Should you get a booster for Covid and which one?

 The booster situation is becoming clearer by the day.

For people who got the Pfizer vaccine and are 6 months out from their second shot, it is recommended they get a booster especially if they are immunocompromised or over 65. Studies have shown that with the Pfizer vaccine the antibodies to Covid go down precipitously by month 7, in some cases to undetectable.

Moderna has not been approved for a booster yet but I suspect that it will within the next week or two.

I am not allowed to make this recommendation yet because the FDA has not yet approved the Moderna booster but when they do, I am going to recommend that people who got the Pfizer vaccine consider getting the Moderna as a booster.

Moderna clearly has stronger protection and may eventually lead to less shots than Pfizer.

Not surprisingly people who got the Johnson/Janssen vaccine are going to need a second shot. The idea of the one shot deal turned out to be too good to be true.

The good news is that the second J and J shot takes immunity up to 95%. Which makes it even better than some of the 2 shot vaccines.

Here is an interesting commentary which I agree with:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958432?uac=214936CY&faf=1&sso=true&impID=3687470&src=mkm_covid_update_211004_MSCPEDIT

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