Covid comes to the SK household

[jon-nyc]

Oh no! Take care of yourselves!

[Mik]

If he's not feeling terrible now he's not likely to. I've had it four times now, once from a funeral and three times flying, and only spent one day in bed. I believe the vaccines do what they are supposed to.

[ShiroKuro]

@Mik said:

If he's not feeling terrible now he's not likely to.

this is encouraging, thank you!!

I am also hoping not to get it...
I talked to my colleague and he's ok with me joining him in the car to our conference (presuming I'm not actually sick).

We'll see how it goes.

[RealPlayer]

You say Mr. SK got the vaccine and still got Covid? That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

[wtg]

@realplayer

Actually, that is how it works.

From Mayo Clinic:

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine helps to keep you healthy. The vaccine protects against serious illness, the need for hospital care due to COVID-19 and death from COVID-19.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vaccine/art-20484859

It may help some people to not get sick at all, but as importantly, it reduces the severity if you do get it. As @mik said, no worse than a day or two of feeling poorly, rather than getting severely ill and needing to be hospitalized. Especially important as we get older, as our immune systems are not as robust and we can't fight off various bugs as well as we did when we were younger.

[AndyD]

Each person is different, we've known someone off work over a year with long covid, others barely a sniffle. I wasn't too bad, but coughed till I broke a rib.

[wtg]

@andyd - were those cases (yours and the person who got long covid) a while back? I thought that the current variants tend to be far less serious, more along the lines of the average case of the flu.

[Mark]

Sorry to hear about this. Hope Mr. SK has a mild case and gets better soon. Also hope you don't catch it. This reminds me that we have to get our Flu/Covid vacs! I am going tomorrow to do so.

[jon-nyc]

I had my Covid and flu shot at the same time when I visited Duke early last month

[AndyD]

@wtg said:

@andyd - were those cases (yours and the person who got long covid) a while back? I thought that the current variants tend to be far less serious, more along the lines of the average case of the flu.

Yes, nowadays people seem to have effective herd immunity. A work colleague of my sister had covid confirmed and we then wondered if the latest cold we've had was covid.