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Heterologous Boosters
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This quote from the article is misleading "Dr. Lyke and her colleagues found that switching boosters raised the level of coronavirus antibodies, no matter which combination people got."

Boosters raised the level of antibodies whether the booster was the same or different. Generally, a Moderna booster increased the most, followed by Pfizer, followed by J&J. A J&J 2nd shot (the "booster") still didn't get the numbers as high as the mRNA 2-shot vaccinations even months later.

I don't know why they seemed to rank them by a factor increase (for instance, 10x) rather than just looking at the final numbers, or the just looking at the absolute change in the measures.

Also, I will add two clauses to clarify this statement, "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has no preference for which age-appropriate AND MEDICAL-CONDITION-APPROPRIATE flu vaccine people get AMONG THE FDA APPROVED VACCINES." (In particular, it seems the live, attenuated vaccine is not recommended for pregnant or immunocompromised or for certain other conditions.) There are 9 different vaccines.

I also think the article allows the reader to think the situation with COVID is potentially like the situation with influenza. As I understand it, the main reason for yearly influenza shots is that the prevalent influenza changes from year to year, and new shots are needed to cover the new variants. The current COVID boosters are to increase the antibodies, not to provide wider or different coverage of variants.
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Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 10-13-2021, 05:02 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 10-13-2021, 05:52 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by Hurlburt88 - 10-19-2021, 02:32 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 10-20-2021, 10:38 AM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by Hurlburt88 - 10-23-2021, 06:17 AM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 10-27-2021, 04:36 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by 82Card - 10-28-2021, 12:49 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 03-23-2022, 04:38 AM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 03-30-2022, 01:19 PM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by ChrisGreene - 04-01-2022, 08:36 AM
RE: Heterologous Boosters - by M_T - 04-01-2022, 01:13 PM

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