My experience receiving the COVID-19 booster shot from Moderna
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As reported by The Filipino Scribe last December 21, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) has already shortened the prescribed time period before you can be eligible to receive a booster shot against COVID-19 after getting your second dose. Previously, people who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sinopharm, Sinovac, and Sputnik have to wait for 180 days before they can get a third jab. Meanwhile, the interval before those who received the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson can get their booster shot has been shortened from 90 to 60 days.
Originally, I have to wait until January 14, 2022 at the earliest before I can have my COVID-19 booster shot. I became fully-vaccinated with Sinovac last July 16, 2021 – just over three months after our entire family survived the infectious disease. But the recent announcement of DOH meant that I am qualified to receive the booster shot immediately, and so I booked an appointment right away.
Thankfully, booking an appointment through the Quezon City local government’s QC Vax Easy portal only took a few minutes. I was able to get a schedule for 10:00 AM of December 23, 2021 at the Batasan Hills National High School. I’m grateful to receive Moderna after being fully vaccinated with Sinovac last July.
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The World Health Organization explained that the Moderna vaccine is highly-effective in protecting people from severe disease and death since it “has been shown to have an efficacy of approximately 94.1 percent in protecting against COVID-19.”