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Susan Scheid's avatar

Enormously grateful to Dr. Jetelina, yet once again, for her dedication to and brilliance at clear public-facing communications. Here’s what take from this, for those of us who need to stay clear of infection (older, immunocompromised):

>the data do not seem to support the idea that one booster per year is sufficient for us. I recognize that the CDC’s approach is focused on avoiding hospitalization, but as an older couple, who, like we did, got a rough case of Covid that was debilitating for a month+, said, “who wants to be this sick?”

>this also suggests to me that older and immunocompromised folks will continue to be sidelined much more than others in the ability to live some semblance of even Covid era normal life, even though we are a VERY large and growing group.

Am I missing something here? If anyone else has a thought on this, I would welcome it.

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Joe Banta's avatar

“CDC further clarified the goal of the vaccine program: Prevention of severe disease.” Sure glad we didn’t just have “prevention of severe disease” for polio, small pox, measles, etc. I am disappointed with that low bar goal. It should be to develop better vaccines that can eliminate this damaging disease.

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