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After getting long COVID, I took my next booster in November 2023 and by then they had come out with the Novavax vaccine, which is non-MRNA and seems to elicit a milder reaction from your immune system. I understand that it uses the same technology as they use for the flu shots (i.e., not having your body's cells produce proteins, etc.) so there is less chance of your body producing another protein in error and having your immune system react to it. I know I'm not explaining it in the most precise terms, but there was a recent article about the Pfizer vaccine (MRNA) stating that it had caused some of these erroneous proteins (I think proteins, but at any rate, pieces of proteins) to be synthesized by some people, but they said that it was harmless but that they would be working in the future to improve the vaccine to eliminate that from happening. I myself had taken all of the Moderna MRNA boosters before now, but since I have long COVID and wanted to be cautious, I took the Novavax vaccine this time and recommend the Novavax version for anyone who wants a milder COVID vaccine. I didn't feel any reaction from it at all, vs. the day of fever that I felt with each of the Moderna MRNA boosters.

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I’ve never had a mRNA vax, just 1 J&J non-mRNA one. I’ve had Covid twice, LC since Nov 2021. I tried to get the new Novavax but couldn’t find it anywhere in my location. When I took the J&J in summer 2022 I had to go out of town to find one and I live in a metro cities of about 250,000 people. They make it super hard for anyone who doesn’t want the mRNA. I had to go out of town a little later to get Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody, set of 2 injections, to actually prevent one from getting Covid in first place, supposed to last 6 months and was only available for people with compromised immune systems. Then government took that off the market, had excuse that Covid has once again mutated. Of course it had but they weren’t even giving the Evusheld a chance to see if it worked or not.
Anyway I haven’t had Covid again, that I know of, since the Evusheld. But I only leave house for medical appts, and I always N95 up and white cotton glove up.