COVID-19: Chapter 10 - Mission Achomlished!

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

Yeah, the first one is always a 2 shot series, then it’s one a year from that point on.

[SirOsis]

I got pretty much the same sore/slightly swollen shoulder from the bivalent Pfizer booster as I did with the previous Moderna booster. I guess I’m lucky with vaccines because that’s it for side effects, no chills or anything even with the bonus flu vaccine.

[CaffeineNeeded]

I did not know that… and given the baby goes goblin mode for 48 hours after any vaccine I’m not exactly excited about that

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

I guess I’m lucky, my kids barely react to vaccines while they tend to floor me. Then again my 3 year old will run around off the fucking walls with a. 103 fever.

[Koss]

Only time my kid had a bad reaction was after he turned 5 and tested out of his egg allergy, so they caught him up on all the egg based ones he missed. He feinted on the 4th needle.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

Walgreens site for bivalent for 5-12 year olds is live. Moderna is immediately available, Pfizer looks like iit’s available starting next week. At least in New York.

[anon38180840]

@j8i3h289dn3x7

Yeah, the first one is always a 2 shot series, then it’s one a year from that point on.

So what you’re saying is the flu vaccine doesn’t work!

[Tilted]

@Tilted

I’ve got mine + flu scheduled for tomorrow. I’ll end up with Moderna + Moderna + Pfizer + Pfizer.

16 hours later and no symptoms at all.

[jmakin]

if you guys want a control group I just got my 4th pfizer dose. this is a pfizer household now.

[mosdef]

Does Pfizer have a deal like coffee shops where if you get 10 vaccines from them the 11th is free?

[jmakin]

it’s just what’s always available, I didnt even ask, thats just what they put in me when i walked into rite aid today. no appointment needed.

my card looks pretty funny now

[Spinetta]

Same for me. Never had a choice and I didn’t go out of my way like some others who drive an hour to get Moderna.

[MrWookie]

This is America. We give you 4 shots free and then start charging through the nose.

[jmakin]

typical sore arm but no other ill effects ~17 hours later

expected that as the first three I didn’t really have any negative effects

[otatop]

"Pretty troublesome": New COVID variant BQ.1 now makes up 1 in 10 cases...

In just over a month since a new COVID variant known as BQ.1 was first named, that strain and a descendant called BQ.1.1 have already grown to make up more than 10% of new infections across the country, according to updated estimates published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“When you get variants like that, you look at what their rate of increase is as a relative proportion of the variants, and this has a pretty troublesome doubling time,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, said in an interview with CBS News.

It comes as federal health authorities have been bracing for a widely-expected resurgence of COVID-19 this fall and winter. BQ.1 variants have already outpaced many rival strains in European nations from England to Germany, which have already seen renewed waves begin.

The CDC had previously bundled BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 with their shared parent BA.5 in the agency’s weekly “Nowcast” estimates. BQ.1 was first named by scientists in early September, based on sequences spotted across the U.S. and several other countries.

BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 each currently make up an estimated 5.7% of infections around the country, the agency said. The remainder of BA.5, which had dominated a wave of cases over the summer, has shrunk to 67.9% of circulating variants.

“While BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. represent a small but fast-growing subset of the Omicron variant, BA.5 remains the dominant lineage in the United States,” CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said in a statement.

BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 also appear on track to overtake the only other strain that still outnumbers them: BA.4.6, which currently makes up 12.2% of infections.

Nordlund said the agency had not listed BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 separately in the agency’s previous weekly variant reports because they "were circulating at less than 1% in the empiric data."

[Melkerson]

Have a cold now. Pretty sure it’s not COVID based on negative PCR and two negative antigen tests. This shit is terrible. I’d rather get COVID again. I’d gladly jab myself every six months if someone invented an effective vaccine for this.

[CanadaMatt3004]

Is the bivalent protrcting against BQ1?

[CaffeineNeeded]

Too soon to tell I believe. BQ1 is a subset of BA.5, which is part of the bivalent vaccine thought. Will come down to how good those immune evading mutations are.

[clovis8]

What’s everyone’s experience with the bivarariant vaccine? Kicking your butt or no different than previous?

[Fatboy8]

No different for me, other than a craving for clams.