Originally Posted by
dudog84
Got 1st one on Thursday since no plans for New Years. Sore arm, maybe a little tired (I used it as an excuse to take a nap or two).
But I'm more curious about rsvman's post today on COVID, and I know he checks in here. He said it's usually better to space out the shots, but I just read this entire thread and this hasn't been discussed.
rsvman, the Shingrix protocol is to get the 2nd shot in 2 to 6 months. I was planning on getting it right at 2 months, but should I wait longer?
If the answer to the question is known, they are not sharing it.
I can tell you this, though. In the event that you get the second vaccine before two months has passed, the company recommends repeating the entire vaccine series. But if you miss the second dose until after six months, they say only one shot is necessary.
That suggests to me that, generally speaking, this vaccine follows the pattern of other vaccines: too short an interval can be a problem, but too long an interval usually is not.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust