Top Boston doctors shared what they're telling patients who ask whether they should get a second booster Tuesday during NBC10 Boston's weekly 'COVID Q&A' series.
"The question comes from people who run the gamut as far as their age, their individual circumstances," Brigham and Women's Hospital's Chief of Infectious Disease Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes said."I would say, you know, boosting is no guarantee about not getting infected."
But there are a lot of people ages 50 and older with no comorbidities, Doron noted, who probably have a small risk of severe disease anyway. There's not a lot of risk for that population in getting the booster, but they may not get as much of a benefit from it right now. Another potential downside, Doron continued, would be if someone got the second booster and then missed out on a variant-specific vaccine or some other development in vaccine technology.