Is the Covid booster still necessary

Do you have the 'flu vaccination?
I think it's like that now.

My doc reckons it is but I’m not so sure,either. She said we should have it every 6 months which seems a tad excessive.

I expect we shall both keep having ours as are both on the vulnerable list.

I shall refuse all vaccinations in future.

Had ours on Wednesday. Moderna - which is a first.

No reaction - i drank water to keep well hydrated which i always thinks helps - well it will do no harm!

I am a firm believer in preventative medicine and think that we are so lucky now not to suffer from, polio, tetanus, TB, smallpox, measles etc etc and of course support for coronavirus’s like flu and covid.

I cancelled mine. Only just started to feel well after them all and they didn’t stop me having Covid but appreciate it probably stopped complications. I will continue with annual flue jab.

Yes we've both had ours, a couple who live near us both contracted it recently and he ended up in hospital, admittedly he had a heart condition, but it's still very much around. Why wouldn't you take advantage of the vaccination if offered?

I am due to have my booster on Sunday. I shall have it. I don't usually have much reaction beyond a sore arm.

DFiL died from covid and DH had cancer so from March 2020 until he died in November I had to keep him safe from covid infection and out of hospital. The vaccinations weren't yet available.

His dad aged 95, had to go to hospital for his heart condition but caught covid in the ward . Nobody could visit him and he died 2 weeks after his son.

Terrible times for our family and for so many others.

I had my booster three weeks ago and became poorly within 48 hours, I tested positive and developed covid for the first time. I was really quite poorly so dread to think what would have happened if I wasn't vaccinated.

I have had all the vaccinations of all kinds and will continue to do so.

I did get COVID, but very mildly. However I have not had shingles nor the illness the pneumo jab protects me from, nor TB or diptheria.

However both my childrenhad very mild whooping cough despite the jab and one had 3 dy measles, but considering that a friend has suffered life long lung damage from whooping cough and my sister nearly died of the same disease, before the vaccination was introduced. I will stick to having any and every vaccination, they are less damging than the alternative.

At 76, I have kept up to date with my Covid jabs. Like others on here, I have a couple of days feeling a bit poorly. My family all tell me not to bother but the reason I do is because a friend of mine has had Long Covid for almost 2 years. This poor lady was fit and active but now looks years older than she is, has problems getting out and about on her own and has suffered constantly with some very unpleasant symptoms. I prefer not to take a chance.

I'm not having any more covid jabs, I've had 3 so far and have had covid twice. I'll still have the flu jab.

A close friend and our WI President have both had Covid in the last month. I’m grateful to have the jab 👍

I am CEV and will continue to have mine. I always have side effects, some quite severe from any type of vaccination, but better than that than probably dying from Covid.

I have a friend who is very ill just now with Covid, I dread to think how ill she would have been without the vaccinations.

People NOT having the covid jab will allow the disease, which is still very much out there among us, a chance to become more prevalent again. I think we owe it to each other to keep on with the vaccinations. Who would want to go back to the dreadful isolation of lockdown or having to wear masks wherever we go?

I am CEV so will continue with the jabs. When I did get Covid, I just spent two days in bed and wasn’t too bad.
The NHS were very efficient. An oximeter was delivered to the house on the day I reported a positive test and I received a text every morning asking for a reading. The instruction was to phone 111 if it went below 95. It went down to 95 but no lower.

I had my jab a couple of weeks ago I think we re on number 8 aren’t we ? Anyway whatever number it is I ve had them all never had a reaction at all not even a sore arm
I’ve had Covid twice but only been like a cold nothing more I will have what they offer me as although I think I m fairly fit I am older
My sons now on his third time of Covid been off work a week most of my family had Covid 2/3/4 times it still there and will continue to be

Taichinan - I believe Covid will always be with us now anyway - as is 'flu.

I agree Taichinan. I have officially tested positive for covid once and was poorly for a few days. I had been vaccinated but not recently.

We have stopped testing now but I think that one of the things the pandemic has taught some of us is to be more aware of how we feel and try to keep our germs to ourselves.
I cancelled an appointment with the practice nurse because I was coughing. She thanked me.

We had 3 and decided no more. My son has never had any jabs and when we passed covid on to him you would hardly know he had it. Mind you myself, husband, daughter and her partner all had covid (and all jabbed) and none of us were poorly at all.

It’s easy to become complacent when a disease is under control (often due to vaccination) but when complacency means you don’t bother with offered vaccinations for you or you children, there is the opportunity for often life threatening disease, to gain a hold again. For example whooping cough, measles.

Vaccine refusniks are protected by most having the vaccine (herd immunity)

Farzanah I don't think we have reached "herd immunity" for Covid, even at its peak.

95% need to have the vaccine for measles for example so I would expect Covid to be similar.

Farzanah

It’s easy to become complacent when a disease is under control (often due to vaccination) but when complacency means you don’t bother with offered vaccinations for you or you children, there is the opportunity for often life threatening disease, to gain a hold again. For example whooping cough, measles.

Vaccine refusniks are protected by most having the vaccine (herd immunity)

Except 'most' are not even being offered the Covid vaccine anymore, only older people and CEV people. My adult children had the initial two dose vaccine and one booster, never been offered any more.

I was about to say I havent been offered an injection in 2 years I think, so worrying about those who refuse is pointless.