When Health Canada on Tuesday approved Moderna’s updated Spikevax vaccine – designed to target Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 – health officials avoided labelling the latest shot a 'booster' during a technical briefing. Here’s why they say they’re dropping the word.
When Health Canada on Tuesday approved Moderna’s updated Spikevax vaccine – designed to target Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 – health officials avoided labelling the latest shot a ‘booster’ during a technical briefing. Here’s why they say they’re dropping the word.
safe as the 17 other vaccines you took in your life.
death.
The risk with taking it is death, but not as likely because the COVID risk is reduced.
Look. You can trust the experts or you can vilify them. Our PHA isn’t paid to push drugs. They get paid whether you in particular take the vaccine or not; and if you don’t, it’s a vaccine - and maybe a house and a job - that’s given to someone else after you.
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Don’t care what it’s called. I think what most people just want to know are:
Maybe skip the semantics
The risk with taking it is death, but not as likely because the COVID risk is reduced.
Look. You can trust the experts or you can vilify them. Our PHA isn’t paid to push drugs. They get paid whether you in particular take the vaccine or not; and if you don’t, it’s a vaccine - and maybe a house and a job - that’s given to someone else after you.
So if I take it I die at some point and if I don’t I also die at some point - I am not getting out of this alive, am I?
We all die at some point
Thats what they were getting at
And… When is it actually available?
I heard by the end of the month.
If they don’t get it soon it won’t matter as people will just end up with the new virus instead