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In reply to the discussion: Who here had a booster so far? Your experiences? [View all]lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)39. Whether Americans get boosters has essentially zero effect on global supply.
We are a drop in the bucket of the global population.
Also, Pfizer/Moderna shots are mainly what's been used here, very unlikely to be used in the 3rd world, due to nearly impossible cryostorage requirements. J&J and similar vaccines are what's needed around most of the planet.
WHO has indeed fallen down on the job again; I won't be basing my decisions on their ideas.
CDC is slightly better, FDA is just slow.
I am not questioning the motives of those agencies, and I understand why they can't turn on a dime. But there is a stream of science that shows boosters have value. I'm not talking HydroxyClorox Ivermectin woo woo, just workaday science.
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I have mixed feelings about getting a booster shot when millions of Third World residents
totodeinhere
Sep 2021
#1
Perfectly understandable, however they're only available now to high risk cases here.
herding cats
Sep 2021
#2
That's like my mother telling me to eat my carrots because kids are starving in China.
lagomorph777
Sep 2021
#37
Whether Americans get boosters has essentially zero effect on global supply.
lagomorph777
Sep 2021
#39
No offense, but I would rather trust the WHO as compared to an anecdote from you.
totodeinhere
Sep 2021
#40
I had no intention of telling you what to do - just describing my own thought process.
lagomorph777
Sep 2021
#41
Am waiting on the 8 months (October). The different news every day gives qualms but skipping qualms.
UTUSN
Sep 2021
#4
I'll get mine pretty soon. I have multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, and my doc said I should get it.
captain queeg
Sep 2021
#11
My husband has MM as well. He had little response to vaccine per LLS study but
Nanjeanne
Sep 2021
#29
Online appt, clicked Moderna 3rd immo, was on Predisone too, asked pharmacist, he said good to go
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Sep 2021
#22