When and whether to get a COVID booster should depend on your health status, risk tolerance, timing of last infection and other personal factors, experts say.
What if I’m young and healthy? Do I really need another booster?
The short answer is: probably not, as long as you don’t mind being sick for a week or two.
Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.
Many people get an annual flu shot, not to avoid death but because they don’t want to miss work or life or be miserable for a few weeks. The same is true for COVID-19.
They’re just publishing advice that’s the exact opposite of public health science. Apathy and zero guidance is already making it so that very few people are getting the boosters but they feel the need to actively make things worse.
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Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.
COVID is just like the flu, bro. Trust me, bro
They’re just publishing advice that’s the exact opposite of public health science. Apathy and zero guidance is already making it so that very few people are getting the boosters but they feel the need to actively make things worse.