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I’m not having another Covid vaccine. Hate me.
I ain’t Novak Djokovich, but I’m now in his camp.
This is not an easy article to write. I do understand — maybe not fully, given the spirit of this story — how much hard work is being done by healthcare workers. I do understand how the sheer volume of people being sick is so disruptive to so many areas of our lives.
I rushed to get the vaccine (happened to be Moderna) as soon as it became available. So did my wife. So did my older kids. I’d never done flu shots but with Covid, I was happy to be as careful and preventative as I could.
But now the confusion is too much. The sense mistrust of is overwhelming.
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Fauci. “Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Those who have been vaccinated … and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death.”
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Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Thursday said the efficacy of boosters against Covid-19 will likely decline over time, and people may need a fourth shot in the fall to increase their protection. “I would expect that it’s not going to hold great,” Bancel said, during a Goldman Sachs…