Please go read reputable medical sources about the serious effects of long COVID. You are not correct.
Suggestions that a layman can understand and are genuinely reputable?
I remember John Campbell being considered reputable once.
Well, the more or less reputable health authorities in Denmark give free vaccinations to all over 65 years, people with chronic illness and pregnant people. The rest can get a vaccination if they pay for it.
Their explanation is that most have immunity, either from earlier vaccinations, earlier infections or both.
While i am terrified of long covid, the reduction in risk from vaccination is likely short-lived, and modest for young, otherwise healthy people who already have some immunity to covid. I think every nation with a reputable health authority recommends that everyone who hasn’t anyway had covid be vaccinated. But there’s a wide variety of public health advice regarding getting an updated vaccine this fall, for those who are already vaccinated and may also have recovered from covid.
I couldn’t find this thread earlier. Glad it’s on top now.
My wife and I went on a weeklong cruise to Alaska. Two weeks ago, we started having symptoms of a common cold. It wasn’t until we got home that we found out we had COVID. My wife tested negative a couple of days ago. I tested negative with an expired test kit this morning. Could be a false negative, but expired kits out of the same box returned positive results earlier. I’ll take a fresh test tomorrow. Given that my symptoms (other than my normal snottiness in the mornings) have abated and I feel well, I’m going to cautiously (until the fresh test) say I’m cured.
As I said, symptoms were like a cold: Mostly nasal congestion, but with the occasional cough. It just lasted longer than a cold. We received the newest vaccine three weeks before our trip (September 24th, I believe), so we were as vaxxed as we could be. I think we got Pfizer.
If being vaccinated will turn Covid, at least in many cases, into something like an ordinary cold: I’m really glad I’m vaxxed.
Check here to find out if the date on your test has been extended:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests
Yesterday I tested negative with an expired test that had been returning reliably positive results. A few minutes ago, I tested negative with a fresh test.
I’m pretty sure you are out of the woods.
Hooray! Go breathe on strangers!
I’ll huff! And I’ll puff!
Amateurs. You’re supposed to sneeze on them.
I didn’t get a booster - the bivalent vaccine available before ~November - because I had my second bout of Covid last April, so I figured I was boosted.
Now I am going to get the new booster/new vax, which is based on predictions for this winter’s variants.
I decided to get Novavax, to “collect them all.” (Pfizer for first vax, Spikevax for first boosters, now Novavax for updated booster.)
I remember a while back that a study showed the longest lasting(?) immunity from adjuvanted vaccine (J&J) followed by an mRNA booster. So, I’m trying out the adjuvanted Novavax, then I’ll likely go back to an mRNA vax for the next booster.
I’ve also read that Novavax might have fewer/milder side effects. I’ll try to report back on that.
Incidentally, I also had not yet gotten my flu shot, and 3 out of 4 of us got very ill with the flu. It was worse than my second bout of Covid. The 4th had gotten her flu shot… So don’t forget that one.
Not surprising. I hardly ever see anyone wearing masks anymore.
I see people wearing masks all the time. And i wear them sometimes. But i buy from 3M and from a Korean company.
[thorny looks nervously over her shoulder for the next pandemic]
– I mean, there will be one. I just don’t know when.
I got Moderna booster and flu shot at the same time. I also still require masks in the office. We are seeing a lot of Covid recently, about one case a week. I initially told the staff that if they all got boosters I would consider ditching the masks but they refused. We’ll see if rates drop after the winter. I had absolutely no reaction from the vaccines.