When I got my 2nd Moderna booster yesterday I knew there'd be some side effects, but didn't expect a left arm ache like it had been hit by a line drive from Willie Adames. Also the mild nausea that thankfully soon passed. But it was worth it given the factors that make me more at risk for any new Covid variant, especially the BA.2 of Omicron. I think sensible people can also discount the recent malarkey spouted by the WSJ's Allysia Finley,
The Folly of World-Wide Covid Vaccination
Writing:
"Vaccinating the world against Covid won’t prevent new variants from emerging, because vaccines don’t prevent the virus from spreading. Vaccines can slow transmission for a short period at best. The most effective vaccines provide only short-term protection against infection and even less against the Omicron variant. Large shares of lower-income countries already have natural immunity from infection, which is as protective as vaccines"
Who fails to grasp that immunity protections across the world are not uniform. And though, true, many young Africans may not need a Covid vaccine, millions with less resilient immune systems in Bangladesh or Yemen, may. Thus, as Covid expert Dr. Ashish Jah has noted we need a global vaccination program for this virus, not 'cafeteria'-style picking and choosing which nations' populations ought to benefit and which not.
That's why I follow Laurie Garrett's rubric in her superb 'The Coming Plague' - in the case of a pandemic that's still burning and engendering new mutations - (some of which may be more lethal ) we cannot afford to play the fool. If you meet the Covid index requirements for that 2nd booster, get it before the next surge.
'Nuff said.
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