Is it worth getting a second COVID-19 booster?

[mikebell]

2 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

4th? Lol I haven’t had the 1st! Snake oil!

Snap.  Ditto.  I was offered one if I journeyed to BKK from Pattaya but decided to risk Covid rather than Thai roads.

[Chongalulu]

2 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

4th? Lol I haven’t had the 1st! Snake oil!

That’s what a friend of mine’s attitude here was. Within about 2 months of each other we both got Covid. I had the inconvenience of a mild cold for about a week. He went into  hospital on the Monday and while I’m around to  tell you about my experience ,by the Friday he could not…. ???? ???? 

[brianthainess]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has yet to recommend the fourth dose, citing a lack of good evidence to back the recommendation. Hence, countries have taken different approaches where the second booster is concerned.

They should consult our esteemed Heath Minister Anutin I'm sure he could Clearly explain all the medical reasons. 

[Mike KIWI]

Pfizer share price is in the toilet. Is there really any question?

[Jimbo53]

5 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Hahaha...now it's not called Booster but a mandatory half yearly shot....

Who said it's Mandatory?

[Jimbo53]

35 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

Two is enough (at the moment), based on my trips in. Of course that may change.

 

BTW - anyone with a UK NHS number can now have overseas Covid shots added to their UK vaccination record. There used to be a requirement also to be registered with a UK GP, but not now. I just added a Thai AZ shot from last year so I have all my shots on one record.

On the NHS APP?

[RandiRona]

5 minutes ago, Jimbo53 said:

Who said it's Mandatory?

It will be....its a question of when not if.

Edited May 9, 2022 by RandiRona

[Jimbo53]

2 minutes ago, RandiRona said:

It will be....its a question of when not if.

That is only your opinion.

 

[billsmart]

I just got my fourth vaccine shot last week....

[bdenner]

Had a booster in January (my 3rd Pfizer) = Enough is enough, will take the advice of my GP in Australia when down there in June-July! Never had a flu shot in my life, will discuss that with him as well.

[Road Warrior]

my wife and self had 2 jabs , too much bad publicity on vax so NO MORE  

[ozimoron]

I just had my 4th booster a day after the annual flu shot. People close to me have had covid but so far I didn't get any symptoms. The 4th shot is recommended in Australia by health authorities for anyone over 60.

[Jimbo53]

1 minute ago, Road Warrior said:

my wife and self had 2 jabs , too much bad publicity on vax so NO MORE  

Ditto!

[internationalism]

because of sinovac (and sinopharm), which were the first used in thailand, boosters started to be given as early as august 2021 (that was 650k for medics taken from 1.5mln pfizer donated by the usa).

to travel internationally those 2 chinese vaxes are not accepted (in europe only to 9 countries, and still conditional).

 

my european vax application (integrated with data from thailand) doesn't allow me to get the second booster yet.

If there is yet another wave I would consider. Possibly then there would be the second generation moderna

[Jimbo53]

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

I just had my 4th booster a day after the annual flu shot. People close to me have had covid but so far I didn't get any symptoms. The 4th shot is recommended in Australia by health authorities for anyone over 60.

So if they recommended you take a Booster every month would you take one?

 

I am almost 70,had 2 shots of Pfizer,and unless i require any more to travel,then i am finished,i also decline the annual flu jab,as i never get the flu,so i don't pre-empt trying to fix something that aint broken! 

[ozimoron]

4 minutes ago, Jimbo53 said:

So if they recommended you take a Booster every month would you take one?

 

I am almost 70,had 2 shots of Pfizer,and unless i require any more to travel,then i am finished,i also decline the annual flu jab,as i never get the flu,so i don't pre-empt trying to fix something that aint broken! 

They aren't going to. Cut the FUD.

 

I'm looking forward to an omicron specific booster when one becomes available or even one of the new, more universal vaccinations. I don't want to suffer lifelong debilitation or worse from this once in a century pandemic and not falling for the idiotic anti vax nonsense.

Edited May 9, 2022 by ozimoron

[Tonypandy]

13 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

They aren't going to. Cut the FUD.

 

I'm looking forward to an omicron specific booster when one becomes available or even one of the new, more universal vaccinations. I don't want to suffer lifelong debilitation or worse from this once in a century pandemic and not falling for the idiotic anti vax nonsense.

Have you read the Pfizer reports that are available? These naughty antivaxers. 

[jossthaifarang]

3 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Never got a first booster and only got the initial 2 injections so could get on airplanes. 

FYI, the second one was the booster. These people are so confused! The third one is already a second booster, and a fourth would be a third booster. <deleted><kin madness!

[dinsdale]

Denmark where people are tripple jabbed has stopped it's vax program. Personally I have had 2 my last one about 6 months ago so probably waned considerabley. How the memory cells are going who knows. I would also be keen to know about my anti-body status but kits are not available. Not sure if they even exist. Not sure about getting a 3rd but a 4th seems unnecessary. Hospitalisations and deaths are going down rapididly everywhere and are nothing like Delta. This is way less severe.

[dinsdale]

56 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

That’s what a friend of mine’s attitude here was. Within about 2 months of each other we both got Covid. I had the inconvenience of a mild cold for about a week. He went into  hospital on the Monday and while I’m around to  tell you about my experience ,by the Friday he could not…. ???????? 

Sad to hear but you do not clarify what variant, how old and did your friend have comorbities. Rather important information in relation to the Sars-cov-2 disease.

[hughrection]

40 minutes ago, billsmart said:

I just got my fourth vaccine shot last week....

Probably wanna change your user name on here then. ????

[Harveyg]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Yeh nah, I'm sitting on the fence, 3 Pfizer jabs should do me fine, although I will look at things in August when it will be 6 months since I received my 1st booster, that said, prior to my 1st booster, I did a blood test which showed that the antibodies were waning so got the 1st booster, just to be sure, to be sure as Paddy told me.

 

What the government isn't telling people is that our T-cells should take over when and if we do get this virus, and of course we should survive it if we have been vaccinated.

 

They are also failing to advise us of the downside of getting too many doses, i.e. that it can do to our immune system as many top Dr's in their fields of immunology and virology have said.

 

Did I mention Anutin is not qualified in his elected position and that the WHO have got this one right thus far IMO.

1 hour ago, TooMuchTime said:

We can't talk about that bro.  Just be quiet and trust The Science

True enough.  But he is trusting the science when he also follows the money.

[Caldera]

I don't know yet. If it ever becomes a requirement for travel or if a booster is being sold that offers improved protection against current variants, I might get one. As of now, no plans. 

[Harveyg]

Another thing to consider is what another poster alluded to, namely, the possible long term effects of vaccine.  Are there any?

Do a google search such as "Autoimmune disease following 1, 2, or 3 covid vaccines."  Or, "Autoimmune disease following covid vaccination in South Korea."  Or whatever you like. It seems there are some questions.  

 

There are also two 8-9 episode docuseries presently available that inform this whole situation that you may find interesting and/or helpful. 

[ozimoron]

13 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Sad to hear but you do not clarify what variant, how old and did your friend have comorbities. Rather important information in relation to the Sars-cov-2 disease.

Bottom line is that he would more likely have still been around but for qualifying for the Hermann Cain award.

[SS1]

6 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

What about the 5th or 6th booster

On the 10th you get a free som tum. 

 

I got (very) sick for 3 days from the first vaccine, and 2 days from the second. Caught Covid a couple of months after the second shot and was sick for 11 days, which was tolerable. No more vaccines for me. 

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, SS1 said:

On the 10th you get a free som tum. 

 

I got (very) sick for 3 days from the first vaccine, and 2 days from the second. Caught Covid a couple of months after the second shot and was sick for 11 days, which was tolerable. No more vaccines for me. 

If this is correct it seems you dodged a bullet by getting vaccinated. It's amazing how many people didn't get very sick so they downplay the role of the vaccine when it was clear that the vaccine likely saved them from a much worse fate.

Edited May 9, 2022 by ozimoron

[Guderian]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

In Thailand, the government is encouraging people to get the fourth jab and has opened several channels for them to get their shot for free.

Yes, for those vaccinated at Bang Sue, but what about the millions of others who weren't? I haven't heard a whisper in Pattaya about the government giving a free second booster, only the usual rapacious private hospital charging three times as much as a hospital in the capital would for a half-dose of Moderna.

[4MyEgo]

33 minutes ago, jossthaifarang said:

FYI, the second one was the booster. These people are so confused! The third one is already a second booster, and a fourth would be a third booster. <deleted><kin madness!

Actually the 2nd wasn't the booster as the dosage levels given were halved if you like, so the 1st booster was the 2nd shot, the 2nd booster was the 3rd shot.

 

The above said, I have had two shots (one full dose) and a half dose (1st booster, 2nd shot).

 

As John Travolta would say; I'm so .........d

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by 4MyEgo

[David T Pike]

6 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Hahaha...now it's not called Booster but a mandatory half yearly shot....

Ahem.... Don't you mean a bi-annual shot?