I know someone who's had the vaccine and 3 weeks later tested positive for Covid

Where do I claim my prize?

 

One of my misses colleagues at work (she’s a nurse) tested positive yesterday a month after her first jab.

 

You win.

 

I understand ya can still catch it even after jabs but the effect is drastically reduced and will reduce hospital admissions and serious illness

 

Carry and transmit to others though? Just asking.

 

I got it 3 weeks after being vaccinated but just had a tickly persistent cough for a couple of days. Wife had her jab 2 weeks after me and hence caught it 1 week after vaccination. She was feverish and had flu like symptoms for about 5 days. Thankfully we're both OK a month down the line.

 

As said above the vaccine doesn't give 100% protection from catching the virus but it does prevent serious illness and death.

 

The vaccine mimics the virus to enable the body to build antibodies . This means that it is better prepared to deal with the virus and stop it early, with hopefully less symptoms.

 

From GP Online:

'...Arne Akbar, president of the British Society for Immunology, said: 'Although further research is needed, overall these new findings should provide reassurance around the UK’s decision to offer the two doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart.

'While the results of this study indicate a good level of immunity after one dose, it is still the case that the highest and longest lasting protection from getting ill with COVID-19 will only be provided by getting two doses of the vaccine.'

Full article here: 'What do we now know about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines?'
https://www.gponline.com/know-effectiveness-covid-19-vaccines/article/1708986

 

Covid is with us for the long term, I know many who have had the flu jab and still get the flu, but for many it will give them the firewall to build up the white blood cells to fight it and prevent it, for many it won't. It's with us for years, got to get on with life, at the same time helping ourselves with the basics of prevention

 

Sounds like vaccine passports should be very effective then.

 

Were doomed.

 

This is definitely the case in my experience, or at least I believe it to be.

My dad has had shielding letters, he had the jab. 10 days later tested positive for the virus. Obviously we were all worried sick, he had a violent cough and a temperature for 48 hours at most, then was in the garden doing bits after that. I genuinely do believe the jab helped him.

Around the same time I tested positive. I’m a young lad, no underlying health conditions. Like to think I’m fairly fit(ish) and i was bed bound for around 7 days, on one of those days I genuinely thought I was going to need to phone 999. Fortunately I recovered at home and now back to full fitness.

It could all be pot luck and everything I’ve just said is nonsense, but from my family’s perspective we would urge everyone to have the jab as I genuinely do believe it saved my dad from serious illness, instead it was just a mild cold for him.

 

This is a great post.

I see all the "Vaccines don't even stop you getting it - what's the point" posts on social media and could scream.

The benefits of vaccination (and I mean vaccination in the general sense not necessarily this roll out) are incontrovertible. Along with the development of antibiotics it is the greatest achievement of medicine in my view - and there's decades of data to back that statement.

No-one, so far as I am aware, has ever said "Take this vaccine and you will not catch covid". Its role is to "prime" your immune system, give it a wanted poster and say "You see this nasty bugger and you react straight away - don't waste time watching it."

We all have different immune systems, we all know that person who is *always* ill every winter.

This vaccine will improve your immune systems response. That won't give any guarantee of not getting ill and sadly, in some, not surviving but it absolutely will accelerate the speed at which your body responds. That quicker response will save tens of thousands.

On an utterly unrelated point I also saw a social media post from someone saying "I don't care if I catch it now, I'll just have the vaccine if I do" - for some people there's no hope.

 

Yawn

 

They will certainly help , I wouldn"t like to think that people were coming to our shores who had not been vaccinated & if a form of proof is required then bring it on, likewise if a form of proof is required for us for travel or anything else then I do not mind one bit

 

That depends entirely on the person SM, or to be more accurate their immune response. To pass on a virus you have to "shed" the virus.

This is a big simplification, but as a very general description, a virus must be established in someone before they will shed enough to pass it on. The big problem with Covid is that pretty uniquely some people have no symptoms so are out and about doing their thing completely unaware they are shedding it to others.

Where peoples immune response is quick because of the vaccine priming them it is possible that the virus will never reach shedding point because it's been dealt with so quickly by the hosts immune system.

Others will still get it and still pass it on because their immune response is slower.

The difference is that pre-vaccine those people may well have been hospitalised and died rather than spend a week in bed.

 

Why would you want a prize?