Are these vaccines only supposed to keep symptoms mild, or will they prevent catching it?
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You'll come in contact with it probably. The vaccines help the immune system catch it earlier before its taken hold. That's why covid is such a hard disease to fight naturally, by the time your immune system sees it it has to ramp up to 1000 to fight it off, and then the worst symptoms are what your immune system is causing. (Fever is just your body trying to make it inhospitable to the virus after all).
Vaccines are an early detector, you already have antibodies so it can say whoa whoa whoa I know what you are, gonna get you out now before you take hold. Some people will have it gone before symptoms start. Others will have some symptoms but a milder version.
I personally had the vaccines and got it and it felt like the worst flu I'd ever had, and the main symptoms lasted about 3 weeks.
Yes
If it's very effective for this strain, it might be like 90% effective at not getting it. But there are more strains that will have less effect. As others are saying, symptoms should be more mild if you do get it.
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At this point I'm treating COVID like the flu. Every September I'll get shot combo for both and go about my business.
Normally I'd agree, but these COVID vaccines put me down for 24-48 hours and the flu shot has never done that. Its very weird and difficult to schedule myself 48 hours of 'sick time' for a vaccine recovery.
Edit: I'd like to clarify that I've always gotten them when available, so I'm 3x boosted or whatever, I just wish they had options for people that react like this.
Feeling sick for a day or two after the vaccine is a small price to pay to avoid long COVID. Some people never recover, see Physics Girl on YT.
I don't disagree at all, I should have elaborated in my original comment but I guess I was more yearning for better suited vaccines for people that get hit hard by them. Maybe we could take a smaller dose or different cocktail?
Which one did you take? A lot of people I know who took Moderna got hit hard, but only one person I know who took the Pfizer did. My family all took Pfizer and didn't have any symptoms besides the usual soreness at the injection site.
thus far mine have all been moderna, ha
I have the same mild reaction to COVID and flu vaccines. I feel shit for about eight hours. The only COVID shot that put me down was the second of the two moderna shots. That hit hard. None of the boosters have hit hard.