Right. I carry my yellow card with my passport and yes, I have been asked to show it. I have a copy of my vaccine card with my passport as well.
You werenât vaccinated against whooping cough?
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For some reason, the default 10-year booster is still Td, not Tdap (T = tetanus, d = diptheria, ap = acellular pertussis or whooping cough), even though the immunity from the acellular pertussis vaccine does not seem to be that long lasting.
You may want to ask specifically for Tdap instead of Td when you get that booster.
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It wears off. Both my mom and H caught it due to being unaware they needed boosters. I escaped because I had a tetanus booster that came with it a couple years prior. I went to get the tetanus booster, not the whooping cough one.
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I was vaccinated as a child. Those vaccines donât last forever.
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The vaccine is not 100% effective. A boy in our elementary school was vaccinated (mother is a nurse) and he got a terrible case of it. Another family all (kids) got chickenpox, as did their cousins after a joint vacation. Terrible cases, not lessened by being vaccinated.
My sister (65) just got a reminder from her doctor that she needs a booster DTaP (the office didnât have any when she was there). My daughter was asked the question when she got her covid, and it is past time for her DTaP. And mine. And Pneumonia. Iâm just a walking chemistry experiment in my old age.
Many people who were first vaccinated for measles in the mid 60âs need a booster. One of my brothers is in that group but I bet he never gets it.
Thatâs why many are still wearing masks after vaccination. The covid vaccine, like the others, is not a magic suit that keeps covid out. It sure helps, but it is not a golden ticket to do anything you want.
ps The fact that H had whooping cough and I escaped due to my being unexpectedly boosted for it is another data point about how vaccines work, and for me, made a big point of that fact. He had trouble sleeping and living normally for weeks with that cough. It sounded awful. Yet me, right next to him, had nothing.
Iâll have no problem getting a Covid booster once one seems necessary.
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Perhaps you should consider a more accurate description. Paranoia generally involves irrational, delusional, and potentially harmful behavior. Medically vulnerable people are not being âCOVID-paranoidâ when they wear masks, nor are those who come into contact with medically vulnerable people. This goes whether or not they are vaccinated.
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Thank you for the info about the whooping cough vaccine. I had no idea it wears off. My shots have always been DPT boostersâŠlast time because I was traveling to a third world country.
I think I need to ask my PCP if Iâm due for another. Last ones were 2011.
I have absolutely no problem with boosters!
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Adult Td or Tdap boosters are recommended every 10 years. Specify Tdap if you want pertussis vaccine included, because the default seems to be Td, at least if you have had Tdap before.
This would be your year!
I did read it, and then quoted what I thought was essentially bland statistics.
My mistake in miss-attribution but the link was provided only for those who did want to read for themselves. Guardian isnât the BBC but I think itâs editorial slant is in the same direction⊠not Fox, or NewsMaxx, for instance.
Different authors but similar piece, from the WSJ:
Speaking of the WSJ, todayâs print edition reported that the CDC reported essentially no US deaths amongst the vaccinated.
There was a pertussis outbreak locally a few years ago. Several of my friends have since been told by their pregnant offspring that they couldnât see the baby until after they got a TDaP shot or baby had the complete series. The ultimate motivator!
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Has anyone else noticed the current rise in cases is a mere 10 days after July 4th (at this point)? Any guesses on where a lot of the transmissions likely happened? (sarcastic question)
I liked it a lot better when the case numbers were decreasing. At least at the moment my state of PA is not in the top half for new cases like we pretty much always were prior to vaccines.
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I do know one person Iâd consider âCovid paranoidâ. She seldom leaves her house anymore and wears a mask when going outside her home in an area where she sees no one within 1000 feet ever ( she only goes at tines of the day when almost no one outside in her quiet suburban area. She also wears a mask in her car for her few trips on the chance that Covid could permeate thru â the cars air exchangeâ She wonât eat prepared food at all and wonât eat any food until itâs sat in her house for 36 hours . There is no rationality to this behavior and itâs life limiting. She was a bit of a germaphobe before but this has pushed her over the edge.
Our pediatrician strongly advocated boosters of the pertussis vaccine for our kids around age 12 or so. She explained this as a public health need for those too young to be vaxxed more than to protect them. My kids eagerly rolled up their sleeves.
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I donât think @ucbalumnus was referring to anecdotal outliers . . .
While medically vulnerable (to COVID-19) persons can be expected to be âCOVID-paranoidâ, it does appear that, at least in some areas, the percentage of âCOVID-paranoidâ people is far higher than the percentage of medically vulnerable people.
I had to get a tetanus shot a while ago and the doctor said they should go ahead and give me the full Tdap while I was there since I hadnât had one.
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My son and his wife required a pertussis booster for anyone that wanted to hold their new baby.
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