I did have to do some searching to find that specific recommendation. The CDC as of yesterday hadn’t updated a couple of its main pages on Covid-19 vaccine policy to reflect booster timing for those previously infected.
CDC, FDA, and various providers need to get on the same page as to what exactly the rules are regarding the new boosters. Everything I’ve read seems to suggest that a new bivalent booster is possible something like two months after the last without it mattering if it is a second or third. Walgreens at least is saying that a third booster, bivalent or not, is not allowed. Seriously, why isn’t there a very simple FAQ for this that pops up as a first result?
I think my last exposure was November, when I got the first booster.
Sounds like I should schedule it soon.
I just booked an appointment for the new booster next week. I’ve had the first and second doses and one booster, all of which were Pfizer, and the pharmacy offered either Moderna or Pfizer this time. I booked the Pfizer vaccine but was wondering if I should instead get a Moderna shot, just to change things.
Is there information on how long they expect the protection to last with the new bivalent shots, presuming we don’t get a new escape mutation?
The general consensus seems to be that mix and match provides at least as good a protection and potentially even better (depending on several other factors).
So you’ll be fine whichever route you go but a different booster may well give you a few extra percentage points of protection.
Can it be true?
In the US we still have over 400 deaths a day, making COVID the third highest cause of death in the country. That doesn’t feel like the end is “in sight”.
I know… 
Well, maybe “the end” is we all just live with a lower expected lifespan and a higher expected risk of disability.
Yep. And that lower expected life expectancy will be for people not up to date on their vaccine and, unfortunately, immunocompromised people who aren’t vigilant about testing and don’t seek antiviral therapy.
The unvaccinated (I define as anyone not updated yearly), will get covid once or twice a year. Unless covid mutates to get milder, they’ll have more chronic health issues than vaccinated people who may or may not even get covid.
If you use Worldometers Daily Deaths graph for the U.S. and click on the 7-day moving average checkbox, you can see that the moving average dropped over 20% between early August and the weekend before Labor Day. The summer high was 514 on Wednesday August 10th. This dropped to 401 by Sunday September 4th.
It takes about 10-14 days for these moving averages to stabilize – figures are frequently updated for about that long after they’re first posted. So we don’t yet have locked-in figures for Labor Day on forward. But we will soon. And going by a faster drop** in moving 7-day average detected cases (see Daily New Cases graph at same page), deaths aren’t likely in the medium term to surge back up.
** Fri 07/15/2022 - 133,047 ← SUMMER SURGE HIGH
Mon 07/25/2022 - 132,235
Mon 08/01/2022 - 125,348
Mon 08/08/2022 - 112,032
Mon 08/15/2022 - 102,411
Mon 08/22/2022 - 93,832
Mon 08/29/2022 - 89,777
Mon 09/05/2022 - 78,896
7 day moving average for Sep 4 is now listed as 81,897 or if you prefer Sep 6, it’s 75,143
And dropping nicely. Deaths are also dropping, and are only a little higher than they were during the sweet spot in July 2021, after vaccination and before we got hit with a lot of variants.
But positivity, (and sewage values) seem to be trending up in the northeast and the midwest. And those are likely our best leading indicators right now.
for positivity:
An interactive visualization of COVID-19 | 91-DIVOC
for sewage:
Covid-19 Wastewater Monitoring | Biobot Analytics
(actually, wastewater levels in the northeast seem to have leveled off, at about where they were mid-Nov last year, before the big holiday surges.)
The wife and I both got our third Covid booster yesterday, along with our flu shot. That makes five Covid shots in all, counting the original two doses a few weeks apart.
Many of the wife’s relatives in Bangkok have all come down with it recently, but being vaccinated, even with the crappy Chinese stuff, their symptoms are mild.
The head of the CDC has tested positive.
[Note this is unpaywalled MSN repost.]
The idiots are saying that Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field because he’s vaccinated. And Twitter is allowing it.
“And Twitter Elon Musk is allowing it.”