Jessica Ellis: You can! You can self-attest as high risk, they don’t require documentation, and there is absolutely no vaccine shortage so this is not an ethical no-no. We know that vaccine protection starts to wane around 4 months, so it is the right thing for your body (despite inexplicable cdc guidelines)

Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

I really wish we could choose to do a booster every six months if we were so inclined — feels like I’m catching COVID right at the wane of immunity from the last booster.

You can! You can self-attest as high risk, they don’t require documentation, and there is absolutely no vaccine shortage so this is not an ethical no-no. We know that vaccine protection starts to wane around 4 months, so it is the right thing for your body (despite inexplicable cdc guidelines)

Thank you for this; I'm diabetic among other things and this is excellent news!

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