One shot of vaccine may be enough for COVID-19 survivors

LA Times ^ | (Today) April 21, 2021 | Amina Khan

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Getting that second dose is essential in order to get the fullest possible protection against the virus, experts say.

There are a few exceptions to the two-dose rule — such as having an immediate or severe allergic reaction to the first dose — but so far, being a COVID-19 survivor isn’t one of them.

“This has been rumored for a long time, that people with preexisting disease only need a single dose to get really long-lasting immunity,” said Dr. George Rutherford, an infectious disease epidemiologist at UC San Francisco.

The researchers found that in the COVID-19 survivors, a single dose of vaccine boosted antibody levels against several different coronavirus variants by up to a thousandfold — and that a second dose essentially offered no additional benefit. Meanwhile, the people with no history of infection had lower antibody levels after two doses of vaccine than the previously infected people had after just one. Those findings were reported last month in the journal Science.

France’s health authority has already issued a recommendation that those who had a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection take just one dose of vaccine, even if their infection didn’t result in symptoms of COVID-19.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Question

1) what about the Russian and/or Chinese vaccines? Are they actual vaccines?

2) Isn’t there an excuse the medical community gives as to why they can’t do the same sort of “flu shot” approach?

3) didn’t Trump agree to initially help fund this whole thing?

[Slyfox]

At the beginning, when no one knew what this was, everyone was looking to the experts for direction, including the president. He put all his energy into getting things going. He is a man of incredible action. However, when he contracted the covid, his personal physician gave him HCQ and he experienced a quick turnaround. I believe that is when he began looking at Fauci as a charlatan. Especially when Fauci began to badmouth him on TV. He soon brought in Dr. Scott Atlas for all the pressers and he gave great advise. After that Fauci was nowhere to be seen at the White House.

What Trump accomplished was tremendous. Too bad he was dealing with such bad actors. Now those same people are upset that he is not endorsing the shot and doing promos to get his supporters to get the jab. Trump does not like being lied to.

[Organic Panic]

WOW. I am a “survivor” now. I feel so special.