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Adults Can Now Get the RSV Vaccine. Here’s Who Should Get the Shot and When
News Observer ^ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 | KIMBERLY CATAUDELLA

Posted on 09/12/2023 3:29:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Respiratory syncytial virus, usually shortened to RSV, is a common respiratory virus that can cause mild, cold-like symptoms. While most people recover within a couple weeks, the illness can be severe for infants and older adults, sometimes requiring hospitalization.

Earlier this year, the CDC approved an RSV vaccine for adults, adding another shot to combat the “tripledemic” we were in last winter between COVID, the flu and RSV.

Unlike COVID and the flu, medical professionals are not encouraging everyone to get vaccinated against RSV. In fact, only a handful of the population should get this vaccine.

Here’s what to know about who should get the vaccine and when.

WHO SHOULD GET AN RSV VACCINE?

Only a small portion of the population should get an RSV vaccine.

• This includes people who are 60 and older who have compromised immune systems and/or heart problems who would be deeply impacted by a flu-like virus, said UNC Health’s Dr. David Wohl.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: rsv; rsvvaccine
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To: nickcarraway

Oh yeh, I can hardly wait. 🙄


21 posted on 09/12/2023 5:36:43 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nickcarraway
"Only a small portion of the population should get an RSV vaccine"

That's why we have to make sure everyone knows about it.

22 posted on 09/12/2023 5:44:12 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: nickcarraway

I note it’s being advertised as an RSV Adjuvant vaccine.

Really? What exactly are the adjuvants?


23 posted on 09/12/2023 5:48:34 PM PDT by null and void (I always love a good argument, even when you’re wrong };^P>)
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To: nickcarraway

I refuse any and all vaccines. You name it, I avoid it.


24 posted on 09/12/2023 5:49:48 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: nickcarraway

Translation: You are all going to die from a cold.


25 posted on 09/12/2023 5:50:54 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: AlaskaErik

You definitely should get the shingles vaccine. I begged it doctor for four years. Finally, he allowed me to get it. I’m so happy. I know people who got it and it’s hell on earth. Don’t be stupid like the antivaxxers who brought back diseases that were out of America due to selfishness.


26 posted on 09/12/2023 7:33:57 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: CJ Wolf

Now all they need is the big, fat used car salesman saying “And dis time I’m being honest wichou.”


27 posted on 09/12/2023 7:55:19 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: napscoordinator
You definitely should get the shingles vaccine.

First of all, shingles is not contagious. And if the CDC recommends it, I'm not getting it. I have a very robust immune system and I'm not going to screw it up by getting vaccinations that cause more problems than they solve.

28 posted on 09/12/2023 10:51:25 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Wow. I hope you never get the hideous disease. Some live with pain for life from it.


29 posted on 09/13/2023 3:21:43 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: nickcarraway

My daughter’s a nurse. I’ll go along with her recommendation.


30 posted on 09/13/2023 3:27:32 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: nickcarraway

For some reason, the powers that be and their media mouthpieces, really really really want us to all get a vaccine. It matters not which vaccine we get, or even if we are at risk at whatever disease it is supposed to prevent, just get a da*n vaccine! Any vaccine!


31 posted on 09/13/2023 3:29:09 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: nickcarraway
This includes people who are 60 and older who have compromised immune systems and/or heart problems who would be deeply impacted by a flu-like virus, said UNC Health’s Dr. David Wohl.

FU, I'll take my chances with the flu bug.

32 posted on 09/13/2023 4:36:50 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: AlaskaErik

My 2 brothers got the first shingles shot (2-shot series). They did not go back for shot #2 because the first one was so rough (ill after the shot). Dr. McCullough said the shingles shot was the worst he’s ever gotten.

Shingles happens when your immune system is low. Shingles is also an adverse effect from the COVID shots, which crushes your immune system. A cousin has had repeat shingles (3 times at least) since she’s been getting the COVID shots/boosters. More than a few other friends & relatives have all gotten shingles after getting the COVID shots/boosters. Avoid the MRNA shots, keep your immune system high (Vit D, Vit C, other nutraceuticals, real food, fresh air, etc.) and you are much less likely to get shingles.


33 posted on 09/13/2023 7:25:06 AM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: NorthMountain

I disagree. In February, March and April of 2003 I was providing daycare for my newborn, premature granddaughter. Preemies are very susceptible to RSV, especially in winter, but there was an RSV vaccine available. I would take her for a booster shot every two weeks, which was all the longer the vaccine was effective. I was grateful for anything that kept her healthy and growing then, and I still am. She turned 20 in January.


34 posted on 09/13/2023 10:16:37 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Wiser now
I disagree.

You're free to do that.

Freedom to disagree with Government Almighty is rapidly disappearing.

35 posted on 09/13/2023 10:25:01 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: nickcarraway

CDC advisory panel examines GSK and Pfizer RSV vaccines, set to vote today on recommended use!:

Look out, GSK. Pfizer has its adult RSV vaccine approval and is raring to launch!

While GSK’s vaccine has shown efficacy of 82.6% in preventing RSV in year one and 94.1% efficacy in preventing severe disease, those figures drop to 77.3% and 84.6% in the second RSV season, respectively, with a median follow-up time of 14 months from administration.

Additionally, another subset of the trial showed that those receiving a second shot a year after initial administration received no boost in second season efficacy. This means “revaccination after 12 months does not appear to confer additional benefit,” the company wrote.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/cdc-advisory-panel-examines-gsk-pfizer-rsv-data-will-vote-afternoon-recommended-use


36 posted on 09/14/2023 8:12:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just crystallized Trump’s campaign with a a-free image winning him nomination!))
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To: nickcarraway

Let me translate:

“Anyone approaching the SS/medicare leeching age or otherwise likely to cost money to be kept alive.”


37 posted on 09/14/2023 8:14:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: null and void

All jabs have adjuvants in them. This is just a way of not otherwise being specific.


38 posted on 09/14/2023 8:15:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Yup. What specifically are they not saying?
39 posted on 09/14/2023 8:33:32 AM PDT by null and void ( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
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To: null and void

“For those we really want to triple down on their death shots this fall...” Or, more scientifically, “Here comes another wonderful mRNA kill shot!”


40 posted on 09/14/2023 8:36:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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