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shwag945 t1_j0k89zj wrote

Reply to comment by TheFriendlyFelcher in The new omicron boosters are very effective at preventing seniors from being hospitalized with Covid. The latest omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors 65 and older from being hospitalized with Covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated by Wagamaga

Why not just offer yearly or bi-yearly boosters to everyone? What is the point of restricting it?

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mightcommentsometime t1_j0khnnt wrote

The only point in restricting is it when supply concerns come into play. You want the most vulnerable to be the most protected. If that's not an issue, restrictions don't make sense.

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shwag945 t1_j0ki0be wrote

I highly doubt there will be any major vaccine shortages in the future. I bet that the vaccine will be as available every year as the flu vaccine is.

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mightcommentsometime t1_j0kibv6 wrote

Agreed. That's why future restrictions probably don't make sense. The restrictions when it first came out made sense due to the smaller supply. But now that it doesn't require as much R&D to produce a vaccine which can match the new variants (aka mRNA vaccine technology is incredible), there really isn't a need for the restrictions as much

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karlkrum t1_j0lypu0 wrote

Myocarditis risk in males <40 still poorly understood

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shwag945 t1_j0mbp1k wrote

The risk of death or long-term complications from COVID is higher than the Myocarditis risk. The vaccines wouldn't be on the market if they had a net negative.

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HairyHutch t1_j0mmbuj wrote

Eh, for people who arnt really at risk of Mycarditis sure, but those same people, the elderly mainly, are way more likely of death and long term complications. The younger generations, the ones with a higher chance of developing Mycarditis, have a almost negligible risk of death from covid and risk of long term complications.

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shwag945 t1_j0ms4y9 wrote

If a medical professional determines that the risk of complications from the COVID vaccine outways its benefits they will not allow that person to receive the vaccine. They also seek informed consent from all patients. A sweeping restriction on covid vaccines is absurd.

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mo_tag t1_j0otmo7 wrote

Already happening in other countries.. just got my 4th dose.. the vulnerable groups get first priority and then everyone else.. so it's not really a restriction

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shwag945 t1_j0ottvx wrote

The redditor implied that only the vulnerable get fully boosted in the future. They were not talking about the typical staggered rollout.

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mo_tag t1_j0ox802 wrote

My interpretation of their comment is that they're saying the focus should be on keeping the vulnerable boosted regularly instead of trying to focus on achieving heard immunity, not that the vaccines would no longer be available to anyone who isn't in a high risk group.. like flu vaccines, they're available to everyone but pretty much no healthy young adult takes flu shots in practice

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Kyomujin t1_j0kzkry wrote

Vacination costs money and while the doses are cheap the nurses needed to administer them aren't.

These costs and seeing how younger people appear to have strong protection against serious disease after at least 3 shots, make it questionable to continue giving shots to anyone younger than 65 in perpetuity. As for the older it can be worthwile to consider if making sure to prescribe paxlovid or other effective medicine early to anyone old is a better use of resources than making biannual covid vaccinations a permanent affair. You can also include considerations for the potential damage of vaccination exhaustion in the population as well.

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Fast_Blueberry_4043 t1_j0lqj9f wrote

My doctor refused to give me paxlovid when I had covid, as I was 64 and there were "questions about the side effects of the drug." It would be great if physicians would get educated about the resources available now, too.

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mybrainisgoneagain t1_j0mcndu wrote

Seriously!!!!

Total contrast for me. Have a doctor friend that doesn't know my age. Was speaking with them just casually. Thinking about going to a large event. I am vaxxed and boosted and will mask. But I have a couple comorbidities What happens if I get Covid? Paxlovid was mentioned as a possibility ..

Note this was just in a conversation exploring possibilities in a just in case scenario. As knock on wood, fingers crossed, still a Covid virgin.

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j86abstract t1_j0ldpis wrote

Do you have to be a nurse to administer the shot? My last booster was done at a pharmacy.

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mountain_man30 t1_j0ly101 wrote

Even having a "qualified" nurse doesn't guarantee a good job. I've watched quite a few videos showing nurses inject before asperating to ensure they don't inject that spike protein inside a vein or artery.

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