I have no real trust in my local community (theres quite a few anti-vaccine people here).

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    Get your titers checked by your doctor, that’s about the only other thing you can do. Especially if you were born before 1989, since you may have only had 1 measles vaccine instead of 2, which raises the effectiveness.

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      Thanks, I got blood tested a couple of months ago and found I still have immunity. Which is a nice thing to find out going into this.

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        If your titers are good and you’re masking then I don’t know of anything else to be done about it, since measles is airborne (even more so than COVID). Unless you’re immunocompromised those two things should protect you.

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      86' baby, can confirm.

      ⚠️Except double-checking my childhood record’s, I did have my full 2-shot-series. 😱

      I got my third booster The First Go-Round.

      Upon getting my titer results, I asked what the deal was. Seems my timeframe didn’t get "The good stuff"?

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        Can you clarify what you’re saying? Do you mean that your immune levels are low as an adult despite getting the MMR vaccine three times instead of two as a child?

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          It can happen! When a vaccine is 97% effective, that means for 3% of people who get it as directed, they still won’t have full immunity. A lot of the time it can be fixed with extra shots, since for some people (or even just with some vaccines) their bodies need a little extra ‘training’ before it works.

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            To corroborate with personal experience, I got a third round in 2019 for grad school, but post-vaccine blood test showed only a moderate increase in resistance to measles.

            Doc said immunity to measles in particular can be resistant to training for many individuals and recommended postponing another booster unless traveling to a country where measles was a problem. Guessing he didn’t imagine that country might be the USA.

            Since I live in a city with a lot of tourism from states with burgeoning measles epidemics, I’m getting my fourth booster in April. Oy vey.