I will stand by my opinion that the vaccines lessened the severity of my covid experience GREATLY. I love the response the one guy gives that I have no way of knowing, but the first shot lessened it 10%, the second 5%, and the third 2%. So I have no way of knowing, but you can quote percentages.

I guess this is just anecdotal, but I have known 7 people who are now dead of covid ranging in age from 45 to 80ish. All had exactly one thing in common, you guessed it, unvaxxed. I know 2 others who were in comas, one was 53 and unvaxxed, then other was 45 and unvaxxed.


I take my vaccines, even if they are changing my DNA (my god this is stupid to think it changes your dna, like literally completely 100% f'ing moron stupidity).

knoxtom said:

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I will stand by my opinion that the vaccines lessened the severity of my covid experience GREATLY. I love the response the one guy gives that I have no way of knowing, but the first shot lessened it 10%, the second 5%, and the third 2%. So I have no way of knowing, but you can quote percentages.

I guess this is just anecdotal, but I have known 7 people who are now dead of covid ranging in age from 45 to 80ish. All had exactly one thing in common, you guessed it, unvaxxed. I know 2 others who were in comas, one was 53 and unvaxxed, then other was 45 and unvaxxed.


I take my vaccines, even if they are changing my DNA (my god this is stupid to think it changes your dna, like literally completely 100% f'ing moron stupidity).

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Highlighting the data above are for all ages
Graphs for vaccination vs deaths by age groups (w/o booster partitioned): https://t.co/4k0jK6u34i

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 24, 2022

I'm not aware of anything else in medicine that reduces death by 99%

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 25, 2022

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knoxtom said:

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I will stand by my opinion that the vaccines lessened the severity of my covid experience GREATLY. I love the response the one guy gives that I have no way of knowing, but the first shot lessened it 10%, the second 5%, and the third 2%. So I have no way of knowing, but you can quote percentages.

I guess this is just anecdotal, but I have known 7 people who are now dead of covid ranging in age from 45 to 80ish. All had exactly one thing in common, you guessed it, unvaxxed. I know 2 others who were in comas, one was 53 and unvaxxed, then other was 45 and unvaxxed.


I take my vaccines, even if they are changing my DNA (my god this is stupid to think it changes your dna, like literally completely 100% f'ing moron stupidity).

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Highlighting the data above are for all ages
Graphs for vaccination vs deaths by age groups (w/o booster partitioned): https://t.co/4k0jK6u34i

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 24, 2022

I'm not aware of anything else in medicine that reduces death by 99%

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 25, 2022

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If you are high risk, get the shot. If you are older, get the shot.

AFAIK still have avoided covid. Haven't been sick at all in about 2 years. 3 doses of Pfizer

I isolated myself until I got vaccinated (long 14 months, 0/10 would not recommend, but it worked out for me since I was high risk) but once I got my 2nd dose of Pfizer, I went back to normal.

Work sent us home because of Omicron right after the new year, otherwise, I probably would have gotten it by now. I dont think there is anything special about me, but I am confident once I do get exposed I will not get severely sick thanks to the vaccine.

Moderna vaccinated and boosted. Out all the time. Multiple airline trips including to Europe. Never had symptoms. I have access to a lab and routinely get tested, including antibody tests. My S-protein antibodies are sky high from vaccination. Never had a positive test for N protein antibodies in 2 years.

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Kid Doc

Can they test to see if you had covid even if you were vaccinated? The tests can distinguish between the two?

Been vaxed and boostered so wouldn't know if i contracted the real thing or not?

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Yes, look at the Texas Cares thread on this forum. That study has closed enrollment but there are tests that distinguish between natural and vaccine immunity.

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To distinguish between antibodies developed by natural immunity one will have to get two antibody tests: one that tests for antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein (antibodies will only develop to nucleocapsid by natural infection). All vaccines to date are based on the spike protein, and you will acquire spike protein antibodies by either vaccination or by natural infection. The great majority of antibody tests on the market test for antibodies against the spike protein.

Hope this helps

Vaccination works well to prevent severe disease and death, but is less effective at preventing actual infection.

Infection with the virus occurs in the outer lining (epithelium) of the upper respiratory tract (ie nose, throat, and upper airways). The vaccines generally dont prevent epithelial infection, but rather help in containing the infection locally.

To prevent infection, we need mucosal vaccines (ie, vaccines given by nasal spray, where IgA antibodies are formed that protect the upper airways from infection

With vaccines currently available, the dominant antibody response is IgG antibodies rather than IgA antibodies

Mucosal vaccines are under development and hopefully will be approved in the near future

No vaccinations...

No tests...

Have had a minor cold twice in the last two years...was it the Vid? No clue...I didn't get sick really, so I don't really care what it was...

Have been directly exposed 7X that I am aware of...I'm sure the actual number is much higher...

Living my life like a normal human being...no extra safety measures...

I still haven't had the flu (or flu shot) either...

Pretty sure never had it that I know of. First 2 Moderna's, not boosted yet.

Was very cautious to start. First couple months would come home from the grocery store and immediately change/shower (at wife's behest). Was one of only 2-3 in the office at a time from April-October that year. Started being less cautious mid 2020 when cases plummeted and never really went back. Unmasked most the time unless required. Been on 5 flights (2 out of DFW, 2 out of Mazatlan, 1 out of Phoenix). Dine in at restaurants once a week or so.

Around thanksgiving my wife and I both had sinus issues for a week (mainly a ton of sneezing out yellow stuff), but both tested negative multiple times and were around a ton of her family that didn't get sick. Between the negative test, the lack of transmission to others, and the lack of fever/cough/sore throat/colored mucus, I am chalking that up to a regular old sinus infection. We both have allergies and had just driven in a ranger around an uncut milo field at the family ranch a couple days before where we both sneezed our heads off for an hour after.

Could that have been an early omicron or a delta that didn't follow the normal delta symptoms? Possible, but I don't really think so.

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Looks like it's our turn. 16-month-old tested positive yesterday (only symptom was a bit of fever and now some light congestion - we assumed it was an ear infection, but the Covid test was positive). We also have a 2-year-old and 5-year-old but they haven't started symptoms and the wife and I haven't either). Assume it's just a matter of time.

I'm vaxxed and boosted and higher risk, so if I have symptoms I'll probably pursue Paxlovid.

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16-month-old was over his fever in 24 hours. Nobody else in the house has developed any symptoms at all.

Occam's Razor tells me the 16-month-old's test was a false positive. Everyone I know who has had anyone in the house test positive ended up with everyone getting it.

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False positives are really rare unless you had it in the last 90 days and just have left over viral particles. It is more likely that he did have COVID and everyone else just didn't get it due to immunity or vaccines. THe vaccines are not great at totally preventing Omicron but still somewhere in the 30% range. In addition, there is growing evidence that repeated exposure to other coronoviruses over time seems to give immunity as well. This is why it is thought to be so mild in young kids.

I've talked with 15 pediatricians in my area and exactly 0 of us have had COVID. 20 years of walking through viral haze daily seems to be protective to some degree.

This hasn't been my experience or people I know's experience as well. Both my daughter and I both tested positive. I had symptoms and my young daughter did not. My wife and and our son didn't get it and we didn't change anything.

I have heard this story many times.