Even vaccinated people should stay vigilant, said Dr. Gaby Sauza, 30, of Seattle, who was inoculated over the winter but tested positive for COVID-19 along with other guests days after an Aug. 14 Vermont wedding, even though the festivities were mostly outdoors and those attending had to submit photos of their vaccination cards.
“In retrospect, absolutely, I do wish I had worn a mask,” she said.
Sauza, a resident in pediatrics, will miss two weeks of hospital work and has wrestled with guilt over burdening her colleagues. She credits the vaccine with keeping her infection manageable, though she suffered several days of body aches, fevers, night sweats, fatigue, coughing and chest pain.
Fully vaccinated but had to go into quarantine, so what are Howard and you talking about?
Raven had similar symptoms and a quarantine without a unvax. Assume both are healthy with nothing underlying conditions. Serum test/physical/history could have answered a lot of questions.
Outcome: Raven antibody levels are pretty much the same months later. Sauza is in line for her 3rd shot. And from what I hearing #4 pay-per-shot is on the way.
Good Doc hasn't had another reinfection and still hasn't had one shot, or has he but his natural immune system has no problem identifying a poly-colony of viroids and reacting on it spontaneously?
I can't speak for Howard, but what I am talking about is that COVID-19 is a big deal. It is not a hoax perpetuated on the people of the world by big pharma so they can make more money. I am talking about the fact that even the supposed experts don't know how to rein it in, if that is even possible. I am talking about a virus that started by taking out the old and infirmed and is now hospitalizing and killing much younger and presumably healthier people, including children. I am talking about a virus that each time it mutates, it gets more powerful.
What I am not talking about is telling other people what they should do. Not saying they must get vaccinated. Not saying they must wear a mask anytime they are in a public setting. Not saying they should stay as far away from others as they possibly can. I am not a virologist nor do I know more than these folks do. I am not a doctor, nor do I know more than some doctors do, at least in regards to COVID. What I do know is that it is my choice to determine who whose advice I want to follow and to get vaccinated, wear a mask and social distance as a precaution so as not to get sick from this virus and/or spread it to others. So far, lucky me, my choices have kept me healthy.
Science and definitely not people with the power to impose mandates and even laws have all the answers. They are doing the best they can with the tools/knowledge they have to try to best handle the spread of COVID. Lay people who follow crackpot theories are welcome to do so, but don't impose your often ill advised ideas on the rest of us.
What I am guessing based on the short history we all have with COVID, that this is going to get much worse. The level of panic will increase and cause people to act irrationally. Many of you will come up with all manner of crazy theories as to how to weather this storm. I am guessing that the economy is going to continue to suffer and degrade the longer this virus is with us. This is not a hoax folks. It would probably be better for most of us if it were just some made up nonsense so that a few rich folks can get richer.
