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...
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 kind of can if you're willing to lie a little bit and pay out of pocket, the drugstores aren't really checking that closely though YMMV and you may have to drugstore hop. The funniest thing is I got mine two weeks ago at the same drugstore chain (not location) that I got my booster in the fall.
Yeah — doable for me for sure though I’m sure that price would be out of reach for a lot. And ironically the failure of the social safety net means nobody even gets the time off to recover from the day or two of vaccine side effects so additional costs are invoked for sure. Ughhhh.
As someone who felt miserable for about 2-3 days after each of my 1st four vax, this trick reduced the symptoms to a mild headache for less than a day for 5th vax. Its something I share with everyone, as the difference to me was staggering - synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html
I'll try this if I have to take another mRNA shot but for me switching to novovax fixed the issue. No days long fever. No swollen lymph nodes. Just a tiny bit of swelling at injection site that I only noticed if I went poking around
