US officials working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults
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US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday.

(CNN)US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration is making it a high priority the official said. Second boosters have been authorized for adults 50 and older, as well as some people with weakened immune systems, since late March. But younger adults are eligible for only one booster shot, which was authorized in November. Federal agencies are looking to move quickly on authorizing a second booster for all adults, the source said.

Some experts are concerned that younger adults' immunity may be waning as Covid-19 cases rise with the dominance of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant. Reinfections are more likely with BA.5 than with any previous variants because of immune escape features, Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, said on CNNI Monday.

Turns out when you have a vaccine only approach to a disease, keeping people vaccinated is important! Who could have predicted this?

  • melon_popsicle [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I got the first booster super early, and wouldn't you know it, I just came down with covid yesterday. I'd been checking the status of the second booster daily, but I guess I won't need it now...

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      2 years ago

      Whatever immunity offered by getting infected with omicron doesn't reliably last very long, so you should get whatever booster you can when available.

      People are getting reinfected after a month. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-11/sa-immune-period-for-covid-positive-cases-reduced-from-12-weeks-/101226156

    • spicymangos51 [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      oh man same, but I came out positive on july 4th, like I'm doing everything I can to be safe yet still got it, but they get to drag their feet on vaccines

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      i got mine immediately as well, and of course nothing after, and I was in CLOSE contact with someone who is covid positive like 3 weeks ago. close as in living in the same house as them and doing work together and in general breathing on each other. somehow I didn't catch it? I have no idea how this thing works. They got a positive result like a day after they left here, and they didn't get it from me because I had zero contact with the outside world and they were on multiple planes on their way here, assuming that's where it came from.

      No fucking idea. It feels random as shit. I should have had it. Tests negative multiple times, felt fine.