CDC recommends seniors get another Covid-19 shot
"People age 65 and older should get an additional dose of the current Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.
"The agency’s independent vaccine advisers voted Wednesday to recommend the additional shot, and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen endorsed the recommendation.
"The vote of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was 11 yes and one no, with one person abstaining.
"Under the new recommendation, people 65 and older can receive an additional dose of any updated Covid-19 vaccine at least four months after the previous shot."
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I've had seven COVID shots since 2021, so this will be my 8th. As usual, people are already refusing to get another shot. To me, they are just cutting off their nose to spite their face, and I have almost given up trying to convince people that another vaccine is a lot better than ending up in the hospital.
Last night, before the Washington Post article disappeared between a paywall, I was looking at the reader comments.
In response to a statement in the article that "recommendations for an additional dose may also increase vaccine fatigue, potentially reducing uptake of the vaccine in the fall.", one reader said, "what's up with all this 'fatigue' people supposedly get when faced with having to act like an adult and make sound, informed decisions for the good of humanity?"
In response to the statement that “more absolute statements around vaccines will create a chilling effect for folks who have not been vaccinated.”, a reader commented, "You know what is really chilling. Being dead. Quit the namby-pamby anti-vax pampering malarkey. People who value their own lives should get vaccinated. Whoever gets chills at the thought of a vaccine has a problem."
I couldn't agree more.
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