Thinking about getting the Pfizer vaccine as a booster after J&J... Results of a casual Googling...

[NewtonMP2100]

.....booster......gold....

[C(-)ris]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
With people being so bad at stopping the spread even before the rise of variants that spread more easily, I expected that a booster would be needed.

I hope that vaccine manufacturers will become better at sharing updated recipes. The main issue now seems to be getting enough jabs into arms. That will only happen with bigger/faster rollouts. That is being hampered by stupid/evil/greedy bosses and CEO's like at the Emergent BioSciences factory.

The main issue now is people who won’t get them. We are dumping vials at this point. Supply and rollout are not an issue.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
With people being so bad at stopping the spread even before the rise of variants that spread more easily, I expected that a booster would be needed.

I hope that vaccine manufacturers will become better at sharing updated recipes. The main issue now seems to be getting enough jabs into arms. That will only happen with bigger/faster rollouts. That is being hampered by stupid/evil/greedy bosses and CEO's like at the Emergent BioSciences factory.

The main issue now is people who won’t get them. We are dumping vials at this point. Supply and rollout are not an issue.
Dumping vials is only happening because the distribution system was not designed for flexibility (partly because of disastrous lack of coordinated federal planning before Jan. 20, 2021, partly because of new extreme storage requirements for new mRNA vaccines). I can barely remember getting the polio vaccine. That was not done at dozens of different types of distribution sites, and they only had punch cards/tape back then.

The rest is multiple issues: 1) China hiding how bad the outbreak was (they still are). 2) the Cantaloupe Catastrophe denying it was a problem and making every aspect of public safety a political freedom issue. 3) it took nine months to get manufacturing up to speed partly because each company wanted to guarantee profits by hiding recent manufacturing secrets. 4) (covered above) no federal plan to schedule vaccinations, every state has different systems and some states* have multiple processes. 5) Faecesbook making money off of allowing anti-vax groups to spread hate since the 2006... etc.

* I'm looking at you WA... I couldn't register for a vaccination until almost a week into the period when my risk cohort had been approved. This seem to be mostly because the different sites in my county all had different methods for screening people and were not updating it promptly.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

cbelt3 wrote:
It's becoming more and more apparent that booster shots WILL be required in Q4 of this year. My expectation is that this will become standardized as part of the annual influenza immunization project. Which is GREAT... the more people get annual immunizations against fast mutating viruses, the better our species survival will be, and the lower our healthcare costs will be as a species.

Trust me - our species isn't going anywhere anytime soon.