How much do I protect other people after 1x Pfizer

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So I understand that the efficacy rate after one pfizer is 52% of protection for me.

I'm not bothered about being protected myself as I've had covid. I work with vulnerable people, which I am bothered about being protected so does the data mean that I can still only offer them 52% protection from me passing it on to them should I have got it or something?

Obviously I do 2x weekly LFTs for work but they're also not the most reliable.

I will be getting the second dose at the start of Oct, so then I will feel happier that I can offer the people I work with the most protection I can do but I just wondered where I stood until then.

(Before someone points it out that I could have been vaccinated ages ago if I work with vulnerable people etc - absolutely I could have been but I have complex health problems and severe allergies so it's taken until now to be able to discuss the issue properly in an allergy clinic where I live and get it done there, as until that point all my Drs were saying no don't get it. I know MN loves an inconsistency!)
Thanks

Having had Covid your first vaccination is more like a booster anyway, so it's probably higher than someone who hasn't had Covid. In some countries if you've had Covid you only get one vaccination.

You are offering perhaps somewhat less protection than if you were double vaccinated. Nobody can quantify exactly by how much, and honestly I don’t think there’s much point in fretting about it. Immunity and transmission isn’t an exact science, it’s hugely down to individual physiology: I’m single-Pfizered and I’ve spent the past three weekends in nightclubs and at festivals with thousands of other strangers, yet remain in tip top health - yet I know people who are double vaccinated and have barely left the house yet have still managed to catch Covid.

The people you work with will have received their full vaccination and as long as you maintain good hygiene, wear a mask and keep up LFT testing, you’re offering them excellent protection (perhaps, in some cases, more so than your double vaxxed colleagues who may believe that they can no longer catch or transmit Covid - which isn’t the case - and become lax with their hygiene and testing.)

@Cookerhood

Having had Covid your first vaccination is more like a booster anyway, so it's probably higher than someone who hasn't had Covid. In some countries if you've had Covid you only get one vaccination.

Unfortunately not - I have multiple autoimmune diseases so I didn't develop an immune response when I got it - it was tested. I didnt get it badly at all though, and I've been exposed to it a lot since and never caught it again so my Drs thought that I had maybe developed another sort of immune response (T cell? I really don't know it that's right though - could be total bollocks) which is why I've not gone on to get it again.

I may also not develop an immune response to the vaccine but I have done with other vaccines and have been tested for immunity, so here's hoping!

@ComtesseDeSpair

You are offering perhaps somewhat less protection than if you were double vaccinated. Nobody can quantify exactly by how much, and honestly I don’t think there’s much point in fretting about it. Immunity and transmission isn’t an exact science, it’s hugely down to individual physiology: I’m single-Pfizered and I’ve spent the past three weekends in nightclubs and at festivals with thousands of other strangers, yet remain in tip top health - yet I know people who are double vaccinated and have barely left the house yet have still managed to catch Covid.

The people you work with will have received their full vaccination and as long as you maintain good hygiene, wear a mask and keep up LFT testing, you’re offering them excellent protection (perhaps, in some cases, more so than your double vaxxed colleagues who may believe that they can no longer catch or transmit Covid - which isn’t the case - and become lax with their hygiene and testing.)

They're children too young to be vaccinated unfortunately, so they rely on staff being vaccinated for the moment.

Sorry and also due to communication needs we are not able to wear masks. So I felt that getting the vaccine for me was important hence why I chased it up for so long trying to find a way to get it done!

Well you’re likely to be more protected from passing it on to your vulnerable clients now than you have been up until now with no vaccination, so that’s a win.

@Neverrains

Well you’re likely to be more protected from passing it on to your vulnerable clients now than you have been up until now with no vaccination, so that’s a win.

Yes ! Well there's that! Every little is a bonus, and by the time I go back after the October half term I'll be fully vaccinated (including the 2 weeks it takes to be counted as fully vaxxed).