Pneumonia Vaccine Shot
Yesterday I got my pneumococcal shot - the vaccine against pneumonia. I'm at T+20 hours now so maybe it's a little premature to say but my side effects from the shot have been mild to nonexistent. I've got a dull ache in the upper arm where the shot was administered; that's it.
This is one of the additional two shots I thought I needed this year after the combo of the Covid-19 booster and flu shot. The other shot I was planning to get is the RSV vaxx, but CDC seems to have changed the guidance on that sometime back so it's only recommended for older (65+) adults. The CDC recommends the pneumococcal vaxx for all adults 50+, children under 5, and certain others with risk factors.
It seems strange to me that there are vaccines now for older people. When I was a kid I thought they were all just for kids. Y'know, one-and-done sort of things. I had a bunch of shots when I was little kid, a few more before I started kindergarten, then one or two more when I went to college because apparently they missed a few when I was a kid or maybe a few more had been added to the list. There was no obviously no Covid-19 to get shots for back then. Annual flu shots weren't even a thing. Back in my day, we just got the flu every year!
Well, I'm much happier now with an annual flu shot instead of an annual flu.
This is one of the additional two shots I thought I needed this year after the combo of the Covid-19 booster and flu shot. The other shot I was planning to get is the RSV vaxx, but CDC seems to have changed the guidance on that sometime back so it's only recommended for older (65+) adults. The CDC recommends the pneumococcal vaxx for all adults 50+, children under 5, and certain others with risk factors.
It seems strange to me that there are vaccines now for older people. When I was a kid I thought they were all just for kids. Y'know, one-and-done sort of things. I had a bunch of shots when I was little kid, a few more before I started kindergarten, then one or two more when I went to college because apparently they missed a few when I was a kid or maybe a few more had been added to the list. There was no obviously no Covid-19 to get shots for back then. Annual flu shots weren't even a thing. Back in my day, we just got the flu every year!
Well, I'm much happier now with an annual flu shot instead of an annual flu.