Covid booster vaccine for persistent Afib patients - recommended

[priya_uk]

My dad had the initial Covid vaccine offered at the start of pandemic followed by 2 boosters. He has not had any boosters since then. (His details are on my profile).

In June this year his Afib became persistent and a couple of weeks later he was Covid positive for the first time.

He is now on a waiting list for Cardioversion.

With winter season starting, I was wondering whether he should get a Covid booster vaccine.

If you've have persistent Afib and have had a Covid booster vaccines in the past couple of years, what has your experience been and have you had any adverse events?

[Rainfern]

I had persistent Afib for a year prior to an ablation and had no adverse effect to Covid booster vaccines in that time. The only possible issue was having flu and Covid vaccines at the same appointment, and since then have insisted on having them a few weeks apart.

[Efka]

All a rather personal lottery with of course a level of what should be a personalised risk/benefit review performed by the medical professional.

Also maybe ask the doctor/cardio about the Number Needed To Treat and the Absolut Risk Reduction numbers which exists for all pharmaceutical interventions.

Ensure it is not the Relative Risk Reduction number which without full scale understanding of the trials are rather meaningless alas sadly often used for marketing.

Here, chronic side effects from the first jab and learning much more over the years will now not have any modified RNA (MRNA) injections.