Would by immunity have got a boost?

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Just curious- dd recently had Covid, I didn't stay away from her at all- older so not cuddling but sat together on the sofa, occasional hugs, chatted in her bedroom etc. I am double vacced and didn't catch it. However have been wondering if my immunity would have been boosted by coming into contact with the virus and successfully fighting it off?

Title should read MY immunity 🤦🏻‍♀️

I think if you didn't catch it you didn't fight it off.

Or it could be she didn't seem to catch it because she fought it off.

If you are fighting a virus you must have a virus.

Are you thinking you didn’t catch it based on tests (LFT/ PCRs) or lack of symptoms?

I have no idea, sorry op but I have been wondering the same. If you are exposed to it closely bug don't get it. It's a real interesting question.

Nobody's immunity is getting boosted by not catching a virus.

@Eltonsglasses

Nobody's immunity is getting boosted by not catching a virus.

Yes, I that makes sense- I guess it just feels like it did fight it off because I didn't catch it!

@SpringRainbow

Are you thinking you didn’t catch it based on tests (LFT/ PCRs) or lack of symptoms?

All 3!

What about chickenpox? It's known you get an immunity boost when re-exposed. I know that through reading that the worry about fully vaxed populations in terms of chicken pox - they don't get the constant re-exposure that populations like the UK do. So are at a risk of catching it further down the line when immunity has waned. Why shouldn't it be the same with COVID? When you're exposed the virus is coming into your body - but if you don't catch it you've surely fought it off - that's the whole idea of a vaccine? I.e. the vaccine is not a barricade but a set of soldiers that fights once the enemy is in?

I'm probably making no sense (not much sleep). But I'd love to know the answer to this too, OP.

Either your dd wasn't really shedding the virus, or you're already so immune that your immunity doesn't really need topping up!

Or you were just lucky. I've been surrounded by it at work since the beginning, wasn't concerned about getting it - thought I'd either have already had it, or had a solid immunity to all shitty bugs, or would sail through it because other colleagues had. Still caught it eventually, and was pretty ill.

Your immunity may well have been tested, and that would mean it is boosted.

Developing a new and substantial immune response seems to correlate with you feeling that you got the illness badly. But the other side of that argument is that, if you did not feel it, you did not need to develop new immunity.

It could still be you were lucky enough to not be exposed. But that seems unlikely in close contact situations.

Most likely you are not "catching" the virus because some part of your immune system is fighting it off, as @Janek and @Anyother say.

I wondering sort of the same. Kid recently had covid and neither me or husband caught it from him. I'm pretty surprised considering all the banging on about how the vaccine doesn't protect you from catching it.

I am being invited to participate in research because I have nursed several people through covid, been in contact with kids with covid, and haven’t officially caught it. I think I did get it in the early days as I was unusually sick in Jan (I was in contact with some of the ppl who caught it first through a play group that was closed sharpish) but it was only for 2 weeks. I have been double jabbed but my antibodies to particular strains of covid and the flu seem unusually effective so they want to investigate why.

I don’t think it does. This happened to couple of friends who avoided it from their children. They then caught it elsewhere within two months.