Here's an important point about boosters (and why it shouldn't be called a "booster")

[Bleacher Creature]

Link to tweet

[crickets]

1. Interesting. Thanks for that. K&R

[Boomerproud]

2. Got my 3rd Pfizer this afternoon.

Hoping that tomorrow won't be a wasted day of laying around/sleeping.

[Delphinus]

3. I had a

reaction to my second - the booster didn't do a thing. Thanks for doing your part!

[barbtries]

6. same here.

i had reactions to the first 2 shots, but barely a sore arm with the 3rd.
Every time I'm advised to get a shot for this virus, I will do so. Just as I will be wearing a mask in public for the rest of my life.

[luvtheGWN]

4. Hey, so did I!

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Hardly a wasted day, even

If it is spent sleeping and laying around. Beats the fuck out of laying around in a medically induced coma on echmo with a fecal collection tube up your butt.

[ChazII]

14. Like the others, I was exhausted with the 2nd shot

and a headache back in April. One week ago I got my booster and the day after nothing. I am still doing well.

[Boomerproud]

15. So far so good. Thanks for sharing and very happy that

we're having positive results.

[Jon King]

7. An average of 1700 are still dying every day from Covid.

The sheer effort of right wing nuts to achieve that is impressive. It is almost impossible to imagine a country where a free vaccine has been available for a year at every drug store and supermarket and county fair....could be this full of such utter fools.

If Al Gore warned them that touching a hot stove was dangerous, we would have 50 million Americans walking around with bandaged hands right now.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. I really hope they allow us to booster our 12-15 yr olds soon.

I'm right on the verge of pulling them out of school again.

[cadoman]

11. so these are theories though right? not scientific consensus?

Many of the quoted scientists speak very definitely but the headline of the article says these are theories.

Should this information be treated as settled science or conjecture?

I think we should avoid getting into the weeds and stick to the simple message that the overwhelming scientific consensus is these vaccines are safe and effective.

[Bleacher Creature]

12. There seems to be consensus about the effects of a third dose.

And remember that those studies have been going on for a bit of time now. Things are a little murkier, however, when it comes to how the vaccines will respond to Omicron. That's all brand new. A consensus is starting to form there as well, but it's still very, very preliminary, which is why the experts qualify their answers.

[ancianita]

13. Only 36% have boosters right now. Right now, a high transmission variant means keeping masks on.