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Old 12-19-2020, 02:17 PM
 
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My neighbor got it again for the second time. She got it back in March (from her husband) and recovered. Now she's in the hospital. She's an EMT.

This is something that no one really talks about. If you've had Covid the antibodies only stay in your system for at most 6 months which means technically you could catch it again. Then how will a one and done vaccine really protect the masses if having the disease itself does not give you immunity? There seems to be such faith and hope put into this vaccine but I am pretty skeptical.
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Old 12-19-2020, 02:52 PM
 
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Well, it’s a vaccine and not a miracle. There will be folks who get the 95% effective vaccine and still catch covid and even die from it.

But the outliers and exceptions (as painful as they are) shouldn’t drive policy and public health.
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Old 12-19-2020, 03:34 PM
 
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This is something that no one really talks about. If you've had Covid the antibodies only stay in your system for at most 6 months which means technically you could catch it again. Then how will a one and done vaccine really protect the masses if having the disease itself does not give you immunity? There seems to be such faith and hope put into this vaccine but I am pretty skeptical.
My friend (nurse) has had patients test positive one week, negative the next X 3
So are the test accurate?
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Old 12-19-2020, 03:37 PM
 
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The newer ones are ...we had one today ....they no longer have to go poking around your brain ...they roll a swap in each nostril for 5 seconds ....

They become extremely accurate when you have symptoms
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Old 12-19-2020, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains
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Wishing you a complete quick recovery Mathjak! Hubby had it and the fatigue and the cough were his main symptoms...very very scary.
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Old 12-19-2020, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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I can't speak for everyone, but personally, to me, it's not about one person fainting. it's about the long-term effects that the vaccine may have on folks that concerns me. This vaccine was researched, produced and distributed in record-setting time, with nowhere near enough clinical trials. I'm no anti-vaxxer idiot, but to tell me "here, take this vaccine that we developed, produced and researched in 8 months, for a disease that is immensely survivable" is ridiculous. Police Chief's, Sheriff's and other agency heads here in FL received letters from their unions/associations, with references from doctors, warning not to issue the vaccines to the entire agency at once because the side effects are so severe, that they will ( "will", not "might") have a large number of people calling in sick for extended periods of time. I'll take my chances.
Where are they getting the information about the severity and duration of side effects? That is not coming from the trial results.

A lot of survivors are not recovering, and some have serious permanent handicaps.

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This is idiotic. I walk out of the house in the morning, and I have 2 options:

Either I get hit by a meteor, or
I don't get hit by a meteor.

Forget odds, forget chances, it's either one or the other! Phew, so far so good.
Yep, it's one or the other. The odds favor not getting hit but you personally either will or will not. You cannot get hit 0.0001%.

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This is something that no one really talks about. If you've had Covid the antibodies only stay in your system for at most 6 months which means technically you could catch it again. Then how will a one and done vaccine really protect the masses if having the disease itself does not give you immunity? There seems to be such faith and hope put into this vaccine but I am pretty skeptical.
We do not yet know how long antibodies may last. It may be at least six months rather than at most, and immunity does not solely depend on antibodies. That is information that we truly have to wait for time to pass to know.
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Old 12-19-2020, 06:08 PM
 
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We do not yet know how long antibodies may last. It may be at least six months rather than at most, and immunity does not solely depend on antibodies. That is information that we truly have to wait for time to pass to know.
My neighbor had Covid back in March but now shows no antibodies. So I don't know what that means for actual immunity.
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Old 12-19-2020, 06:25 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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My neighbor had Covid back in March but now shows no antibodies. So I don't know what that means for actual immunity.
There is also the T cell component to immunity. That is harder to test for, but it appears to be providing protection even after antibodies drop off.
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Old 12-19-2020, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Stony Brook
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This is something that no one really talks about. If you've had Covid the antibodies only stay in your system for at most 6 months which means technically you could catch it again. Then how will a one and done vaccine really protect the masses if having the disease itself does not give you immunity? There seems to be such faith and hope put into this vaccine but I am pretty skeptical.
No one said one and done. It's a yearly vaccine, will never go away.
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Old 12-19-2020, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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No one said one and done. It's a yearly vaccine, will never go away.
Boosters are likely; we do not yet know how often.
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