Looks Like I'll be Getting a Booster Soon

An outside FDA panel has recommended booster shots for Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients.

Seeing as how J&J is what I got in April, it's the only vaccine certified corn free, and the rest of my immediate family is allergic to corn, it was our best option.

Since there are no mix and match boosters right now, if the FDA follows their advice, I'll probably get a booster in the next 4-6 weeks:

A panel of outside experts on Friday advised the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine for people 18 and older, with a recommendation it be given at least two months after the first shot.

The unanimous recommendation on the Johnson & Johnson booster will be taken up by the FDA, which is expected to make a decision within days. The move will chart a path forward for the 14 million people in the United States who have received the vaccine, many of whom have felt left behind as widely used shots employing a different technology garner greater attention from researchers and the public.

The committee’s decision marked another turning point in the story of coronavirus shots, arriving 10 months after regulators authorized the first vaccine, a development that helped alter the course of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 722,000 lives in the United States.

Of course, with most of the world still unvaccinated because of vaccine shortages, there is an ethical issue attached to getting boosters while so many people in poorer countries lack a first vaccine.

For Sharon^* and Nat, it's a no-brainer, they have underlying health issues, but for Charlie and me, the moral calculus is far less clear.

^*Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed, my wife.