Covid Vaccination(s) and those getting what's most likely the BA.5 variant

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Not that anything said here will achieve anything beyond anecdotal status, it still could prove interesting.

I'm one of the few people I know of who received the J&J/Janssen vaccine as my initial vaccine. I also took a Pfizer for my first booster and a Moderna for my second. As I reported earlier, elsewhere, I tested positive for Covid on 7/10 and again on 7/11/2022 using two different maker's home tests.

Oddly, at least so far, my partner has tested negative and we certainly have not been taking any measures to prevent his getting infected. He's somewhat of the same mind I am in that since it's already in the house we might as well both get it over with. He was a Pfizer (2 initial)/Pfizer/Moderna protocol.

I now have a number of people in my circle who have been infected, but among those is another couple where one has been positive (now negative) where her husband never became positive. I wonder if any of that might be chalked up to exactly what vaccination and boostering protocols were involved.

If anyone cares to offer this info if they've tested positive and/or if they've been in a household where one person contracted Covid after being vaccinated and boostered and others did not, please do. It could all boil down to precisely how any given individual's immune system has responded to whatever vaccination protocol they've followed, and probably will.
 
Summer 2021 our family got vaxed. Wife, daughter, and I live at home. Our son flew the coop over 5 years ago and he got vaxed early on soon as it was avail.

We all did Moderna for initial and 2nd round. None of us have continued onto additional boosters....doubt we will.

Our son got covid last summer.....very mild.

Covid went through our household mid last fall. I had the sniffles for a day and felt tired for around 2 days. My wife got knocked down hard...bed bound for around 4 days and fatigued for well over a week. Our daughter....living in the same house, never got it. Yet she's a girl who, growing up, was guaranteed to get at least a cold per winter, plus a strep throat and/or sinus infection. She never used to go through a sick season without getting sick. Covid didn't get her...at least the sweep it did through household..and we tested every day with a couple of different kits.
 
I got vaxed with Moderna back in June of 2021. Haven't gotten COVID yet. Never tested positive for it. Took multiple tests when I thought I might have gotten some symptoms but they all came back negative.
 
I got the initial vaccine June 2021 - Pfizer, both doses. No boosters. COVID came through our house actually just about a month ago. My SO got it first, we think from one of her co-workers. She took an at home test once she started feeling ill and it was positive. After about a week she was getting over it and our daughter got it. Meanwhile I worked from home for those 2 weeks while they both had it. I never got sick.

I took at home test during that time and before I went back into the office, just to be sure, and it was always negative. What's very odd is I haven't had a respiratory illness since Feb of 2020. I know some of that is due to the initial COVID response, masking, and WFH, etc. But even after that initial response, when things were getting back to normal and everyone returning back to the office and businesses bringing customers back in, I still haven't contracted anything. Usually I'm good for at least 1 cold during the winter months.
 
cypress said:
I got vaxed with Moderna back in June of 2021. Haven't gotten COVID yet. Never tested positive for it. Took multiple tests when I thought I might have gotten some symptoms but they all came back negative.
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Same with me, Covid even went through my household. I have had a hard cold though, not flu; just tired and light cough. I have had just the first Pfizer and second booster. We are up to fourth shot now, though I am not getting it and neither had flu shot either.
 
J&J here. Spent July 4rth weekend with my Daughter and Granddaughter, Hubby was traveling, Both my Granddaughter and Daughter got sick and subsequently tested positive. I've had no symptoms at all and have tested negative 3 times. Interestingly enough I got really sick about 3-4 weeks ago. No fever but really bad lung congestion. Tested negative 3 times as well.
 
Markverhyden said:
Interestingly enough I got really sick about 3-4 weeks ago. No fever but really bad lung congestion. Tested negative 3 times as well.
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Whatever that was certainly was making the rounds, and hit both my partner and myself hard. He got it first then I picked it up from him. Since I was still in PT at the time (just discharged last Thursday) I tested then, too, as we certainly didn't want to be Covid spreaders. Came up negative on at least two separate tests across several days. Nasty thing it was, too.

My own Covid symptoms are much like that cold, but in a milder form, but coupled with strong allergy-like symptoms - itchy eyes, runny nose alternating with congested, etc. I plan to test again tomorrow just to see if/when one might "go negative" even if you have symptoms. For all I know I could have two things going at once.
 
Pfizer on 4th shot. Got sick with flu around Ash Wednesday tested several times always negative. But symptoms were like Covid. Starting as a very sore throat then heavy nose congestion, runny nose, and cough. Felt really bad for three days and in a week it was over except for the cough which hung on for another week.

I got directly exposed to someone about 2 weeks ago but I have tested negative twice and think I have dodged the bullet.
 
That's because COVID is a cold... That's the thing everyone gets all goofy, and of course while it's making its rounds we've got the usual assortment of viral colds and flus that always do their thing.

But we all think whatever cold we wind up with is COVID, even when odds are... it won't be. There's still the usual horde of other coronoaviruses, rhinoviruses, RSV, and parainfluenza viruses running around.
 
Sky-Knight said:
That's because COVID is a cold... That's the thing everyone gets all goofy, and of course while it's making its rounds we've got the usual assortment of viral colds and flus that always do their thing.

But we all think whatever cold we wind up with is COVID, even when odds are... it won't be. There's still the usual horde of other coronoaviruses, rhinoviruses, RSV, and parainfluenza viruses running around.
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Exactly. And eventually the various mutations will be so weak as to be no more harmful than a cold and it’s going to be lumped in with the “common cold” which actually a whole bunch of different minor viruses.
 
nlinecomputers said:
Exactly. And eventually the various mutations will be so weak as to be no more harmful than a cold and it’s going to be lumped in with the “common cold” which actually a whole bunch of different minor viruses.
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Given the way the BA.5 variant has behaved, I'd say we're there now. Won't be able to confirm that for another year or so sadly.
 
Sky-Knight said:
Given the way the BA.5 variant has behaved, I'd say we're there now. Won't be able to confirm that for another year or so sadly.
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And the other variable is the vaccines. Do we need to take them anymore or is the only reason it is mild because most people infected have had at least one vaccination?
 
Sky-Knight said:
Given the way the BA.5 variant has behaved, I'd say we're there now. Won't be able to confirm that for another year or so sadly.
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We're only there depending on what effect it has on the unvaccinated. And hospitalizations have been increasing. Strains/variants can become more virulent or less virulent (which is not the same as infectious - something can be incredibly virulent but not particularly infectious and vice versa). It does look like BA.5 is more infectious and less virulent.

But regardless of what anyone would like, we are entering the period where Covid-19 in all its existing variants and future ones must be considered endemic. That doesn't mean we're not still in a pandemic stage, just that it's never going away and we're going to have to figure out how to live with it as a constant, like colds and flu. I actually think those predicting the development of an annual flu and Covid vaccine are going to be spot-on about what ultimately happens.
 
A question if we reach a point like that what will come of some of the things like travel mandates? I don't travel and avoid anything I can't drive to mostly because prior to COVID air travel was already such a hassle. I know when vaccines first started people were thinking it would be like all those required for going to public school but as we shift to this multi variant scenario where things look more and more like flu/cold and an annual vaccine being offered it changes the forward view for me at least.
 
Household Update: The partner is testing positive now, too, which is utterly unsurprising as he's got the same cold-like symptoms as I do that first made me suspect it could be Covid.
 
Never received any vaccines. No one in my household has. We got the original Covid at the end of 2019. We haven't had Covid since. Anytime we've been sick we've had to get tested to bring the kids back to school. Not one person has ever tested positive.

I have friends and family that have had all the vaccinations and boosters. They have tested positive numerous times the last couple years for Covid. It's very odd. Just my 2 cents though.
 
PNW-ITGUY said:
I have friends and family that have had all the vaccinations and boosters. They have tested positive numerous times the last couple years for Covid. It's very odd. Just my 2 cents though.
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I have noticed that also.....seems I know more people that got vaxed...that caught the 'Vid....and I know a good amount of people who did not get vaxed...never will, and..have not gotten the 'Vid.
 
I too have seen that but I think many of the people who fight it or refuse it are not "safe" because the vaccine is the problem but they have more solitary habits and therefore less exposure.
 
Blues said:
I too have seen that but I think many of the people who fight it or refuse it are not "safe" because the vaccine is the problem but they have more solitary habits and therefore less exposure.
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And in my extended circle there are vaccination refusers who are far more solitary, and most have avoided getting Covid, and some others who cannot be so due to the nature of their work, and they did contract Covid, and did long before now.

My brother, who was then a cop (now retired), got it even before the vaccines were commonly available and has certain long covid symptoms, particularly issues with smell and taste, that you'd not think would "rock your world" until the pleasures that come with eating and drinking are suddenly snatched away.

All I can say is that I have yet to know someone who was vaccinated who's ended up hospitalized (and that includes myself), and if all the vaccine does is prevent me from getting the degree of Covid symptoms that force me into a hospital and, possibly, on to a ventilator then it is, in my estimation, a massive success. I just entered (age-wise) the high-risk demographic on my last birthday, but my partner has been well-into that age demographic even before Covid hit. Right now we both have the same head/chest cold combined with allergies like symptoms, along with reduced sense of taste/smell in the last day or two, and nothing seems to be intensifying so we're waiting it out, in isolation, until it's over and we test negative again.
 
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