Yesterday I received a Covid vaccine booster injection as a participant in the Pfizer clinical trial for booster efficacy. Hoping this vaccine will be another brick in the wall as a defense against a tenacious virus...especially with variant cases on the rise.
Three Good Things:
1. I have a free and clear day to 'recover' from possible vaccine side effects. The only side effect I have is some slight muscle soreness at the injection site.
2. A good excuse to do absolutely nothing...maybe read, give myself a pedicure, watch a movie or two, make something delicious for dinner...
3. The Pfizer booster vaccine has been tweaked a bit to offer more protection against variants of the virus
That’s interesting and good work again Peggy! Interesting that it’s tweaked as we are currently doing nothing to stop Beta coming in from Spain🙄. It feels like an anxiety dream in which we’re running but we can’t quite grasp the goal.
It’s good to follow your Phizer journey Peggy. Good they have tweaked it for the ever changing nightmare of this Covid disaster for the world. So glad there are volunteers like you to test the way forward.
@bkp Had my first trial vaccine in late September 2020, and the second was mid October…nine months ago. Supposedly the vaccines are quite effective against serious disease for at least 12-18 months. They’ll be checking to see how much of a boost the boosters give…as well as how effective they are against variants. I’d love to see the boosters approved before winter flu/virus season for those that want the extra protection.
@peggysirk well I’m encouraged (despite all our infections) by our infection/death ratio - so much better than last year - eventually the mutations will have done their worst and the rest will all be disadvantageous to the virus…
July 24th, 2021
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I'm hoping we'll eventually get the upper hand on this Covid situation.