What the title says, I was talking to someone last month and they'd mentioned how they get boosters on their own schedule and that because of the dysfunctional nature of US healthcare no one keeps track or cares. I switched insurance this January to a new insurance company and it seemed like a good time to test it out. I just said that I'd lost my card and my last shot was earlier than when the bivalent boosters were released and went to a different pharmacy than I had previously had gone to. I know a few people who have had breakthrough cases since getting their bivalent boosters in September and wanted to avoid this. I figured I would share this info since we're more or less on our own for preventing infection.
Good. My coworker wanted to lie and get a booster before they were authorized for it, because it had been a year since their last booster, but ended up waiting. In the mean time they got covid, and are still dealing with post covid issues 3 months later.
This literally happened to me in May of 2022. I got my previous booster in November of '21 and then they had non-immunocompromised people wait for the Bivalent shot despite waning immunity, I had thought about just getting another one since it had been >6 months, but thought it was against "the rules" so I didn't and got covid. I've gotten covid twice, in 2020 and 2022, and I have no intention of getting it a 3rd time.