COVID: How many boosters are enough?

[PurpleRayne89]

If you’re vaccinated with all three jabs. When do you draw the line if we are expected to get a 4th or 5th booster?

When, If ever will you say it’s enough and refuse to be injected again until they develop something more long lasting.

What are you general thoughts on the vaccine?

No arguments, all opinions welcome and will be respected. Let’s discuss this in a mature fashion.

I'm double jabed but only because the goverment mandated it. I won't be having a booster, I'm preparing to leave.

one a year is acceptable to me

same as the flu jab

I've had three jabs so far. I'm prepared to follow government advice on future boosters (partly because I want to be able to travel abroad this summer!).

@PurpleRayne89

If you’re vaccinated with all three jabs. When do you draw the line if we are expected to get a 4th or 5th booster?

When, If ever will you say it’s enough and refuse to be injected again until they develop something more long lasting.

What are you general thoughts on the vaccine?

No arguments, all opinions welcome and will be respected. Let’s discuss this in a mature fashion.

I'd have a look at the variant, how infectious it is and whether or not it is causing more serious illness again. I'm expecting the covid jab to become like the flu jab so annual injections for the vulnerable and elderly.

Sometimes I have the flu jab (if my work pay for it) sometimes I don't. It would make more of a difference if I couldn't travel abroad without it.

I’d hesitate about the next booster tbh, but as I want to go on holiday for the sunny break I’ve moved twice already, I’d have it I guess. Once a year would be good.

Some people are having 4th jabs now. If they have a health condition that means they are less likely to still have antibodies.
I think they are monitoring the effect on everyone else to see how long on average covid vax protection against severe illness lasts.
I'm hoping eventually it will be a yearly jab but happy to have one every 6 months if necessary.

Also hoping that vaxs more specific to the certain prevalent strains are developed. Like flu vaccines.

I have the flu jab every year so one or two jabs a year doesn't bother me at all

I have (pay for) an annual flu jab, so ideally an annual Covid booster, but Covid seems to mutate quicker than flu.
I'm meant to be going abroad in May too, so whatever is necessary.

I personally intend to tell that bloody virus that it is not allowed to mutate.

When it listens to me, then is the time I will refuse a booster.

Twice a year or annually seems fine to me - it's hardly a big deal imo.

I assume something like flu. Annual boosters for those who need it

Younger/less vulnerable people will probably manage without them unless there's a bad year (it'll be like flu where we rely on data from southern hemisphere for seasonal mutations).

I haven’t decided yet. I have had the two plus booster. At the moment, I don’t intend to have any more but might possibly change my mind on that if a more serious variant comes along. If extra boosters become a requirement for travel, I’ll have a dilemma on my hands.

Well I will follow medical advice instead of trying to use my own uniformed logic tbh.

If they advise more boosters then it will be because of fading immunity (if the same variants popped up, we’d be screwed with no vaccines. That includes omicron, despite what the daily mail has you believe).

But I would rather that the government tried to reduce the spread and give more time for better vaccines.

I wish people would stop equating covid with the flu. It’s not the flu.

As many boosters as we need.

I mean, it's not as if everyone in the government and the pharmaceuticals haven't thought about the idea of trying to find a once a year vaccine

It's new. It keeps mutating. We need as many boosters as it takes to keep people as safe as we can.

Everyone’s reasons and decisions sound reasonable to me. It’s nice to see different opinions and views instead of the vaccinated and anti vaxxer media output.

@Iggly

I wish people would stop equating covid with the flu. It’s not the flu.

Never said it was, I said I already have a flu jab once a year so I don't mind having another jab once (or twice) a year as well

As often as required, which I imagine will settle down to annually, potentially a 2-in-1 with flu.

For me, enough will be when the pain, inconvenience and expense outweighs any benefit.

Right now, it’s about an hour or two out of my day, it smarts slightly on impact and leaves me feeling a bit bleurgh for a few hours, and costs me nothing upfront. So as long as scientists I trust tell me we need another jab I’ll have another jab. And another. And another.

I don’t understand the pushback from people who previously had the vaccine but seem to have reached breaking point after 2 or 3. If I thought I might die and a doctor offered me dialysis, or chemo or any other regular treatment to keep me alive or prevent illness (like a daily insulin injection), I can’t imagine saying “I’ve had enough now, you can stick your life saving treatment because you promised I’d only need a few, and now the science has changed I’m out”

Not convinced by the boosters in younger healthy adults. Just finishing my isolation, 6 yo brought Covid home about a month after my booster and all it seemed to do was delay testing positive (shedding) until after I'd finished feeling like hell with Omicron type symptoms (headaches, muscle and joint pains). Both kids (too young for vaccine) and DH (boosted but earlier) had temperatures, I didn't have any debilitating symptoms after I tested positive. I've been miserable as hell stuck in the house with an angry 6 year old but not unwell beyond a snotty nose, odd scratchy snotty throat and the odd sneeze...

Frankly it would have been more convenient to test positive shortly after DC so that she could get out of effective isolation on schedule rather than having the extra 6 days caused by both adults testing positive on days 6 and 7 (and not looking like getting a negative test before day 10...)

I haven't had the booster and won't behaving any more unless I need to to travel.

I've had 4 so far. I'm happy to have boosters every 6 months if necessary

I'm all for jabs, but the the booster left me feeling worse than Omicron.

@Iggly

I wish people would stop equating covid with the flu. It’s not the flu.

It's not being compared to flu. The immunisation is being compared to the flu jab as being an annual event - like the NhS have already said - BMJ article below.

Covid-19: England is preparing to offer annual booster vaccination, says NHS boss
BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2824 (Published 17 November 2021)
Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n2824

I'm very pro Vax, but the vaccines and booster have messed with my cucle to the point I cant leave the house for days in the middle of my period. I'll probably only have another booster if they mandate it for social activities and travel.