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A relative of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) got Covid-19 just days after getting vaccinated – twitchy.com
Twitchy via The Spectator ^ | 12/27/2020

Posted on 12/27/2020 5:39:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Dr. Emily Porter, sister of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), is warning about the dangers of still contracting Covid-19 even though you’ve received the first of two vaccination shots:

We didn’t let our guard down, but I’m not gonna lie—COVID in our household the week after we both got vaccinated is a major buzzkill. https://t.co/aXp4FwRRBd

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

In this instance it was Dr. Porter’s husband, an ER doctor, who started feeling sick on Christmas day after receiving his vaccine shot:

Updates from the last 48 hours: (Thread)

12/25: My ER attending physician husband got his first fever of 2020. On Christmas. After avoiding COVID since March. 9 days after his COVID vaccine. I don’t know whether to scream or cry. 1/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

And then he tested positive for Covid-19:

12/26: And…that’s a positive rapid COVID PCR for him. The rest of us are pending testing Monday and Tuesday.

We are so thankful we did not gather w/ family or attend Christmas Eve mass because he developed symptoms AFTER he’d have exposed others. 2/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

To be clear, the vaccine didn’t have time to work before he tested positive. This is not a vaccine failure. It is just incredibly unlucky timing. We were hoping our household could make it through unscathed after all we’ve sacrificed and how careful we’ve been. 3/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

He moved out for 3.5 months April-July and we’ve both been vaccinated as we’re both physicians. So close!!! We also did not travel/gather for Thanksgiving. Or eat indoors. Or have a service for my grandma when she passed of COVID 12/14. 4/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

Either we were exposed at work or possibly one of our children at school/preschool. We will be fine—I hope. But I’m so ready for the high risk people to get vaccinated. 5/10

My 8 yo is hyperventilating & hysterical.

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

She’s afraid her parents are going to die like my grandma, wants to know if she’ll have to move to Cali/Philly and leave all her friends, blaming her brother for giving it to Dad as he had a runny nose and a single fever 9 days ago. 6/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

She even burst into tears tonight for “lying to me.” The “lie”? That she threw her Motrin in the trash last night instead of taking it for her 101.4 fever and now she’s afraid she’s going to die, too. And Ryan’s job wants to know when he’ll be back. 7/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

He is supposed to work 12/27, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6. He doesn’t have paid vacation days so he’ll have to pay back any missed shifts so of course he wants to return ASAP while I hear him hacking through a closed door. 8/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

He also doesn’t want to dump on his coworkers. Healthcare workers are not okay. We are NOT okay. We get scared just like everyone else. And we’ve seen enough people die to know how unpleasant it is, even in the best of circumstances. 9/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

So, before you gather for New Year’s, Monica’s birthday, chowing down on Mexican food indoors or whatever you may be doing, remember that your actions have consequences and there might not be a doctor left to take care of you if you get sick because WE ARE NOT OKAY. 10/10

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

Her family is now in quarantine and awaiting the results of their own tests:

I wish @dominos had a “subscribe & save” feature like Amazon because I’m gonna need 2 medium cheese pizzas, cinnamon twists, parmesan bread bites and a 2L of Diet Coke at least 4X per weeks x 14 days to feed this family of 6 while we recover from COVID.

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

It’s also gotten political for Dr. Porter:

24 hr later, we’re still waiting on the helicopter to land in our front lawn to take my frontline physician husband to get his free lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. I just assumed that it happened automatically for every American with COVID, or were we supposed to call someone?

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) December 27, 2020

But, there’s actually some good news here. Those experimental treatments that the president and others close to him received *are* available to the general public *right now* and are going unsued in many parts of the country. From the NYT:

When antibody treatments first got authorized for emergency use last month, everyone thought they’d get snatched up. But that hasn’t happened. @RebeccaDRobbins and I called hospitals around the country to figure out what was going on. https://t.co/9iTwz4OSJX

— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020

We found a wide variety in how hospitals have embraced these treatments. At Tufts Medical Center in Boston, out of 117 doses received, only 19 patients have gotten infused. But at Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, doctors are turning patients away.

— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020

Some of the reasons are no surprise: continued lags and confusion over testing is making it hard to identify the right patients. Hospitals are overwhelmed with rising cases and vaccine rollouts.

— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020

Eli Lilly’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, offered another theory: with politicians bragging about getting the treatment, ordinary people didn’t even ask for them. “People thought, well it’s not for me — it’s for those people.”

— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) December 23, 2020



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; california; chinavirus; chinavirusvaccine; covid19; demagogicparty; fearporn; infection; katieporter; ucirvine; vaccination
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To: SeekAndFind

So?? We were all told up front that it takes TWO shots, and even that is ‘only’ 95% effective. Besides that, the the immunity takes quite a while after the injection to build up the immunity and that it only reaches 50% from the first injection.


21 posted on 12/27/2020 7:07:12 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: SeekAndFind
This seems like a pair of doctors who are determined to make a political point and garner sympathy for their life situation. They can't be very sick, or worried since writing snarky comments about treatments seems more important for them than actually working to get the treatment for themselves:

"24 hr later, we’re still waiting on the helicopter to land in our front lawn to take my frontline physician husband to get his free lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. I just assumed that it happened automatically for every American with COVID, or were we supposed to call someone?"

Let's think about that. Wouldn't an MD know how to prescribe a treatment for herself or her husband? Actually the person to make the call is her or her husband, or their fellow doctor who is treating them.

It seems somewhat narcissistic to portray your family of doctors as victims in a situation where families with far less resources, and who certainly lack the opportunity to prescribe whatever treatment they want for themselves, are suffering from the same illness.

22 posted on 12/27/2020 7:21:48 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: SeekAndFind

My 8 yo is hyperventilating & hysterical.

Maybe because mommy is an hysterical bitch.


23 posted on 12/27/2020 7:23:39 PM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

If she and her husband were worth a crap as docotrs they would have tsken preventitive measure like D3, zinc, and vit C. Once the dude got it hydroxychloquine and zinc. These people are morons.


24 posted on 12/27/2020 7:46:11 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Should have taken Ivermectin. 100% prophylaxis.


25 posted on 12/27/2020 7:46:12 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Read later.


26 posted on 12/27/2020 10:05:27 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Flick Lives

“24 hr later, we’re still waiting on the helicopter to land in our front lawn to take my frontline physician husband to get his free lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. I just assumed that it happened automatically for every American with COVID, or were we supposed to call someone?”


27 posted on 12/27/2020 10:08:14 PM PST by bluejean (Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Yeah even if you end up getting it, it won’t kill you.


28 posted on 12/27/2020 10:10:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Flick Lives

“24 hr later, we’re still waiting on the helicopter to land in our front lawn to take my frontline physician husband to get his free lifesaving monoclonal antibodies. I just assumed that it happened automatically for every American with COVID, or were we supposed to call someone?”

That is a seriously entitled statement right there. Must be nice to be annoyed because your helicopter hasn’t arrived as soon as you thought it should to get you to free treatment.


29 posted on 12/27/2020 10:12:14 PM PST by bluejean (Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
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To: RummyChick
She is snarky about the "monoclonal antibody" treatment. Maybe she should check with her hospital to see why they are not using it.

For some reason, the treatment for this disease seems bizarrely divergent. My Dad's cousin, who has COPD, went to the ER & was given some sort of med and sent home...he literally crashed to the floor later that night...passed out due to low oxygen levels. He was admitted to the COVID ward at the (metro Phoenix) hospital, was put on oxygen & the antibodies were adminstered. He was out of the hospital in 3 days. His wife was also positive with only a headache and fatique.

On the other hand, I know people who were recently hospitalized in another major metro area. No antibody treatment, no Ivermectin; just IV steroids. Thankfully, they recovered. This is just weird. It seems as though there should be SOME kind of recommended and consistent treatment after this period of time.

30 posted on 12/27/2020 10:35:27 PM PST by garandgal
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To: SeekAndFind

So, if one can still get COVID after taking the Satanic Deep State’s vaccine, then what exactly did the Satanists use for vaccine ingredients?


31 posted on 12/28/2020 2:08:34 AM PST by Prole
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To: garandgal

The lack of agreement on treatment scares the hell out of me and why I bought horse paste.

It is also why I continue to do everything possible (short of getting the vaccine) to try to not get Covid until I can know I can readily get treatment


32 posted on 12/28/2020 5:13:58 AM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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