It’s OK to mix and match COVID-19 booster shoots. Which one should I get?
LOS ANGELES — Topping up your protection against severe COVID-19 while avoiding the risk of rare vaccine side effects should not be rocket science. But just ask the experts who advised federal regulators to authorize additional shots: There’s no simple formula to guide Americans’ decisions about booster shots. Whether you should get a booster shot and which one you should get depends on who ...
by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Oct 23, 2021
4 minutes
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LOS ANGELES — Topping up your protection against severe COVID-19 while avoiding the risk of rare vaccine side effects should not be rocket science.
But just ask the experts who advised federal regulators to authorize additional shots: There’s no simple formula to guide Americans’ decisions about booster shots.
Whether you should get a booster shot and which one you should get depends on who you are, what medical vulnerabilities you have, and what vaccine you got first. The people you live with or the kind of work you do might also influence your choice.
And then there’s the deeply personal matter of how much risk — of COVID-19 or of vaccine side effects — you’re willing
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