San Diegans, local physician weigh in on updated COVID booster shot

The CDC recommendation on Tuesday came just over 24 hours after the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the new booster shot.

“And now we have a new vaccine that’s chasing the sons and daughters of omicron, and basically the variants that are circulating currently, and they work pretty well for the variants that are circulating,” said Dr. Davey Smith of UC San Diego Health. While Americans wait for the circulation of doses for the updated booster, there are different feelings among San Diegans when it comes to getting the new shot.“I already three of them and they get me sick. So, I’m done. I’m done with it,” Lionel C. Valencia countered.“I got the original vaccine and the booster. I haven’t gotten all of the series of boosters after that. So, I guess I don’t know -- I don’t know how that works.

“We collectively had enormous traumatic experience with COVID and it takes a while to overcome trauma if you ever do. So that stigma will be with us for a very long time. But I hope that eventually it’ll become, ‘Oh, yeah, l got my COVID shot. Oh, yeah, I got my flu shot. This is just what I need to do,’” Smith said.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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