This question goes out those who took the 2 jabs? Will you you take it to get back to normality? Or are you sick of the government moving the goalposts constantly?
Thanks for that. So if things stay the same, I'll just need my Covid cert, positive pcr result text from the HSE and a letter from my doctor saying I'm okay to travel? That's not so bad now I don't have to worry about taking another pcr/antigen the day before I fly!
Got it booked. Didn't even sleep well last night over it though. Really don't like getting these things.
This is good news.
Hopefully the ones who “weren’t anti vax” but were refusing to get vaccinated by the mRNA vaccine, or even the others last year, will get boosted now.
im sure some will find another reason not to take this latest one. But if a proportion of them do take it, it’s a success.
'The Nuvaxovid vaccine, created by US-based Novavax.'
You'd have to wonder at who came up for the name for this one 😂
Scientist 1: We have created a new vaccine for Covid.
Scientist 2: What will we call it?
Scientist 1: New Vax covid?
Scientist 2: Nuvaxovid sound cooler
Scientist 1: Sound.
If you go back and read what I wrote you would almost believe it to be true until you stand back and realise its a load of nonsense...
If you decide to get a booster shot 300 days after your second shot of moderna, do you still get a recognised vaccination cert? Just a query.
Guessing theres no idea yet when the Novovax vaccine will be rolled out. Would prefer to get that as a booster over Pfizer/Moderna
Fwiw I got the Pfizer booster 5 months after 2nd jab. Barely an issue and hardly noticed the pain in my arm this time. Ran 7km at 8@?
we need arms for those booster shots as a matter of urgency.
IrishTimes reporting that 300,000 doses are expiring.
We are still receiving between 90,000 and 100,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna even though we can’t even use the ones we already have.
Alsoonce the vaccines are in the country they can be donated to the Covax programme, this programme only accepts donations directly from the manufacturers facilities.
Are we paying for all these vaccines, what a waste of money.
I was double jabbed about 6 or 8 month ago, got the text for my booster and was lazy so never got around to it. Wish I had, kids brought Covid home last week and by Friday I had symptoms, took an antigen and it was positive, went for pcr and it was positive. Now I was always a little sceptical when it came to the severity of it all but my mind has changed, it's a nasty dose as the saying goes. I can see how certain people would struggle with this. I think I've had proper flu once in my 50 odd years alive and this feels very close to it, I'd describe it as a cross between a nasty chest infection and the flu. I'm not the type to lay in bed when I'm ill but I waved the white flag today.
They have a 6 month shelf life, so would have arrived when Delta was dominant and causing havoc.
Will I fquq be taking one... Fuq Anthony!
...Fauci?
If there's one thing that really puzzles me about this pandemic in Ireland it's the permeation of US politics and culture war memes (usually from the political right) into Irish conversations about dealing with the virus.
Do you live in the US? If not, what does "Anthony" have to do with your decision to take a vaccine?
Anthony Holahan ?
Not taking it until needed for travel.
Could be! I saw a reference to Fauci further up the page so assumed that was it
when you book an appointment you dont know which one you are going to get, would they change for this one and say that a particular centre is going to be using them?
You hold strong brother, no one can force you to bend to their will, unless of course you are going to Majorca. 😏
Nothing planned yet, bud. Here's hoping they get rid of the mandate soon for travel.
By summer they may well have done.
With the EU putting the expiry on the 2 doses cant see them letting go by the summer they’ll need to coerce as many as possible to get the 3rd shot and it’s shown to be an effective tool.
Have my Booster booked for Feb. 29th........ cant wait.
Booster rates in the EU are between about 45% and 60%, the UK is at 55% and it will hard for countries to push it much higher than that as the virus wanes. It will be a proper tourist season versus vaccination levels and we may see most just move to negative antigen tests if they see the pandemic is over.
Nice day for it!
9 days since the last post here. It looks as if people have lost interest in being vaxxed/boosted.
No news on the radio/tv anymore. The whole Covid thing has disappeared without trace.
What a joke.
Or maybe it’s because most people are vaccinated at this stage and the current predominant strain isn’t as dangerous as the delta variant. What hasn’t disappeared is misinformation and stupidity, that lingers unabated apparently.
You sound disappointed.
I'm not disappointed at all. I'm relieved.
But after two years of catastrophic news reports for something to disappear apparently without trace is strange to say the least, don't you think?
It was the first item on the news for so long, and often the only item on the news. And then - GONE.
You think it’s gone? 11k new cases today, over 600 in hospital, 64 in ICU. Good job so many are vaccinated and the current predominant strain is milder. Hence why the news isn’t as grim as it used to be.
Besides which, the economic affects of the pandemic are now coming to the fore in news, Covid and it’s affects will be here for a long time.
So I’m double vaccinated since August and I’m not getting a booster for now , thought long and hard about it and will wait till at least 12 months before I even decide what to do,that’s what usual vaccines take
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