<story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jurassic</author><text>I’m 34 and healthy. Each of my shots and the booster gave me severe flu-like side effects (chills, body aches, etc). I’ve lost 5-6 days over the last year to recovering from these side effects. Given my low risk from the actual virus, I don’t see myself getting another booster. I’m not anti-science, but there needs to be significant ROI for that level of discomfort and time lost to recovery.</text></comment>
<story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>It brings your chances of death from vanishingly small down to undetectable. I didn&amp;#x27;t think it was personally worth it; I might as well wait until my double vax decays a bit farther, more research is done, and new reformulations specifically targeting new variants that have gone around have been formulated.&lt;p&gt;As policy it&amp;#x27;s definitely not worth it. We can pretend that we as a country care about covid, but if we&amp;#x27;re stressing the importance of patents and boosting our own over vaccinating the world, we don&amp;#x27;t really care. If we take years to send out masks, we clearly think more about masks as a public declaration of loyalty than disease prevention devices.&lt;p&gt;I hate that we&amp;#x27;ve split into two groups, one of nationalistic bleach drinkers that don&amp;#x27;t believe in the germ theory of disease, and the other of nationalistic OCD paternalists. Now I&amp;#x27;m expected to believe that there&amp;#x27;s no level of protection that is enough i.e. evidence that a booster helps is evidence that I should be taking a booster is evidence that everyone should be taking a booster. I&amp;#x27;m worried about covid, &lt;i&gt;but I&amp;#x27;m worried about things other than covid.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least the NYT is staying pretty steadily rational about this.</text></comment>