When Health Canada on Tuesday approved Moderna’s updated Spikevax vaccine – designed to target Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 – health officials avoided labelling the latest shot a ‘booster’ during a technical briefing. Here’s why they say they’re dropping the word.

  • TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Don’t care what it’s called. I think what most people just want to know are:

    • How effective is it?
    • How safe is it?
    • What is the risk without taking it?

    Maybe skip the semantics

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      • more than not
      • safe as the 17 other vaccines you took in your life.
      • death.

      The risk with taking it is death, but not as likely because the COVID risk is reduced.

      Look. You can trust the experts or you can vilify them. Our PHA isn’t paid to push drugs. They get paid whether you in particular take the vaccine or not; and if you don’t, it’s a vaccine - and maybe a house and a job - that’s given to someone else after you.