#COVID booster

[thealexandriaarchives]

Heads up for anyone who hasn't gotten your flu and/or Covid shot yet!

Kroger sucks but I have to give them props, they're offering you grocery money to get vaccinated.

You can get up to $20 in grocery money from Kroger right now just for getting your Flu shot & Covid Booster.

Or $5 for just a flu shot! Or if you already got your Covid booster get the $20 by pairing it with another vaccine like RSV or Pneumonia or Hepatitis if you're vulnerable!

Must go to a Kroger owned pharmacy

Must not have federally funded health insurance like Medicaid or Medicaid

Get your flu shot

If you're doing both get your booster in the same visit to qualify

Tell the pharmacist you want your Money when you check out and give them your Kroger rewards card. (Mine is Fred Meyer's etc. Or sign up for one for free first.

This will cover the cost of your shot if you have no insurance, but be a bonus if you're insured!

Getting both at the same time will make you feel like crap (not that day, the next day) but WILL make your immune system better than just getting one at once and get it over with. Influenza and Covid will both also weaken your immune system if you get them, even mild cases, so you're more at risk to catch follow-up infections. Not just for your community, but for yourself - get immunized and have a couple slightly cruddy days instead of a couple awful weeks or worse!

[scarletjedi]

So, school has started once more, so my wife and I went yesterday for our flu and Covid boosters- we got the new booster that just came out, and if you were waiting to get it because of possible side effects, I wanted to record my experience.

1) pain at time of injection- present, but mild compared to previous years. There was a flash of deeper pain about an hour later, but that faded too.

2) sore arm- It’s now been almost 19 hours and it feels like a bruise rather where the bandaid is rather than the full on hurt myself at the gym soreness from previous years.

3) headache- none

4) chills- none

5) fever- none

6) gastric distress- none

7) sore neck- could be? But I often have stiff and sore neck muscles because of how I sit at my craft table. So, I don’t k own if it’s related.

They say side effects, if any, appear 8-12 hours after injection and last for maybe 48 hours. Like I said, it’s been about 19. I’m a little sore and a little tired, but otherwise I’m fine. Get vaccinated.

[pandemic-info]

Can You Get 'Too Many' COVID-19 Boosters?

Is It Bad to Have Too Many Boosters?

In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Cavaleri suggested that receiving too many booster shots could exhaust T cells, which play a central role in fighting COVID-19, or the immune system could come to tolerate the antigen, instead of acting against it.

There “isn’t a shred of evidence” to support these ideas, said Aaron Eli Glatt, MD, MACP, clinical professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

“Every day that you walk out and touch things, your immune system is constantly being stimulated. Nobody ever suggested you should go hide in a bubble and not let your immune system get provoked,” Glatt said. “You don’t want to give unnecessary vaccinations but they don’t ruin your immune system.”

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Immune exhaustion can occur in certain diseases where a pathogen or foreign object is causing constant exposure, such as cancer and HIV.1

There is no evidence yet that this is true for COVID-19. In fact, recent evidence suggests that repeated vaccinations and natural infections broadens the immune response to COVID-19.

[triassictriserratops]

If anyone was curious how many muscles are in the human body, I can tell you the EXACT amount. I got my flu and COVID shot yesterday and I can feel EVERY SINGLE ONE of them.

[dduane]

Today’s answer to “Am I an idiot, or what...?” :)

Feeling a little off today. Getting things done, but at a slower rate than usual. Feeling... a little warm? But not feverish. Indulging, for a short period, the routine concern that these days accompanies feeling a little off, a little feverish...

And then, blazing, the realization arrives (while considering another piece of work that needs doing): “Did I or did I not have a COVID booster yesterday??!  ...FFS.”

(laughs) (goes off to take an ibuprofen)

[queerism1969]

[smudgeandfrank]

Leave it to me to get COVID the same day I get my booster and flu shot. GET YOUR VACCINES AND BE LUCKIER THAN ME 🤣💖

[chiveoil]

A PSA for people in the UK before winter starts to hit - While you can't even buy the covid booster privately here and will only be offered it on the NHS if you're in a clinically vulnerable group, you can get the covid booster by going to your nearest walk in vaccination centre and saying you are a carer. Google your local authority and '2023 covid booster' and you'll find where those places are, or check with your local pharmacy. There's no official definition of what a carer is, if you ever have contact with someone immunocompromised or elderly and especially if you ever help them out in any way, you absolutely are a carer enough to get the vaccine.

Also, one of the clinically vulnerable groups is 'severe mental illness' - it is up to you whether you meet that definition or not, they should not cross reference it against your NHS record and you don't have to go into further detail if you give that as your eligibility criteria.

The people doing the vaccinations have more vaccines than they have takeup and they want to get them into peoples' arms. It will only keep people safer to have more of us up to date with our vaccinations, get the vaccine booster by whatever means necessary.

[crippleprophet]

you want to be an ally to disabled people? get your updated covid booster

[theosb0rnway]

I know I don't really share my health issues much, but I have an update on myself and a question to my followers that will really help.

I recently got a COVID booster at my local pharmacy. ALL of my past COVID vaccines have been Pfizer. However, this time,I unknowingly received a Moderna shot and was only notified of this after receiving the shot. (The service at the pharmacy was absolute garbage but that's another story.)

After getting the shot, that night I experienced a headache, dizziness, and I felt hot headed. The next day, yesterday, I had EXTREME pain in my neck, shoulders, back, and chest, as well as shortness of breath and dizziness and could barely move off my couch. I have been taking Tylenol but it hasn't really been helping.

Today, I'm pretty much bedridden. Day 2 of same symptoms, but just worse that yesterday in terms of strength. All I can do is literally stare off into space (or watch YouTube videos-) and I was barely able to eat.

Has anybody else ever had this happen after switching types of vaccines or is this just a me thing?!? PLEASE let me know if you have.

I also do have a history of aches and breathing problems, but they've been extremely heightened the last two days.

Thank you guys SO much.

[comicdiaries]

He inspired me to be brave about my boost too.

[haich-slash-cee]

it's nap-o-clock all the time, all week here, during Covid Booster side effect season. A bi-annual event, spring and fall, for me. Naps, sleeps, two weeks of dozing if you will.

At least i don't get the one day full body ache of one of my friends. (I kind of envy them that their effects last only one day, tho)

But also, some people I know will casually mention "oh yeah I got my booster yesterday" and they're painting theater scenery or something as they mention this. Madam, I would be napping on the floor right now, in the same situation. I would be curled up in with a blanket in the corner. I have to block off 1-2 weeks of not committing to any important thing and time my booster.

(how do we have such a spectrum of responses to the same vaccine)

[dabblingreturns]

I didn't sleep all day.

I got a flu shot and a covid booster and sewed for 3 hours.....

I only slept for about 18 hours today....

[trexalicious]

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[carldoonan]

Got my booster shots for both Flu and Covid today! Please schedule yours if/when you can! 💉⬆️✨

[vizthedatum]

Okay so slight break from my usual trauma-processing... but like why the fuck are COVID vaccines/boosters privatized?! This is a public health measure.

I know that the US government had planned to do this, but now that it's happening... it's really dumb.

The pharmacies I've called have listed prices from $190 to $300 out of pocket for the new 2023 booster.

My insurance plan, UPMC Health Plan, DOES NOT EVEN HAVE THE BOOSTER IN ITS FORMULARY (as of today)... -_-

So it's not covered yet. When will it be?

I hate everything. (This is also residual hate from earlier this year when I got overcharged for my bladder installations for no discernable reasons.)