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CDC Discussing Booster/3rd Shot
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jul 26, 2021 | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
@joko Good article. I, being an immunocompromised person, am waiting anxiously for the approval for the booster shot for us. My hospital, Mass General, will not advise it until the CDC has approved it. I have actually been advised by a few medical people that I should go ahead and get it but I am waiting, primarily because I think I would have to lie to get a third shot, and I'm not good at that, and also because I'm not sure how my team at Mass General would react when they discovered that I had been non-compliant with their advice.
There are people who have gotten the third shot and had a great improvement in their antibodies. I sure hope the CDC moves quickly on this, I need to get out of this bubble. I am doing more than I had done but I am still not doing a lot.
@imallears There have been a lot of contagious illnesses that have reached epidemic proportions but I'm not sure they reached the point of being a pandemic. I believe there are certain criteria to be classified as such.
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@joko With respect to lying, I am horrible at lying to others. I am great at lying to myself.
Best always,
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I understood the phrase “pandemic” to mean an epidemic that turns global meaning it has spread spread across several countries. I guess it’s a loose definition. Of course the ones we have lived through don’t come close to Covid.
Anyone here from New York remember the hoards of locust that swarmed the city around 1946 or 47? I remember walking (in the Bronx) with my mom and we were literally covered with them….They created a slanting wind that you had to walk against. Don’t know how long that lasted or if it just suddenly happened while we were out. Reminded me of the film The Birds years later.
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Fearless prediction. The FDA will approve a third shot very soon especially for immunocompromised people. Pfizer got ahead of the curve by going public with the booster announcement before the CDC and FDA were ready to go public. But every indication is that "a reasonable man or woman" would consider it prudent to administer a third shot to immunocompromised people The FDA is very likely to approve Pfizer and Moderna permanently and get over that business. Despite what I'm reading here and elsewhere, one years and the enormous number of people who have received the vaccinations make for a convincing result. The pressure must be enormous with Delta and autumn approaching particularly with schools, universities, stadia and offices/hospitals.