Your exposure to so many sick patients and avoidance of COVID yourself is amazing. Are you at liberty to say what the experimental prophylaxis regimen is that is being used at your hospital?
Your point about the mental relief you experience is very telling. That hasn't been discussed much if at all.
Are you getting two full doses or a half-dose followed by a full dose? DailyMed LABEL: PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE- rna ingredient bnt-162b2 injection, suspension says the dosage is 0.3 ml which matches what you got. So it sounds like two full doses. I was meeting with my immunologist last week and she was pointing out how many vaccines have improved efficacy of half-dose followed by full-dose. Wasn't that the finding for the COVID vaccine in development in the UK?
On Dec 8, the University of Minnesota CIDRAP wrote "FDA documents show Pfizer COVID vaccine protects after 1 dose
In November, Pfizer said that after two doses given 3 weeks apart, the vaccine's efficacy was 95%. But according to the FDA analysis, strong protection of about 82% occurred after the first doses and was 52% between the two doses.So please continue all cautions for the next two weeks! (as if you didn't know that).On Twitter today, Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, an immunobiologist with the Yale University School of Medicine, said one striking finding was that people were protected as early as 12 to 13 days following the first dose. She added that high affinity antibodies and longer-term immunity will likely require the second dose and that all vaccines should stick to the two-dose regimen.
What do you make of the report a few days ago that even vaccinated people can still harbor enough viral material in nasal passages to be contagious?
Lots of great questions:
1. As stated in a above response, I am not really all that comfortable disclosing the protocol as there was some pretty crappy posts and threats leveled at me publicly on this forum and privately in Freepmail when I share this. Like I said, it was a combination of vitamins, minerals and possible Rx medications
2. I am receiving two full dose vaccines. As you elucidated down your thread the second full dose seems to be the one that drives deep and T-cell immunity.
3. Yes I was thrilled to find out that after 7 - 10 days there is 95% immunity. It makes sense given what we see in wild type disease. Namely, that there is a brief period of antibodies, then T-cell immunity. I am pretty convinced that the early immunity is probably because of antibody stimulation.
4. I suspect that if you had the disease and where in the incubation period and were vaccinated, that you could probably spread the disease. Otherwise, it would not make sense to be that you could be a carrier with this disease.
I have Math Degrees with a statistics emphasis.
Statements like this strike me as BS.
ML/NJ