Re:A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid
by dec0dedab0de on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:41AM
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I just found out this week that I don't have the antibodies even though I had the vaccine in March. I also found out that some of my specific T-cells are lower than normal. Likely a side effect from chemotherapy, which was finished in February. Just a PSA that these tests are not included with the normal white cell/neutrophils tests that they give cancer patients. So if you know someone, they might want to ask for an antibodies test and cd4/cd8 test
Re:A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid
by Vecr on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:07AM
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Was it a spike protein test? If you want to test the response to anything but a inactivated vaccine you have to test for antibodies to a provided component. No vaccine used in the US has anything but spike.
Re:A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid
by snovv_crash on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:12AM
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Just curious, did you get flu symptoms from the second dose of vaccine?
Re:A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid
by dec0dedab0de on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:39AM
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I had a bad fever for one night.
T-cell based protection persists while antibody counts wane over time. If these break through cases are a model for people who had their last vaccine shot years ago, it might imply that you need to get vaccinated regularly to actually be protected from symptomatic covid infections. Nobody wants to be affected by symptoms for weeks, but apparently in these break through cases, 19% still had symptoms 6 weeks after their infection.