Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response

Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by gnulinux on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:30PM (#27157963)

> No, it hasn’t. The only common annual vaccination is for influenza, it was introduced only in recent decades, and, as I mentioned, only half the population or less take it annually.

You only take flu annually but there are other vaccines you need to take periodically. E.g. tetanus booster every 10 years etc. For example, I'm supposed to take my last HPV vaccine this summer and this is the 3rd shot. I'm 25 and I took approx. one vaccine every year for the last few years. I'm not saying strictly one every 12 months, it's just that it doesn't make sense to be outraged about COVID vax since regular vax is already part of our lives.

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Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:34PM (#27158025)

Note that aledalgrande’s original post above was speaking specifically about annual vaccination. That is is a completely different league than the common vaccines that require a booster shot every decade or so, and are much easier for people moving around internationally to plan around.

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Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by AndrewBissell on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:43PM (#27160836)

All those vaccines were also tested much more extensively and use techniques which have been widely deployed for much longer than the Covid vaccines.

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Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by presidente20 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:32AM (#27164308)

This is exactly the point. We have decades of evidence for most vaccines and you only need them infrequently. That's a world away from a 6m old vaccine that hasn't been through the normal approval process.

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