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Is another COVID-19 booster right for me?

Third covid vaccine

If you have multiple sclerosis may want to roll up your sleeves fr another COVID-19 booster. I’m thinking about whether to join you. Last month, an advisory committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supported a recommendation that people 65 and older and those with compromised immune systems get another booster, if at least four months have passed since their last one for those 65 and…Continue Reading

Mask, Distance and Wash Even After a COVID Shot

COVID shot

I’ve had my shots, so I’m protected,” a friend recently told me, referring to his COVID-19 shot.  My wife and I also have received a COVID shot. More than a month has passed since our second shot of the Moderna vaccine, so we’re also protected — theoretically. But theory doesn’t always match reality, and I’ve been searching for a way to explain to people why we still wear our masks,…Continue Reading