Future of Covid Vaccines and Yearly Booster Shots

5 years ago

It sounds as if yearly Covid booster shots (like flu shots) will now become part of our new normal. What will happen if move to an area where you can't get the same vaccine? For example, you get Pfizer. A year or so you move someplace rural. They have no refrigeration capacity. Can you then booster with Moderna or Johnson and Johnson? Or, you start with Moderna but then can't get it, etc. Do you think there will eventually be one go to shot?

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maifleur03

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

Supposition only but it will probably be handled like the flu shot is now handled. The CDC/FDA tells the manufactures what strains must be in the shot and each one manufacturers it. If you have ever looked at the list of approved manufacturers you will probably have noticed that some have additional strains added as more is known. Do not worry right now about the what ifs because things may change.

Edited to add that living in a rural area means giving up a lot more than just receiving your "type" of shot. It can also mean giving up close medical care or even a close hospital. If you worry about a shot perhaps rethinking living rural

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raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
5 years ago
No one here can offer anything but a (mostly) uninformed guess.

Asking is pointless, I'm afraid.
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morz8 - Washington Coast
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
It's way too early for anyone to be able to answer that is my best guess. And, I'm not sure how rural one would have to be before the Pfizer shot would be impossible to receive. Lots of wrinkles and details to still be worked out, and the storage issues could be as simple as urgent cares and smaller communities providers buying a different type freezer.

We have a hospital, not full service....no neurosurgeon, cardiologist, anything less than more routine is either driven or air lifted away from here for best care....they deliver babies, set broken bones, take out appendixes...

The shot we were given at a little clinic a half hour away was Moderna. The shot the health department is offering through a more recently set up 'mass vaccination' clinic in our port area is Pfizer. Which surprised me, but that's the clinic DH's eldest sister went to this last week, and she was given Pfizer.
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5 years ago
However it works out, it behooves us all to pay attention to the recommendation and get the annual flu and/or covid shot.
maifleur03
5 years ago
I suspect but only the future will tell that both virus will be combined into what is called the annual flu shot with no one even questioning what is in it.
lucillle
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Do you think there will eventually be one go to shot?

There may continue to be several manufacturers, but I think that ultimately, the highest performing one will dominate the market. I also feel that in another year or so, those who live in rural areas will have access to the same highest performing vaccines as anyone else.

Insurance companies have a vested interest in making sure everyone gets high quality vaccines because it costs them so much more in payout if someone gets a serious infection.

I also think that eventually a safe, foolproof vaccine delivery system will be developed so that people will be able to get the vaccine by mail and administer it to themselves and that somehow a proof system will be developed to show that the recipient actually did administer. Sounds science fiction-y, yes, but I think it will happen.

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