Does the COVID vaccination, quite tangentially, protect us from other virus infections?

Interesting isn’t it (though not for you M0nica).

When I grow up, I’d quite like to be an immunologist

LizzieDrip

I do wonder if, since the pandemic, many of us are a bit more wary of crowds, close proximity to others, people coughing etc. - maybe subconsciously.

I think it’s possibly ingrained in us now. If so, we might pick up fewer of the bugs (that are always out there) than we previously did.

This sounds very logical to me.
But looking back over the last 6 months or so I have also read anecdotal evidence of particularly nasty cold- type viruses (here on GN) which people have found knocked them for six, coughs which lasted for weeks and proved hard to shift etc
One theory for this was that reduced social contact over the pandemic also reduced our resistance because we were catching fewer mild colds and “snuffles”. In the same way that children build up an immune system by catching everything going and having a permanent runny nose. After the pandemic school children seemed to be going down with more and worse cold-type viruses
So it seems to be a complex issue.
Social interaction is clearly a factor, the efficiency of an immune system another - and here Monica may have a point. Perhaps her immune system has been boosted by the Covid booster jab.
So, are we catching fewer “bugs/viruses” ? Are we suffering more and /or worse symptoms when we do?
It sounds like years of research in store for the immunologists!

I don’t think you can actually rule Covid out my grandson became unwell but tested negative, my son caught it off him same symptoms and tested negative, for 5 days then tested positive, my daughter in law who always picks up everything never got it Weird

For vac so read vaccs!

Dunno re covid vac so, but bad luck MOnica, hope it doesn’t last long.

I do wonder if, since the pandemic, many of us are a bit more wary of crowds, close proximity to others, people coughing etc. - maybe subconsciously.

I think it’s possibly ingrained in us now. If so, we might pick up fewer of the bugs (that are always out there) than we previously did.

Apparently I was reading that there are a lot of random viruses out there at the moment as well as blimmin’ covid.

The scientists don’t seem to know why.

Whether covid jabs protect you from other viruses - not sure there has been work done on that. I haven’t read anything as yet.