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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:32:26 JST Laffy

   💉😷Why yes! Yes, I did just get my #COVID #vaccination, now that you mention it.

   Now I’ve had all 3 vaxxes: COVID, flu, RSV. 👏🏻💪🏼

   Your turn!🫵🏼

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:32:26 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     Congrats!

     Thursday, Laffy, thursday. (Might be too early for the flue one, though.--Need to find out if oyu can have it 2x per season, as it doesn't last longer than 2-3 months.)

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:35:34 JST Laffy

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     @HistoPol Go for it!👍🏻

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:43:43 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     I'll try to remember posting the doc's response.

     I don't really see why it should not be possibel to have a flue shot with a 3-month interval. We'll see.

     Ah, did you read? The new shot supposedly seems to help prevent #LongCovid, too. (Probably the most significant benefit, if you are not older than 65 or so.)

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:47:00 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol Yes, I did know!👍🏻

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:52:00 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Steven Molnar

     @MolnarSteven

     Oh, absolutely. Distancing and masking are the best prevention, as far as possible.

     Thanks for the simple numbers!--I once saw those from the Fraunhofer Institute re/ different types of masks and their combinations.
     The effectiveness was very convincing.

     @GottaLaff

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     Steven Molnar (molnarsteven@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:52:01 JST Steven Molnar

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @GottaLaff The old shots also help prevent long COVID, and the reduction is roughly a factor of two: 20% chance of LC if infected and not vaxxed versus 10% chance if infected and vaxxed. Very rough numbers, and no reason to stop masking.

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     Steven Molnar (molnarsteven@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:55:44 JST Steven Molnar

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @GottaLaff Here's a study on it. Obviously, it's too soon to know much about LC and the new vaccine.

     https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01840-0

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:57:04 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Steven Molnar

     @MolnarSteven
     Thanks!

     I just hope that the new vaccine also works against the two new variants that have sprung up in the last weeks--I can't really see how, as it takes months to develop them, but they might be sufficiently close, mutation wise, I guess.

     @GottaLaff

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 15:05:28 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     BTW, Covid and the flue can be done in one go and some studies showed that at least one(?) sometimes even reinforced the other (what I did last year.)
     Did you get the RSV shot at the same time, too, a "triple shot," so to speak?

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 22:38:13 JST Laffy

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     @HistoPol You’re not supposed to get the RSV with anything else. No, I got the RSV a few weeks ago, flu about 6 days ago, COVID yesterday.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 22:49:23 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     Thanks, Laffy.
     Will keep this in mind.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 22:50:21 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol People in my replies disagree, but I asked the shotgiver about it, and they said to wait 2 weeks.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 22:59:28 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     Great thanks! 🙏 - Will ask my doc as well. - As you seem to need 5 shots for complete protection (never heard that of any other), I would like to start ASAP, of course.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 23:03:13 JST Laffy

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     @HistoPol 5 shots? There’s one new one, the others are outdated.

     Then, RSV, and of course, flu.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 23:08:42 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     That would be great. I got this from a health website a couple of days ago. Great, then, just one as well.
     Covid-19 seems to be the most pressing one (looking at San Francisco, for instance.)

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 23:11:11 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol I’m not sure what you’re reading. There have been 7 (by my count) COVID shots. But the originals are obsolete, and the current one has taken its place. Please ask a dr. Who you trust.

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     Bruce Mirken (brucemirken@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 01:41:35 JST Bruce Mirken

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     • Steven Molnar

     @MolnarSteven @HistoPol @GottaLaff It's criminal that more than a year after that study specifically warned against using vaccines as the sole #COVID19 mitigation strategy, the U.S. government is doing precisely that, #LongCovid be damned.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:13:17 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     This is a misunderstanding. I got all my Covid shots (in the past.)
     What I meant was the shots that I still need to get (flue/Covid 2023 and RSV.)

     In several countries, further Covid shots are not recommended this fall, only for vulnerable groups and people above 60.

     Also, in some countries, there are increasing number of lawsuits (I think chiefly against Moderna.)
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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:14:13 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     Even in countries with public health insurance, the next round of shots is not covered for the general public everywhere.

     Nevertheles, the (cumulative) #LongCovid risk as it is, I still think it is the much higher risk and will get my nxt. shot probably this week.

     I hope, it is clearer now.

     And, of course, #MuskUp indoors with lots of other people.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:17:11 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @BruceMirken

     Alas, not even general vaccination recommendations for the general public are the norm in many countries.
     And I will never understand how masking indoors in big public spaces (train stations, airports, shopping centers, super markets, etc.) cannot be mandatory all the time when there is "flue" season or a surge in infections of any kind. It is such a small thing to ask and do, if temperatures are not too high.
     @MolnarSteven @GottaLaff

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     CassandraZeroCovid (cassandrazerocovid@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:17:47 JST CassandraZeroCovid

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     • Steven Molnar

     @MolnarSteven @HistoPol @GottaLaff
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     Study is clear: you can still get #LongCovid symptoms post-vaccination with previous vaccines if you get a "breakthrough infection".
     No reason to think any different with new vax.

     "Altogether, the findings suggest that vaccination before infection confers only partial protection in the post-acute phase of the disease; hence, reliance on it as a sole mitigation strategy may not optimally reduce long-term health consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection."

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:17:47 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @CassandraZeroCovid @MolnarSteven @GottaLaff

     Yes, definitely, thanks.
     #MaskUp (see earlier post)