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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by scoofy on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @05:38PM (#32843748)
I listen to TWiV, and the prominent virologists there are suggesting that we don't actually know. In some of the latest episodes, they discuss frankly the fact that yearly boosters may or may not actually have any meaningful impact for normal healthy folks. They get into the details of why we know annual influenza boosters are effective, and that we really don't know whether COVID boosters will have the same effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_in_Virology

https://youtu.be/hwPhF7v4G4M?t=1240

https://youtu.be/jbPlhaHytm0?t=2449

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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by dekhn on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:01PM (#32844026)
This is correct: the current position of the medical establishment is that we simply don't have enough data to make an extremely strong argument for vaccines for healthy people.
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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by tylerhou on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:52PM (#32844562)
To be clear, do you mean no additional benefit for booster vaccines (not the original series)?
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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by dekhn on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:07PM (#32844686)
I don't know enough about the boosters yet (and nobody does). We'll have a better idea in January after the winter cycle is winding down.
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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by trention on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:52AM (#32849053)
And nobody knows enough about the flu vaccine currently yearly formulation in every year of the last 50+, but it was still recommended and administered to 40+% of US adults. Covid-related antivaxxism is just latent antivaxxers finally coming clean.
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Re:Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy... by scoofy on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:11PM (#32844722)
Watch the TWiV videos, they go into detail, and I time stamped them
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