I know two people who had covid and who right now have a second covid infection by the british mutation. One of them also had their first vaccination.
Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
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#22As someone who had COVID 6 months ago and is currently awaiting the result of a PCR test I hope this is true!
PCR test? Shouldn't you have gone for a serology test?
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#23I know two people who had covid and who right now have a second covid infection by the british mutation. One of them also had their first vaccination.
I don't really believe stories on the internet.
There's a lot of context missing.
Like the fact that 3% of the population are hypochondriacs.
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#24Does anyone know if PCR tests will find out if you've had the virus, after you had the vaccine?
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#25I’m personally sceptical of putting too much faith in this, we’ve already seen a number of variants. Over my lifetime? Who knows what mutations we’ll see.
The vaccine manufacturers are already gearing up for booster shots, so we won't have to trust it in the long term- new strains can be met with new vaccines.
In that case won't it become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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#26Does anybody have any ideas as to what this means for people who've had COVID and then get vaccinated with one of the mRNA vaccines? If not, is anyone studying this?
There's some evidence that a second dose of mRNA vaccine isn't necessary if you were infected with Covid. >People who have already had confirmed covid-19 might only need a single dose of a mRNA vaccine, two small studies have indicated. Two weeks after a single dose of vaccine, people who had previously had covid-19 had antibody concentrations that were as high, or up to 10 times higher, than the levels seen in uninf…
This HN user [0] has an anecdote to challenge this evidence.
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#27> The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Does it? I think this pop-science article overly simplifies antibodies and immunity... I'm no doctor myself, but as was explained to me by my doctor friends (who however are not specialists in this subtopic either), there's many different layers to the immune system. It's entirely possible to have antib…
Pop-science article? This is Nature, one of the most respected science journals, and they have linked to the full peer-reviewed paper in their journal.
Besides, in contrast to your background of 'someone who has some mates who are doctors who once kind-of described it to him', the journal article in Nature was actually written by 13 PHD's who specialise in immunology.
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#28Does anyone know if PCR tests will find out if you've had the virus, after you had the vaccine?
I got a rapid test after getting the first vaccine -- I was told that there were more than one type of antibodies, the vaccine only provides one, so they can test for the others to see if you had the virus proper.
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#30Does anyone know if PCR tests will find out if you've had the virus, after you had the vaccine?
PCR tests only detect live virus, not antibodies.
there are several antibody tests for covid. As far as I'm aware, the vaccines only trigger the anti-spike protein antibodies, so if you test positive for other types of covid-19 antibodies, you've probably had it.