I would feel fine with it, covid speaking. 
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I sort of regret that I jumped and got the booster as soon as I was 6 months to the day past my 1st shot. It felt urgent because I was going to get on a plane - but at that time boosters were Pfizer only (which is what I got initially).Moderna boosters werenāt approved until like a week later. Oh well. I am still boosted and this is all very effective still. Itās great that people can pick and choose now, instead of having to grab whatever is available.
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Iām confused on covid boosters. It seems like a lot of young folks (without underlying conditions and high risk work places as far as I know in several examples) are getting them? TLDR on who is eligible? I know itās by state but likeā¦ generally/where you are?
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I posted an LA times article above that basically says if you live in LA please come get a booster. Not sure how others are doing it but I wouldnāt be surprised if more people were deciding to get one despite not being in a high-risk category.
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Where i am, certain jobs are now 
booster available, including me since Iām a grocery store worker. 
I figure Iāll wait another few weeks until my 6 mo mark anyhow.
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Florida straight up donāt give a fuck.
I got my booster in August with zero proof needed. My husband got his last month and they didnāt even care that he wasnāt at the 6 month mark (we were supposed to travel and he wanted to be boosted ahead of that).
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Itās being decided by each state. It is frustrating I am sure one could (and people probably are) just ālieā and say they were in the allowed category (I think they ask but not for specifics).
It makes my Thanksgiving plans uncertain because I will already be at 7 months at that point, one of my family members works with the public and there is no indication of the status quo changing before then. Thanks a lot, government officials. I donāt know who they are protecting by doing it this way. Maybe āsavingā appointments for children. IDK, I hate it.
(I wrote some other stuff as well, but I donāt think itās helpful.)
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I can tell you Colorado okayād it for everyone whoād gotten their second shot at least 6 months agoā¦I wasnāt planning on doing mine until December, but getting on a plane next week to visit a couple people who are medically fragile and others who are too young for vaccination so Iām going ahead and getting it tomorrow since there are slots available in my area (that, plus the flu shot that I keep forgetting).
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The VA will give it to anyone right now, and so will my state. They technically say, āif you have underlying conditions,ā but then list a bunch of things and then the last one is something like āother.ā Eligibility also extends to people who live in high risk groups or work in customer facing roles. Plus they arenāt verifying anything at all and there seems to be no wait.
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My sil qualified because of his blood pressure, and I have no idea why dd qualified, but pretty much everyone I know has gotten a booster.
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People who work with the public (have high risk of exposure through work) are eligible everywhere as far as I know. That was a federal guideline, not a state one.
Plus the list of underlying conditions is so large now (basically any medical condition, BMI>25, mental health) that a huge swath of the population is eligible by that metric.
I was going to wait, but my coworkers (young, work in person but not with the public) have started getting theirs, and one of my (vaxxed) coworkers got covid last week which freaked me out and made me look up appointments. In MA they are booking about a week in advance but they are available.
ETA: in MA (as far as I can tell) you do need to be over 18 or immune compromised, not just have an underlying condition.
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Here they quietly did front line medical staff including psws and nursing home residents. Then announced that and opened up to senior seniors 6 months past vax. I got an email at some point saying my health care category can get it at 6 mo but again, no announcements.
I think that our conservative premiere is being selective in press releases to get the anti vaxx vote in June.
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Technically I still donāt qualify, I donāt have an underlying condition and I work from home and I donāt live with any compromised individual. I wish they would just go ahead and say ok everyone over 6 months is eligible. At this point, almost the entire adult population is probably eligible, as they opened it up to all ages pretty early here, I think it happened in April, so those people (the ones in the last group that were vaccinated first in that group) would be eligible likeā¦ now.
Just found out there was an outbreak at the end of September at the nursing home/rehab center here (I donāt know if they had gone back to outpatient rehab yet), right as they were getting ready to give boosters. EIGHT PEOPLE have since died. 89 residents and staff have since tested positive. The people that have died, many of whom were fully vaccinated (so says the news reports, unclear how many werenāt but nursing home %s are really high here) all had significant underlying health conditions (I am guessing all residents but it hasnāt been reported). Not to diminish these peoplesā lives, the thing is though, the staff that work there probably live and shop in the community and I suspect many may have been asymptomatic if they were fully vaccinated. So, yay.
(Also, 8 people is a LOT in this area.)
ETA: I guess they are trying to give seniors more time. We are at 83% of adult population fully vaccinated and like 93% percent seniors fully vaccinated. 45% of fully vaxxed seniors have gotten a booster, while only 18% of adults in general have.
Iād also like to know if mixing doses actually is recommended based on actual science. I know the official recommendation is to get the same type if you can choose. From what Iāve read itās actually the dose that matters, and Moderna had a higher initial (and booster) dose. I had Moderna as the initial series, which has had higher overall effectiveness in the initial series.
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In my state itās a long list of people 18+ years old that covers like 75% of the population. But our governor just said pretty much everyone should get it, in a different words that donāt technically contradict the CDC. And I got boosted at CVS and they didnāt ask any questions other than to ensure I was 6 months out. I would have lied though if I had to.
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They might have received J&J as their first dose too: in Colorado, youāre eligible for a booster if youāre two months out from a J&J first dose, no other requirements needed.
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Iām pretty sure the thing about Johnson and Johnson recipients being eligible for a booster across-the-board as soon as they hit two months out is federal, not just state by state.
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Mixing boosters I would say is promising but not definite, and it looks like people who didnāt get moderna have a better boost with moderna, but people who got moderna first do about the same (many many caveats about small sample sizes, differences in booster timing, antibody levels arenāt exactly the same thing as immunity). I got moderna and Iām toying between moderna and Pfizer, mostly because it seems like the Pfizer side effects might be less? But the websites I was on looking it appointments are available funneled me to a moderna booster and I donāt care enough to fight that.
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I got mine at Walgreens and I had to check a box on the form saying that I qualify - which I do. I didnāt have to specify HOW I qualify and no one asked.
That being saidā¦ even if I didnāt technically qualify I would not really have a moral issue with getting one as there is no shortage whatsoever of appointments here. A friend just booked hers and said there were 16 appointments open on her chosen day and location. I think at least here, they want to get shots in arms even if technically some folks shouldnāt have it yet.
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Exactly. I expect everyone will qualify in the near future anyway.
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The CDC list of underlying medical conditions includes āoverweightā (BMI >=25)
This alone qualifies 65% of my state.
The vagueness around the worker requirement āUnavoidable frequent interactions with possibly unvaccinated people from outside their householdā, also makes it so that almost anyone who works not-remote could qualify. Because of our stateās vaccination rates, anyone who has to work in person has unavoidable, frequent interactions.
But no one is asking for a reason to give a booster if you happen to not meet one of the reasons.
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