Well, thanks to you both for the additional information. I’ll be scheduling my Novavax shot this week!
Around these parts, it may be available at Albertsons, Costco, CVS Pharmacy, Publix and Rite Aid. I had to check around, because at least according to the info available on the web, some stores even in those chains didn’t have it
I got it at Costco, and it was a surprisingly pleasant customer experience. I am not a Costco member, and you didn’t need to be to do business with their pharmacy, which is where they give vaccines.
I just got the new booster shot- but my friends- dont plan on going anywhere the next day- I got the chills for about four hours, and I could barely drag my old ass out of bed at noon.
Autumn is on the horizon, and we’re thinking about the next booster. I went to the pharmacist at CVS for clarification on when we should get it. We had our last (updated for its time) booster in mid-March 2024. So she says next one will be updated again and it will be available in the fall. But she doesn’t know just when and says CVS will send out notifications when they have it. In the meantime, she says our March boosters are still good.
We’re going on vacation on October 5, so I hope we will have had this jab and recovered from it by then.
FWIW, the NYTimes latest:
I’m tapping my toes waiting the latest Pfizer and Moderna vaccine too, counting the days. Regretfully I don’t have a vacation coming up(enjoy! bon voyage) but I’m very high risk because of age and several pulmonary conditions, plus I have to live long enough to be sure my daughter continues to raise my only grandchildren right (she’s doing a fine job considering the example I set).
Best guess is they will recommend at least 3 months between shots to get the new one, since that’s their current recommendation re recovering from covid and it’s a reasonable time. So if you are eligible now, and get a booster soon, you could probably get another shortly before Thanksgiving.
I got covid in the spring, and I’m not in a high risk group (under 65) so I’ll be waiting until the new one comes out. Debating whether to get mRNA or Novavax then.
I got the 2 Moderna ones in 21. Had covid this March.
Not getting boosters.
The US has leaned heavily into vaccines. Germany recommends that everyone get three initial exposures (some mix of vaccines and infections, at least one of which should be from a vaccine) and only recommends regular boosters for:
- All people aged 60 or over
- Residents of long-term care facilities
- Anyone over the age of six months with relevant underlying conditions
- People of all ages with an increased infection risk on account of their occupation in healthcare or long-term care that involves direct contact with patients or residents
- Family members and close contacts of people for whom the COVID-19 vaccination is unlikely to produce a protective immune response
Current information on coronavirus vaccination | BMG(monovalent%3A%20Comirnaty%20XBB.
I get sick enough from other respiratory bugs that i want all the protection i can get against covid. But i think most young adults who don’t have any special risk factors, and don’t live with anyone who has risk factors, don’t have to worry too much about covid.
I am a Novid and want to keep that status. Hubs had the real thing three times and didn’t seem to have much fun.
I will be getting the updated booster next month. I like flogging my immune system because it isn’t as strong as it was when I was young.
I’ll be getting it too, the first day it is available in my state, for the same reasons.
I’ll probably get my geezer high dose flu shot at the same time, just for convenience.
I got the RSV vaccine the first day it was out also. The jury is still out on when or if it will ever need boosting.
I’m going to wait until 6 months after my covid infection, since there’s a lot of data that suggests that increases the value of the vaccine. That means early October. That’s also late enough that i should have decent protection through New Year, which is when it’s peaked locally the last 3 years.
(We have highish rates now, but the northeast has lower rates than the rest of the country, per sewage data, and i expect our biggest peak will be new years again.)
The nurse assured me that she would have the geezer flu shot available for me as well.
I got my RSV the same time I got my whooping cough jab. OK, it was the DTAP, but I only got it because whooping cough was going around in my social circle.
I’m ready to get a monkeypox jab if needed. I like not getting sick needlessly.
I’m not in the geezer range (yet), but just had my first known (many, many positive tests) symptomatic COVID bout in early July, so I’ve got it scheduled with my wife’s at-work clinic in the second week of October along with my seasonal flu shot.
But I still have my second Shingrix shot to look forward to at the end of this month (this coming Friday to be precise)!
I’ve an appointment for my flu shot on September 9, and I do hope the 2024-2025 Covid vax will be available by then so I can get them both at the same time. I want to deal with only one day of post vaccine ickiness.
I had a very mild case in mid-June. I have a week trip to Disney at the beginning of December, and a cruise at the end of January. I’d normally aim for the vaccine two weeks before the Disney trip, putting it right at 5 months since my infection. I need to see what the data says there, but I think getting the vaccine then probably still makes sense, since I’m aiming to cover specific time frames and not “the most time possible.”
I got that one about a year ago, because i was going to a gay dance event that had a lot of skin-to-skin contact. I waited until all the high risk people had done it, and appointments were easy to get.
- get it in a spot that’s not too visible. It gives you a local bump that can take months to go away, and it’s sometimes a permanent scar.
- don’t stress about when to get it. That bump was my only symptom, and i haven’t heard of anyone else feeling sick after getting it. And i know a LOT of people who got it. Someone would have whined in my hearing if bad reactions were at all common.
The “don’t get sick at all” immunity apparently wanes fairly quickly, especially in people who never had the older, nastier smallpox vaccine. (The bugs are related, and i think all the vaccines are actually based on cowpox, which cross-reacts with both smallpox and mpox.) But as with other vaccines, the “keeps you out of danger” immunity lasts much longer.
Canada has promised approval of the new vaccines early autumn, so I am guessing October 1.
I’m medium risk with T2 Diabetes, so I will probably be able to get mine mid-October.
My 86 year old mother managed to catch Covid for a second time at a family wedding about 4 weeks ago, so she’s probably going to get the new vaccine at about the same time based on a minimum 3 month wait post-infection recommendation here.
Im getting my Covid vax today in 3 hours, at my grocery store pharmacy. I’ll get my geezer high dose flu shot at the same time, mostly for convenience and laziness. I’m in a city of 300,000 in the Midwest so here’s hoping if it has reached here, it’s available where you are also.
I’m getting the Pfizer, the other Covid vax wasn’t offered yet.
Is there still a 1-year rule for these new Covid shots? I had tried to get one last month but was turned away because my previous shot was Sept-25-2023 and they told me it hasn’t been a year yet - but that was for the old Comirnaty one.