Both my husband and I have continued with the covid boosters, although it didn’t stop us from getting the virus over the Christmas period!!
The last booster we had was in February this year and as the time comes to renew it (or not) what are your views on whether we should continue to have them.
Thank you.
Frankly, if you trust your Doctor… ask the question… your Doctor knows you and your health, so should give you wise advice…
good luck
(our Doc has never given us bad advice… 
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I talked to pharmacist about it a few days back when having my tetanus booster. The only spring recall this year was for the very fragile, but there will be an autumn combined flu/covid vaccine available. I will take it,
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Nor will it, might reduce the symptoms a little but there are associated risks with keeping up the boosters. One takes one’s chance.
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there will be an autumn combined flu/covid vaccine available. I will take it,
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Me too October or Nov depending on travel plans, although there’s been a resurgence around us in the past few weeks - despite our crazy dining companions belief that it’s just a mental perception of something that doesn’t physically exist.
Just for info, there is currently quite a lot of research into link between Covid jabs and pericarditis (friend in big pharma). Rare cases were already found from the beginning.
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And many other common causes of pericarditis including a host of viruses, having had a heart attack, or having a chronic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis. One has to assess one’s own risks, and appetite for short and long term risks.
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“Rare” is the key word here. Rare side-effects were used by the anti-vax crowd as an argument for not having the Covid vaccine during the pandemic - as for the MMR and other vaccines of proven effectiveness. In a pandemic situation that was clearly irresponsible.
Of course nothing is risk-free, and you should always consult a medical professional, but if having a vaccine comes with a very low risk of side-effects and prevents you from suffering a serious bout of Covid requiring hospitalisation or even risk of death, then it’s worth having a booster IMHO.
The UK NHS hasn’t announced its autumn Covid (and flu) vaccination programme yet, but I would assume it will be the same as the Spring one - just for people with weakened immune systems, care home residents, and the over 75s.
I imagine France will do something similar - I believe last time it was the above groups but over 80s not over 75s.
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None of us will be having any more jabs after my son’s rare problem this year which the specialist did not rule out by being caused by a side effect as he had the hated AZ one when we all had Moderna or Pfizer. Still reckon it was developed far too quick to be used. However if folks want to continue its their business but I won’t be preached to about the situation and will take my chance.
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You’re obviously luckier with your medical professionals. My MT and my cardiologist both shrugged their shoulders. 
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If I’m offered vaccination this year I’ll take it, though I think I may have already had COVID back in the spring - ended up seeing the GP about 10 weeks after the first symptoms, because although I didn’t seem so bad at the time, had tiredness and brain fog for a couple of months afterwards.
Vaccination should reduce severity of symptoms. Because of the route of infection it’s unlikely a completely protective vaccine could ever be developed, but it might make the difference between you just getting sick or dying.
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Shrugging shoulders means they don’t want to give advice… which is sad but understandable…
It’s true, we’ve had an excellent rapport with our Doc for nigh on 25 years. He’s of the same standard as our family doc in UK, who advised us to come to France…
Well possibly some, the anti, anti vaxers were just as bad. The Oxford astra zeneca vaccine was taken off the market for just that reason after the Danes and the Germans worked out why and how it was causing problems. 27 million pounds has been handed out by the UK government for severely handicapped vaccine sufferers and I think the max payout is 100k so thats a lot of people who have suffered and thats the very serious ones.
This thread has reminded me. Back in April both of us had the invitation and shortly afterwards when the nurse was visiting Fran I showed them to her and asked if she would come out for both of us. ‘Certainly’, she said and that she would be in touch to fix the date.
What with everything else that was going on soon afterwards I completely forgot and she has never been back in touch.
I have the letter here beside me and it says ‘between the 15th of April and the 16th of June.’. Does this mean it is too late now?
No it was discontinued once there were lots of other vaccines available, that were more effective against the Covid variants then current:
All medical treatments carry some risk. But as that link points out, the benefits of widespread vaccination outweighed the risks when the pandemic was in full swing. Once the pandemic was over, new risk calculations were made, hence why Covid boosters are now only recommended for those with immune deficiencies, and the elderly.
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Yes I think so - the Spring programmes stopped in June. But I would think there will be another booster round in a couple of months, before the winter.
I think they jumped before they were pushed.
Plenty of countries raised concernes.
Likewise the method of delivery was also questioned as some countries routinely tested the aspiration of blood where others didnt which could mean the vaccine hits the blood stream instead of diffusing via the muscle as it should.
Well - that’s made our minds up. We won’t be having the booster unless something drastic happens and the virus is rampant again.
Apart from the bout of covid at Christmas neither of us have suffered from flu and colds during the winter so we have always chosen not to have the flu jabs. Even in the UK we didn’t have them and as neither of us have any chest or breathing problems now, have always said that we would not take the offer up when we received the CPAM reminder letters.
We appreciate all the input received. It’s good to get your views.
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Except that the very link that you quote to sustain that opinion says:
…regulators find the benefits of its Covid-19 shot outweigh the risks.
Anyway never mind, I don’t suppose we shall agree on this topic.
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Having once had flu I really, really don’t want it again as it was awful. And that was when I was younger and fitter. However my main motivation for having the jab is to help achieve the numbers of people vaccinated that will stop it circulating, and so reduce risks for the very vulnerable.
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