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C.D.C. Advisers Recommend New Covid Vaccines for All Americans
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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What do you all plan to do? My family all got the first available vaccines as they became available across the age groups. We all had Covid last October. We haven't had any boosters yet. I'm thinking this seems like a good one to go in for, but I haven't read anything recently regarding heart health for boys. But the risks associated with sickness at this point seem likely to be higher.
I would rather risk getting the RARE temporary myocarditis than get the full sickness of COVID over and over. CDC says someplace that it's something like 26/100,000 teen boys who got myocarditis from the vaccine.
The more often, and more severe, the sickness of COVID is, the evidence is clear that it's worse in the long run just like any other virus. The vaccine helps decrease both the severity and length of COVID.
Obviously, I'm not your doctor, and your decisions are your own, but it's highly recommended that everyone gets it if they can and it does save lives.
EDIT - found this site What explains rare heart condition among young men after COVID vaccines?
Actually, account to the article you linked, "In the highest-risk group, teen boys, myocarditis occurred in 26.7 out of 100,000 cases after the second vaccine dose, while the condition occurred in 59 out of 100,000 cases after coming down with Covid, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
I did not realize, or else I forgot, that myocarditis is also a potential side effect of Covid. The fact that it's more prevalent in those cases than from the vaccine is truly convincing. I'm not going back to high alert prevention, so booster it is
Thank you for correcting me, I was in a hurry.
Vaccines are for the best.