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Public health director encourages COVID booster shots – Albert Lea Tribune

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Public well being director encourages COVID booster photographs

Printed 9:00 pm Friday, September 16, 2022

The return of pumpkin-flavored all the things indicators the return of fall, and with fall comes the return of cooler climate. And with cooler climate comes the return of vaccination season.

Sue Yost

Apart from flu photographs, this yr will mark the second time COVID boosters can be found.

In line with Sue Yost, public well being director and neighborhood well being providers administrator for Freeborn County, anybody who had their final COVID booster greater than two months in the past ought to strongly think about getting one other. Boosters have been a part of the COVID vaccine in addition to a part of the omicron vaccine. She additionally stated COVID booster photographs have been prone to be much like common flu photographs: a yearly fall incidence and serve to “reboost the system” and remind the physique to guard you.

This yr’s booster is completely different from final yr’s in that it’s bivalent. In line with the FDA, a bivalent consists of an mRNA part of the unique pressure and helps present an immune response towards COVID and the mRNA part between omicron variants.

The Pfizer booster is offered to folks 12 and older, whereas the Moderna is offered for these 18 and over.

And whereas she admitted individuals who acquired their preliminary vaccine have been much less prone to change into severely sick, it was greatest to get booster photographs to forestall getting in poor health from the Omicron variant and ending up in a hospital. As a result of older booster photographs didn’t comprise Omicron, they didn’t stop folks from getting Omicron.

“The brand new booster has Omicron in it,” she stated. “Any of the boosters that got earlier than didn’t have something towards the Omicron variant, and so sure, they undoubtedly ought to think about getting a booster.” 

On one other word, Yost stated flu season might be unhealthy this yr.

“It’s my understanding that within the southern hemisphere the place Australia is, that that they had a extremely unhealthy flu season,” she stated. “And sometimes in the event that they’ve had a foul flu season then that carries over to the northern hemisphere when we’ve our flu season. 

“So my prediction is that it’s an excellent chance that we’re going to have a really unhealthy flu season.”

However make no mistake: COVID will not be the identical because the flu.

“COVID, they’ve discovered, impacts your complete physique techniques, and may have an effect on the guts, it could actually have an effect on the lungs and may have everlasting injury,” she stated. “The flu, influenza, you will have the sickness and then you definitely recuperate utterly from it sometimes.”

Yearly COVID boosters would assist stop creating COVID within the first place, which causes everlasting, long-COVID that might influence an individual for the remainder of their life. Getting a booster would additionally assist stop somebody who had COVID from exposing the virus to folks with lowered immune techniques.

She additionally famous folks might get their flu and COVID photographs on the identical time, these ideally in several arms.

Yost stated COVID boosters have been obtainable at Hy-Vee in addition to Walgreens. Anybody might additionally name the pharmacy at Mayo Clinic Albert Lea. Freeborn County Public Well being can have booster photographs obtainable beginning subsequent week (the week beginning Sept. 19). Folks ought to name their pharmacies to make sure it’s obtainable.

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