Double whammy? Can anyone help me understand what the impact of catching Covid six or seven days AFTER the first dose of Pfizer vaccine is? Especially for an 83 year old

[loveyouradvice]

Just that really ... my Mum has tested positive yesterday just seven days after her first dose of Pfizer.

In my mind, I see her fighting two lots of Covid - the Covid she's contracted and the Covid that her cells will be manufacturing in response to the vaccine. So double the battle.

Love to know if Im wrong ... and even better if the vaccine might have been a small help. Or if I'm right, it would be good to know....

Thank you ... It's early days and these two weeks are going to be tough! Especially as she is in a care home so I can't see her.

This is the third post I’ve seen saying the same thing. Hopefully people aren’t catching it from the vaccination centres?!

I hope she’s feeling better soon

It's not a live vaccine so she's not fighting 2 sets of covid. People can still catch covid after the jab; if anything, she might have a milder illness than she'd otherwise have and be less likely to need hospital admission.

No, it will be a milder version. Its not a love vaccine.

Fighting two lots of covid this is why people are at panic stations all the time as simple biological understanding seems to have gone over most peoples heads.

Love to know if Im wrong

...but couldn't be arsed to google.

@Haffiana

Love to know if Im wrong

...but couldn't be arsed to google.

Why the need to be so fucking rude to people ? Is there really any need for it?

A good friend of my mums, male aged 82, caught Covid a few days after having the Pfizer jab. He felt pretty rotten - as in was laying on the sofa under covers for a few days - and lost all appetite etc for a few days. Took about a week but he started feeling better and is fine now. Whether the vaccine had already given him some sort of immunity we don’t know. It certainly wouldn’t have had a negative effect, imo. Your mums body will have had 6 days of producing antibodies already.

@SpnBaby1967

Fighting two lots of covid

Obviously the OP means her mum's immune system would be making double the effort presumably (fighting the wild virus AND producing antibodies related to the vaccine)?

Her immune system was triggered by the vaccine so is doing all the things that make you feel crap.

Then she got Covid, but as her immune system is already ramped up Covid will be met with a ready armed immune system so it won't be able to make much headway.

My 95-year-old grandad tested positive 3 days after getting the Pfizer vaccine. Nobody would have known except that he was admitted to hospital for something else and was tested on admission. He had no covid symptoms at all and didn't ever get any.

picklemewalnuts thank you... this is the image I will keep in my head.... it's a great one.

And hope her body is doing this....Though part of me is still wondering both about the fact it takes two or three weeks for the vaccine to get your body in full fighting form

The immune response to the vaccine kicks in around the 7-10 day mark I think, so the vaccine may make her illness less severe, or infection may be too close to offer that protection. I hope she recovers well x

thank you all .. these are challenging and tearful days xx

I think that's what I'm wondering ....

If you get your most ill 5-10 days into Covid
And had the vaccine 7 days before getting it
Will it have an effect when you are most ill (ie 2 weeks after u had the jab) in reducing symptoms?

Slightly different but I had my flu jab on the day I tested positive for COVID (no symptoms initially, tested weekly for a study). I spoke to my GP who said if anything, my immune system should be fired up & on the ball from the flu shot and it may help! I was pretty under the weather for a few days but nothing too severe. Recovered quickly.

My worry with the vaccine is people who don't know they have it are unintentionally
Spreading it by being there but then same could be said for supermarkets etc etc

Dr John Campbell on YouTube has covered this in detail, with links to the trial data. Apparently no one who had the first jab ended up being hospitalised. Didn't mean they didn't catch it, but no one was affected severely. It makes it milder. Hope this helps.