Twice.
Looks like all the vaccines will require two shots.
Though maybe the side effects, if you have them, wouldn’t be as bad the second time around.
The J&J vaccine will be a single-dose one. But it is several months behind Moderna and Pfizer. The compliance will be much better because with the two-dose vaccines, many will not return for their booster shot.
Won’t give me side effects.
Cuz I ain’t takin’ it until I see millions of people prove to me that they are just fine after taking it.
My daughter isn’t taking it until I see no changes in birth rates or birth stats in the US. So she won’t have these sideeffects for a few years possibly.
So I guess this is a nothing burger ?
Looks like all the vaccines will require two shots.
Though maybe the side effects, if you have them, wouldn’t be as bad the second time around.
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The worry I’ve seen expressed by health officials is that the first shot will be such an unpleasant experience, that many will not return for shot #2.
I have two close relatives who, within the last year, got shingles (I think) shots ... felt so bad/sore, etc. they never went back for the second one. Not going back is definitely “a thing”.
I’ve had the regular ‘flu shot a couple of times. Once, I had no side effects. The other time I felt sort of lousy for a while; but given all of my ‘issues’ there was no way of telling if it was the result of the shot, or just Winter and the usual stuff that I suffer from intermittently.
I talked to my doc the other day. He said that from what he has learned, he is hopeful about these vaccines; but that if he concludes something different, he’ll let me know.
Find a good doctor who stays carefully on top of the literature, and follow his advice.
Hard to get those side effects if you don’t take the vaccine.
A year ago this week, I got my second shingles shot.
The next day, I felt like a heavyweight had hit my injection arm with a ball bat. I had the bruises to show it.
2 days later I either got Covid or a lot of stuff from that shot. I had a mild fever and blood in my urine.
My wife, a retired RN called our HMO online advice person. They had me come in for a urine test and to get an RX for a probable infection. The on call doc wrote an RX for 5 days of an oral quin-alone and a 5 days of Bactrim. The urine test was negative re any bacteria.
We went to a son’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. My low fever was gone. I had no appetite for my favorite dinner, turkey and the standard sides. I could not smell nor taste my favorite dinner.
Then, I started having lower GI problems and continued no appetite an absence of smell/taste. Our HMO ordered basically every diagnostic test known to man. They found nothing.
Then, we had Christmas at another son’s home. He and a grandson were sick in a few days. The son was ill for about 4 weeks. The grandson was well in a few days. Our son had my symptoms for the 4 weeks.
The women in our families never were sick during this time.
We never found what we had. This was weeks before the CV 19 was in our area. Looking back, I think that I and our son had CV19.
The thing some of the really serious side effects may not show up for about 5 years, so if so your screwed.