Thirteenth COVID-19 Vaccination, and Flu Too

Today I got a flu shot and my 13th COVID-19 shot since March 2021.

Thirteen as a Lucky Number

I got 2 initial COVID-19 shots in March 2021, and 1 every 6 months thereafter. So here we are at number 13, in a process that is now routine.

“Isn’t 13 vaccinations too many?!” is the panicky question likely to be asked by people who haven’t thought it through. No, 13 is exactly the right number for a senior. Every 6 months, like clockwork.

This particular version is mNEXSPIKE, the Moderna version for seniors. As we discussed this time last year

when I first got mNEXSPIKE, the sequence has been biohacked a bit more than the original vaccine (which had 11 different types of modifications to increase potency). It’s even more potent, for seniors with weaker immune systems, and thus is administered at a slightly lower dose (50μg for SPIKEVAX vs 10μg for mNEXSPIKE). It just has mRNA for the N-terminus domain and the receptor binding domain. It also demonstrated superior efficacy in seniors, not just non-inferiority. So it’s a good deal for us elders!

All that is explained at the previous link, with pointers to the primary literature.

For the flu vaccine, I had hoped to get mFlusiva, the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine. But, alas, my local pharmacy didn’t have it (and just could not make that clear on their web site, or I would have gone elsewhere). However, they did have the Sanofi Fluzone vaccine, in the high dose version for seniors. (About as close as I ever get to “adults only” stuff, apparently.)

Here’s the image, in accordance with long-standing tradition on this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads. You can see my hairy upper dorsal manipulator, preparing for incoming mRNA. I’m sure the nearby lymph nodes are quivering with… anticipation.

Yeah, let’s go with that: “anticipation”.

The Weekend Conclusion

Go thou and do likewise: you should live and not die, as it says in some old book or other.

Tune in tomorrow for a report on the sequelæ, i.e., how the night went with 2 vaccines stirring up “good trouble”. (Anybody else miss John Lewis?)

(Ceterum censeo, Trump incarceranda est!)

(Et ceterum censeo, index Epsteiniani divulganda est!)

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Notes & References

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