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I Got A 'Mild' Breakthrough Case. Here's What I Wish I'd Known
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/12/1036356773/i-got-a-mild-breakthrough-case-heres-what-i-wish-id-known ^ | September 12, 2021 | Will Stone

Posted on 09/12/2021 2:48:40 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

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Here we have an article of a first had account of a breakthrough case. There is some truth, some misleading information and some contradictory information.

A true statement.

"The reality is breakthrough cases are becoming more common".

Contradictory information.

"I had a breakthrough case of COVID-19 — despite my two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, the second one in April.

Not only was I sick, but I'd brought the virus home and exposed my 67-year-old father and extended family during my very first trip back to the East Coast since the start of the pandemic.

And my advice is different now when friends and family tell me they want to avoid having a breakthrough case like mine: Don't leave it all up to the vaccine. Wear masks, stay away from big gatherings with unvaccinated people, cut down on travel, at least until things calm down".

Misleading information.

"While there's not a lot of data yet, research does show that breakthrough infections can lead to the kind of persistent symptoms that characterize long COVID, including brain fog, fatigue and headaches. "Hopefully that number is low. Hopefully it doesn't last as long and it's not as severe, but it's just too early to know these things," says Topol.

Recent research from the U.K. suggests that vaccinated people are about 50% less likely to develop long COVID than those who are unvaccinated. The underlying cause of long COVID itself is still not yet known, so this complicates the picture for researchers even more, but this early evidence offers some reassurance".


So, breakthrough cases are more common.

Even though you may be vaccinated and can get the virus and bring it home to infect your vaccinated family you should stay away from unvaccinated people.

And finally, even though it's too early to know certain things about long covid and breakthroughs we know that vaccinated people are about 50% less likely to develop long COVID than those who are unvaccinated. But it's too early to know this.

1 posted on 09/12/2021 2:48:40 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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>> Don’t leave it all up to the vaccine. Wear masks, stay away from big gatherings with unvaccinated people, cut down on travel, at least until things calm down.

What a #ing tool.


2 posted on 09/12/2021 2:53:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: American Number 181269513

“”You probably would have gotten much sicker if you had not been vaccinated,” Dr. Francesca Torriani, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Diego, explained to me recently.”


3 posted on 09/12/2021 2:54:06 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: American Number 181269513

Any legitimate research done would find that these shots aren’t doing anything but mess with peoples bodies.

The Delta Variant is the same as the original and nothing more than a made up boogeyman to cover up the lack of help from the shots.

That there’s absolutely no way to determine who infects who.

Some people get it. Some don’t. Some get it bad and die from it, unfortunately. Some don’t even know they have it.

Sad that folks continue to politicize it and try to make money off of it.

But I guess one would have to have a modicum of compassion for their fellow man, which is in very short supply these days.


4 posted on 09/12/2021 2:55:42 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: American Number 181269513

I beat the covid first week of feburaury 2021. In the past 6 months 6 people that i have had contact with at work have had positive tests for kung flu. I have had a wonderfully healthy summer. I will never vaxx.


5 posted on 09/12/2021 2:56:31 PM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: American Number 181269513

—> Of course, I am very lucky. I didn’t go up against the virus with a naive immune system, like millions of Americans did until vaccines were widely available.

It’s a religion with these idiots.

+80% of the world had and has long-term T cell immunity - or partial immunity which is perfected by exposure.


7 posted on 09/12/2021 2:58:16 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: American Number 181269513

OK, lemme git this straight= the “vaccine” doesn’t protect you or your family, or anyone else from COVID, but I can lose my job if I don’t take it.

Sounds like another lie from the same people who brought you “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan...Illegal immigrants won’t get coverage, ... I am from the government, and I am here to help....

The same government that contracted with a Wuhan lab, for corona virus “research...”


8 posted on 09/12/2021 2:58:24 PM PDT by mission9 (It is by the fruit ye shall know.)
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To: American Number 181269513

Per the article:
The vaccines aren’t a forcefield that ward off all things COVID.

My response:
Then they are NOT vaccines. A vaccine provides immunity.


9 posted on 09/12/2021 2:59:15 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: 9YearLurker

It would be impossible to imagine any greater # of people talking through their hats. Supposedly educated people talking like fools. Should have worn masks...masks don’t work, another study just came out proving once again what common sense would tell you. You would have been sicker if you hadn’t been vaccinated. Does this guy read sheep entrails too?


10 posted on 09/12/2021 2:59:42 PM PDT by JayGalt (The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.)
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To: American Number 181269513

The writer never specified if he was taking the likes of Vitamin D3, etc. Or is there an assumption that once the injections were given, a person just doesn’t bother with it?


11 posted on 09/12/2021 3:00:18 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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Just a obvious question ... why does the CDC have shoddy data .... are they incompetent? are the doing it on purpose to muddy the waters? after going on two years why are these so called experts still just sitting in circles and Jeffrey Toobin-ing each other?


12 posted on 09/12/2021 3:00:28 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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Baffling, the amount of mental gymnastics it takes to coninue to sell the “vax” as effective.

Imagine if we were told, “The Polio vaccines aren’t a forcefield that ward off all things Polio. You still need to wear masks and social distance.”


13 posted on 09/12/2021 3:02:52 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: American Number 181269513

He should’ve taken Ivermectin.
And a daily dose of things that make it very difficult for Covid to attach to a receptor colon zinc, D3, quercetin, vitamin C, melatonin, Pepcid


14 posted on 09/12/2021 3:03:41 PM PDT by NoLibZone (In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
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To: 9YearLurker

“You probably would have gotten much sicker if you had not been vaccinated.”

This is pure conjecture. Where’s the science behind this statement. How do we not know that the unvaccinated aren’t building up immunity from casual exposure?


15 posted on 09/12/2021 3:04:03 PM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: American Number 181269513

Had it in January. Not vaxxed. Sniffles. Took about four months to get sense of taste back. Still have antibodies. Probably better immunity than vaxxed people.


16 posted on 09/12/2021 3:04:22 PM PDT by DennisR (Uh Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: hsmomx3

Liberal progressives and Democrats reject anything that is natural or does not require FDA approval.
They are anti-organic fruits and vegetables and pro chicken and beef with hormones

They now especially favor GMO foods


17 posted on 09/12/2021 3:04:52 PM PDT by NoLibZone (In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
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To: American Number 181269513

I’ve heard stories from people in the last few days. An unvaccinatted lady I know got Covid from a recently vaxxed corworker. A covid ward nurse I know says almost all people coming to the hospital for covid are vaxxed now.


18 posted on 09/12/2021 3:07:22 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: American Number 181269513

Gosh, my unvaccinated experience was 3 days. The only person I know who was sick with Covid recently is vaxxed and she had it hard for two weeks.

My question is - now that this breakthrough person has had the virus, will she be more immune …or not? Will she be more at risk for getting it again than me (a super naturally immune person)?


19 posted on 09/12/2021 3:08:04 PM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: American Number 181269513
A vaccine is supposed to be safe and effective.
The WuFlu Jab is unsafe and ineffective,
The numbers (albeit much in question) and the politicizing tells me not to get the jab.

20 posted on 09/12/2021 3:08:29 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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