I had a breakthrough infection after having two shots of Moderna.  It was very mild and I was mostly over it in three days.    

I hope it goes well, sounds like you should be in pretty good shape with all your shots.  This is when I would (or more likely will) say "Glad I got all those "stupid" shots."     I'm sure all the staff in your local hospitals appreciate it too.

We get our booster shot on 4th Jan.

Since this is a Covid-19 check in thread, let's leave politics out of it. Viruses have no political affiliation.   

I can get my first booster shot now but will wait until the new year to get it because I rarely go out these days and I'm in a low transmission area anyway.

Hey Barb, here's hoping you recover fully and quickly.

Anyhow, a happy holiday season to all and stay safe.... especially from covid.

Better hurry and get shot #3 before #4 comes out lol (seriously they are starting to talk about #4).

Happy holidays to you too   

I'm spending Christmas with COVID, so yay!

Not Good , Get well soon Spencer ..

Positive test results in the mildly ill and in the worried well are up (they count all positive tests as cases here, regardless of reason obtained or the presence or absence of symptoms), now at about the rate of July 2020, but well below (~50%) of the January 2021 peak.  Both hospitalizations and deaths are even futher below the January 2021 peak, down about 60% & 70% respectively.  There have been two recent wave peaks, one in September and one the first week of December.  I have a large percentage of Medicare age patients in my practice, a moderate number of whom have had COVID, most of them having had at least 2 shots, now some of them having had the booster, too, and so far all have had unpleasant but mild illnesses and have recovered uneventfully.  The virus variant isn't reported here (result is either virus detected or not), and I can't find any info on the incidence of the various variants on the DHS website.  I assume that information is available to the labs and is being shared at some other reporting level.

End of COVID update.

Thank you for that update Daiwa!!

At this point we're really talking about 2 different populations, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.  This little graph says a lot.  U.S. hospitalizations, Blue line is unvaccinated, green line is vaccinated.  Putting social responsibilities aside, which I do not, we are all literally paying for that either through insurance premiums or taxes:

Link: You have to go here, then on the left side click on "Vaccine Effectiveness and Breakthrough Surveillance", then choose "Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status - Covid.net" from the dropdown:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

Stay safe, Spencer...and get better soon...

Oops, went off on my little data-mission and missed that.  I hope it's a mild one, get well soon.

The NSW health minister made a brave statement that everyone in the state will get the omicrom variant.... despite many residents having their 1st and 2nd vaccinations, and some even having had their booster shot.  I sure hope he's wrong because that would mean most of Australia would contract it.

There is talk of a 2nd booster shot here and possibly a 3rd.  Israel has already mandated a second booster shot to all who have had their initial shots and their 1st booster.  A 3rd booster is being discussed there and is somewhat likely.

Sadly, I see no end, no light at the end of the tunnel.  Every time the experts come up with a vaccine to combat the current strains, this damned disease comes up with yet another variant that's near immune to current vaccines and it runs rampant through society.

Merry Christmas and a rapid recovery! 

Happy new year, too!

I know it seems like an eternity, but the pandemic has only been going on for two years.  Consider the polio epidemics which (officially) started in the U.S. in 1916.  The Salk vaccine was first administered to children in 1954.  In other words polio was active for almost 40 years!  We are miles ahead of this RE covid because of how advanced medical science is now.  Boosters for covid may become a regular thing like flu shots; I have no problem with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio

That would be my guess.  I'm a weird dude, but I actually kind of enjoy getting those shots - they always seem to be so darned happy to be doing it.   

Yeah, it took some years before an effective polio vaccine was produced, but in this day and age we have far better technology to combat disease and epidemics, and hopefully the scientists working on the covid vaccines are able to develop one that's effective on all strains.... now and even future ones that as yet have not evolved.

I don't have a problem with annual booster shots, either, but that was my point of not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.  Hopefully one will appear, but I think we will be living with covid much as we do with the flu and the common cold.

My belief is that getting COVID is now a matter of when, not if, now that this much more highly contagious (but fortunately less lethal) variant is exploding across the globe.  Vaccinated folks will generally tolerate the illness much better; that's the nature of all vaccines for these respiratory viruses.  I've seen a jump just this week in patients in my practice testing positive, all but one vaxed, none of whom are particularly sick; nearly everyone with a runny nose for more than a day wants a test.  A few of my patients who have repeatedly tested negative are among the most symptomatic.  There are beaucoup non-COVID viruses out there, too.  I fully expect to get COVID despite my 3-vax status.  We'll see over the next 6 months or so whether I'm right or not.

The difference between hospitalizations between vaxed/not vaxed is not particularly surprising and I would expect that difference in rates to narrow somewhat over time as the disease marches on.

There has always been and will always be a subset of people who make poor life decisions which affect their utilization of healthcare services and I'm OK with paying for that discrepancy through insurance or taxes.