No. Symptomatic is very different to getting seriously ill.
The vaccines | vaxxed boosted unvaxxed? New poll
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Had my booster Wednesday and for probably 36 hours felt really bad.
Still not 100% but better than yesterday
Still not 100% but better than yesterday
Thanks lads. That's a relief.
Those headlines cause stress for people like me that aren't medically minded
Those headlines cause stress for people like me that aren't medically minded
Let's see what the boosted immunity looks like in a few months, my guess is it won't hold up.
I predict your guess is going to be proved wrong. Protection against severe disease has consistently held up well, despite waning efficacy against infection.
Well, my guess isn't contained to ICU admissions. What I'm saying I'd imagine that efficacy will wane in a similar manner to what it has so far.
Boostered! Half shot of Moderna, about two hours in. So far so good.
Good luck. You've got about 8 hours left.
my second shot was Moderna and it hit me after three hours. I've just passed that mark so hoping for an easier ride this time.Is the technical term “boostered” or “boosted”?!
Boosted really but boostered sounds tastier.
There will be someone along to punch you in the arm in the morning.
Heh. The arm is sore but less so than the previous ones.
Dwayne is boosted, the nurse boostered him. Possibly.
Ooh, matron.
My wife’s doctor had boosters left over, so we got the call to go in last week ahead of the national rollout.
glad I got it, but can’t go feckin anywhere anyway so feels a little wasted getting it - but the time we get out again will probably need a 4th shot. Vicious circle but at least strains will get weaker and weaker.
glad I got it, but can’t go feckin anywhere anyway so feels a little wasted getting it - but the time we get out again will probably need a 4th shot. Vicious circle but at least strains will get weaker and weaker.
Why?
At the moment we aren't really dealing with an abnormal decline in vaccine efficacy. Vaccines produce antibodies that normally decline over time. Memory cells then do the heavy lifting, often for many years. At the moment we are advising third shots to a) keep active antibodies going as memory cells take longer to react b) minimise serious disease to a new highly infectious variant.
Eventually we will move to an endemic state with probably 1 dominant variant (quite possibly Omicron), the world will be highly vaccinated and much of the rest with some immunity from infection. Then "boosters" will only be needed if memory cells decline significantly (often takes years) or another variant occurs (which grows far less likely as the world vaccinates and where the dominant variant is already highly infectious).
You are still far better protected against serious disease. So well worth it.
Sadly there is no expectation of any new variant being more or less harmful as all strains so far haven't caused significant mortality factors enough to halt the spread. Omicron's is more infectious and seemingly a bit less harmful but those two things go aren't neccesarily connected as differnt mutations my be the cause of each.
Note to self: no little prick jokes
Ah true. Just annoying that (outside of spikes) we get our vaccine or booster and it’s still the same restrictions as those who neglect to get vaccinated. Businesses here crippled (Ireland). Would like to see a path back to normality as the economy just can’t sustain a stop/start every few months.
100% agree.
Italy's approach is that the inconvenience must now fall on the unvaccinated. The Green Pass and Super Green Pass (the latter is the one showing you've had the booster) are now being required for virtually everything, including quite basic things like public transport. The option to show a negative test in lieu has been removed, and now only applies to the workplace.
If you have a Super Green Pass you can still eat in restaurants, go to bars and anything that's still open. If you haven't been vaccinated, you can't do much of anything.
I read yesterday that a McDonalds and a restaurant in our region had been closed for 5 days and fined because staff didn't ask to see someone's Green Pass - unfortunately that someone was a police officer.
I hope NL goes this route, they are finally starting to realise that they cant keep punishing the vaxxed because of a few nutters. They are now talking about 2G
I don’t know why they don’t just round up and arrest all unvaccinated people tbh, life would be dandy again.
My BIL is not anti-vax but is generally anti-medicine in that he doesn’t like taking stuff for anything really (e.g. won’t take paracetamol for a headache). His partner and parents are all boosted and his position has caused quite a few issues. I don’t get it.
We’ll, at least he’s consistent.
Yeah. I asked my wife "if he got cancer would he get chemo?" and she was like "dunno". All very weird. He drinks quite a bit as well, so its not like "my body is my temple" (although he is very fit, runs a lot etc.). When COVID first hit he was saying he thought it was a Chinese conspiracy to take down the western economies. He's really not a bad guy, just a bit odd in some of his thoughts/beliefs.
Well, it took a bit longer to feel shit yesterday compared to the last dose of Moderna but I feel better this morning for the most part. No more muscle aches and my joints are only a little sore. I have bit of a headache but it's nothing like the headaches I usually get so no big deal.
Had my third Pfizer earlier today. Awaiting the sore arm like with the first two, but if that's the only side effect then I'm happy.
Seems like Moderna = 24 hours of aches and pains, for me anyway.
Thats in Amsterdam and rightly deserved, should have shot them.
He just means vaccine shot them.
No. I mean shot them
Boostered!
Good news about memory cell response to Omicron
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...antibodies-fail-to-australian-researchers-say
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...antibodies-fail-to-australian-researchers-say