Israel to offer 3rd Pfizer COVID booster shot to older citizens (over 60)

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Source: Associated Press

Israel to offer 3rd COVID booster shot to older citizens

By ILAN BEN ZION
July 29, 2021

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.

The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of the world’s most successful vaccination drives earlier this year, the first country to offer a third dose of a Western vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale.

“I’m announcing this evening the beginning of the campaign to receive the booster vaccine, the third vaccine,” Bennett said in a nationally televised address. “Reality proves the vaccines are safe. Reality also proves the vaccines protect against severe morbidity and death. And like the flu vaccine that needs to be renewed from time to time, it is the same in this case.”

The decision comes at a time of rising infections and signs that the vaccine’s efficacy dwindles over time.

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1. My son is in the Pfzier booster trial

My son is in the original pfzier trial and got his shots back in August. We was in the vaccine group and not the control/placebo group (he cheated and did his own antibody test). My son was happy to find out in February that he was in the vaccine group and managed to act surprised.

The study was happy to have an original participant because my son is coming up on one year since his first shot. They drew two vials of blood and currently my son is not due in for more bloodwork until February.

My son got his booster shot on Monday and his are still hurts. According to my son, this shot had a greater kick than his second vaccine shot and so he thinks that he is in the vaccine group.

I am interested in a booster at some point.