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Last month, my coworker's one year old tested positive for COVID on their second day of day care.
Unrelated but during that time, her father died. And she was afraid to bring a COVID positive baby to a funeral home full of old people. And she had to keep her baby at home.
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.
Go for it, I recently got my second booster and I had zero side effects. I also had COVID last year, but wasn't bad. It's worth it to keep your immunity up, especially against the new strains.
Which brand did you go with?
Pfizer this time. My previous booster was Moderna and the original one was Pfizer.
Everything I've read says any possible side effects are more likely if you get COVID so I see no reason not to get this one too. Plus I think it's pretty fucking cool how it works
Get all vaccines and boosters. Literally no reason not to unless you already have complex health issues.
I get all of them as soon as I can. If you dislike the side effects from the covid vaccines, then you'll really hate covid.
I haven’t read anything recently regarding heart health for boys.
Here:
There is a small risk of developing myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) in the weeks after getting an mRNA Covid vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. However, the risk of myocarditis after having Covid is much higher. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that males ages 12 to 29 — who have the greatest risk of vaccine complications — were four to eight times more likely to develop myocarditis following a Covid infection than in the three weeks after receiving a dose of vaccine. For males 30 and older, the risk of myocarditis was 28 times higher from Covid than from the vaccine. “While it’s important to understand that this vaccine-related event is real,” Dr. Glassberg said, “the risk to your heart is much greater from Covid than from vaccine.”
Risks associated with sickness have always been higher and longer. Better to get whatever vaccine is available on a regular schedule just like the flu shot. Long covid is no joke.