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Agencies who give the vaccines are promoting them and it seems logical for older and compromised adults to continue to get Boosters perhaps every 6 months. To my surprise my own doctors are hesitant about continuing boosters even for their at risk patients. What are others of you finding?

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Here is the latest guidance from my government (Ontario Canada)
https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-vaccines

"If you are at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness, you are recommended to get a booster dose when it has been at least six months since your last dose or confirmed COVID-19 infection. This includes:  
individuals aged 65 years and older
residents of long-term care homes, retirement homes, Elder Care Lodges and other congregate living settings for seniors
individuals aged 18 years and older living in congregate care settings for people with complex medical care needs
individuals aged 18 years and older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised
pregnant individuals
individuals aged 55 years and older who identify as First Nations, Inuit or Métis and their non-Indigenous household members aged 55 years and older"

I just want to add that I've always been pro vaccine (all vaccines) and I see no reason to second guess the experts. By this metric I shouldn't need a booster til next fall when I will also get my yearly flu shot.
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sp19690 Apr 2023
When the media and doctors refuse to report side effects of the vaccine then why would you trust the experts? They should be talking about and alerting the public to potential damaging and deadly side effects. Until we have transparency not blocked by the government then you should not trust what they tell you. History is full of examples of the government lying to and knowingly harming the population for money or other nefarious reasons. Lucky for them most people have very short term memories about these things.
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I just had a dr. appointment last week, and I didn't ask him. I've decided that I know more about covid-19 than my doctor, at this point. He told me at one appointment that he thought Paxlovid was over-prescribed (?!?!?! It's the other way around!). He isn't wearing a mask at appointments unless requested to (which I did).

I am not going to hurry and jump in to get another booster, unless wastewater suveillance data shows a sharp spike (my area monitors this), or unless a new variant is causing problems. I will consider the next iteration of booster, though, if they are going to come up with a new booster for the fall.

Another mRNA vaccine that might be recommended soon for older people is the RSV vaccine. I don't think I'm going to be in a hurry to get that, since there was some disagreement amongst people on the FDA advisory committee regarding the incidence and importance of GBS as a side-effect. I also noted that there were 10 cases of a-fib post vaccination.
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I’m not insisting that my 94 year old parents are vaccinated any longer. My mother told me she does not want the booster. if she changes her mind, of course I will make sure she gets it. My father got covid while he was in the hospital for tests back in October. He’s in a nursing home .I was not told that he needed to be vaccinated, so I’m leaving it alone. If the facility insists, he will be vaccinated.

At this point I doubt if I will have any further boosters. I was fully vaxxed and boosted and got it in January, just two months after receiving the bivalent. I was a huge proponent of the vaccines before before I got sick. Now I’m just not sure anymore. This was my second bout of Covid. I had it also in September 2020 before the vaccine. I was way sicker this time than back in 2020 . Of course I was told it would have been much worse if I didn’t have the booster. But who knows if getting the booster made any difference.

At this point in time I probably won’t get another booster but that could change. I will wait and see.
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I am 80. Not getting advised to get boosters every six months so far. My hospital/MD just going along with current CDC guidelines and recommendations. I think I am all boosted up at this time. These things change, so time will tell. I will continue to follow the guidelines and continue to protect myself when and where I choose and am feeling much more comfortable now that this virus has seemed to make itself more at home, if less lethal among us.

I am happy to allow all to make their own decisions as regards masking and their own prevention measures.

I think we think about Covid now so much less. It's still very much there, but not as lethal. My DD just returned from trip with Hubby and another couple to NOLA. The couple they went with came back with a bad case, are home quite sick, but not hospitalized.
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Fawnby Apr 2023
My neighbors went on a cruise and just came home sick with Covid.
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From what I hear, elders will be lining up for annual vaccines, just like for the flu. Those of us with auto-immune diseases will to remain vigilant against this death threat.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/index.html?s_cid=11759:cdc%20covid%20guidelines:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY22
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I have had my 2 shots and a booster. Was due for 2nd booster after our vacation. We contracted COVID at the very end of our cruise. Probably the variant. We had to wait for the 4th booster. As of yet have not gotten it. Not sure if I will. Seems until the variant the 4th booster was not pushed as much.
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My LO got all 5, after having a case of COVID in the early days of the pandemic.

She was always examined before receiving the vaccine, and after the damages caused by the virus itself, the vaccines seemed to do her no harm.

I felt safer myself because she was receiving the vaccine.
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Wow! Thanks, everyone for all your input. I'm still undecided. I am 80 with compromising conditions and I am coming up on 6 months since my last Booster. I have gotten them all so far: The first two regular shots and then three Boosters. After 6 months I feel I am as good as not vaccinated at all. I will probably get COVID Boosters at least once a year; I'm just still debating this "6 month" one.
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cwillie Apr 2023
If you've had all the others that were recommended with no terrible side effects then why the reluctance to continue?
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Just a heads up insurance companies were giving doctors monetary incentives for every patient they vaccinated. Talk about a perverse incentive. I would stop all boosters because it's like playing Russian roulette with the side effects. Lea got melanoma after her vacvination and others have had blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and other side effects.
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Fawnby Apr 2023
And Walgreens and CVS were getting monetary incentives also? From whom? How do you know this? And who cares? That's not a good enough reason to deny oneself a vax that will protect from a deadly disease with lasting effects that no one understands yet.

I have lost numbers of friends to Covid but none that I know of to vax side effects. I spoke with one this morning who has long Covid contracted before vaxes and is being studied in a Covid brain research program. This previously lifelong super healthy and athletic person had brain fog from a mild case of Covid that has progressed to dementia; they had to move to AL care. Another unvaxxed friend got Covid and was in the hospital 11 days and had to have his heart shocked twice due to irregular rhythm. He had no heart issues before. We're not sure if heart effects have gone away. His wife had Covid much later but was not as seriously ill. She's now a few months post-Covid and has NO energy, whereas she used to work out at a gym three times a week, hike and swim. She doesn't know when or if she'll ever feel well enough.

Another unvaxxed friend died when he was suspicious of and refused monoclonal antibodies due to misinformation. He and the guy who was hospitalized for 11 days caught it from the same (unvaxxed) person. An unvaxxed relative got Covid and went to the hospital as soon as she started coughing because her blood oxygen level was falling fast. She was dead 23 hours after the coughing started. I know a person who refused the vax, caught Covid and died on a vent after taking taking livestock wormer; his adult child is an RN and couldn't change his foolish beliefs about the vax or his insistence on using a quack remedy when he got it.

A friend's grandson, not over age 30, not vaxxed, has been in the hospital 3 times with Covid. His resulting heart problems are being investigated. A retired friend let down her guard last Thanksgiving and brought Covid into the home after a friendly gathering; her unvaxxed husband, who rarely went out, got it from her and died three weeks later. She's a sad and lonely widow. Another friend died of Covid - his Covid-denier wife refused to allow him remdesivir because despite his Covid-positive tests in the hospital, she said he didn't have it. A neighbor's granddaughter wouldn't get vaxed because she was pregnant. Her newborn got Covid from her and spent a week in the hospital at less than one month old. No news about long-term effects for the baby. A distant relative of mine had a similar situation with her baby. No vax, very social before delivery, got Covid, then baby got Covid, and waiting to learn how baby is. This only happened a few weeks ago.

I know of more. All these people died and/or have possibly lifelong issues not of vaccine, BUT FROM COVID.
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