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Double Jabber tested positive

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netflixfan Sun 01-Aug-21 20:39:30

I go to a weekly art class, and the teacher has just emailed all his students to say that one student tested positive last week. She is a double jabber. She is not ill at present. It has made me jittery about continuing to attend! By the way, Ive also had both jabs, ages ago. Any views please ? Thanks all

Aepgirl Wed 04-Aug-21 13:59:29

I take comfort in that, although I may still catch covid, it is unlikely to affect me too badly as I am double-jabbed. However, I am still taking care not to get too close to people, and continue to wear my mask.

Nansypansy Wed 04-Aug-21 16:55:26

My daughter has recently had COVID although she is double jabbed …. She caught it from her daughters who weren’t jabbed. I had been with her the day before and had to self isolate …. Same applies to her husband and a friend who was staying with them that weekend ….. all double jabbed ….. but none of us developed it ….

FoghornLeghorn Wed 04-Aug-21 16:58:23

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I believe there are trials going on to give a different vaccine as a booster. So Pfizer if you had the AZ and presumably the AZ if you had the Pfizer.

No, there will be no AZ given in the booster rollout. All boosters will be Pfizer or Moderna.

Alegrias1 Wed 04-Aug-21 17:09:16

You say that with great certainty FoghornLeghorn. How do you know?

MayBee70 Wed 04-Aug-21 17:29:37

The thing that does still scare me is the Russian roulette aspect of covid in that none of us know if we’re going to be the person that will suffer badly from it albeit being double vaccinated, having no co morbidities etc.

Peasblossom Wed 04-Aug-21 17:30:53

I’m wondering that. Where did you get that info, FL?

I’m part of the booster trial and as far as I know, evaluation is still ongoing of a range of scenarios.

maddyone Wed 04-Aug-21 18:27:07

I either saw or heard that the booster vaccinations would be Pfizer, and the reason given is because the Pfizer (or possibly Moderna) is more effective against the Delta variant. I can’t remember where I heard/saw this so I can’t give a reference, and I have no idea if it’s correct or mere speculation.

Markoni40 Wed 04-Aug-21 18:51:04

Interestingly, all people I know that got Covid were double vaccinated, some of them hospitalized. I know a lot of people who were not vaccinated at all but no cases among them...

Joesoap Wed 04-Aug-21 20:41:53

Double jabbed yes you can still get Covid but a milder illness, everyone should be vaccinated and get a booster dose when it arrives like the annual flu it will be like this for the foreseeable future so ladies keep getting jabbed! I have been “ jabbing” people for the past few months.

Casdon Wed 04-Aug-21 22:15:48

It’s not true that all the booster vaccinations will be Pfizer, I think people are confusing the 60m extra Pfizer doses ordered with the booster vaccine, when in fact some of them are for 16-17 year olds and late vaccines of younger age groups (and maybe 12-15s?).
There are trials happening now of 7 different vaccines which may be used for boosters, including the latest AZ version.

M0nica Thu 05-Aug-21 08:00:41

Marconi your experience, like mine of knowing no one with COVID jabbed or not, just goes to show how essential it is to only look at data from large samples because anecdotal evidence is s misleading.

MayBee70 Thu 05-Aug-21 12:01:27

I think that, once someone you know and care about dies from covid the daily death statistic suddenly becomes something much more personal and if it’s one or 101 each one of those deaths becomes someone who is leaving people who loved them. I’m worried that we are being desensitised to deaths from covid.

rosie1959 Thu 05-Aug-21 12:41:50

Covid has been a horrendous illness MayBee shortening to life of so many affected but this is now turning around yes there will still be deaths but not in the scale we have witnessed.
Yes it will end the life of some but so do many other conditions dementia for one
We have to move forward what other choice is there. We only have one shot at life so best to get on and enjoy what we can
Double vaccinated so in theory Covid could still get me but then again so could many other illnesses

growstuff Thu 05-Aug-21 18:55:21

Yes, rosie1959, we only have one shot at life and there are many unknowns about which we can do little. However, Covid isn't one of those unknowns. It is avoidable and many people are keen to hang on to the one life they have.

rosie1959 Thu 05-Aug-21 19:06:35

growstuff

Yes, rosie1959, we only have one shot at life and there are many unknowns about which we can do little. However, Covid isn't one of those unknowns. It is avoidable and many people are keen to hang on to the one life they have.

Yes I suppose it’s avoidable if you never go out of your house ever
That does make it sound that the people who have contracted it are reckless as it’s avoidable

maddyone Thu 05-Aug-21 19:38:00

Covid is not avoidable. The only way it is avoidable is if you never go out of your front door. Since the vast majority people can’t live like that, catching Covid is not avoidable. What does it say about all those marvellous key workers who kept us supplied with food, essentials, gas and electricity, medical care, and removed our rubbish and delivered our parcels, if they sadly contracted Covid through their work, and we tell them it was avoidable!

MayBee70 Thu 05-Aug-21 19:43:44

But those of us that did everything possible to not catch it were also doing everything possible to make it safer for those that had to carry on working. Unlike some people on this forum that have been quick to dispense with mask wearing and others that have boasted about the fact that they still continued to meet up with people/hug people etc.

rosie1959 Thu 05-Aug-21 19:49:18

I wouldn't say these people whoever they are boasted but just told how it was for them
We are not all the same I suppose they could post what others may want to hear with actions that met their approval but that would not be real

MayBee70 Thu 05-Aug-21 19:56:50

Well, it sounded like boasting to me….l

maddyone Thu 05-Aug-21 20:01:09

I agree Maybee, those of us who were able to stay at home during the worst of the pandemic, and especially when we didn’t know at first how it was spread, I agree that we were doing the best we could for others who kept all our services going during that time by staying at home. But we should never say Covid was avoidable because for a great many people, it wasn’t.

MayBee70 Thu 05-Aug-21 20:44:29

I still think we should wear masks in shops and on buses to protect the people who work in them. What I haven’t understood for a long time is that the bus drivers that go through the village on a regular basis do not wear masks themselves and this has been happening for many months now.

rosie1959 Thu 05-Aug-21 20:50:23

Don't use buses apart from holidays where I have the driver is behind a protective screen thus not needing a mask

Nezumi65 Thu 05-Aug-21 21:40:32

Another of my son’s care team has tested positive after two jabs.

That’s two in under two weeks (not caught from each other).

My son is severely disabled & we haven’t been able to vaccinate him. It’s a bit of a concern tbh.

Nezumi65 Thu 05-Aug-21 21:51:03

I can’t really see how he will avoid it over the next few months. The jabs just aren’t holding up. confused

MayBee70 Thu 05-Aug-21 22:03:17

You must be so worried. Are his careers still wearing masks? That will protect him up to a point. I don’t understand why everything is almost as if the pandemic is over but I know so many people that have caught it recently. Just imagine if many people hadn’t had the sense to carry on with hands face space.