There is something called a imprinting or original antogenic sin. The one side effect that came sort of unanticipated and has really implications, i think, for safe vaccination. It might be theoretically possible that the fact somebody has gotten more boosters of the original strain makes their response stimulate anti bodies to the original spike protein epitopes,. So that's a potential theoretical downside. Other countries have rates of myro carnitus that are non trivial after dose two of the fiser vaccine. This is a serious adverse event. And it often leads people to come into the hospital a they always say, it's mostly mild, ok, but may not.
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.