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As a immunocompromised individual. Thank you to everybody who is continuing to get boosted. I love you all

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Counting down the days to #7!! 💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 🥳 🎉

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Whoa wait - I’ve only had 5 and I thought I had all the ones that were offered and recommended for my age group. My most recent was this past September, I guess I should look into when I’m due for #6. Thanks!

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Woah seven? If you dont mind, what’s your condition that calls for that many?

I’m staying current on flu, but multiple physicians have advised me that the most recent COVID vaccine isn’t applicable for normal, healthy folks

Edit: I’m not furthering an antivaxx perspective here, I’ve had 4. I was curious where in the world, or under what conditions 7 is the current recommendation.

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I’m not them, but I’ve also had 6 shots.

My condition is wanting to minimize the likelihood of passing covid on to someone who is less able to fight it off.

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oh yeah well i had all of my appendages replaced with needles so i’m better

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I am now happily married to a needle and started a family of human-needle hybrid children. So. :p

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13 points

Resistance to a disease for zero effort? I’ll take it.

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5 points

Isn’t herd immunity an amazing thing?

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people who’d had three doses of the COVID vaccine were 68.7 percent less likely to develop long COVID compared with those who were unvaccinated.

That’s pretty big news.

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That news is 2-3 months old. It’s too bad the news organizations decided COVID is over.

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I guess it depends on where you’re going for news. My local NPR affiliate frequently reports out on regional trends for flu and COVID.

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a single dose of the COVID vaccine reduced the likelihood of long COVID by 30 percent.

people who’d had three doses of the COVID vaccine were 68.7 percent less likely to develop long COVID

I’m so happy I got my fourth booster a while back.

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This is probably preaching to the choir, but long covid is pretty nasty stuff. If you are able to regularly get vaccinated against covid and the vaccines are also effective at lowering risk of long covid, then get vaccinated.

I’m traumatized after seeing the effects of long covid on a family member. The covid infection itself wasn’t great, mind you, but the after effects have been awful.

It’s been 2 long and difficult years since the initial covid infection. There was a point when things were on the right trajectory in terms of recovery, but if I’m actually being honest with myself, it was false hope. The person I used to know isn’t ever really, fully coming back. It’s traumatic for them because they know they aren’t the same. It’s traumatic for me because I lost the caring, intelligent, thoughtful, loving, empathetic person I used to know while also watching them suffer from delusions, depression, and all manner of issues while fully realizing that something is wrong without knowing what or how to fix/change it.

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Me sitting over here like 🙋🏼‍♀️I had all my shots and still haven’t had COVID

Let’s see if that changes though with upcoming travel an a tolerance break. 😬😷

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I’m pretty sure I had it last month. Tested negative the entire time though. Feel fine now but tastes still a bit weird.

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