Got my booster!

 I waited a few weeks for the rush to settle down. I wasn't particularly in a hurry because

1. My first vaccines were Moderna, which turned out to provide the best immunity overall. 
2. My 2nd shot was April 1, so I wasn't even at 6 months when the FDA okayed the boosters (and it seems to be more effective to wait longer than 6 months before boosting)
3. I decided to get the J&J this time, and that was not easy to come by. 

I decided to mix and match for several reasons. While the J&J vaccine was clearly the least effective of the three in the first round, the rather sparse data available suggests that J&J maintained its efficacy over time better than the mRNA vaccines. This is probably because it's a  completely different vaccine technology and produces a slightly different type of immunity: not as many antibodies, but more T and B cells. In that way it resembles natural immunity. And, as we all know now, the best immunity is hybrid immunity. I'm not eager to get my long-lasting hybrid immunity by actually getting infected, so I figured the J&J was the next best thing. Anyway, that's my theory.

minnehaha , if you are still looking for tips on the easiest/quickest way to get boosted, the Cub Pharmacy at 56th and Nicollet couldn't have been easier. They had all 3 vaccines and you could pick whichever one you wanted. I signed up online this morning for an appointment and just came back from getting my shot at 7pm this evening. There was no line at the pharmacy counter, and the store was not crowded so it was a good time to do a little fill-in shopping while waiting the 15 or 30 minutes to see if I had a bad reaction (which I didn't, needless to say). Anyway, that's done. 

No, I did not get a flu shot at the same time. That strikes me as a bad idea unless there is no other practical choice. Besides the likelihood of having two sore arms instead of one, if you do happen to have an honest-to-god allergic reaction (as one of my DW friends did to her flu shot) how would you know which shot you were reacting to?