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Kyomujin t1_j0kzkry wrote

Reply to comment by shwag945 in The new omicron boosters are very effective at preventing seniors from being hospitalized with Covid. The latest omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors 65 and older from being hospitalized with Covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated by Wagamaga

Vacination costs money and while the doses are cheap the nurses needed to administer them aren't.

These costs and seeing how younger people appear to have strong protection against serious disease after at least 3 shots, make it questionable to continue giving shots to anyone younger than 65 in perpetuity. As for the older it can be worthwile to consider if making sure to prescribe paxlovid or other effective medicine early to anyone old is a better use of resources than making biannual covid vaccinations a permanent affair. You can also include considerations for the potential damage of vaccination exhaustion in the population as well.

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Fast_Blueberry_4043 t1_j0lqj9f wrote

My doctor refused to give me paxlovid when I had covid, as I was 64 and there were "questions about the side effects of the drug." It would be great if physicians would get educated about the resources available now, too.

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mybrainisgoneagain t1_j0mcndu wrote

Seriously!!!!

Total contrast for me. Have a doctor friend that doesn't know my age. Was speaking with them just casually. Thinking about going to a large event. I am vaxxed and boosted and will mask. But I have a couple comorbidities What happens if I get Covid? Paxlovid was mentioned as a possibility ..

Note this was just in a conversation exploring possibilities in a just in case scenario. As knock on wood, fingers crossed, still a Covid virgin.

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j86abstract t1_j0ldpis wrote

Do you have to be a nurse to administer the shot? My last booster was done at a pharmacy.

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mountain_man30 t1_j0ly101 wrote

Even having a "qualified" nurse doesn't guarantee a good job. I've watched quite a few videos showing nurses inject before asperating to ensure they don't inject that spike protein inside a vein or artery.

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