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Has anyone who was vaccinated caught the COVID VIRUS ???

posted 4 years ago by joi2049 (5562)
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They say people who've been vaccinated are still getting it.

If this happened to anyone who had the VACCINE, what kind of symptoms did you have and how long did they last for???

FOUND this article where a DOCTOR who was fully vaccinated got it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/health/covid-cases-vaccinated-people.html

More than two months after he was fully vaccinated against Covid, a doctor in New York woke up with a headache and a dull, heavy feeling of fatigue. A fever and chills soon followed, and his senses of taste and smell began to fade.

This, he thought, could not be happening. But it was: He tested positive for the coronavirus.

“It was a huge shock,” he said. He knew that no vaccine was perfect and that the Pfizer-BioNTech shots he received had been found 95 percent effective in a large clinical trial. “But somehow in my mind, it was 100 percent,” he said.

One study found that just four out of 8,121 fully vaccinated employees at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas became infected. The other found that only seven out of 14,990 workers at UC San Diego Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles tested positive two or more weeks after receiving a second dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.

The doctor who became ill in New York despite full vaccination stayed in isolation at home for nearly two weeks. He described his illness as relatively mild, and said he was treated with monoclonal antibodies to fight the virus. “If the worst flu is a 10, this was a four,” he said.

So hopefully such low numbers of those who've caught it after being vaccinated also means it's NOT VERY LIKELY to happen to us???

[–] TexasJack (12516) 4 years ago

Yes, the stats from those sample groups are very encouraging, especially considering that the nature of their jobs puts them at a much higher risk for exposure to the virus.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

no one has claimed the vaccines offer perfect coverage. if the pfizer vaccine offers 95-97% coverage as studies and real world results support, that is still not 100%.

nirvana is not for this world.

those are still incredibly good numbers.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/israel

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Thanks for your replies which are very much appreciated.

But the DOCTOR who was ill still didn't describe HOW LONG he was ill for or say how long his symptoms lasted.

And since he also says that he got the MONOCLONAL INFUSION when he got sick with it, that must also mean that INFUSION that he was given also CUT SHORT the duration of what he went through.

So how many of us would be able to get that INFUSION is still another question.

And still another question is did he catch COVID before the NEW STRAINS SPREAD (the UK MUTATION is also the MOST PREDOMINANT form of the VIRUS now here in the US).

Because those NEW VARIATIONS of it are also 60% MORE CONTAGIOUS and 60% MORE LEATHAL.

So how would that effect someone who's been VACCINATED who would catch the 60% more LEATHAL version of it???

Would something that's 60% more LETHAL also LAST LONGER and make you feel 60% WORSE than the original form of the VIRUS???

[–] mikethemartian (6750) 4 years ago

Supposedly there is a surplus of those antibody treatments not being used.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Yes on the news they also gave this web address to use in case you end up needing some of them:

https://combatcovid.hhs.gov

Contact the Combat COVID Monoclonal Antibodies Call Center: 1-877-332-6585. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

[–] mikethemartian (6750) 4 years ago

It doesn’t prevent you from getting infected 100%, but apparently they all do a very good job of keeping you out of the hospital.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Yes it prevents you from needing hospital care and keeps you from dying, but I'd also like to know if you also deal with having it for 2 weeks or for as long as others do who get it and are not vaccinated.

In other words, how long does it take to recover from it if a person who's been vaccinated still gets infected with the virus and has symptoms (fever, chills, etc.) of it???

[–] GungHo (74) 4 years ago

I believe that the immediate job of the current vaccines is to keep you alive. The main path in of the virus is through the nose and throat. Since the vaccine is applied to your muscle, it does not train the nose and throat tissue to fight it that much. Most likely, the virus is still going to enter the body, but the internal immunity is supposed to fight it, causing a milder set of symptoms. The sad thing is that the infected person may still infect someone else.

A friend of mine, who is a vet doctor, calls the current vaccines "selfish", because they save the recipients, but the virus may still spread. She is a firm believer that the solution is to use intranasal vaccines, which are sprayed in the nose and train the tissue that is first attacked by the virus to fight it. This has the potential to cut the spread...

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

The reason why they inject it might have something to do with the way the nose could also sneeze it out of your system thus making the vaccine sprayed into it useless???

Perhaps the genetic material they use in some vaccines may also work better by injection than by spraying it into one's nose???

[–] GungHo (74) 4 years ago

I am just a layman and don't know. It is possible that an efficient intranasal vaccine is harder to produce. Most likely, the best approach would be a combination of both - a shot in the hand and a spray in the nose.

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 4 years ago

You can still catch covid if you're vaccinated but you will not become as ill and far less likely to end up in hospital.

[–] TheMan18 (13047) 4 years ago

I've had two vaccines against it and I had not caught it, but last week however I still had flu.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Sorry to hear that you had the FLU.

How are you feeling now???

Did you also have a FLU SHOT???

Or did you catch the FLU because you hadn't been vaccinated for it???

What kind of symptoms did you have???

How many days did it last before you got better???

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Yes I understand how you can still get COVID if you're vaccinated and not get as sick or ill enough to be hospitalized, but what I'd like to know is if the illness would last as long or for the same length of time as it would if you were not vaccinated.

Say, for instance, someone not vaccinated would be sick with it for 2 weeks.

Would someone vaccinated also be ill for 2 weeks as well???

Or would they only suffer with it for a week instead of for 2 weeks???

Since no one's replied back to this topic to say HOW LONG it lasted for them, hopefully that's also a good sign that most of those who've been vaccinated haven't caught COVID yet.

[–] zeesha (1826) 4 years ago

"Would someone vaccinated also be ill for 2 weeks as well???"

Why does it matter? (I am asking)

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Have you ever seen commercials for products that they claim can cut the time that you suffer with a COLD in half???

That's why it matters.

Because people also take stuff to try and get rid of a COLD due to the way that they feel so miserable when they have one.

And apparently this VIRUS is so horrific that it makes having a COLD seem like a walk in the park.

So naturally one is curious to know if another benefit of having been vaccinated might be that it can also CUT the TIME that one needs to suffer with the VIRUS in HALF if one were to catch it.

[–] zeesha (1826) 4 years ago

No easy answer to your question:

"One study found that just four out of 8,121 fully vaccinated employees at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas became infected. The other found that only seven out of 14,990 workers at UC San Diego Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California"

Let's assume all those 11 employees have recovered from Covid in one week, does that prove anything?
No, because a handful of cases are not enough to make any conclusion in a clinical study.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Here's another example that PROVES why it does prove something.

Only 6 people or about 1 per MILLION had problems with the J&J vaccine, yet they've still HAULTED distribution of it (even though 1 out of a MILLION is much less than 4 out of 8,121 or 7 our of 14,990).

And One of those 6 people who got the J&J vaccine has also DIED.

[–] zeesha (1826) 4 years ago

One case is enough to prove something is possible.

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 4 years ago

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that.

I would presume it would be a similar time frame to the unvaccinated who have mild symptoms. I'm unsure what this time frame actually is though.

Cold and flu are usually around a week until you're feeling mostly better again.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

I know of someone who suffered with the VIRUS for 2 weeks.

So if you're right, then it's probably going to last twice as long as a cold or the flu does.

[–] Kazak (2189) 4 years ago

To my knowledge, I have not been infected with the covid virus at all. I'm fully vaccinated.