Covid spring booster

I will be having mine, too. My son, 44 this year, had covid in March 2020 and is a shadow of the man he used to be. I would never forgive myself if I contracted covid and took it back to him. Frankly, it breaks me heart to see the state he is in.

How sad stewaris 💐

I had my booster two weeks ago and I was grateful to have it, especially as it covers the new variant.

We get all covid jabs the moment allowed.

campbellwise

I’ve just had my fourth booster vaccination and three days later tested positive. I’ve told the yellow card scheme but don’t expect to hear anything back. One day in bed and I’ve now got just cold symptoms. I definitely got it from the jab as the timing is spot on. No way would I have had it if I had known there was a chance of going on to develop Covid.

Given I'm quite sorry, I still see no connection.

I booked mine, soonest is 26 may. I have been well since covid started and am certainly not going to be taking any chances

For the doubters, the vaccine will have been well tweaked by now, to be the safest it can be and certainly far safer than the risk of getting covid

I have seen a few people really suffering after covid, one is just 60 and now has long covid and is unlikely to ever be back at work, can hardly walk. Another has a continual bad cough. Another had clots in her lungs. Another had covid and now has a life changing condition

Thanks #NanKate. He has a daughter, 11, and a son of 14 months. He worries he will never be able to paly football with my grandson. Thankfully, my granddaughter remembers him the way he used to be and understands why he is the way he is. Although it's very difficult for her too.

campbellwise

I’ve just had my fourth booster vaccination and three days later tested positive. I’ve told the yellow card scheme but don’t expect to hear anything back. One day in bed and I’ve now got just cold symptoms. I definitely got it from the jab as the timing is spot on. No way would I have had it if I had known there was a chance of going on to develop Covid.

Sorry to contradict you but you absolutely didn’t get it from your vaccination as that’s not possible. It’s not a live vaccine. Also it’s not possible to be so precise about the timing of when you were in contact with covid. It might have been 3 days but could just as easily have been 5-7 days. Sorry you’ve been unwell and I hope you feel better soon.

I’d willingly have the booster, but I’m not considered old enough. My husband and I both caught Covid on holiday last September, just before the Winter booster was due, and it floored us both for a few days. 🙁

I shall be having mine as soon as I get an appointment, while hospitals still have covid wards it's not just a simple cold.

According to the news there are 400,000 people in the UK suffering with Long Covid who are too ill to work/leave the house/get out of bed whose lives have been ruined.

If the new variants are as mild as the last one, it's not worth bothering with any more boosters. It only lasted a few days and I just needed Strepsils for the sore throat.

You say that but we don’t know how any of us will react. My D (46) recently got Covid for the second time and was extremely poorly, much worse than her first dose!
We must admit we know very little about this virus and IMHO should take advantage of any protection available.

We are having ours on Saturday. Wouldn't drem of not taking up the offer. We had Covid last June and it was relatively mild - presumably because we'd had all ourvaccinations. I would not want to risk long Covid.

Hi there Marydoll, I too am immunosuppressed.
Neither my husband nor myself have had Covid but both my daughter and her family and my son and his family have had it more than once.
My husband is 75 so he's had his spring booster. I've had mine, making 7 Covid vaccinations for me as I've had more because of my compromised immunity.
Better to be safe than sorry. We just think of it as similar to the yearly flu vaccination.

Curtaintwitcher

If the new variants are as mild as the last one, it's not worth bothering with any more boosters. It only lasted a few days and I just needed Strepsils for the sore throat.

But previous variants haven't been mild! There are millions of people who have some form of permanent damage to vital organs as a result of Covid infection.

Covid is not like flu. It doesn't just attack the respiratory system. It can cause damage to just about every organ of the body.

Welcomed my booster a couple of weeks ago, as I do any vaccine offered. DW has hers next week. I have tested positive twice, but with no symptoms.

grumppa

Welcomed my booster a couple of weeks ago, as I do any vaccine offered. DW has hers next week. I have tested positive twice, but with no symptoms.

what made you do tests if you had no symptoms?

I done tests when I had a bad cold, they were negative for covid

The symptoms of COVID are many and various. DH, DD and I returned from a weeks cruise, feeling slightly jaded, and put it down to staying up late on the last evening.

As none of us had any of the official symptoms for the illness, just felt a bit under the weather, we considered COVID and decided that it was unlikely to be that. We only tested when DD read on Facebook, that a number of people returning home from our cruise had tested positive for the illness. We tested and all three of us had, in fact, got COVID. None of us had a single symptom on the COVID list, merely felt a bit under the weather. DH and DD for a couple of days. Me, for over a fortnight.

My sister's SD has had covid twice and had to be hospitalised each time, she now has permanent damage to her lungs. She and her husband decided not to get vaccinated, they thought they could acquire natural immunity 🤨

Grannynannywanny

campbellwise

I’ve just had my fourth booster vaccination and three days later tested positive. I’ve told the yellow card scheme but don’t expect to hear anything back. One day in bed and I’ve now got just cold symptoms. I definitely got it from the jab as the timing is spot on. No way would I have had it if I had known there was a chance of going on to develop Covid.

Sorry to contradict you but you absolutely didn’t get it from your vaccination as that’s not possible. It’s not a live vaccine. Also it’s not possible to be so precise about the timing of when you were in contact with covid. It might have been 3 days but could just as easily have been 5-7 days. Sorry you’ve been unwell and I hope you feel better soon.

I've been helping as a volunteer and here very few people wear masks in a that crowded environment, so I think it is more likely you were unfortunate in being with someone who had covid when they were getting their jab

What the WHO has said is that Covid is no longer a global health emergency which doesn't mean that any one of us might never, individually, become an emergency case. The same can be said for flu and, sadly, every year some people will succumb to that ever-present and ever-mutating virus.

I’d welcome the booster, but we aren’t old enough. I like the fact that having the vaccine, not only reduces the chance of us having a really bad attack of Covid, but also protects those who haven’t bothered by making Covid less prevalent.

Fiorentina my husband was diagnosed with heart failure shortly after he had Covid. He was walking the dog on day 4 of Covid but after he recovered he became breathless while lying down in bed at night. We are told his condition has nothing to do with Covid but I’m not really convinced. I’m so sorry to hear about your husband.

Covid deaths by age status:

This table shows how much more you are likely to die from Covid-19 if you contract it, as compared to an 18-29 year old.

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html

Although American in origin, the figures will be more or less the same for Brits.

I had such an awful reaction to vaccinations 2 and 3 I refused the next booster.