Which jab did you have - Astra Zeneca or Pfizer? And what side effects?

[2hats]

There already are studies confirming degrees of cross immunity. A number of epitopes are conserved across several coronaviridae (a lot of the S2 membrane fusion proteins are common). Hence research focused on developing a universal coronavirus vaccine.

 

[gentlegreen]

There was someone elsewhere claiming that the covid vaccine-hesitant could gain benefit by paying £70 for a (bacterial) pneumonia vaccine instead ...

 

[zora]

There was someone elsewhere claiming that the covid vaccine-hesitant could gain benefit by paying £70 for a (bacterial) pneumonia vaccine instead ...

It might not be completely without merit. My mum's GP (or German equivalent thereof) recommended this vaccination to her last year at the start of the pandemic. And I was thinking about getting it myself. Iiuc, it's a one-off vaccination that lasts the whole life.
Thinking was, I believe, that if you got covid, it'd be better not to have bacterial pneumonia on top of covid pneumonia.

But yeah, now that we have a covid jab, and it's free, it does seem the better choice for protection against actual covid!