Covid Booster at the VA question.

[straightshooter1]

Got call a few minutes ago from the VA saying I could come on out and get my Pfizer Booster.

I was gonna go this afternoon, but got "stuff" to do this PM and thru Sunday.

I am thinking I'll go out Monday PM, an hour or so before they stop for the day but I wonder how the booster affects people.

My first injection-nothing. Second, kinda sick for about 24 hours. Booster-unknown as to side effects, etc.

Anyone had the Booster? If so, any problems?

I had the Covid the last of October/first part of November and posted here. Sickest I have ever been in my life-worse than the Malaria I had back in '66. Week in the
VA Hospital, most of it in intensive care. NEVER wanna go through that again.

Bob

 

[Absalom]

I think the “booster” will be nothing different from the original vaccine; you simply get another shot.

I conspired to get a booster outside of CDC protocol: I got the two Moderna shots around March, with no side effects, and a couple of weeks ago I got a Pfizer shot as a booster. Just enough soreness at the injection spot to know I got the vaccine.

I may go next month and get the second Pfizer too. And later the Johnson & Johnson. Too bad AstraZeneca isn’t offered in the state. I could be “Vaccine Man”!!!! Mostly to spite the whackier among my friends who still try to get me to listen to Infowar clips claiming the vaccinations are genocide

 

[waffles]

Last guidance I heard was boosters are likely to be recommended eight months after your second shot. Some friends in healthcare just got a booster, didn't have anything negative to say beyond the standard sore arm.

I'll be getting mine when the time's here, would be nice if we'd had enough people jumping on board to really knock it out, but can't change that now and I think we'd all better get used to boosters being a thing for awhile.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I’m ready to go into that Rodeo Arena one more time.
Just tell me when.

 

[alwslate]

I had the two Moderna shots as soon as I was eligible so I will be getting a booster shot as soon as it is offered.

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

Got my Pfizer booster two days ago. Slightly sore shoulder is the only "side effect" I have; pretty much unnoticeable . Very similar experience with the first two shots in March and April.

 

[S&WIowegan]

Booster

Wife and I got our 2 shots of Pfizer during March 2021. We intend to get the booster. The clear inference in our area is that boosters will be given to those who present themselves. The drug stores and clinics seem to have no interest in quizzing people as to precise timing. Our state has less that 50% vaccinated. I have a friend who refuses to get vaccinated even though his family has. When I ask he quotes high survival percentages and I remind him we 70 plus people have worse stats. He's just stubborn and won't give in.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Since we already have antibodies from the first two shots it is more likely that we will have a mild to moderate reaction from a booster shot. Likely a sore throat, low grade fever and/or chills, and a feeling of malaise for a day or two. I felt that way after my second dose for about a day.

 

[DWalt]

My wife got the Pfizer booster shot at the local Walgreen's last week with no reactions. That was exactly six months after she got her second shot of the Pfizer vaccine. No questions asked about the timing or anything else. She just had to show her previous shot card.

 

[biku324]

Get it when you can. My wife has breaktrhough COVID now - she took the two Moderna vax in March. Our doc said she is better off by a factor of 30 with the vax than without it. So far, so good.

 

[straightshooter1]

Well, assuming I am still here on Monday, I'm gonna get that booster.

Got two medical stories, one yesterday and one this morning concerning the disease. First one-a lady doc who treats Covid in one of our hospitals says she sees many of those who refused the vaccinations and are dying begging for the vaccine. She has to tell them it's too late.

Second one I got at the Dentist this morning (did I ever tell you all how much I hate going to the Dentist?). A nurse in the ER at one of the bigger hospitals in Clearwater said there is an incredible difference between the covid patients who have been vaccinated and those who hadn't gotten it (survival rate and seriousness of symptoms). Also, she said three floors of this hospital are filled with covid patients.

Kinda skeery, huh?

Bob

 

[steelslaver]

Reports are that 97% of those now in ICU are non vaccinated. I will gladly get my booster her soon.

 

[biku324]

Reports are that 97% of those now in ICU are non vaccinated. I will gladly get my booster her soon.

In our case (New Mexico) we know the Delta variant is both more contagious and as severe as the original COVID, but like my wife, most folks have the vaccine and therefore some protection.

As of Wednesday night here in New Mexico, 23% of COVID hospitalizations and 15% of COVID deaths were 'breaththrough' cases - that means 77% of hospitalizations and 85% of deaths were unvaccinated. About 68% of New Mexicans are vaccinated, so add that to the mix - 32% of our population had 77% of COVID hospitalizations and 85% of COVID deaths.

Rocket science it (vaccination and booster) is not.

 

[vonn]

Not sure what I will do. Less than 48 hours after the second shot I had a stroke in my good eye and lost upper 1/3 of my vision in that eye. ( looking through a scope I see just above the cross hairs) My heart doc put a stent in my carotid that he had been watching for years and it may have been the cause but there are reports that it could be tied to the vaccine. My Dr. told me he wasn’t sure on taking the booster himself. I have agent orange glaucoma in the other eye and I fear being blind more than anything I can imagine.

 

[Golddollar]

If I remember correctly, when I was growing up we had to get three doses of the Salk polio vaccine in order to be fully protected. Then when the Sabin polio vaccine on the sugar cube came out I got that too.

 

[hsguy]

I had a Pfizer booster last week. Bit of a sore arm and a little tired the next day.

 

[STCM(SW)]

My wife & I had are last shot in March. So 6 months has not come up yet.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Had my routine annual at VA clinic last week. No mention of a booster shot (had the two-dose Moderna vaccine this spring). I will take it when available.

One daughter-in-law struggling with the Covid now, and a couple of mildly affected grandchildren. I'm an old man with COPD and other conditions that make me want to avoid the bug any way I can.

 

[arjay]

I was fairly sick from the first dose and stalled on the second. My daughter harassed the hell out of me and since she’s the smartest of the clan I got the second 6 weeks later (I suspect that’s better than the three week wait from some studies I’ve read about) I’ll get the booster as soon as I can as I doubt I’d survive Covid with all the things that have gone south in the last 18 months.Such a deal! Skiing the moguls,mountain biking,kayaking,etc to holy **** don’t do anything in two short years!

 

[fordson]

I and the family are waiting for the boosters to be available here in NE FL. The moment they are, we launch.