Saw this in a scicomm feed. Hope it reaches someone. ❤️
🇨🇦 we approved 'em here. And they're being made here now, too.
I'd say come visit in October, but maybe don't fly in those big aluminum petri dishes!
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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Don't chastise me as I am genuinely curious -- I saw this clip on Huberman lab where the director of the NIH said that the covid vaccine was net more harmful that good for younger men. Is this not the case?
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LPT: Go get a shot, now.
Saw the US flag, read it without the "a"
Did they even release the shots for 2025-2026 yet?
yeah not yet, I'll be getting them quickly but I was already going to do that. Have had covid twice now (vaccinated both times, and well after the initial couple of years) and would vastly prefer to only get it while vaccinated.
had a mild one in '23 because dad dint get boosters, and was infected by him. luckily this year i was hit with the COLD INStead for the first time since 2020, the symptoms were more intense though. if it was the flu, i would be pretty much screwed the whole week.
Fly this year was rough. I'll definitely be getting all annual boosters from here on our, I was an idiot for not getting them
Supposed to be released very soon (as in days, not weeks). The real LPT is to wait for the new version first.
mid September is what I heard for those
FYI there are NO COVID vaccines that are covered by the VICP (https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/covered-vaccines). They are only covered by the CICP. If you are medically injured from a COVID vaccines the CICP will not ever pay you pain and suffering or other damages. They will literally only cover medical bills which you didn't get covered already from your insurance. You will fight for years and years just to get that covered and that's if they even cover you at all which they probably won't. I was personally injured by a COVID vaccine and I am one of only 39 people to have received a medical payment for my injury. (See data here: https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/cicp-data)
My insurance covered over $50,000 of medical treatment after I got myocarditis from the vaccine. Luckily I have good insurance and only had to pay less than $2000 out of pocket and it took me 5 years to get that $2000 back. The treatment I underwent was the worst experience of my life and the most painful. It was from a bad batch of vaccines and I wasn't the only young person in my area that received the bad batch.
The vaccine makers must be held accountable for paying for issues from their vaccines and that's what the VICP is for but COVID vaccine is not part of that coverage!
Do not get a COVID vaccine if you don't need it. Demand your local government officials make adding COVID vaccines to the VICP list a priority!
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So if one already had a dose of the previous booster about a year or so ago, would it be helpful to get the same version of the booster again now?
Is the post simply suggesting to people that haven't yet had the booster go get it? Or is it saying you're better off getting the same booster again rather than nothing?
Also, I'm assuming people with the means to go to a different country without these laughing stock "leaders" would be better waiting for those countries to approve and release up-to-date vaccines.
My understanding is that because of the type of protien that it encodes for, the immunity imparted by the vaccine decreases over time (because of complex immune system reasons). Never to 0%, but lower. The annual booster not only prepares you better for oncoming strains (in theory, when the vaccine research, development, and approval systems work as expected), but re-ups your immunity to existing strains.
The theory as I understand it is that because viruses like COVID-19 pass through populations in waves, your body is developing a very strong short-term immunity to neutralize any immediate "rebound" waves (imagine a wave bouncing off the side of a pool, yes, viruses move through populations like that). It then maintains a weaker, long-term response. By fooling your immune system into thinking you have COVID-19 right now, the vaccine bumps your body ino "short-term" response mode, so your best possible immune response is at the ready if the real thing shows up.
I am not an epidimeologist, but I read a lot of their work from 2020-2023. I might have details wrong, but if it's been >6mo since you've had a booster, you would probably benefit from getting another one.
Virus waves are exacerbated by holiday schedules. First school starts and kids are a massive disease vector. Then Thanksgiving comes and people spread it to their families and bring it back home. Then it has a month to spread and then Christmas comes.
also people staying in doors during cold weather increases the infeciton rate.
yea your memory b-cells are the one that maintains at a low levels of antibodies against certain disease, it is one of the reasons measles is dangerous they damage the dendritic cells which presents antigens to b-cells so your bascially partially immunosuppressed, besides the acute infection.