COVID-19 booster shots should be available to anyone who requests one in California as long as their initial vaccination was long enough ago, the state’s director of public health said in a letter to local health providers.
Dr. Tomas Aragon, director of the state’s Department of Public Health, said in the letter that while health care providers and jurisdictions should proactively reach out to certain subsets of the population for the booster shots, they should “allow patients to self-determine their risk of exposure” and “not turn a patient away who his requesting a booster.”
People should receive the booster shot as long as they are 18 or older and have at least six months since their initial vaccination series for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or two months since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the letter.
The guidelines outlined in the letter are looser for booster shots than those set by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that specify that those shots should go to people who are 65 and older, have certain underlying medical conditions, live in long-term care facilities, or work or live in other specified high-risk settings.
Officials with the California Department of Public Health have not said what prompted the policy change, but on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials at a news conference in Southern California encouraged people to get the booster shots ahead of the upcoming winter holidays when people are more likely to gather inside with friends and family.
California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said at the briefing, “If you think you will benefit from getting a booster shot, I encourage you to go out and get it.”
Maybe it will be FDA approved by then.
Waiting on pins and needles…
Yes because the previous ones worked so well. Brings to mind the definition of insanity…
I have my appointment on December 19th for my third dosis. Will get a 4th eventually ✌️
…and you will be getting your (their) 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th.
It’s time will quit labeling them “conspiracy theorists” and rightfully referring to them as Prophets since they have been spot on regarding this whole Plandemic.
Oh boy, so happy for you! How that virtue signal feel?
Marketing 101: Create the illusion of scarcity for your product then tell everyone they can get it.
You will have idiots standing in line to buy stuff they don’t want or need. E.g. Apple. 🤣🤣 Lol it’s kinda the same people 🤯😆
This is actually true. When the mRNA jabs became readily available, two people I know were desperate to get it. One spent days calling various pharmacies around the bay area for availability, and went as far as going to some CVS in the tender loin, to get the jab. My coworker spent nights reloading CVS/Walgreens appointment pages, anxiously waiting for open spots to get the jab. It was like someone yearning to get a hold of the new iPhone on launch day.
It’s media stoking fear of COVID and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) that pushes folks to get them without questioning anything. I’m afraid to know what the consequences will be.
Boosters should never be mandated.
Just like the gene altering drug itself.
Asked my Doctor if I could before the announcement. Felt it was pro-active. Get it done Wednesday.
Good for you, you must feel so much better than the rest, right?
If you can’t go maskless after vaccination number three, why would you get it? Over here in our free state, we went out to breakfast this morning. No one wore a mask. Everyone was polite and friendly. No one died or required 911 transport to the hospital. I find the irrational and illogical government pronouncements to be nothing less than a bad memory of the USSR or Communist China.
@chuckie
I, too, went out for breakfast today, where everyone was safe and providing for their own safety and that of others by wearing a mask. That’s the difference between here and your “free state”; we care about the safety of others. Other than that, everyone was polite and friendly, no one died or required 911 transport to a hospital.
Where is this free state of which you speak?
@Masked Poster right? SInce being vaccinated, myself and my circle have lived mostly pre-covid normal lives. It’s the folks screaming at retail workers about their freedoms that seems super upset about things and unable to get on with it.
Odd that the politicians who have been touting “the science” are saying that anyone who asks for a booster should receive a booster. So now everyone is a physician who can prescribe their own vaccine?
My second question: when will the CDC realize that maybe these vaccines are not doing what they’re supposed to do? I understand that some vaccines need a series of vaccines and then a booster to prompt the immune system to produce antibodies. However, every six months? Nope! It seems that the vaccine may not be the panacea that we had hoped.
@CJRN: Right on! And: How come we only need a “Tetanus Shot” every 10 years!!
I think some people are making a fortune & the rest of us are being squirreled.
Bingo! Just take a look at Phiszer’s earnings, in the billions! There have been 460 vaccine related deaths so far this year. Wonder why we can’t sue for adverse reactions to this totally safe vaccine…🧐
There has been many more than 460 deaths reported after receiving vaccine on VAERs website.
I really don’t understand what the heck is going on here. The FDA approved under EUA boosters for people aged 65 and older, those working in environments exposed to Covid 19, and those aged 18-65 in high risk categories. So why the heck is it, all sudden, okay to go against the FDA and do whatever you want? It’s like I am living in the twilight zone. Does that mean other recommendations from the FDA should not be followed? Whether you want the vaccine, don’t want the vaccine, are an antivaxxer, or have already gotten the booster. Something is not right here. I think this is just another issue that will cause more distrust of institutions that were once held as the gold standard. I was just reviewing the booster EUA on FDA website and they issued this booster EUA after reviewing a trial of around 300 people. That’s it. They also issued Their EUA to mix and match vaccines after reviewing trial info of less than that. The NIH mix and match study included about 50 participants. Again, what the heck is going on here? To date, the CDC has done 0 research on the effectiveness of natural immunity. 0 research. No studies, no nothing. This is according to them. Again, what the hell is going on? It’s frightening.
On the FDA’s website:
The recommendation for Moderna booster comes from trial data from 171 people.
The recommendation for the Johnson and Johnson booster comes from trail data from 39 people. 15 of them were over 65. Let that sink in for a second.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is why those senior FDA officials stepped down in September. These decisions affect millions of people and are being made off of insanely small sample sizes.
If the vaccine doesn’t do what they said it would do, why does anyone think a “booster” will?
Could the vaccine be causing the virus to mutate and become more difficult to defeat, presenting the unvaccinated with a more serious disease than the one originally thought to be causing a pandemic?
Boy, there’s a twist…
I take my booster daily, in the form of eating real food from local farmers markets, vitamin supplements, and exercise so I’m not an obese fat ass.
We need to teach health in school, not how to identify black, brown, white, rich, poor crap.
At lead 9 Big Pharma billionaires have been created since this started. Follow the money.
These conspiracy theorists are a piece of work.
People need to:
1. Wear a mask indoors.
2. Maintain social distance when possible.
3. Get Covid vaccinations and/or booster.
Thank you.
Concord guy bought into the biggest conspiracy theory.
These conspiracy theories are a piece of work.
1. Wear a mask indoors.
2. Maintain social distance when possible.
3. Get Covid vaccinations and/or booster.
Thank you. See how easy that was😉
💥💥Some people wouldn’t know tyranny if it covered their faces, locked them in their homes, enacted the biggest wealth transfer in history, censored them, made them show papers, and force medicated them. Apparently, “Concord Guy” is one of these people.
They aren’t conspiracies and the information is all out there for you. You can continue to say “how high” every time they say jump but no thanks, it’s been 2 years already they will just keep moving the bar. All for a flu with a 98% survival rate…
Research by a Canadian scientist shows that the death rate during the pandemic was no different than in the previous decade. Hence there is no pandemic, just a massive psychological campaign to control the masses.
@bdml. Unfortunate you took it way. Have a good day!
What are you trying to say? Your comment makes no sense.
So glad to see that the fifth circuit Court of appeals put an end to the mandate at least for now I have yet to get a shot although I did get a cootie shot so I’m good
The only shot I will get is Bourbon
@bdml. Last response on this. As you mentioned, I must feel better than the rest, you know what my reply was meant to say. Most important have a safe holiday.
The first one’s always free.
Another “theory” becomes truth. All you self righteous vaccine zombies will need a booster every 6 months to keep your freedoms. You guys are such losers. Out here messing up freedom for everyone else.