As you may know, second bivalent boosters are currently only approved for people 65+ or whom are immune compromised. As you also may know, the vast majority of the booster's effect only lasts about three months.
I scheduled it online- I just ticked yes for the first box for "are you taking any meds that may compromise your immune system." The same question is repeated a second time on another page but answering yes here requires you to enter information about the medication, so I entered no and it let me schedule it anyway.
If I was asked in person I was just going to say I use a steroid nasal spray (i don't) but the dude didn't say anything. Seemed happy to have someone getting a vax if anything.
When I took virology many years before Covid19 hit and all that extra anti-vax noise, the teaching assistant would describe vaccines as 'customs for your immune system', it amused me so much it stuck with me this long. I'm getting due myself next month or so.
I went to get my second bivalent and got turned away because I'm not old or compromised. It never occured to me to lie.... :curious-marx: I need to reschedule...
Yep I noticed the American studies said vaccines don't speed up long covid recovery but the European ones said it did. What a fugazi follow the fuckin money
Who's telling the truth? The place with better healthcare funding
What does fugazi mean in this context? My memory says "fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in" but I don't actually know what that means
Back in my day, Fugazi meant fraud. A fake. :flattened-bernie:
as an immunocompromised diabetic - i recommend just saying you're diabetic they can't really verify that other than asking to check your blood glucose level and tbh even then they're not gonna be like "wow are you sure about that???"
Is this a different vax than the one last summer? or same formulation?
It's the most recent formulation (the one that was updated to better protect against omicron) and I think it started to roll out for the elderly/immune compromised group in mid-September 2022 and then to everyone about a month later.
