Study: COVID booster recipients 20 times more protected against serious illness
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-booster-recipients-20-times-more-protected-against-serious-illness/As US officials set to mull okaying Pfizer’s 3rd dose, data from a million Israelis shows it boosts protection from infection tenfold compared with eligible people who got 2 shots.
A new study conducted in Israel shows that individuals given a third COVID-19 vaccine dose are nearly twenty times more protected against serious illness and more than ten times more protected against infection, compared with those who received their second dose at least five months previously.
The research, published on Wednesday by The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that 12 days after receiving a booster shot of a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the chance of infection was 11.3 times less than among those eligible for a third shot but didn’t get one.
And the chance of suffering serious illness as a result of COVID-19 among those who had received a booster shot was 19.5 times less, the research said.
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No wonder the FDA voted against boosters for all 16+.
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Are you thinking J&J again or mRNA.
I had 2 Pfizers & am planning to ask about a Miderna booster.
Pls do check with your medical provider. 
I'm thinking a Moderna jab, but have to check because I had 2 Pfizers first.
I'm not a doc, but wouldn't common sense say that, since infection is much lower, transmission would also be lower? Especially as many fully vaxed get asymptomatic or mild cases, both of which often (~30%) result in long haul (Dr. Eric Ding Twitter).
Seems so to me! The more people infected, the more it will spread & mutate!
Shame on the FDA (in my non medical opinion)!
These agencies are outdated imo. If I'd listened to them in 2020 at the start of the pandemic about masks not being helpful, I'd likely be dead or long-hauling. Same for CDC's "brilliant" retraction in May, retracting mask recommendation.
I had a kid with lyme 20+ years ago. Learned a lot about these agencies & the fact that it is up to each of us to look after and direct our own health needs, with the assistance of a qualified healthcare provider. 😉
These opinions are based upon personal experience & those of experts, such as Dr. Eric Ding, Harvard epidemiologist's Twitter. He is SUPER critical of the way our health agencies have been handling the pandemic.
to put out a statement Monday, and per protocol will start with the oldest residents, which is only fair.
I don't think it is a done deal. More egos in the way of progress...
Evening news last night hinted the CDC would approve this weekend, for over 65,
that or I misunderstood 'em. 
One can only hope. Ty!
I knew a woman who had Shingles and after her description, I decided I'd better get Shingrix. I had chicken pox as a kid, along with the other illnesses we kids got back then. My only issue was that because of Covid, they stopped giving the shots for a few months, and the two shots have to be given within 6 months. I just got in shot #2. And I had no side effects except the expected sore arm.
Great news.
Looking forward to mine!
Good for you on both counts!
Looking forward to getting mine!
I'd just called pharmacy where I'd gotten both Pfizers & pharmacist said no need to wait 28 days between covid 3rd shot & flu vax "anymore." Contrary to what I've read in credible media.
Obviously, 3rd covid jab is my top priority!
Ty!
