2021.08.21 13:37
Why you shouldn't rush to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot before it's your turn
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rush-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-turn/story?id=79526299
2021.08.21 15:52
2021.08.21 18:13
I read the article carefully, but I was not able to find any critical reason not to take the third shot
somewhat earlier than 8 months. There's no evidence given in the case of an early third shot
to increase the chance of myocarditis. The whole argument the experts are telling not to take
seems to be just speculation without any solid supporting pieces of evidence.
There are no comparisons between 6 months or 8 months intervals.
Do we get more myocarditis or other complications in six months than in 8 months?
To me, it's my own judgment as a community doctor to wait another 2 more months or not.
If I, as a doctor, feel like any particular patient may need an earlier third shot,
I should do so. There's no proven evidence in this article for "Not-To."
We have to be careful in listening to the so-called experts.
At the present, there are no such experts except they are prominent with higher authority.
As far as Covid-19 goes, there are no such experts anywhere on this earth due to the total lack of
proven scientific data. Let's not fall into the "expert, top doctor, and university professor syndrome".
Of course, we should neither listen to and believe everything the drug companies say.
We are in uncharted territory between commercial profit and scientific truth.
2021.08.21 20:14
You made a good point, WM.
As a matter of fact, my next door neighbors mentioned above
had their 3rd booster shots 6 months after the second shot.
Their daughter is an internist, professor at Loma Linda Medical School,
who apparently agrees with you.
As the experts said, we don't have data in regard to incidence of side effects
and kinds and severity of side effects of this 3rd booster shots.
We will accumulate the information as we go along so that waiting longer
may provide the necessary information.
For example my next door elderly couple, ages 85 and 82, had their 3rd booster shots
last week. Wife who had had no serious side effects with her first two shot became quite ill
with 104 degree fever and breathing difficulty after the booster shot but recovered in a week
and her husband did well just with some sore arm. They just greeted me and told me this.