In that case make sure you get your Pneumonia vaccine if there is a important vaccine the new Pfizer 2 in one Pneumonia vaccine is the one to get called Prevnar20. With antibiotic resistance on the rise you increase your chances of protecting yourself from 20 common bacterial infections of the lungs and prevent taking antibiotics that will eventually cause resistance. Mind you this is a one vaccine per lifetime.
Good Advice
But, Prevnar 20 isn't "one and done". The CDC.
is/was? recommending a shot every 5 years until age 65, then not again. At one point, Prevnar 13 was recommended alongside Prevnar 20. I've had the course of P-20, as well as 2 (?) of the P-13. My perhaps forgetful doctor, fired me up with the 13.(IIRC), and didn't turn in the claim.. I was at my Walmart pharmacy, they checked and said Medicare didn't have a record of my receiving it. I said, it won't hurt me if I've already had it. They said, "no". I said, "then fire me up".
There's another vaccine available,
supposedly/potentially/possibly superseding those two. As opposed to trashing up this post with a Google search result link, if you're interested, just do a search using "Prevnar 13".
Hey did you know that there is 2 oral anti covid medications one called Paxlovid on the market. So even if someone is not vaccinated there is simply no reason for someone in 2022 to die from Covid unless they they anti medicine too!
Yes, I'm aware. However, I think the CDC is still tinkering with the length of treatment. With the current 5 day course, people have been complaining of rebound infections. Asymptomatic, or reasonably so to be sure, but still testing positive soon afterwards nonetheless.
This happened to the Late Show's Steven Colbert, who was fully vaccinated, took the anti-viral as well, and then had to take another 5 day isolation after another positive test came back afterwards..
More to the topic, in my experience Republican political ads lie harder, attack further below the belt, and take sh!t out of context far in excess of the Democrats. They target the stupid, uninformed, and the most impressionable segments of the population..
Right now, the far right tail, (pro-lifers and religious extremists), is wagging the Republican dog.