This is something I have looked into over the last couple of years and it doesn't seem that there is a real answer on if boosters are necessary. I haven't heard any reports where older adults vaccinated a long time ago have come down with measles. Unfortunately, most of the news articles about measles outbreaks are pretty superficial in regards to some of these facts.
I've seen this discussed recently in several newsletters that I get and also here upthread. Here is one such:
Ok, but there is a lot of that going around. Remember, Dr. Fauci initially stated to NOT mask, then later changed, even though again later admitting not evidence the masks worked. And also admitted there was no science behind the 6 foot distancing orders he endorsed.Ugh. I hate when people who know nothing about something make high level decisions. Oft times what might sound like a good decision actually is not.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health secretary, said that the Department of Health and Human Services and the divisions under its control have been inefficient.
“I now understand why all this money is not improving our health,” Kennedy said, painting HHS as a “sprawling bureaucracy” rife with waste.
Kennedy said that following the restructuring, the 28 divisions that currently make up HHS would be reduced to 15. Five regional offices will also be closed.
More at link: https://www.barrons.com/articles/hhs-job-cuts-rfk-a6759c1d?
Please keep in mind that Coronavirus was a “Novel” (meaning new) virus, so there weren’t protocols and scientists were flying blind and doing the best they could. Dr Fauci asked us to save masks for health care workers initially and then decided it would be best to wear them. I would rather have someone be overly cautious until they had facts than throw caution to the wind like Trump did. The people refusing to mask did not have any special knowledge, but were just rebels.
My husband had measles as a child, so he probably has natural immunity. My siblings and I got the original MMR in the '60s. I don't know if I might need a booster but will ask my PCP when I have my annual physical in two weeks. I was born in 1950 and most of the literature seems to suggest that anyone born before 1957 is likely immune.
I was born in 1962 and assumed I had only gotten one measles vax, so was planning to ask my doc at next week's appointment whether I should consider getting a booster.
)wow you and your Mom were practically archivists.... I just remember saying to my mom- "didn't I already get these? why do I need them again?" And her saying "I'don't know but you have to..."I was born in 1962 and assumed I had only gotten one measles vax, so was planning to ask my doc at next week's appointment whether I should consider getting a booster.
But then I went looking and actually found my immunization record book my mom kept for me. (pardon my garden-dirty nails
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So I see that I had a measles vaccine in mid 1963 and then another ("Attenuax," had to look that up) in my early teens in 1975.
And I see I got a Rubella shot and a Mumps shot in different years, that must have been before they combined into MMR.
And I had no idea I'd gotten a Smallpox vax! I have no shoulder scar, so just assumed they had stopped giving them by the time I came along. I guess not.
I will bring this with me and ask the doc anyway but seeing as I had two shots I suspect I'll be told I don't need a booster.
It's a great record to have. Your mother was very thorough in noting all these! Yes, rubella is German measles. My mum had it when she was pregnant with my sister (before there was a vaccine) and sadly my sister was born with congenital rubella syndrome including deafness and lifelong medical problems. Thankfully all kids here are vaccinated in school with the MMR now.
When recently asked, Momma G said "You got everything you were told you should have. And I remember that one time things were taking too long, you were sitting on the table and told the Dr. you had to go potty. He told you to wait and you peed all over the table and it dripped onto the floor. I'll bet he never tells another kid to "Just hold it" again". LOL
My point was Fauci knew already that masks were useless. He went along with shutting the nation down knowing there was science to support it. That miscue had horrific consequences to the nation and our children. He should have been honest with people.
Quite the opposite IMO! Masks are generically helpful when dealing with *anything* respiratory. However, they are MOST essential when the molecule is airborne as opposed to droplets, and IIRC it wasn't immediately known which of those SARS-COV-2 was.
The N95 etc are apparently effective to some degree. The cloth masks were not. Am i wrong?
Even though I rarely see anyone wearing masks anymore (unless I look in the mirror) it's extremely rare to see someone wearing them properly. Gaps galore.
It's been this way since the beginning. People were wearing them, but not properly. I used to "mask watch" (like people watching) and back when everyone was required to wear them, literally only 1% wore them properly. And N95s were rare as well. Yeah, that's helpful. Not. Then one woman had a handmade CROCHETED mask on with holes as big as peas. I just shook my head to myself and steered clear. 
