I was half right and half wrong. Omicron is still the dominant variant, but the vaccine targets BA.1 and not the current dominant subvariant. So, yes, it should be effective against omicron, but according to my mum, not enough for us to wait for it to be approved here. If it’s already approved where you are, for sure go for it, but our doctors advised getting boosted with whatever was available. Vaccine roll outs here have been notoriously poorly planned in my province, so who knows when someone my age might be able to get the bivalent and how much I’ll have to fight for an appointment. They’ve been doing the equivalent of tossing food into a herd of wild animals and running away to let them fight over it.
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Date: 2022-09-19 12:58 pm (UTC)I was half right and half wrong. Omicron is still the dominant variant, but the vaccine targets BA.1 and not the current dominant subvariant. So, yes, it should be effective against omicron, but according to my mum, not enough for us to wait for it to be approved here. If it’s already approved where you are, for sure go for it, but our doctors advised getting boosted with whatever was available. Vaccine roll outs here have been notoriously poorly planned in my province, so who knows when someone my age might be able to get the bivalent and how much I’ll have to fight for an appointment. They’ve been doing the equivalent of tossing food into a herd of wild animals and running away to let them fight over it.