As you almost certainly know by now, the new Covid boosters were approved last week in the U.S. for people over the age of 6 months. These updated shots from Moderna and Pfizer against the XBB variant are increasingly available at pharmacies and doctors’ offices. We should have Moderna shots in our office any day now. I started a detailed post with graphs and figures, but the sense I’m getting from people in the office is that most have already read about this stuff, know the general score, and have pretty much decided whether they are going to get the new booster or not. So I’m going to skip the technical deep dive here and instead share some office anecdotes from the past week, some professional experience, and conclude with an endorsement of the booster. It’s also been a really long day.
What’s going down in the community/office
I practice in Jersey and live in Philly. Over the past 2 weeks we have seen a real “swell” in Covid cases in our patients. I’ll reserve the term “surg…