As a immunocompromised individual. Thank you to everybody who is continuing to get boosted. I love you all
Counting down the days to #7!! 💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 🥳 🎉
Woah seven? If you dont mind, what’s your condition that calls for that many?
I’m staying current on flu, but multiple physicians have advised me that the most recent COVID vaccine isn’t applicable for normal, healthy folks
Whoa wait - I’ve only had 5 and I thought I had all the ones that were offered and recommended for my age group. My most recent was this past September, I guess I should look into when I’m due for #6. Thanks!
Isn’t herd immunity an amazing thing?
people who’d had three doses of the COVID vaccine were 68.7 percent less likely to develop long COVID compared with those who were unvaccinated.
That’s pretty big news.
That news is 2-3 months old. It’s too bad the news organizations decided COVID is over.
a single dose of the COVID vaccine reduced the likelihood of long COVID by 30 percent.
people who’d had three doses of the COVID vaccine were 68.7 percent less likely to develop long COVID
I’m so happy I got my fourth booster a while back.
Me sitting over here like 🙋🏼♀️I had all my shots and still haven’t had COVID
Let’s see if that changes though with upcoming travel an a tolerance break. 😬😷
I’m pretty sure I had it last month. Tested negative the entire time though. Feel fine now but tastes still a bit weird.
“Today rates of long COVID have dropped, likely thanks to increased immunity, milder variants and improved treatment.” I’ve been listening to TWIV (This Week in Virology) since March of 2020. I don’t think they would agree with all of that statement. 1. Increased immunity makes sense given we’ve been exposed to the disease itself and/or vaccines. 2. Milder variants - every time this idea comes up, someone on TWIV will cite data (morbidity and mortality) showing it’s just plain not the case. 3. Improved treatment - perhaps, but not much has changed since Paxlovid, Molnupirivir were introduced in late 2021. Prevention, that is, Handwashing, Masking, Distancing, and in the case of infection Isolation all help to break the chain of transmission. These are behavioral changes, that anyone can choose to do. And they are effective, just take a look at rates of influenza in 2020, when everyone was being cautious, the rates were extremely low. When we got bored with prevention the numbers came back up, e.g. 2021, 2022, and 2023. And there’s a 5th measure, Jala Neti, or Nasal Rinsing, typically with salt water, mechanically removes the virus particles, and bacteria. Adding a small amount of 1% Baby Shampoo to the Neti solution does a lot to inactivate viruses, and kill bacteria.
Citation: Lowering the transmission and spread of human coronavirus - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32940907/
I got my fourth booster in October along with my flu shot and had no side effects at all. It was simple, and has saved me a lot of worry especially now that the flu is spreading so quickly. And in my view, it’s a matter of civic responsibility to take such precautions.
Glad I already had 3 shots before I finally caught it a couple of months back. Already got the new booster last Oct as well.
Interesting, was just wondering about that, as a separate thing I’d seen was that repeated exposure to COVID seemed to actually increase your chances of experiencing Long COVID. I still wonder how that factors into it, even if you have been vaccinated multiple times, will it help with repeated exposure to COVID over time (likely we won’t know for awhile, but this seems to suggest it would)?
Yet another thing that vaccinated people can point to that shows we were right and the antivaxxers were wrong, though obviously they’ll not bother to care about this new data point if they’ve not cared about it before, but at least they’ll have that Long COVID to keep them company.
Most reinfection studies were done on people who contacted it more than once in a year IIRC, and COVID suppresses T cell levels for nearly a year, or sometimes even more.
I’m not sure we can say more infections = higher risk per infection, but each additional infection is another roll of the dice in any case.
One virologist coined the term, “ARDS Roulette”. I don’t want to play that game.
I have seen multiple other reports that said getting vaccinated raises the risk for long COVID and now I don’t know what to believe, although this sounds better.
I’d be interested to see whether this holds for all the COVID variants. Especially since the virus is now endemic and will continue to mutate. Obviously, they’ll keep researching and we’ll see in time.
Devil’s advocate:
We still have quite some way to go before we fully understand long COVID and the lowered levels of long COVID could simply correlate with lowered levels of COVID related hysteria.
Before you downvote, I’m not saying long COVID isn’t a real phenomena, I’m saying that correlation doesn’t always equal causation.
