Covid Booster Shots

[Hdslimand62]

This is what I currently understand:

1. Moderna Booster is 1/2 dose of the original Moderna shot.

2. Phizer Booster is a full dose.

3. ESR Dialysis patients are only eligible for the 1/2 dose. Even though dialysis patients are somewhat immunocompromised, there are only 5 categories of patients who are considered immunocompromised eligible such as transplant patients for a full dose or two.

4. Does anybody else know anything different?

[YorkyinNorfolk]

My understanding in the UK is (and presumably worldwide it’s the same) when having a Moderna jab it’s a full dose for a 3rd primary vaccine & a half dose as a Booster.

What you qualify for depends on your health condition.

Immunosuppressed transplant patients would definitely qualify for a full dose as their 3rd “primary” vaccine.

[pops81]

If Johnson and Johnson was your primary vaccine then as an immune compromised patient you can receive a full dose of the Moderna, as a booster. Which is what I was instructed to do as a result of the limited response to the J & J vaccine.

[larrymontague826]

I have had my booster of Phizer with the understanding that all of the shots were of equal strength. I am going to take my 4th. on the 19th. of Feb. if available. I don't mind the thought of dying, but I don't want to die over stupidity.