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I got a booster shot yesterday afternoon--Moderna, when I'd gotten Pfizer for my first two jabs. I was expecting the side effects to be worse even though the Moderna booster is a half dose (50mcg as opposed to 100), and I was right, but thankfully though they aren't fun they aren't too bad so far. Arm pain at the site, woke me up at 6am when my ibuprofen wore off, but I took some more and was able to go back to sleep. Muscle/joint aches from when I woke up and a very mild fever, which I think broke around dinnertime and has perhaps ticked up again slightly. I planned to take it easy and spent chunks of time horizontal in bed and that seemed to make it possible to get up and do a few things in the between times. Hopefully tomorrow this will be over with; I'm going to bed very shortly to try to facilitate that. Thanks daylight savings!
In all seriousness, I was practically dancing my way out of the pharmacy after my 15 minutes' observation were up, and I couldn't help but do a fist pump as well. Not sure when I'll have this kind of uncomplicated yay feeling again; I wasn't really expecting it. But it was nice.
Anyway, I am not a doctor but if you're over 16 I do recommend getting a booster--looking at data from other countries and listening to Fauci's comments (to say nothing of the plateau in cases that may presage a fifth wave) it seems clear that the U.S. vaccine regimen will be upped to three shots eventually. Personally I wasn't willing to wait for the FDA's weirdly conservative vaccine committee to decide that decreasing breakthrough infections is worth the risk of "increased uncertainty" when their inaction constitutes a direct risk to my health (and when California is discarding more than half a million vaccine doses unused). It's a pandemic! We're all used to uncertainty at this point. But now, about this, I have a lot less.
In all seriousness, I was practically dancing my way out of the pharmacy after my 15 minutes' observation were up, and I couldn't help but do a fist pump as well. Not sure when I'll have this kind of uncomplicated yay feeling again; I wasn't really expecting it. But it was nice.
Anyway, I am not a doctor but if you're over 16 I do recommend getting a booster--looking at data from other countries and listening to Fauci's comments (to say nothing of the plateau in cases that may presage a fifth wave) it seems clear that the U.S. vaccine regimen will be upped to three shots eventually. Personally I wasn't willing to wait for the FDA's weirdly conservative vaccine committee to decide that decreasing breakthrough infections is worth the risk of "increased uncertainty" when their inaction constitutes a direct risk to my health (and when California is discarding more than half a million vaccine doses unused). It's a pandemic! We're all used to uncertainty at this point. But now, about this, I have a lot less.