Per my pharmacy website, I had the Moderna vaccine in June 2024, and the Pfizer vaccine in November 2024.
Doesn’t look like an updated one will be available for several months - but I’m wondering if it’s worth getting a booster now anyway. My logic being a) I have surgery in less than a month, and b) I’ll be travelling for a good part of the time in between.
I’m definitely in a higher risk group (66, asthmatic), on the other hand, when we DID catch COVID, 3 years back, it really was “just a bad cold” for us. Likely because, not being complete morons, we were fully vaccinated.
I’m curious if you asked your doctor this question and what they said. I don’t think there’s universal agreement within the medical community about whether a booster is necessary for everyone.
Here are the recommendations from a government that didn’t put RFK Jr in charge of vaccines:
Canada would recommend that at 65 you have one dose per year, with the new vaccines available in the fall. You could chose to have a second dose in the spring, but it’s not a recommendation.
Seems like I’m covered well enough - and of course I will be masking when we’re in crowded places. If my surgery had to be postponed because I got sick, it would likely not happen until next year!
I asked if they had them; he said they had the older one. I said I’d check my records and see if I’d already had that one. I didn’t specifically say “had my last one xxx months ago, do I need a new one?”.