dedtired, there was a bivalent booster available beginning in September.

The bivalent COVID-19 vaccines include a component of the original virus strain to provide broad protection against COVID-19 and a component of the omicron variant to provide better protection against COVID-19 caused by the omicron variant. These are called bivalent COVID-19 vaccines because they contain these two components. A bivalent COVID-19 vaccine may also be referred to as “updated” COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-bivalent-vaccine-boosters

And I'm with nhbaskets. I'll get every booster as they become available. I haven't yet had Covid either.

yeonassky, you should check with your pharmacy about the bivalent booster - the 5th booster. The FDA has approved it and it's now available.

Robb when I looked at a post from the local health deparement offering the covalent shots is was stated if you had received the other vaccines you were not eligible for this newer type. It did not expand why not eligible. It may only have been that clinic and area.

I had to go look and with the two initial ones I have had 4.

Original 2 plus 2 boosters. Plus flu plus pneumonia innoculations. Will gladly follow the science as it evolves.

Original 2, a booster this time last year (which I think, along with using N95 masks, helped protect me during our local flood of Covid cases last winter), and the bivalent booster in September. I had delayed the 2nd booster until the bivalent was out - since I am miserable for a day+ after each dose, I wanted to make the misery count for more! and I could minimize my exposure in stores etc until then.

I've had the two originals and three boosters. I have also gotten the flu shot. My daughter thinks she now has flu despite the shot but it's only 60% effective. It never prevents, it's just less severe. One of my friends is in NYC for her daughter's wedding and emailed me two days ago she was upset that she has to wear a mask in the large van which was taking them to NYC for the wedding because she has a cold. She lamented she'd probably have to wear a mask at the wedding. Today I got an email from her hotel room where she has been quarantined since she got there because she now has covid and is very sick. She missed last night's dinner and party and will miss the wedding tonight. I will celebrate NYE with my cats.

2 vaccines, 2 boosters, flu shot. I still need to do the shingles shots.

I get almost too many reminder and follow-up emails from the med school faculty practice where my primary care doc is. I follow her (and their) advice to the letter. I get vaccinations and other injections as and when they tell me to. I think my Covid total is perhaps 5, the last one being the bivalent one.

2 Covid Classic

2 Covid Delta

1 Covid Omicron

1 High Octane Flu shot, which has been reported to be matched very well for the predicted variant. We've not caught covid yet but know more people now that have caught it than ever before in past waves.

We've had a total of 5 Moderna shots now. We got the bivalent booster along with our annual flu shot the last day of Sept making 5 total.

5 shots seems like a lot.

But my sis is just now recovering from a year of surgery and chemo. Her immune system was completely depleted - we could not risk compromising her. We began the pandemic doing everything advised so we'd be allowed in to see my mother in her senior facility. Then beginning a year ago, there was my sis. Keeping up with all the recommendations is still ingrained and coming quite naturally to us. We will still mask someplace crowded (if we even go), i.e. mask when in Costco. I did notice shopping Trader Joe's a couple of weeks ago every employee there was masked.

But if I look out of place, I'm no longer concerned. Little eye makeup and I still look fine ;)

We had a last minute change of plans Christmas morning, our nephews wife had thrown up that morning and was testing positive for Covid. She works in a private school and vaccines were not optional. It's still going around and catching perfectly healthy and active people off guard.

I thought this would be how many shots of Patron, but nothing so interesting. As many covid shots as available. If a new one comes up, we will get it, as well as flu shots.

"I thought this would be how many shots of Patron, but nothing so interesting."

Covid vaccines, got the first 2 shots, then the booster shot. Then got the flu shot in the fall as usual. This year I was due for a pneumonia shot as well….I’m 75.

5 vaccines, from 3 different manufacturers (AZ, Pfizer, Moderna)

All my five shots have been Moderna. I hope I got the senior dose of the flu shot. I got it at my doctor's office so it should be. I wish there was a shot for the RSV bug which I had the whole month of November. I thought at first it was a cold but then I coughed for the entire month and blew stuff out of my sinuses for two straight weeks. It didn't slow me down as I didn't have a fever but it was weird and something I never had before.

Maybe 5? I don't remember right now.

Covid -- 2 Moderna vaccines, 2 Moderna boosters. That's all that's been offered so far.

I get the flu shot every October.

Last year I got the 2 shingles shots and the Pneumococcal vaccination.

4 Covid shots, one flu shot. I had put off getting the second booster, went ahead and got it in July. Then they came out with the bivalent, but it was too soon. Haven't had that one.

4 Covid plus regular annual flu. I will take whatever I am offered.

I've lost count too - I know I took the first 2 parter , and at least 2 boosters, but now I'm not sure if I had 5. I'm too lazy to check my records at the moment. I had the last one in October, IIRC.

I've also been getting flu shots for years now and will continue with those as well. I haven't had flu since I started doing that, and Hubby and I have both managed to escape COVID SARS too, which is a little surprising, because I work with school age kids and young people, who frequently come to work sick.

The masks are clearly helping - I wear a KN95 with a paper medical mask over it and never, ever remove them when I'm at work and in public.

FWIW, I recall recent reporting that flu vaccines are correlated to lower incidence of dementia - something about reducing inflammation...?

P.S. I love not getting sick! I used to get several colds yearly, and often developed sinusitis from that. Do not miss that misery at all.

5, and yes, Robb, the last one was the bivalent omicron targeted formula. (Also have had flu and shingles vaccines this autumn.)

Toronto-Veterinarian, did you get that combination by choice, by what was available, or...?

2

5: 2 original, and three boosters. Last was the bivalent. I also got the hi-test flu shot for seniors.

2 AZ shots, 2 Moderna boosters. Not yet eligible for the 5th Moderna bivalent booster, but expect it will become available when we move out of the Aussie summer. Same goes for the flu shot.

" Toronto-Veterinarian, did you get that combination by choice, by what was available, or...? "

The first three were because I just took whatever was available when and where I was able to book an appointment, though it didn't worry me - I suspected possibly increased immunity with a combo of different vaccines. For the last two (a regular booster, then the bivalent) I had a choice, but when I was asked which one I wanted, and I said to just give me whatever was most popular that day. It didn't matter to me.

None of them gave me different (or different intensity of) side effects; the bivalent shot was the only one that didn't give me any side effects at all.

Rob - what is a covalent booster? I havent heard of that. I’ve had the bivalent booster. Are they the same thing?

Five, so far; the most recent was the bivalent booster in September. I fully intend to keep it up as new Covid vaccines are developed and offered. So far, I haven’t gotten Covid….(I do feel like I should add “yet”). I get a flu shot every year. I come from a family of scientists, public health, and health care professionals and I believe in science, and my career was spent in hospital nursing, where I cared for plenty of suffering people who didn’t, until it was too late.

I did the original two and considered the booster. I caught Covid before the booster happened so I decided that was my booster.

two. no boosters. A round of covid and my own antibodies.

I have my date written down, but on another floor.

I got the first then the second Covid vaccinations.

Then a Booster

Then, the fourth, the ”Bivalent” booster. That one was a bit different formulation.

I have not heard of any other Covid-19 immunizations being offered. If there was a 5th or 6th, I’d have rolled up my sleeve.

Lonestar, There are newer variants, and although one an still get Covid-19, the bivalent shot (booster) protects somewhat againt them.

Yeonassky, I hope you soon feel better and recover completely.

For those saying that they have gotten five (5) Covid-19 immunizations, can you give some details? As far as I know, there have only been four (4) offered in USA (where I live).

I also have gotten the latest influenza vaccination.

The 2-part shingles vaccination

The 2 part pneumonia vaccination.

I had mumps, chix pox, measles as a child.

I am chagrinned to hear that a lot of people will not get the rubella (measles) vaccination for themselves of their children. Measles can easily cause serious defects to a fetus. For example, bilateral cataracts—-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_rubella_syndrome

" For those saying that they have gotten five (5) Covid-19 immunizations, can you give some details? As far as I know, there have only been four (4) offered in USA (where I live). "

Both Pfizer and Moderna had 2 part vaccines. And there have been two sets of boosters available as well. The bivalent booster, which only became available this past September, is like a super booster in that it addresses multiple strains and manifestations of the virus, which the previous 2 boosters did not.

2 vaccines + 2 boosters + 1 bivalent booster = 5

first two were Pfizer, next two were Moderna, last one was bivalent. Then the flu shot beginning of December. Got covid in July after my daughter's wedding celebration, which turned out to be a super spreader with 20 people getting covid. We had just been boosted 10 days before, and hubby didn't get it despite sleeping in the same bed as me. Nobody got really sick after the wedding, and did cause two people to quit smoking so yay!

5 Covid, high dose flu. I haven't had Covid yet, but hope it will be a mild case if I do.

5 COVID plus old people flu shot! Knock on wood, we have not had COVID, yet.

I got the three for COVID (which included the booster) plus my annual flu shot, had the pneumonia shot some years ago but doctor says I probably will be offered another one this coming year.

i.e. the cold meds. I was at a small Amish grocery store Friday and saw four boxes of TheraFlu (sp?) plus another type of cold med. I had a notion to get a box of the TheraFlu just to have on hand. It was $8.99. In fact, I may go back next week.

ETA: I haven't been sick since 2019! but I haven't been mingling with people much at all, like attending many events such as concerts and get togethers. And I pretty much quit wearing a mask unless I'm somewhere there is a big crowd.

I have had every vaccination that I'm eligible for, including a flu shot. It seems like a simple way to avoid getting Covid, or at least one that is so severe that it requires a hospital stay. Now I need to get rid of the miserable cold I've had for several days!

We got the first shot in Feb 2021, The second in March 2021. Then a booster Oct 2021 and a second booster in July 2022. The were all Pfitzer and at the hospital clinic. The last one was before they came out with the new booster, but I called and asked a few days ago and they said we were fine.

I will schedule us another next year probably just before the flu shots.

0 Covid vaccines here. Got Covid October 2020 and natural immunity. I probably would have gotten the vaccine if it was available then, but it wasn't. So glad I got Covid before the vaccine came out, now in hindsight. My 19 year old son who has been doing clinicals for a class has to have so many hours riding in ambulances and emergency rooms-and only sees people being transported to hospitals for covid, who have been vaccinated. My son has not been vaccinated either and had Covid same time I did. My DH has gotten covid also and not vaccinated.

Everyone I know that has been vaccinated has gotten covid-even multiple times. EXCEPT my vaccinated elderly Dad and his wife, for some reason. And, they go to restaurants and grocery stores and get together with the rest of the family who is not vaccinated. I have to wonder if they had it and didn't know it.

We don't give it a second thought anymore.

I'm pretty much the same timiing as Sherry and haven't had the bivalent for the same reason.

I've had the flu shot and will probably get the bivalent sometime early spring.

FYI expecting that getting Covid will protect you from the latest Covid variants is like expecting that after getting flu or a cold you wont ever get them again. Covid has turned out to be a good deal more mutable than expected and the newest variants tend to take over quickly making older vaccination less useful. It is what it is.

I thought I had 4, but when I pulled out my vaccination card I see there were 5.

The 2 original Moderna shots in Feb. 2021 & March 2021. then 3 boosters September 2021, March 2022, and September 2022.

@Patriciae, everyone knows that being vacinated doesn't mean you won't get Covid. It means your chances of dying from it are greatly reduced. Just as the flu shot doesn't prevent you from getting the flu, your symptoms will be milder. :)

Honestly, I don't think 'everyone' knows that, to hear some people tell it...

5 Covid + hi-dose flu.

I was addressing the idea that having had Covid you dont need the vaccinations. As in having last years flu will not necessarily keep you from getting this years versions. I know originally the idea of herd immunity was big and once everyone had had it life would go back to normal but it didnt work like that.

zero

Oh, well, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

bivalent booster. I spend too much time around chemists.

5, and always have an annual flu shot.

One and done~ J&J no Covid