Any one else caught covid after being triple vaccinated

[ladyhat]

DS2 caught covid at school this week (loads of cases in his school) DH then got it (double vaccinated) then DS1. I tested positive yesterday, I had my 3rd jab over a month ago. I'm not unwell, just cold symptoms, so presumably the vaccine has done a good job at preventing serious illness which is great. Has anyone else managed to catch it despite 3 jabs? Also when booking the test and dealing with track and trace they ask for vaccine info but only about 1st and 2nd doses. This suggests info is not being collected on infection after the booster which is surprising.

2 triple vaccinated colleagues have recently tested positive for Covid, they share an office. Both are, thankfully, not too unwell. They had had their 3rd jab beginning of September. They are due back Monday & Wednesday. Interesting about not collecting data on the 3rd vaccine.

I think data on 3rd vaccine is supposed to be going on to everyone's medical record.

Vaccines don’t stop you getting covid. Surely most people understand this by now? They just help to stop you getting seriously ill/dying.

@TwilightSkies

Vaccines don’t stop you getting covid. Surely most people understand this by now? They just help to stop you getting seriously ill/dying.

Yes I understand that. Doesn’t mean I’m not interested to see how common it is for people to actually get it/it to still be spreading. I have a vulnerable family member so it’s on my mind a lot.

My sister has just had it asymptomatically a month after her booster. Caught from positive symptomatic child. Shows the booster vaccine is doing its job at preventing severe illness.

@TwilightSkies

Vaccines don’t stop you getting covid. Surely most people understand this by now? They just help to stop you getting seriously ill/dying.

Rubbish. Vaccines prevent lots of people from getting Covid altogether. The idea that thay don't stop anyone getting Covid is anti-vax nonsense.

We do have stats on this; even triple vaxxed it isn't 100%, but is effective, around 93-94% against symptomatic disease. That means a small number of people still get symptomatic disease.

@TwilightSkies

Vaccines don’t stop you getting covid. Surely most people understand this by now? They just help to stop you getting seriously ill/dying.

Of course everyone understands that, it's why I said in OP that the vaccine has done its job in preventing serious illnesses. Im not really sure what the relevance of this comment is to my question??

Also it's not true to say vaccines don't stop anyone catching covid, it reduces the chances of transmission just doesn't stop it completely. This kind of misinformation really should have gone away by now.

I was just interested to know how many others have caught it despite being triple vaccinated. Ive been exposed to covid continuously (nurse) and not caught it before but obviously covid in the household is a closer contact. I was very surprised that no data is being collected on cases caught after the booster though, seems like useful information.

Why do people say that vaccines don’t stop you from catching covid? They don’t stop EVERYONE from catching covid but certainly stop the majority of infections.

I don't really understand. vaccines reduce the chances of transmitting the virus? But how? I don't understand why . If I get it, how are my changes of transmitting it reduced?

@Florelei

Why do people say that vaccines don’t stop you from catching covid? They don’t stop EVERYONE from catching covid but certainly stop the majority of infections.

Exactly! What I was trying to say but more succinctly. Of course they prevent people from catching covid just not everyone. And if you do catch it the severity of illness is reduced. So good news all round.

Has my booster, 6 days later my DS tested positive me the following day, my double vaccinated husband the day after me.

We've all been poorly but coped. The worst bit for me has been the coughing, shortness of breath and chest pains. I'm so grateful for the vaccine as I can imagine without it, we'd have been much worse.

DH had covid in January, nobody vaccinated. He had it fairly mildly and nobody else in the family got it. Had this been later on during the pandemic I’m sure we would have put it down to being vaccinated 🤷🏼‍♀️

Asked a frontline medic friend about this yesterday - they said they are getting a very very small number of people hospitalised who have had boosters/3rd vax, but v tiny numbers in comparison with those who are double or not vaxxed at all. Which would be in line with the studies done so far on post-booster infection.

My other half has tested positive for the second time and had his booster about a month ago. Test and Trace just asked details about the first two vaccines.

My two friends have it now after being tripled jabbed and are very grateful for them cos they feel like shit

@Oblomov21

I don't really understand. vaccines reduce the chances of transmitting the virus? But how? I don't understand why . If I get it, how are my changes of transmitting it reduced?

Because you neutralise it quicker. In some people it will never get a foothold at all but others will carry the virus for some amount of time in which they can pass it on. That time is greatly reduced in vaccinated people so they have less time to spread it about.

I tested positive 3 days after my booster so doubtful that it'd had time to take effect but I was barely unwell, just a headache and loss of sense of smell really, I was able to WFH throughout and have had far worse colds so I think the vaccines definitely helped

Thank you cornetto. Interesting.

Ha d my booster about 6 weeks ago. DD brought covid home 2 weeks ago. She coughed and sneezed all over me, including coughing in my mouth (grim 🤢).

I had 4 PCRs during the course of her 10 day isolation and multiple lateral flows. I did not catch covid! So for me, the vaccine worked. Obviously cannot determine that that will be the case for everyone, but I do know I was heavily exposed and I didn’t catch it.

@ladyhat

DS2 caught covid at school this week (loads of cases in his school) DH then got it (double vaccinated) then DS1. I tested positive yesterday, I had my 3rd jab over a month ago. I'm not unwell, just cold symptoms, so presumably the vaccine has done a good job at preventing serious illness which is great. Has anyone else managed to catch it despite 3 jabs? Also when booking the test and dealing with track and trace they ask for vaccine info but only about 1st and 2nd doses. This suggests info is not being collected on infection after the booster which is surprising.

When I had my booster at the end of September it was recorded on the NHS app as an 'immunisation'. Very recently it transferred to the 'Travel' part of the app, and this now shows my 3 vaccines.

So presumably this information will be collated 'somewhere', as would a positive test, to provide the figures needed for data? Or do I have too much faith?

My mum did but she had only had her booster a couple of days before. She was the first to test positive after my ds brought it home from school (we all went down one by one over the course of 10 days), but was barely affected by it - we only knew she had it because we were all doing daily lateral flow tests - her only symptom was feeling a bit tired for a couple of days.

My booster appeared on NHS app within 24hrs.

Both my children had Covid in October.

DD3 - no vaccine yet - mildly unwell with sore throat, headache and fatigue.

DD2 - double jabbed - no symptoms at all despite being CV.

Me - triple jabbed - didn’t catch it. Daily LFTs and 3 PCRs later all were negative, despite being immune suppressed on DMARDS. Also am a nurse (not hospital) so potentially have been repeatedly exposed.

We're in the midst of Covid here. Six days in, dh and ds1 have fully recovered. Ds2 and I seem to have avoided it. Dh is double jabbed, I had the third jab for the immunosuppressed about a month ago - very happy it seems to have worked.