Unless the simple answer is “we don’t know”. I do realize they rushed these babies out to the public and we may not know the answer.
I am getting round 1 of the vaccine on Monday(hallelujah). I get round 2 a few weeks later. How protected does round 1 make you? Pretty protected? Not much at all? We have no idea?
Thanks.
Take a look at Tweets 17 & 18 in this thread by the Chief of Medicine at UCSF.
There is still a big open question about these vaccines. They have demonstrated effects of boosting circulating antibodies, IgG & IgM which will protect you against disease and death.
The effect of secreted (mucosal) antibodies, IgA & IgE are still being evaluated.
This means that you might still be able to get infected and spread the virus to others.
So, until we know more and/or vaccinate enough to hit herd immunity - masks and isolation behaviors should still be maintained.
Thanks.
If we are looking a couple years down the road, will everyone end up getting two or more vaccines? I mean if you get Pfizer, Moderna, and others, will it help build immunity up to 99% or so?
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine, expected to be approved soon, only requires one dose.
Or by “two vaccines”, do you mean again a year or more later? For that, we simply can’t have enough data yet.
MaineHealth’s Chief Health Improvement Officer Dora Mills, M.D. said two weeks after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, people have about “50 percent immunity,” meaning they are 50 percent less likely to catch the virus if they come in contact with an infected person.
For Moderna after 1 dose by day 28 you are about 85%.
Thanks, again. I’m getting the second does at whatever time they schedule my appointment when I get round 1. I figure I’ll take a day off work if it comes down to it.
I can’t speak to the 99% question but I expect to be getting a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 every year for the rest of my life, just as I do for influenza.
Is that where we are headed? I do get my flu shot every year. Maybe an annual boost of this is also wise. Huh.
It might be something that needs a booster shot after a year (or five years, or ten years, or whatever). But we won’t know that until after they’ve been in trials for at least that long. Or it might be something that lasts a lifetime, and we won’t know that until a lifetime later.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if vaccinated people can still catch and spread COVID, but not suffer any kind of symptoms, there really isn’t a such thing as herd immunity as classically thought, right?
I mean, at that point we would have 100% asymptomatic spread among vaccinated people. So we’d all get it and transmit it around, but we wouldn’t get sick.
This wouldn’t help people who aren’t able to get the vaccine for some reason- the spread isn’t checked at all, just the symptoms when you catch it.
I got the vaccine(first shot) today, by the way. I notice no side effects 3 hours later other than fatigue, which is probably from the shot…but could just be how I feel right now.
I go back February 15 to get round 2.
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We have a whole forum for this sort of thing. Moving to Quarantine.
Thanks!
Lucky you. Must be the Pfizer jab & 3 week interval. I got Moderna on the same day but they will give me the 2nd jab on 5 March.
Yes, it’s 3 weeks for Pfizer. I can’t wait.