Im so sorry, sending prayers for yall and her family 
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I had my annual physical today and asked my doc about the COVID booster. We had our last booster in October.
FWIW, Iâm in my 40s and, aside from my weight, am healthy. He said that at this time he wasnât really advocating additional boosters. He said his advice would be a lot different if I was older and higher risk (like had asthma, COPD, etc) but since I wasnât, and recently had COVID (January) and it wasnât severe that he didnât see a need to booster unless they came out with a new one aimed at a new variant. But to get the same booster I got back in October, he wouldnât advise that.
What do we think about this? Whatâs the latest guidance on boosters?
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If your last was in October I assume it was the bivalent. If theyâd the case then youâre up to date. I havenât heard of anyone advocating for a 2nd bivalent booster. CDC just updated to annual.
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At this point, âup to dateâ is completing a primary series + one bivalent booster (additional boosters between the two are disregarded from a nominal classification standpoint). I donât think they are recommending an additional bivalent booster for anyone yet. On March 2, the bivalent booster will have been out 6 month. It will be interesting to see if they recommend higher risk people get another or if they are just moving everyone to annuals.
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Yep, I had the bivalent⌠Iâm not feeling too stressed about it since we did all get COVID in January so we should also have some natural immunity.
But my son hasnât had a booster; heâs only two. He got his Pfizer three-dose vaccine in October, so do we need to get him a booster? Or I guess I should probably just ask his ped.
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If you just had it you definitely have good protection and they tell you to wait 90 days before getting a booster.
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Itâs more âmay choose to waitâ rather than âshould waitââŚ
ETA: I think they are seeing more frequent rapid reinfections with the shifting of variants.
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Thanks for clarifying. Personally I would wait since natural immunity and the vaccine only seem to get you a few months May as well space it. I just had it a few weeks ago so I feel pretty secure at the moment - that could change with a new variant of course.
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I know neither of you meant it this way, but that phrase is tossed around often in anti-vaxx circles.
Immunity generated by your immune system is natural whether the trigger is a virus occurring in nature, a virus created in a lab, or a vaccine created in a lab. And we still donât know for certain whether the Covid-19 virus originally infected a human by way of (a) animal to human or (b) lab leak.
Personally, I prefer to use the phrase âhybrid immunityâ for someone who has immunity from both the vaccine and the virus and âinfection based immunityâ when talking purely about immunity from a virus.
I donât say this to criticize, but merely to offer another option given that the ânatural immunityâ phrase comes with a lot of baggage.
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And then thereâs North Dakota.
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Youâre right - hybrid immunity is a better term.
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Crazy.
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Great. This how pandemics start. Sounds like he might need a psych ward actually.
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Seriously?!?! Things are in such a bad state. Ugh. 
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CH.1.1 down nationwide from 1.6% to 1.3% while XBB.1.5 climbs from 66.4% to 74.7%.
Same pattern in these 3 regions (CH.1.1 down slightly while XBB.1.5 climbs):
Regardless of potential severity, it looks like CH.1.1 canât compete with XBB.1.5.
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I am assuming from this that they used their ESSER money to set this up. Interesting choiceâŚâŚ
I wonder what they will do with this data and if they have plans to do long-term facilities improvements.
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