Looks like EVERYBODY'S getting vaccine booster shots! Breaking from WaPo

[JoanofArgh]

The Biden administration is planning to announce that all Americans who have received the coronavirus vaccine will need booster shots to combat waning immunity from the immunizations and the highly transmissible delta variant that is sparking a surge in covid-19 cases throughout the nation, according to four people familiar with the decision.

The administration’s health and science experts are coalescing around the view that people will need the boosters eight months after they are fully vaccinated, according to the people who requested anonymity to discuss a decision not yet public. The decision is likely to be announced as soon as this week.

The actual administration of the boosters would not occur until mid- or late September, after Pfizer’s application for additional shots for the general public is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, the individuals said.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/booster-shot-coronavirus/

[Demsrule86]

1. Excellent news.

[JoanofArgh]

2. Yes it is. I won't be eligible until November. Technically.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Same here, the very end of the month. Or is just the Pfizer? I got the Moderna

But my brother got the Pfizer after I nagged him. Does that mean I have to drag him somewhere again? Well, at least it won't be till January for him.

[wnylib]

37. I'm wondering about that, since I had Moderna, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

39. I know, seems like the emphasis is on the Pfizer since more people received that one

And that includes my brother and most people I know. But I'm hoping that we hear more about the Moderna since I remember Dr. Fauci saying that's the one he received.

[wnylib]

42. Moderna has also been working

on a booster, but I think it is targeted at a couple variants, although not delta.

I don't think it would hurt to get a Pfizer boost for Moderna shots.

[Rhiannon12866]

45. That's the question, isn't it?

I'm not all that fussy, I took advice and just got the first vaccine that was available to me. And I was grateful for that. I'm guessing that we'll be hearing more, at least I hope so.

[wnylib]

47. I am sure that we are not alone in wondering,

so the question will be publicly asked and answered.

[JoanofArgh]

55. They've already authorized boosters for both

Pfizer and Moderna for immunocompromized people and they’re getting them now, so I’m sure you’ll be able to do the same. 😘

[Rhiannon12866]

56. Thanks!

Obviously, it's still a long way off since none of us were able to get vaccinated 8 months ago - back then we were still being told "it will go away" or to drink bleach.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes!

[JoanofArgh]

4. I love that Kamala gif!

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Guess where she found it!

* Insert cheesy grin

[sheshe2]

11. Hugs and Kisses,

[Maru Kitteh]

68. Right back atcha, beautiful lady

[JoanofArgh]

12. Well, I love that you found it!

[sheshe2]

8. ;)

[BigmanPigman]

5. Thank Dog!

[Maru Kitteh]

6. I'm tier 1A so that means I'm due. Fine with me.

I said a long time ago if I had to get a COVID shot every week then fine by me, whatever the data show.

[AllyCat]

29. Same here. I will just show up at the designated time

and place ( likely work).

[SheltieLover]

9. Yaaaaaay!

[triron]

10. So early November for me. My gf eligible Sept.

[sheshe2]

13. Me too!

[Talitha]

32. Early Nov for me too!!

[FakeNoose]

14. Oh boy! I was hoping for this great news

Thank Joan, you made my night!

[JoanofArgh]

15. I got an alert on my phone! Made my night, too.

[C Moon]

34. Love that gif!

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

16. Woo hoo! My 6 months is up after Sept

[Celerity]

44. 8.5 months, not 6 nt

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

57. 8 months after u received first shot, so Feb - Sept 8 months

[Celerity]

58. It is my understanding, based of the specific statement, that it was

8 months after becoming fully vaxxed, which occurs approximately 2 weeks post 2nd jab. A minor difference, I do grant.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

61. Oh OK, but I am higher risk, I will be calling my doc to get it ASAP anyway, I dont do math, lol

[Celerity]

63. if you are in a high risk group, I think that the full wait is not applicable, as it should, IMHO,

be waved, provided your tests show a degradation in vaccine-based protection to the point where you are at a significantly (as determined by medical science) elevated level of danger.

cheers!

stay safe

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. We will get ours as soon as available.

[Mr.Bill]

18. Statisticians must be drooling.

Another number to count! Yes!

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Just imagine...an American president doing what needs to be done to...

protect the interests of American citizens.

It's unprecedented!

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. The US has barely gotten 50% of the population fully vaccinated- what about rest of world?

Many countries are still struggling to get vaccine supplies for their people.

[tritsofme]

21. And?

We have the doses, the means to distribute them, and they will be helpful. We are still donating billions of doses around the world.

Not seeing any downsides here.

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. As long as the booster program doesn't decrease the supply to other countries. Nt

[Demsrule86]

59. Biden's job is to protect the nation. I still think we can do both. However, my 10 year old

nephew has Covid. I want the vaccine booster here. We can't allow thousands more Americans to die if we can help it.

[FoxNewsSucks]

25. The problem would be

if other countries remain un-vaccinated, they would become the petri dishes from which new variants arise, including variants which are current vaccines are not effective against.

[tritsofme]

30. This is not a zero sum game.

Americans can get third jabs, and President Biden can continue to fulfill his pledges to donate doses across the world.

[Hekate]

41. What you said

[meadowlander]

54. It's the definition of a zero sum game.

That third jab or jab going to a 9 year old in the US isn't going to a much more vulnerable person in a poorer country. The math is pretty simple.

Where did the Delta variant come from? India
Where did the Lambda variant come from? Peru

As much as people love to grumble about them there's a lot less risk of variants arising from mouth-breathing anti-vaxxers in Kansas than there is from densely populated cities in developing countries with limited funds to purchase and distribute the first dose of the vaccine to their most vulnerable populations.

In any kind of a rational world, we would be prioritising getting first shots to people in cities in poor countries that desperately need it instead of insisting on entitlement to a third shot when 70% of the world's population still hasn't had their first one.

What the US has donated (110 million doses) is a drop in the bucket compared with the 10 billion doses needed to vaccinate the remaining unvaccinated population. Meanwhile demand from the US is jacking up prices everywhere else.

Given a choice between meeting demand for third shots in the US or first shots in Bangaldesh what do you think pharmaceutical companies are going to do?

If you honestly think your third shot isn't making it harder for anyone else to get vaccinated, you're deluding yourself.

[roamer65]

23. Moderna x 3 for me.

[GoodRaisin]

26. Glad to see this moving quickly. nt

[James48]

27. Pfizer

Has already applied for the normal, full FDA approval, which should be granted by mid-September. They won’t need a separate emergency use approval for a booster then- once it’s approved, any doctor will be able to give it to any adult.

[AllyCat]

28. Glad we will wait until September

I’d be due next week if we are sticking to 8 months. Too much going on next week to feel blah.

[PatrickforB]

31. Great news! My last (2nd) shot was March 25. My wife's about a month later. So,

November/December, here we come!

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

33. Fully vaccinated is 2 weeks after the last shot, right?

So, is it 8 months after the last shot, or 8 months after the 2 weeks after the 2nd shot point in time?

[SoCalDavidS]

36. You Are Fully Vaccinated 2 Weeks After 2nd Shot nt

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

38. So, 8 months and 2 weeks after your last shot? nt

[wnylib]

40. I don't think it has to be precisely on the

8 month date, just near it.

[Grokenstein]

35. Checking out in Walgreens the other night

...some ratbag was blabbering at a couple in the candy aisle about how she wasn't going to let the government put some experimental vaccine into her body, not after all the stories she's heard, but she was seriously considering giving "this i-ver-mek-tin stuff" a try.

Cashier and I just glanced at each other and rolled our eyes. At least the idiot was masked, probably just so she could continue to hang out in the store and pester people.

[orleans]

46. sorry - ?? i-ver-mek-tin stuff ??? what does that mean? nt

[ShazzieB]

49. Ivermectin.

It's an anti-parasitic drug, a dewormer that's given to livestock. Also prescribed for humans who are diagnosed with certain parasites (roundworms, threadworms, etc.). How or why somebody thought it would be an effective treatment for a viral infection is a mystery to me.


https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19

[orleans]

53. omg! thanks for the explanation; i never heard of it. and that idiot who thinks it will help? she's

c.r.a.z.y.

[DFW]

43. The report I read said that the ideal interval was 8 months

I don't know how accurate that was, or on what research it was based.

That means not until December for my wife and me, which means we'll be back in America again.

Good.

The way the German bureaucracy was going, they had told us we shouldn't expect to get our first vaccinations until the end of August. We got our shots (Moderna) in Dallas in April and May with a four week interval in between. By December, I expect the booster to be routine in the States (except in Texas, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi and Alabama, where the Republican governors will have forbidden it by law as part of their Pro-Death policy). In Germany, where we live, they will probably need another year to agree on the correct spelling of "booster" before allowing any to be administered. Welcome to the EU.

[Pas-de-Calais]

48. Wife & I been saying this since October

Covid vaccine will be another shot

ALL should receive throughout their lives

[TlalocW]

50. I'm fine with this and will get one BUT...

Unfortunately, this just plays into anti-vaxxer/gosh-durn real 'murican patriots' hands who have said things like, "You're just going to keep getting shot after shot because you're sheep and will do whatever the gubmint tells you to." And it's not just annoying because they think they've won a talking point, but because it will solidify that belief in their head making them even more resistant to getting vaxxed.

TlalocW

[xmas74]

52. I'm in September

If the 8 months rule holds.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

60. Do it now, for folks 6 months after vaxxing. If the Qpublicans don't want them, why waste time?

I was at a Walgreens the other day, where they take appointments, and walk ins, and no one was there getting vaxxed, in a red county where only 40% of the population is vaxxed.

Give those doses to people who want them. Stop wasting time on covidiot maskholes. Only a very small percentage of them will ever get vaxxed. We need to protect ourselves from these fools.

[Liberal In Texas]

62. Some folks in our local Dem group on FB posted that

they just walked into one of our local CVS stores and got 3rd doses, pretty much no questions asked and they didn't have to lie on the paperwork or anything. (They are older retirement age folks.)

[JoanofArgh]

64. Thanks for this. I'll let my mom know.

[lagomorph777]

65. When can kids get their first shot? They are being marched off to cesspool schools.

[barbtries]

66. I'm ready now.

Just got back from a vacation to CA and cannot seem to lose this bitterness over people refusing to vaccinate. Turns out I know some of them. Misinformed to the point of lunacy. Selfish and still congratulating themselves on their altruism. please.

I'm debating whether I should get tested just in case, even though I have no exhibited signs of COVID. I did ask for a booster before my trip but my doctor turned me down.

I thought I was being so careful and smart when I planned this trip in March. I was fully vaccinated then, but thought, no! I'll wait until August when everyone will be jabbed and COVID will really be in the rear view mirror. aargh

[Texaswitchy]

67. Getting mine in a few days.

Texas is a hot spot.