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Re:U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots ... by fighterpilot on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:59PM (#28212109)
Elementary economic thinking answers this question.

Benefits asymptote, so you'll stop at the point where the marginal benefit of an additional shot is less than the marginal financial cost, marginal opportunity cost and marginal cost of side effects all combined.

That's definitely not the case before two and may not be the case before three based on data we've seen. It might be the case before four.

And this doesn't factor in declining immunity over time. It might make sense to keep taking shots every half a year forever, until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps.

Re:U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots ... by iamthepieman on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:31PM (#28212521)
This is basically what is done with the flu shot although it's a very different mechanism in the actual vaccine.
Re:U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots ... by tboyd47 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:14PM (#28213689)
> until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps.

How do we know that that hasn't already happened? If we don't know, when will we know?

Re:U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots ... by fighterpilot on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:57PM (#28214133)
We will know when CFR/IFR goes down among unvaxxed people who haven't had COVID before.