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?
Cheers for your thoughts
I’m not giving you individual medical advice but in general NIAC recommend that if someone (who is eligible for a 2nd booster) had a Covid infection since their first booster, they should wait 6 months after the infection before getting 2nd booster . That can be shortened to 4months by HSE for operational reasons.
Quick query re second booster jabs.
From talking to other people, I am pretty sure I had a mild dose of COVID just after St Patrick's Day.
Not 100% certain as antigen tests are notoriously fiddly and not totally reliable and the two I took at the time came back negative.
While HSE says you should wait four months for a second booster it says nothing about my sort of case on their website.
Anyone had a similar experience or got any advice?
Thanks in advance for your help
People will have no great issue with a COVID/flu jab being available annually but it certainly won't be these versions of them.
I know several people who are double vaccinated since last summer and also picked up Omicron around Xmas. They all said they have no intention of getting the booster when they become eligible in 3 months. They have strong protection with a hybrid immunity (vaccine + natural) but I think some might reconsider a booster as we enter Winter 2022. Hard to say.
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
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.
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 sound disappointed.
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.
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.
Nice day for it!
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.
Have my Booster booked for Feb. 29th........ cant wait.
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.
By summer they may well have done.
Nothing planned yet, bud. Here's hoping they get rid of the mandate soon for travel.
You hold strong brother, no one can force you to bend to their will, unless of course you are going to Majorca. 😏
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?
Could be! I saw a reference to Fauci further up the page so assumed that was it
Not taking it until needed for travel.
Anthony Holahan ?
...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?
Will I fquq be taking one... Fuq Anthony!
They have a 6 month shelf life, so would have arrived when Delta was dominant and causing havoc.
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.
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.
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@?
Guessing theres no idea yet when the Novovax vaccine will be rolled out. Would prefer to get that as a booster over Pfizer/Moderna
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.
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