It's not about your risk, it's about transmission to other people that have a much higher risk profile.
[edit] Thanks for the downvotes, confirms that people care less about others than experiencing any inconvenience themselves.
It's not about your risk, it's about transmission to other people that have a much higher risk profile.
[edit] Thanks for the downvotes, confirms that people care less about others than experiencing any inconvenience themselves.
The current recommendation is to get a booster because it both reduces the severity of the disease and the chance of either catching a breakthrough infection or another variant[1]/[2].
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...
[2] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
I don’t remember where I read it originally, but the lancet is roughly what I recall. It’s not 100% conclusive, but the data seems to point towards roughly the same transmission rate.
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1476212140956553...
If that were true we would not be seeing 2,500+ deaths/day in the US which was higher than the initial first wave(2.2k/day) and is approaching the previous peak(~3k/day).
Everyone’s made their bed.
So to ask more of the actually compliant people - most of which wouldn't have ever noticed they had covid even during unvaccinated hardcore delta times - is not really that convincing. Even the fear of “long covid” has dissipated, as it looks like that will never be quantified and both vaccinated and unvaccinated have experience with actual covid by now. Add in a slight and unnecessary myocarditis risk and that introduces just enough unnecessary downside to make another shot from two seasonal covids ago a hard pass.