My thanks to @Obelixx@Allotment Boy@AuntyRach for their responses. Please rest assured that I am in contact with my local GP's and other Associations. I just wondered if there was anyone on here who, suffering from long covid, had had their second vaccine or not and what their position was regarding the vaccine booster being offered for the coming winter. Again many thanks.
As a general principle, it's said that you get better immunity from vaccination because it's a standard dose. If someone is only mildly infected they may not mount a very strong response, hence cases of people getting the virus more than once. If you have the infection, recover but then get vaccinated in theory you will have at least as good protection as someone like me who has just had 2 doses of vaccine, but we all respond differently. If it's any help our daughter had covid, never in hospital, and has subsequently had both doses of the vaccine .
That's interesting, @Allotment Boy. I was reading something over the weekend (in a newspaper I think, so not necessarily accurate) that implied that immunity from infection was higher and possibly longer-lasting than from vaccine. It gave me pause - my daughter got COVID in late July and got her first vaccine dose as soon as was advised (ie: 4 weeks from infection). She is hoping - and booked - to get the second dose as soon as possible (ie: after 8 weeks - mid Oct) but I did wonder whether she would be better delaying it until a little further into the winter and treating it as a booster. She'll probably stick with the appt she has, especially if vaccine passports widen to other activities, but it's difficult to work out what is best, clinically.
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Well yes, that's why I said "in principle " . I have also read that natural immunity is better . The idea is that you mount a response to the whole virus and more other immune cells are involved (so called killer T cells), whereas the most common vaccines only use the spike protein. A lot comes down to viral load, how much virus you have, and how efficient you immune system is at getting rid of it. In some viral infections, people can become low level carriers for years, though thankfully not usually with respiratory viruses such as this, but already I have heard about people remaining PCR positive for several weeks post infection. They are still learning about this all the time.
I think this is why the new antibody tests are being offered to Positive cases . They are hoping to help answer this question, how much antibody from infection vs vaccination.
Yes, I think you're right. It's advised not to do LFT for 90 days after infection, though she took one at the walk-in where she got her first vaccine dose. Didn't hear anything from them so is assuming it showed as negative. Negative or positive would have been meaningless at that stage anyway.
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Had read several times flu and Covid boosters being done together this year. Got a text today from my local pharmacy invitation for flu Vax,hubby watched Dr Hillary Jones saying they don't know the particular strains this year, hasn't been sorted out yet,so what to do? Am waiting for antibodies results from the covidence study I'm on
Well as I had covid in hospital over Christmas and then eventually got my first vaccine dose mid March, followed by an anti-body test two weeks ago giving a reading of 2,500 u/ml, I presume that I am pretty well protected for the moment - given that I don't go anywhere or mix with other folk. Time enough to decide what to do about possible 2nd dose and/or later booster jab.
Unfortunately antibody levels do not indicate whether you have immunity to COVID, it is far more complicated than that. Speak to your GP and get yourself fully vaccinated.
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Speak to your GP and get yourself fully vaccinated.
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