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PETALING JAYA: Booster shots have lower rates of adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) at only 0.1 cases reported per 1,000 doses, even lower than the number reported after primer doses, which stands at 0.4 cases every 1,000 doses.
People. at the same time older folks clearly need a booster. the data, the efficacy dropped to 48% for mrna vaccines and the hospitalization is risk in people over 65 not boosted. neil: what do you think of the idea building that we have to treat this like we do the flu, an annual shot? is that where we're going? >> i don't think so and for this reason. there tends to be a magic number of exposure or boosts when your wide sees the vaccine or the virus a total number of times, the cellular or deeper immunity kicks in. for most vaccines it's two or three. there's hardly any vaccine in medicine w...
Own individual risk, and somebody over age 65, then a booster may make sense, especially with pfizer. it turns out the moderna vaccine is holding up better. when you get a second johnson & johnson or other vaccine after the initial johnson & johnson you are in a much better situation. unfortunately, a lot of this was avoidable because the interval between the first two doses was too narrow. three and four weeks relegates those first two doses to essentially function as one primer dose. that's why we're having these conversations. that guidance should have been adjusted early. >> jon: and we al...
Vaccine, i recommend people wait three months, your immune response is at least three times stronger. we probably would not even be having this conversation about boosters if we appropriately spaced the second two dose three months out. putting them so close together, which we only did to finish the trial quickly last year, putting them them so close together essentially functions as one primer dose. >> john: so sunday gets the first ghost though it meant dose, they are scheduled for a second three or four weeks out, could you delay that? >> that's what i did for myself, john. >> john: how do ...