Have you had covid after a vaccine?

[Panpig]

Just wondered if anyone has had a positive covid test after one or both vaccines? I'm due my second dose next week but feel awful today, and wondering if I should do a covid test? How likely is it that you can still catch it after one dose?

As far as I am aware they never claimed the vaccine completely stops you from catching or even spreading Covid.

However, the vaccine reduces the severity and transmission Covid.

So yes, even after a vaccine you may still catch Covid but you are less likely to need hospital treatment and spread it.

This is why caution is still being recommended.

I know two people who caught Covid a month or so after their first vaccines.

I know someone whose currently isolating after a positive test who has had both vaccines.

I caught it 6 weeks after my first Pfizer vaccine. First symptoms were a runny nose, scratchy throat so not even typical covid symptoms.

My step mum had it a few weeks after her first. But considering she's an ex smoker with COPD and was just a bit poorly it probably did its job.

Oh wow so it seems it is still possible then even after a vaccine. Will go and get a test done!

We are Currently isolating as my son has tested positive this week .
He’d gone out with his gfs parents family for dinner where we think he got it.
My son is unvaccinated as he’s 25 , his double vaccinated gf was at the dinner and is negative but another 2 family members tested positive . One is double vaccinated and the other has had one.
So no rhyme or reason it seems !!
They seem to have all mild symptom similar to hay fever.

Has anyone had covid, then the vaccine then covid again?

Glad to hear most of these are mild cases.

I currently know of 7 people with COVID after a first dose and 2 people after 2 dose, plus a student a few weeks ago as well (double vaccinated due to other conditions. He was still very ill) All of those I know who had it after any vaccination are teachers in either Manchester or Bolton.

I had covid 6 weeks after my first vaccine.

I arrested showing symptoms later in the day after I got my second vaccine! Thought it was a reaction at first but unfortunately not. Glad I'm vaccinated though

My DS and his Fiance caught it after the Pfizer Vaccine, although only one dose

and it was literally the same week he was about to have his 2nd jab that he caught it, he had it very mild, although his fiance was unwell for 4 weeks

I'm trying not to be harsh here but how to people still not understand that you can still catch and pass on Covid if you're fully vaccinated?

@LaPoo exactly! 🤦🏼‍♀️

But I guess now that lots are being vaccinated people are trying to assess how likely it is in 'real life' with people they know rather than the literature.

I would be interested to know if anybody knows of anyone who has had the vaccine and then been seriously unwell with Covid?

I was just reading a really interesting article about this very issue. Here you go:
covid.joinzoe.com/post/risk-covid-after-vaccine?mc_cid=ec4641ca18&mc_eid=46cb0e8765

@LaPoo
I never thought people couldn’t get it after they had been vaccinated . I was just offering my experience of what happened this week in my family with regards to vaccination and positive cases.

On a happier note . Both my DH and I have been accepted on a PHE study so that we don’t have to isolate for the full 10 days due to our son being a positive case. We have to upload a daily rapid test and as long as this stays negative we are free to go to work .

I would be interested to know if anybody knows of anyone who has had the vaccine and then been seriously unwell with Covid?

My friend’s husband died from Covid about 6 weeks after his first vaccine. He was late 50’s and overweight so I suppose he still had some factors going against him.

My DD currenty has Covid- she had her first vaccine 5 weeks ago.

My 85 year old uncle was admitted to hospital after a fall, he had bo th his vaccine doses. They routinely swabbed him on admission, he tested positive with no symptoms at all.

@ThornAmongstRoses

I would be interested to know if anybody knows of anyone who has had the vaccine and then been seriously unwell with Covid?

My friend’s husband died from Covid about 6 weeks after his first vaccine. He was late 50’s and overweight so I suppose he still had some factors going against him.

Oh gosh, I'm very sorry to hear that.

I think I heard on the news today 3% of people in hospital with Covid had received both vaccines (I may have misheard).

But they makes me think it's 97% effective.

I got covid about 8 weeks after my first AZ vaccination.