That’s good to know, I hadn’t seen it called out like that. Setting expectations around it is probably important.
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I agree about expectations. It would be nice if the headlines were clearer! I’m seeing a lot of “enough by May” headlines that obscure that fact.
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Tentatively good news about Johnson & Johnson as more trial data comes in…while the (US-specific) efficacy is 72% 28 days after the shot, it seems to be over 90% effective after 56 days. Right up there with the mRNA vaccines, especially if you count time from the first dose of those.
Source under the cut because the graph turned out NSFW. They couldn’t think of a better way to depict the confidence intervals?? Anyway.
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I saw that graph, with the caption that “the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is rising to the occasion.”
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lol I’ve been operating under the assumption that maaaaaaybe I get to see my parents for Christmas this year. Maybe. So, no June vacations booked for me.
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I live in a state where it’s super easy to opt-out of mandatory vaccines for school, and guess what! We’ve had clusters of POLIO and MEASLES in the past couples years.
GREAT.
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Yeah. The ease of opting out of vaccines stresses me out so much with kids.
Like when daycare stops wearing masks- how do I know her teachers are vaccinated? Or that 90% of the class doesn’t have “religious” exemptions. (I doubt must religious objections are really people who are actually religious about other things.)
My anti-vax cousin runs a gymnastics chain in a large city. Which makes me nervous about sending her to activities. Because for sure HIS kids aren’t vaccinated against anything. So are gyms, pools, dance studios safe, even against things like MMR? We all know vaccines aren’t 100%, so having one ourself doesn’t help if everyone else skips out.
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There was a measles outbreak in the apartment building next door to my partner last year, as well as more generally in their neighborbood. It was terrifying.
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Yikes. Shit like that makes me glad I got a smallpox vaccine…
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A friend of mine whose son is immune compromised can’t send him to their local public elementary school because so many families opted out of “routine” vaccinations that they basically don’t have herd immunity. And that was from a couple years ago in (rural-ish) Florida.
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Are those even still available to the general public? (I think the military gets them for some deployments…)
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I had to get a mumps booster shot at the age of 24 because the neighborhood I was living in was next to a college that was experiencing a huge outbreak. I’m not sure how the outbreak arose because I remember having to send in my vaccination record to live on campus, and maybe it’s required to attend classes at all. Enough people applied for exemption? or the vaccine just loses efficacy between childhood and adulthood (hence the outbreak among 18+s? and the option to get a booster)
edit: I guess I didn’t have to get another vaccination, but it seemed like a good idea
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In the US at least, they’re only for military and state dept employees being deployed to certain regions (mostly near north korea because who knows what the DPRK might do…)
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The medically vulnerable eligibility in Florida is now “whoever can get a doctor to sign this form with no background needed”. The Governor said the decision to not have a list of what qualifies as medically vulnerable was so there was maximum flexibility.
I’m sure there is no way this will backfire and lead to just rich people with connections asking their doctor friends to sign their form. Or end up like requiring medical use for pot which means rich white people pay a “doctor” to say they have anxiety or whatever while poor black and brown folks go to jail.
(Confession time: when I read this, I immediately texted Husband to see if he would reach out to his doctor dad to sign for him. I am part of the problem)
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I was strongly encouraged to get a boster of the MMR vaccine after my pregnancy. In pregnancy here they test for antibiodies and if you don’t have them they advise to get a boster. I had the MMR vaccine as a kid in the normal time frame but did not have antibiodies. I’m pregnant again. This time I have the antibiodies so it must have took this time!
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I think this is the only reason why they still have a choice. Personally I think once the EUA is lifted and the vaccine is independent of it, it will be added as another required shot.
I recently had a statewide industry meeting discussing how employers are allowed to require employees to get the shot before returning to work, but they don’t actually expect to see any employers doing this until the EUA is lifted.
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I work in publishing and at my last job we used to keep a file of stuff like this. You all have NO idea how much unintentional (god, I hope) suggestive or phallic art nearly makes it into kids’ textbooks.
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Yes, I’m old enough that I got it as a small child. I was definitely toward the end of the mass vaccination campain.
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Beginning March 22, Michigan is accepting 50+ With no underlying conditions on vaccine lists! I know it’s going to take a while, but I’m excited to get on a list!
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Me too! Although my doctor was less “strongly encouraged” and more “when shall we schedule you in once you’ve given birth?” She would have liked me to have it in hospital, I opted to have it at the same time as my kid (12 or 18 months shots, I can’t remember). It’s stuck for me so far this time.
People also generally don’t realise that stuff like the TDaP vaccine wears out, had to bother my family to get their boosters before my oldest was born and will bother them all again if we have a third baby in a few years.
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