we would be much better limiting the boosters to the truly vulnerable, ensuring the rest of the world gets vaccinated.

@prettybird I do have that shoulder problem from the second vaccine specifically (bloke who was vaccinating me practically stabbed me) but after both vaccines my glands were massively swollen and painful for more than a month, it was very uncomfortable and I also had body aches and fatigue for a long time afterwards. Sometimes I wake up and feel like I've just been vaccinated again, with whole body aches and painful glands on a level that I've never experienced prior to vaccination. I have the flu jab yearly and never have lasting issues so I'm certain it was from the Pfizer vaccines. I have no idea what it's done to me and my immune system, it's very worrying.

I am not vulnerable, but other people are. I will be getting every booster going.

I understand it is only available by invitation, to people who are for some reason at greater risk.

So if and when I am offered, I will take it.

Yes when it's offered to me. I want to go abroad and I suspect it will be three jabs to not have to quarantine. Roll on being offered it.

Had mine. I’m not vulnerably but am 50.

@Zandathepanda

Dh, Dd and I had it yesterday at 182 days after the 2nd. Slightly sore arm still. Headache came on like the other times but just took paracetamol. Now gone. My armpit on the side of the jab is ever so slightly sore which I am very happy about as I hope my body is reacting and making lots of antibodies. Very happy to have had it. We have done everything we can to protect ourselves.

DS15 had arm pit pain too after the Pfizer last week

Was told the booster is only a half dose so not expecting any issues. My first two were AZ and the booster is Moderna.
Happy to have it as apparently AZ protection drops quite a bit after a few months.

I have come across a small number of people who have come up with numerous different reasons why they have decided not to be vaccinated, including a refusal to believe that there is a virus; a refusal to believe it is very infectious; a refusal to believe it causes severe illness; a refusal to believe case and death figures; faith in their own natural immunity; distrust of vaccines; distrust of manufacturers; distrust of the government, and distrust of health professionals. They try to encourage others not to take vaccines.

Their rationale changes from time to time, but their anti-vaccine stance does not (they claim that they are not antivaxxers; and consider each vaccine on its merits. By chance they consistently decide against whatever is available).

They don't accept any responsibility for people whom they manage to persuade, suffering needlessly.

Yes have just had mine today. They will roll it out for under 50s soon I think.

I'm 48 and double jabbed, yet just three months after my last AZ jab, I caught Covid from my child.

We will never know how my body would have handled Covid with or without vaccinations. Would my body's response have been the same? I don't want to find out, but there's a big question mark over that and why the hell after just weeks of vaccination I caught Covid. Does six months' immunity really exist?

I'll be getting a booster if offered as I've teens, work in education and had a nasty bout of Covid.