I heard the argument recently that since we accept a yearly flu shot— and some places even mandate it— we should all be fine to accept a yearly COVID shot or a 4th dose (based on lousy, incomplete data). Let me say clearly: this argument is stupid. Imagine if someone told you, “Hey, you already swallow a bunch of pills for high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia, so here are a few more pills that I don’t have good evidence for, just choke them down, buddy.” Some differences between the COVID shot and the Flu shot: The COVID shot has a worse side-effect profile. Do I need to belabor this point? We are giving people the EXACT same vaccine over and over. The 3rd dose is the same as the 1st dose; the (coming soon) 4th dose is the same as the 1st dose. This introduces the risk of Original Antigenic …