Booster Covid jabs
#2
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Re: Booster Covid jabs
Yes, as part of a combined covid & flu programme, currently scheduling 70+ https://covid19.min-saude.pt/vacinacao-covid
That will extend to 65+ in due course, don't believe any plans for lower age groups have been announced yet
That will extend to 65+ in due course, don't believe any plans for lower age groups have been announced yet
#3
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Re: Booster Covid jabs
With the numbers as they are and the predicted growth especially around Christmas, I think it's only a matter of time before they start to vaccinate under 65s with a third, or if you had the J&J vaccine second, dose. Interestingly many under 60s will have reached the 6 months post second vaccine day before many of those over 65 as the gap between first and second dose was shortened in May/June time.
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Re: Booster Covid jabs
Are you all six months past your second shot? I got SMS asking if I wanted the flu jab on the 25th. I am 73 but my 2nd shot was 22 July so guess I can't get booster till end January.
Last edited by Sunseeker1st; Nov 17th 2021 at 12:51 pm.
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Re: Booster Covid jabs
Of course there's a "could" and a "possibly" in there and flu vaccines are a bit variable in effectiveness from year to year, so nothing certain, but maybe a greater risk than a normal year (if I can even remember what a normal year looks like!)
#10
Re: Booster Covid jabs
We know it is our choice but I have never had a cold in my life and the 'flu twice more than twenty years ago being around many people who had it. I am very much a hermitess npw, live in the country and mask up if I have to encounter anyone out of our bubble/circle. My sister used to get it yearly ... and yearly she got the 'flu!
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Re: Booster Covid jabs
We know it is our choice but I have never had a cold in my life and the 'flu twice more than twenty years ago being around many people who had it. I am very much a hermitess npw, live in the country and mask up if I have to encounter anyone out of our bubble/circle. My sister used to get it yearly ... and yearly she got the 'flu!
For anyone reading who sometimes does, sometimes doesn't, this is probably a good year to make the effort to do it though