Are You Having The Booster ?

[andipandi]

Think the doctor is stating 8 weeks from info that must be in the public domain somewhere?

2 weeks to kick in followed by 8 weeks protection, is my understanding. Part of my reason for having the booster was I thought perhaps it would help with my long covid-ish symptoms

there’s a good possibility the doctor in the clip is a nut job.

This is the thing, vaccine and covid wise, unless people toe a certain line, they're labelled nut jobs, fucks me off tbh.

 

[Mr Ripple]

there’s a good possibility the doctor in the clip is a nut job.

But there's also just the same probability he's perfectly sane

 

[Crewella]

Also found this:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232657/boosters-vital-mitigate-impact-omicron-lose/

Summary from the report:

Vaccines have played a central role in mitigating severe disease and death from COVID-19 in the past 12 months. However, efficacy wanes over time and this loss of protection will be compounded by the emergence of the Omicron variant. By fitting an immunological model to population-level vaccine effectiveness data, we estimate that neutralizing antibody titres for Omicron are reduced by 4.5-fold (95% CrI 3.1–7.1) compared to the Delta variant. This is predicted to result in a drop in vaccine efficacy against severe disease (hospitalisation) from 96.5% (95% CrI 96.1%–96.8%) against Delta to 80.1% (95% CrI 76.3%–83.2%) against Omicron for the Pfizer-BioNTech booster by 60 days post boost if NAT decay at the same rate following boosting as following the primary course, and from 97.6% (95% CrI 97.4%-97.9%) against Delta to 85.9% (95% CrI 83.1%-88.3%) against Omicron if NAT decay at half the rate observed after the primary course. Integrating this immunological model within a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, we show that booster doses will be critical to mitigate the impact of future Omicron waves in countries with high levels of circulating virus. They will also be needed in “zero-COVID” countries where there is little prior infection-induced immunity in order to open up safely. Where dose supply is limited, targeting boosters to the highest risk groups to ensure continued high protection in the face of waning immunity is of greater benefit than giving these doses as primary vaccination to younger age-groups. In all scenarios it is likely that health systems will be stretched. It may be essential, therefore, to maintain and/or reintroduce NPIs to mitigate the worst impacts of the Omicron variant as it replaces the Delta variant. Ultimately, Omicron variant-specific vaccines are likely to be required.​

 

[zouzounaki]

2 weeks to kick in followed by 8 weeks protection, is my understanding. Part of my reason for having the booster was I thought perhaps it would help with my long covid-ish symptoms



This is the thing, vaccine and covid wise, unless people toe a certain line, they're labelled nut jobs, fucks me off tbh.

i’ve known a number of medical professionals and come across many of them in a professional context. i used nut jobs” in the most general sense, not specifically in relation this stuff. many of them really have lost the plot in my experience.

 

[zouzounaki]

But there's also just the same probability he's perfectly sane

not necessarily, i don’t think we have a reference for the percentage of sane medical professionals vs mad.

 

[Mr Ripple]

not necessarily, i don’t think we have a reference for the percentage of sane medical professionals vs mad.

But you made the reference in the fir......... Oh nevermind

 

[Crewella]

not necessarily, i don’t think we have a reference for the percentage of sane medical professionals vs mad.

.... and who would be the judge of that???

*am Googling though*

 

[zouzounaki]

But you made the reference in the fir......... Oh nevermind

no, i just said it was possible.

 

[Crewella]

no, i just said it was possible.

A 'good possibility' IIRR ......... weighted slightly differently ...........

 

[andipandi]

What I'm waiting to see is if Omicron comes with long covid, if it can or does, I think we might be fucked.