If you know a healthy adult under 25 who caught Omicron Covid while 2×jabbed, but not boostered...

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...how has he/she been?

18-year-old DD is double jabbed, but not boostered. Whilst both very pro-vaccination generally, we are wondering how necessary a booster really is in young, healthy adullts. Interested to hear experiences.

My DS is 25. His friends were only eligible for the booster 2 weeks ago, so not many got booster before getting covid. Over Christmas he says he knows at least 20 friends who caught it and all had a cold that went around 3/4 days. He was out at cinema, xmas meal, pubs etc before xmas and managed to avoid catching it. He had his Booster yesterday.

Try this in the National Geographic on the importance of boosters in protecting against Omicron. There are loads of others with varying degrees of rigour/readability. Just google "booster and omicron"

www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/12/how-booster-shots-can-help-protect-you-from-omicron

I agree that this is kind of a silly question. Statistically, young healthy people don't get really ill, maybe even more so with Omicron. So I assume most say it was fine.

But since it's not a 100% guarantee, there's always a risk someone will be the unlucky rare case.

Everyone I know personally who has had it, even before any vaccinantion, has been no more than "nasty" bug ill, including DH who was single jabbed and had cancer at the time.

However, we know that's not the case for everyone.

My brother is 20 and currently has it (he had covid a year ago). He was meant to get boosted before Xmas but didn't book it in time.

He feels pretty ill with it.

I don't know why you wouldn't get boosted tbh.

DS2(24) tested positive on 19th December Double jabbed not boosted and no health conditions.
First symptoms were extreme tiredness and sore throat which got worse then better in 2 days.
Still testing positive at day 9, so did the full 10 days

Not under 25, im 31 2 jabs and positive today, though i think i have been a while. Only symptom is a lump in my throat maybe a mild headache but hard to say as i get headaches regularly. My OH tested positive 2 weeks ago he is 37 and 2x jabbed he actually tested positive the day if his booster 🥴 he just had a cough for a week. For under 25s its likely to b even more mild providing they are otherwise healthy

Ds18 had covid between Christmas and New Year. He's had 2 Pfizer but no booster.

He had no symptoms at all. Said he had a stiff neck but thought he'd slept funny. He only tested because he'd spent Christmas with his dad who then tested positive after feeling unwell - we're not sure if DS gave it to his dad???

I know two, both fit gym instructors. One had a mild headache for a couple of days and was able to get out of isolation after day 6&7 tests. The other was laid low for 8 days with really bad fatigue, sweats and headache. Then took another week to feel fully back to normal again.

Lots of anecdotes on Mumsnet alerted me to the Great South West PCR incorrect results scandal way before it hit the press.

DS1 23 6 days post booster on exposure, mildly unwell for maybe 2 days but tested positive on LFD for the full isolation period.

The ones I know have barely felt it and only found out as they were testing for work. One had slightly blocked nose.

My healthy 17 year old has had it twice once when single jabbed (probably delta) once when double jabbed (probably omicron with it being recent but not sure).

She was quite ill both times, high temp, very short of breath and wheezing. She got pneumonia the first time and the second but it did seem to cause less problems the second time.

I dread to think what it would have been like withoit any jabs at all. Oddly all of my orher children plus me and my husband (who is classed as vulnerable had a fairly mild illness the first time and so far dont seem to have had omicron)

DH and me, overweight in our 50s, double jabbed but no booster. Just a cold for us with a bit of extra fatigue

2 teens, one jabbed, one not (SEN) both positive on PCR with zero symptoms

Thank you for the further replies. I guess one of the things going through my head was that four months after the second jab (which would be the gap for DD if she has a booster now) feels so early to be having a booster. When I had mine, they were enforcing the 182 gap from second dose so strictly that they sent me away from my first booster appointment because the computer had allowed me to book a few hours early. Yet now our very youngest adults are accused of being irresponsible if they don't rush out and book themselves a booster with an interval of half that time.

I was also concerned that it could be the case that the side effects from the booster might be worse than actual Covid symptoms in that age group. (I have a DS who was a lot more ill from his first Pfizer jab than he ever was from his mild dose of Covid before vaccination. ) I certainly lost a day to my Moderna booster (though obviously a price worth paying for someone in my age group) and DD was ill with her first Pfizer jab. Some of her friends have been ill for a day from the booster.

Also a bit wary of the fact that all the boosters now in practice seem to be Moderna, whereas my understanding is that some other countries (eg France and Sweden) won't even give Moderna to under 30s.

Also my understanding is that boosters aren't being offered to nearly 18-year-olds even if they have medical conditions putting them at high risk. Why hesitate over this if the benefit of a booster is so obvious?

But despite some people poo pooing the value of anecdotes (even when there are no real world studies on booster efficacy in this age group!) it has been useful to see that there are some young adults being laid low with Omicron Covid despite having had two jabs.

That describes literally everyone I work with. All under 25 all double jabbed all have Omicron. All said either no symptoms or a mild cold they barely notice. This is 8 people I know.

Just realised that some 16 and 17 year olds can get the booster, so that's reassuring that 18 isn't the bottom of the age range for boosters.

Anecdotes aren’t needed to know that shivering (chills) are very common after the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. It is listed as a very common side effect.

Hmm. I think most people reading "chills" as a side effect would imagine something along the lines of the shivery feeling you sometimes get with bug, not the much more violent shaking that I (and clearly a lot of others) experienced as a side effect of the AZ jab). But some people are determined to deny the value of anecdotal evidence.

My DS fits your criteria. He's just getting over covid, presumably omicron, and has had it mildly. He'll be getting the booster though when he can. Why wouldn't he? Who knows what's waiting for us down the line?

I’m in my twenties, heathy, had covid twice but was 2 jabbed in the summer/early autumn. Decided against the boaster right now as I felt the side effects of having the vaccine outweighed actually having covid (unless there’s a new variant).

I had covid during the first wave:

Felt lethargic for a week (I put it down to stress/being rundown)
Then lost my sense of smell/taste (inconvenient).

Presumed I had omicron as I tested positive last week:
-Fell asleep in the afternoon and overslept the next morning.
-Had a headache for 24 hours.
-Felt achy/tired/ran down for a couple of days.

@WTF99 the booster antibodies wane quite quickly so might be better taken as any further wave emerges?