Hmm, the confirmation email is more generic, and just says booster (vs. updated booster). Either way, I’ll double check before I let them put it in my arm haha
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Question for the armchair scientists, do you guys think it’s worth waiting on getting our booster since we have a very recent very high-dose confirmed exposure to Covid? Like, even if we end up not having it right now, we clearly had a really high exposure to an event that with the same exposure infected someone else, so does this kind of count as a booster and in it’s own right?
As an aside though we looked it up and it looks like CVS is also scheduling the new boosters. For anybody who has their paperwork already with CVS at Target and doesn’t want to fill everything out again.
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I checked a local hospital website looking for appointments and they said that the new boosters are a replacement for the old boosters and the FDA rescinded the EUA for the monovalent booster so I think that means all boosters from next week on will be bivalent
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That makes a lot of sense! Certainly less confusing that way.
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Oooooh interesting!
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My Walgreens confirmation email says “COVID-19 Updated Booster” under the Appointment Details section. Definitely will also double check before they poke me!!
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I’m a little surprised given the potential supply issues, but I guess they can reformulate all the unused alpha covid mRNA (drug substance) into new bivalent vaccines (drug product)
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I feel like in a few months we’ll all be getting COVID-19_updated_final_FINAL4real.jpg versions of the shot 
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I cynically think this isn’t a huge worry given the very poor uptake of boosters to begin with…
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I think your idea that an exposure like that is a BoosterLite™ has scientific merit, but after that it’s all weighing pros and cons and up to you
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A bit sad that we have to wait almost four weeks for New!Improved! booster, but we haven’t gotten Covid in the first three weeks of the semester, so second old people old-style booster was probably worth it.
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I scheduled myself for 2 weeks from now (because I suspect I am going to have to do a work trip thing that I DO NOT WANT but have to probably in early October) and it seemed like a reasonable timeline? When I logged in though there were all the appointments available. I suspect not a lot of people know yet? I scheduled my flu shot at the same time since, why not.
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Me too! And I scheduled flu shots too so gonna get one in each arm.
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I got both in one arm last time because I didn’t want two sore arms if that happened.
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I did too, but then later I read that it’s recommended to get them in separate arms. Apparently you don’t want the two shots to be too close to each other!
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I haven’t been paying much attention to the covid news lately, but because the new boosters are available I happened to click on a CNN story. From it:
Can immunocompromised people get an updated booster?
Yes, but that’s not all. If a health condition or a medication has lowered your immune function, the CDC recommends a two-pronged approach to boost your protection against Covid-19 – vaccination and preventive treatment with a type of passive immunity called Evusheld. Passive immunity is when antibodies are made in a lab and then given by injection or infusion to help people who can’t make enough of this protection on their own.
Evusheld can be taken every six months and is available for immunocompromised people ages 12 and up. It requires a doctors prescription, but the treatment itself is free. The CDC estimates 7 million people may be eligible to take Evusheld, but most haven’t gotten it because they don’t know about it.
If you need Evusheld, you should wait at least two weeks after getting a Covid-19 vaccine to take it. But after a person has taken Evusheld, there’s no waiting period for getting an updated booster.
I’m not immunocompromised, but I know that some forum folks are. Have you heard about this?
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I predicted this happening, but it’s still a bummer that a 4th booster would finally be available to me right after leaving the US 
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On one hand I am inclined to do this but OTOH a flu shot on its own and a covid booster on its own each makes me feel so sick after, I assume I would be pretty bad off.
On the plus side, that gets the sickness over with all in one shot. No pun intended.
I need to look up how long you have to wait after your last booster. My last one was in mid-May.
And, I think you don’t have to wait if you’ve gotten another vaccine, any more? I got the shingles vaxx a couple weeks ago.
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CDC recommends the booster if at least 2 months since last booster. 3 months possibly if had a covid infection.
I don’t know about the opposite order, but I had a Tdap booster last year 2 weeks after a covid vax, as recommended by the pharmacist.
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Yeah, I remember it used to be A Thing to have to wait between vaccines. But I feel like that isn’t the case any more. I mean, hell, when I got the shingles vax she asked me if I wanted a flu shot too, so I guess you can get stabbed together with various things now.
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