Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta; breakthrough odds rise with time
The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech may be less effective than Moderna's against the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to two reports posted on medRxiv on Sunday ahead of peer review. In a study of more than 50,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Health System...www.yahoo.com
Absolutely shocking to read this, because we have seen these types of stories on tv but these are your neighbors and it’s not elsewhere. Why the hell didn’t they get the vaccine?
Although rare, it’s happening to the vaccinated too. My friend here in Stamford moved to northern NJ last year and was having his house renovated there, so he decamped with his family to his sister in law’s house in Tampa for the summer. Somehow, he contracted covid down there and ended up in the hospital for six days with pneumonia. Double vaxxed, healthy 43 year-old. Now he’s recovering at his in-laws’ place in the White Mountains, and he tells me he now feels like he is “living inside an 80 year old body”. Scary. I told him I would have picked summer in NH over Tampa 100 out of 100 times.
This. Have a friend who is a doctor in a major hospital down in Florida. Went from ~40 COVID patients to 220 in the matter of a week (this was a few weeks back). Beds completely full at this point, 100% of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated and far more in the 20-40 range than previous waves. We're all focused on hard core anti-COVID vaccine folks and they're certainly a problem, but her experience was that this was more apathetic younger people that just didn't think it was a big issue and didn't get around to getting the vaccine while still going out to bars and gathering in groups socially.
You nailed it. The vaccine stats for the 20-30 and 30-40 year old demographics are dismal, regardless of politics, race, religion or other variables. Whether is is apathy or that sense of invincibility that is part of being young, the original COVID did not scare people in these age groups. Delta is different and these age groups and sadly younger children are feeling the impacts.
That was one silver lining of my Moderna shots: with side effects that crummy, you know your body is building antibodies!Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta; breakthrough odds rise with time
The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech may be less effective than Moderna's against the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to two reports posted on medRxiv on Sunday ahead of peer review. In a study of more than 50,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Health System...
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I’m also happy as of now that I ended up with Moderna. That was back in January-February now so we will see how long it stays effective.
Got those same side effects with Pfizer. My titers for all the other vaccines I've ever recieved (MMR, HepB, HepA) as well as chicken pox, which I had as a kid are right at the upper limit of normal, hoping my immune system reacted the same way with this vaccine.
Without commenting on morals of a 3rd (or 2nd J&J) booster innoculation (don't really care), but where were you able to obtain a booster vaccination, e.g., chain pharmacy, small pharmacy, hospital, other source)? What if any questions were asked, or were you eligible due to pre-existing immune-deficiency considerations?
Pretty easy.
