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HEALTH COVID-19 CAN BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS LEAD TO LONG COVID? FOR AN UNLUCKY FEW, YES Can Breakthrough Infections Lead to Long COVID? For an Unlucky Few, Yes
Thyme ^ | September 30, 2021 | Jamie Ducharme

Posted on 10/05/2021 8:09:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob

When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19—but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness, according to (CDC) research.

Officials often point to these impressive figures as evidence that we can tame COVID-19 into a mostly mild illness that behaves like a routine cold or flu, and thus with which we can coexist. After all, the vaccines were not designed to quash viral spread entirely; they were designed to defang the virus by preventing its worst outcomes.

But people like April Zaleski know COVID-19’s worst outcomes aren’t limited to severe disease and death, even for the fully vaccinated. Zaleski, a 32-year-old from Idaho, caught COVID-19 in July 2021 after being vaccinated in January. She recovered after a couple weeks and thought the worst was behind her. But then her fatigue came back with force, along with brain fog, shortness of breath, vertigo and a skyrocketing heart rate. She began to suspect she had Long COVID, the name adopted by people who suffer symptoms long after their initial infection.

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Indeed, the vast majority of vaccinated people who catch COVID-19 will not develop Long COVID, just as they will not die or go to the hospital; many won’t even have symptoms or realize they’re infected. But some will develop symptoms that don’t go away. Some, like Zaleski, already have. “There are so many people who are recovering from COVID, and that’s absolutely wonderful,” she says. But others “are struggling with long-term symptoms, and I just wish that people knew that side of COVID better.”

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breakthrough; covid19

1 posted on 10/05/2021 8:09:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: metmom; Jane Long
Something is up.

Yesterday The NY Times ran an article on how "Covid-19 is once again in retreat."

metmom's comment was "I wonder what they are up to now……."

This mildly anti-vaxx article from Time, though five days old, is another head scratcher.

hmmmm....

2 posted on 10/05/2021 8:09:56 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Admin Moderator

My bad...please remove “HEALTH COVID-19 CAN BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS LEAD TO LONG COVID? FOR AN UNLUCKY FEW, YES” from the title, and retain “ Can Breakthrough Infections Lead to Long COVID? For an Unlucky Few, Yes”


3 posted on 10/05/2021 8:11:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

Similar odds for COVID in general. Most survive. Some get sick. A few get really, really sick and sadly, a few of them die.

Sounds like better odds than with the “seasonal flu”.


4 posted on 10/05/2021 8:17:14 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DoodleBob

I see the new propaganda spin is now to simply re-writing the history to make the failed vaccines not failures.

Please explain how we are suppose to vaccinate 7.62 billion people (100% vaccination rate) with shots every 6 months forever?

I not sure what you call it but it not a vaccine at this point. Might call it a “temporary preventative shot” but it can no longer be classified as a vaccine.

Per WHO

Vaccines reduce risks of getting a disease by working with your body’s natural defenses to build protection. When you get a vaccine, your immune system responds. It:

Recognizes the invading germ, such as the virus or bacteria.

Produces antibodies. Antibodies are proteins produced naturally by the immune system to fight disease.

Remembers the disease and how to fight it. If you are then exposed to the germ in the future, your immune system can quickly destroy it before you become unwell.


5 posted on 10/05/2021 8:19:16 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: DoodleBob

They are starting to realize the Covid hype is hurt the Biden Democrats in the polling. It was great when they could use it against Trump, now that they are in charge it now working out so well for them

So like the BlM hype from last year, this is going to be slowly shelved by the establishment media because “it hurts Joe”.


6 posted on 10/05/2021 8:22:08 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: DoodleBob

Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19>>>>>>>>>>

The Vaccines

1) do not creat immunity,

2) do not prevent transmission

3) do not work in the nasal cavity, pharnyx or lung

4) DO attenuate the syptoms of covid 19 infections for about 6 to 8 months out from your second shot.

Yet look at this article , making people believe that their non existence immunity can be “broken through.” What a load of shit!

There is on;ly one way to achieve imunity from Covid 19, and that is to beinfected and survive the ionfection. Then you have long term immunity.

Sweden used the long term immunity approach and the country has achieved a national immunity.

Public health in America has really not addressed the pandemic properly.For example simple drug therapy should be avaialbel over the counter to all who want it.


7 posted on 10/05/2021 8:22:32 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: DoodleBob; Vermont Lt; BobL; Kartographer; JRandomFreeper; Tilted Irish Kilt; Jane Long; ...

Coronavirus PING!


8 posted on 10/05/2021 8:27:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: DoodleBob
"After all, the vaccines were not designed to quash viral spread entirely; they were designed to defang the virus"

Think long and hard about that statement there.

9 posted on 10/05/2021 8:28:03 PM PDT by blackdog (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: DoodleBob

Maybe they’re determining that *enough* victims have taken these hazardous shots....and, the roar of the push backs is growing....

GOK what lurks in the minds of these evil minions.


10 posted on 10/05/2021 8:30:28 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: DoodleBob

The newest fear seems to be “longterm COVID”. But lots of diseases have longterm effects, not just COVID; so why are we using this to keep the fear going?


11 posted on 10/05/2021 8:49:47 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: DoodleBob

Breakthrough infections? That means if vaccinated...yes?


Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine’s Effectiveness Falls Below 50 Percent After 5 Months: Study

https://www.theepochtimes.com/effectiveness-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-falls-below-50-percent-after-5-months-study_4032448.html


12 posted on 10/05/2021 9:03:28 PM PDT by ManardG
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To: DoodleBob

but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness


I hate this convention of writing ratios.

If an unvaccinated person who has caught the Wuhan Coronavirus is, for example, 95% unlikely to be hospitalized, and 98% unlikely to die, then according to this, a vaccinated person is 950% unlikely to be hospitalized, and 980% unlikely to die.


13 posted on 10/05/2021 9:06:27 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Socon-Econ

Longterm COVID is something some will have to deal with after recovering unfortunately. It should have no bearing on fear, vaccination mandates or anything else but effective treatments going forward.


14 posted on 10/05/2021 9:14:13 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: DoodleBob

Not to sound like a broken record, but...

If everybody would use Ivermectin and/or HCQ for early intervention, we wouldn’t need vaccines that aren’t, “requirements,” boosters, mandates, masks, lockdowns, expensive designer drugs, etc, and the CCP virus and it’s variants would disappear in a month.


15 posted on 10/05/2021 9:35:24 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: Socon-Econ

“why are we using this to keep the fear going?”

Because they haven’t ramped up the next variant yet? They’re giving us a break for a few weeks, then they’ll stir up all hell before the holidays.


16 posted on 10/05/2021 9:38:48 PM PDT by bluejean (Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
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To: DoodleBob

Define “few”.


17 posted on 10/05/2021 10:17:24 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: DoodleBob

BS right out of the gate.

Start by defining “unvaccinated” and then accurately listing the case of death.


18 posted on 10/05/2021 11:37:49 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: upchuck
If everybody would use Ivermectin and/or HCQ for early intervention, we wouldn’t need vaccines that aren’t, “requirements,” boosters, mandates, masks, lockdowns, expensive designer drugs, etc, and the CCP virus and it’s variants would disappear in a month.

IOW, the left would have to give up its control over us, which is WHY we will never see the use of an inexpensive, safe medication to defeat this virus.

19 posted on 10/05/2021 11:42:06 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: DoodleBob

Once you get the vac, you cannot go bac…


20 posted on 10/06/2021 8:17:27 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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