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My daughter's boyfriend, an RN, has been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. This week, on the advice of hospital management, he is getting the first of t
by Wistar 6y ago
My daughter's boyfriend, an RN, has been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. This week, on the advice of hospital management, he is getting the first of two jabs of the Moderna vaccine.
Anyone else heard of this double vaccination approach?
- alttab 6y agoIs this a joke?
- Google234 6y agoThat’s incredibly wasteful of him and unscientific.
- vcxy 6y agoWasteful of his employer, not him.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoIt's not like they're forcing him to do it. He could just say "no"...
- GavinMcG 6y agoIn many states there wouldn't necessarily be any protection from losing his job, if he did.
- nrmitchi 6y agoLet me explain how that would play out. ``` Employer: We want you to take an extra and unnecessary vaccine dose, which you, as an RN, likely understand to be most-likely useless. Employee: That's useless and unnecessary. No, I won't take it. Employer: You're fired. ``` What kind of magical world do you think people live in where their employer doesn't hold a stupid amount of power over them?
- Beaver117 6y agoWhat kind of world do you live where (high skilled/paid) people get fired over something like that?
- Balgair 6y agoDepending on the employment contract, vaccinations of any kind may be required as a condition of employment. This is common for public school. I do not know any of the specifics of OP's situation, but it does sound reasonable.
- fireeyed 6y agoTrial lawyers are salivating over all kinds of constitutional and civil rights infringement. I can't wait to see them go to town on the woke employers mandating experimental vaccines on the sheep.
- numpad0 6y agoDisservice to the society at large but unscientific? Isn’t it going to very marginally improve effectiveness, like from 95% to 95.5%?
- Wistar 6y agoWell, I am skeptical. It's why I asked (and apparently pissed off some down-voting-inclined people by asking).
- cliffy 6y agoThis seems strange, aren't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines built using the exact same mRNA sequence?
- tgb 6y agoThey're not identical, though similar. You can see them here: https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding-mRNA-sequences-for-vaccines-BNT-162b2-and-mRNA-1273/blob/main/Assemblies%20of%20putative%20SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding%20mRNA%20sequences%20for%20vaccines%20BNT-162b2%20and%20mRNA-1273.docx.pdf https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV...
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoI am not aware of any published recommendations backed by evidence for this. Give that, this seems highly irresponsible and a waste of two doses of Moderna vaccine that would be far effective in the fight against COVID if given to someone who actually has not been vaccinated.
- xianying22 6y agodid you mean your wife's boyfriend?
- redkoala 6y agoBoth vaccines are mRNA based, not sure what your daughter’s boyfriend is trying to achieve here. Really wasteful.
- tengbretson 6y agoIf you complete all four lines on the vaccination card do you get a free sub sandwich or something?
- jdoliner 6y agoNo you get a free vaccine, obviously.
- greggyb 6y agoYou do get free Krispy Kreme, but you don't need four lines of the card. https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer
- ev1 6y agoMuch prefer this offer. https://www.theonion.com/krispy-kreme-offers-vaccinated-customers-free-ride-on-g-1846544727 https://www.theonion.com/krispy-kreme-offers-vaccinated-cust...
- chris11 6y agoNot specifically. But when I got vaccinated the nurse told me she expected booster shots to come out later for the major vaccines.
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- rossdavidh 6y agoThat's fine, it's not like we have a shortage or anything.
- Miner49er 6y agoIt's entirely location dependent, isn't it? Some places have an abundance.
- toomim 6y agoThere's some evidence that this is actually dangerous. Getting repeat vaccines can confuse your immune system. In the UK, there's data showing 3x to 4x the rate of adverse effects from the vaccine for people who already have the antibodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcQ3xVDSR8&t=690s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcQ3xVDSR8&t=690s