The Covid you get will be a reinfection (or at least, every time after the first will be), plus you’ll have been vaccinated. So mostly it will be asymptomatic. And over the long run, how many infections would you be preventing per booster? I have a hard time thinking it’s more than one every three or four boosters.
Every 12 months, if you can update to ‘this year’s’ like the flu and get it in time, might plausibly prevent e.g. 0.5 Covid infections in expectation at equilibrium and be worth it, but every 5-6 months is NGMI.
I had to look up “NGMI”. Full disclosure, I snuck in a 4th Pfizer in mid-November in order not to punch a vaccine hesitant co-worker. My antibodies are still over 2500u/mL, and she’s since gotten infected and recovered (and she infected zero people). Now that I’m convinced that I have fairly durable antibodies, most of my future boosts will come from frequent exposure.
The Covid you get will be a reinfection (or at least, every time after the first will be), plus you’ll have been vaccinated. So mostly it will be asymptomatic. And over the long run, how many infections would you be preventing per booster? I have a hard time thinking it’s more than one every three or four boosters.
Every 12 months, if you can update to ‘this year’s’ like the flu and get it in time, might plausibly prevent e.g. 0.5 Covid infections in expectation at equilibrium and be worth it, but every 5-6 months is NGMI.
I had to look up “NGMI”. Full disclosure, I snuck in a 4th Pfizer in mid-November in order not to punch a vaccine hesitant co-worker. My antibodies are still over 2500u/mL, and she’s since gotten infected and recovered (and she infected zero people). Now that I’m convinced that I have fairly durable antibodies, most of my future boosts will come from frequent exposure.