Syllieann
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2 minutes ago, Corraleno said:
I don't think a single shot of Pfizer has been shown to be very effective against Delta. E.g., from Nature:
"Therefore, a single dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca either showed low or no efficiency against the Beta and the Delta variants. Both vaccines generated a neutralizing response that efficiently targeted the Delta variant only after the second dose."
No, not against infection, but against hospitalization.
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23 minutes ago, mommyoffive said:
Can you go into more about the first sentence? I have kind of backed off looking at Covid things so I am not the most up to date. I thought that they had not seen lots of heart issues in the younger kids? And that it is most protective to have had Covid and gotten a vaccine?
Cases are decreasing in most places and the group has a seroprevalence of 42%, meaning they have already been infected. We've seen in other cohorts that an initial dose reaction in someone previously infected is similar to the second dose reaction in people who haven't been infected.
I would expect myocarditis rates to be lower than the 12-15 year klds, but none of our trials (Moderna or pfizer) have enough kids to determine what that rate is. It's probably very low, but so is the incidence of severe outcome from covid in healthy males in that age range. Plus, the fda used total hospitalization rather than covid-related hospitalization in running the risk/benefit. And I just have to slam my head against the wall that we didn't run it with a single shot. We know most of the severe outcomes are prevented with a single dose and most of the myocarditis is after the second dose. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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I feel really doubtful that the cdc will rubber stamp this for healthy boys given the current seroprevalence and case rates. Again I'm left wondering at the stupid all-or-nothing approach. Can we ok two doses for boys with risk factors and one dose for the rest? Probably not, cuz that would be too reasonable.
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5 minutes ago, mommyoffive said:
YES!!
How did this happen ahead of the Nov 4th date?
What I don't care. Everyone report in if you can find the shot anywhere.
It's the formal fda approval that goes along with the fda panel recommendation. Cdc still needs to sign off, and I'm not sure they will give approval for all subgroups.
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Well, I though I had no side effects from my booster, but I've been getting this faint smell of incense all day that nobody else can smell and has no plausible explanation in the physical world. I found a case study of someone who had it with Pfizer but nothing else. Maybe I'm just nutso.
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7 minutes ago, Acadie said:
Does Walgreens require proof of employment for boosters? I teach as an independent contractor and don't have a school ID.
CVS has no booster appointments within a 90 minute radius for the next week.
If I can't do Walgreen's I might drive the 3 hr round trip to CVS.
Walgreens didn't ask me for proof. Neither did CVS.
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2 hours ago, MEmama said:
The pharmacy I go to for vaccines only has the Moderna booster, but both my other shots were Pfizer. Idk why I’m feeling hesitant to switch it up.
I’m totally open to being convinced it really is safe and ok to mix them, but I haven’t jumped on it quite yet.
I felt crummy after my pfizers but just had a mildly sore arm after my Moderna booster. Don't go by that though, because I'm only one person.
This is a good interpretation of the mix and match study, and it links to the original study so you can see for yourself if you are so inclined. https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/fda-meetings-cliff-notes-for-the
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6 minutes ago, KSera said:
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I agree with considering boys and girls separately (due to myocarditis risk), though I’m not actually following your second sentence. Are you saying that girls should be getting a lower dose than boys at 11, maybe due to size differences, or…?
I'm saying that an 11 year old girl getting 1/3 the dose of a 12 year old girl after we have data in the millions is just such an easy call. The 12-15 year old female data is substantial and shows its extremely safe at 30 micrograms. Giving 10 micrograms to the 11 year old girls seems obvious. I'm not saying boys and girls should get different doses, although I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to it if it had a better risk/benefit for some groups.
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24 minutes ago, KSera said:
I've been wondering that as well. Would they have been waiting to see if Pfizer had a better profile for kids? I don't know if approval works that way, where they would hold off on one approval while waiting for data from a similar product.
Yes, I think that's the case. Originally, it was thought that myocarditis risk increased with decreasing age, but the large 12-15 rollout of pfizer shows there is a peak at 16-17 with rates decreasing on either side. I believe that's why they are moving forward with the low dose Pfizer for 5-11. I can't imagine they would consider the Moderna dose until they have a few hundred thousand Pfizer sample points to verify (with some good statistical power) that the myocarditis rate is reduced in lower ages.
I can't grasp why they aren't considering boys and girls separately. It seems like a no brainer to vax an 11 year old girl with 1/3 the adult dose. Think how many households this would help.
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To be fully vaxed by Christmas you would need to get the first hit on November 19, two weeks after its expected to open. Around 25% of parents are planning to vaccinate their kids "right away" so I think you should easily have over a million doses in 6-11 year old arms by then, which should be enough to put your husband at ease about rare side effects. I think this is all moot.
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Got my Moderna booster this morning. My original vaccination was with Pfizer but I wanted by he higher Moderna dose to help protect my kids who are too young to vax. I had an appointment at Walgreens but when I arrived they told me their policy was to stick with original, so I left and went to CVS. They had a sign saying "walk-ins welcome," but when I went inside I was told that I needed to schedule online. They didn't have Wi-Fi or a device available to register myself so I went home and registered from there. I got an appointment for an hour later and got my Moderna. No side effects yet and it hurt less than my flu shot, which was kind of a biznitch this year.
I'm really disappointed that I had to jump through so many hoops. There are just so many people who wouldn't have had the time, resources, or background knowledge to manage that situation to get what they wanted. Our mass vax places are only doing pfizer, so there really aren't any other options for most people here.
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1 hour ago, TheReader said:
What are everyone's thoughts on sticking with what you got originally vs. mixing & matching??
I had Moderna the first time, as did all the rest of us except for youngest (he is 16, so had to have Pfizer) -- as a teacher, I'm eligible due to higher contact levels, so will be getting my booster next week.....trying to decide go same or different.
DH thinks switch, but can't articulate why.
The Moderna is a higher dose than Pfizer so imo most over-50s who didn't have bad side effects from the first two doses should get that. I would do Pfizer if side effects were really bad or for males under 40ish without covid risk factors. I 'd consider j&j for males under 30 without risk factors and who aren't living with someone at high risk or unvaccinated.
I had Pfizer but am scheduled for a Moderna booster.
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I'm so sorry, Farrar. We lost a freezer that was only three years old last summer and it had a quarter grass-fed beef in it. I felt like I was going to puke just heaving that poor animal that died for nothing straight into the trash. I thought dh would have an aneurysm. 😞 I know it's irrelevant for you since you don't know how long it was out, but for anyone else in the future: if you were to catch it in the just-thawed stage you could cook it all up and then refreeze the cooked meat.
We now have a freezer alarm on our other large freezer, gulp.
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The parents seemed really smug and unconcerned that their son was missing. Plus, the camping trip after he came back and the way they wouldn't talk to her parents. It seems like they were secure in the knowledge that their son was safely hidden, which doesn't jive with this.
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Thank you everyone for all the great ideas. I'm going to try to schedule some school tours. We are actually thinking of being on the SC side and I found online that their college reciprocity isn't as great as we have in the midwest. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to help us out!
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We are moving far away in a few months. In preparation we are visiting, and we have dinners scheduled with some folks in the company dh will be joining. I plan to put my kids in school once we move. I want to come up with some things we should cover. We are going from Wisconsin to the Charlotte area.
I'll ask about schools and neighborhoods, but what else?
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1 minute ago, KSera said:
It doesn’t seem from the booster data so far that that’s happening. Moderna to pfizer produced the third highest antibody levels. First was Moderna to Madonna, second was Pfizer to Moderna, third was Moderna to Pfizer. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.10.21264827v1.full.pdf
Atlantic article: Should You Mix and Match Your Booster Shot?
Haha, you gotta stop this Madonna business.
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15 minutes ago, KSera said:
Do you happen to have the link to the study that graphic came from?
It's from the YLE analysis of the recent mix n match.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/mixing-vaccines-the-study-weve-all
In the study itself the authors acknowledge several things that make it inappropriate to compare between regimens. I also noticed a stark difference in boost interval. The Pfizer mean interval is quite a bit larger than the moderna mean interval.
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15 minutes ago, KSera said:
So far, there’s nothing to indicate there would be any advantage to switching to Pfizer. Unfortunately, the comparison data compares a higher dose booster of Moderna, but since it’s still almost twice what the Pfizer is, I expect the results that it produces the strongest response are likely still true. My teen boy is the only one that I would be likely to stick with Pfizer for.
What about the fat package? They are slightly different. Could the body block out some of the mrna because it's packaged in molecules that have been seen before?
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36 minutes ago, Corraleno said:
Also, the FDA advisory committee is meeting to approve Pfizer for ages 5-11 next Tuesday (26th) and, assuming it's approved and the CDC signs off, they are saying shots could start as early as Nov. 4th. They are going to focus more on doctors and pediatricians vs mass vax clinics, and apparently state health departments can start placing orders now (the kiddie vax is 10 µg and will apparently be bottled/labeled/shipped separately from the 12+ vials).
It would be extremely inconvenient if I had to make an appointment at the pediatrician’s to get these. I hope the still at least do some mass vax.
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2 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
Whaaaaa? (insert confused emoji) They don't call a ME in for an imaginary body.
We don't know if it's his body. Look how many have been found while searching for him and Gabby already. Apparently our wilderness is littered with dead bodies.
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1 minute ago, Spryte said:
I don’t think you *have* to test, and he’s probably in the clear and just fine, but I might do a Binax at home test on Days 3 and 5 or so. For my peace of mind. Obviously, if he develops symptoms that would change things.
I hope his friend’s mom is ok, and friend, too!
Thanks! The mom is already on the mend, but friend is pretty sick. Probably just a few weeks shy of being vaccinated too, boo.
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My son played outside with his friend for about an hour on Wednesday evening. They played a game where they were about ten feet apart for the first half hour or so. Then they rode bikes for the other half hour, so probably 6-10 feet apart outdoors without masks. There were a few times they would come less than 6 feet, but I think in total it was under 15 minutes. I'm just not sure though. It could be 5 minutes at 2 feet and 5 minutes at 5 feet or something like that.
Friend's Pfizer-vaxed mom developed symptoms Thursday night and tested positive on Friday morning. (DS was never around the mom.) Friend woke up with symptoms this morning (Sunday).
I think it's not technically close contact since it was less than 15 minutes under 6 feet, but would you test him? If so, on which day?
Eta: I found on the cdc site that "close contacts" are those within 48 hours of symptom onset. So we are ok I think? But maybe we should still test?
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We use the heck out of our rice cooker. I set it every night to have hot oatmeal ready in the morning for breakfast. We do sometimes use it for rice and quinoa, but mainly it's oatmeal. My 10 year old can prep and clean it herself, which is definitely a bonus.
We also have an instant pot, which dh uses for meat and hardboiled eggs. I've never used it. It's a pain to clean. Maybe a smaller one would get more use, idk.
Booster shots - how did yours go?
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*trigger warning*
I was worried about that too. I thought I could say I was a former smoker, but I wouldn't want that erroneously going in a medical record. I finally decided I'd say that I had a recent miscarriage. Pregnancy ending in the last 42 days qualifies and there is no way to do anything but take you at your word. (I'm not trying to make light of miscarriage. I've had several and they were heartbreaking. I'm just trying to protect the kids I have here on earth.)