Just had covid but STILL same risk to catch Omicron?

[Akire]

Just that really hoping covid has given me some protection but apparently not and I need a 3rd dose. Which I had booked for the week I had Covid and now have to wait at least a month.

I feel so disappointment I could be catching covid again after my immune system has just taken a battering as numbers rocket yet there is nothing at all I can do about it.

If I’m just at risk as if I’ve not had covid, why do I have to wait a month why not have it now? If someone can explain that would be very helpful.

You’re not at the same risk, nowhere near. Your body will have good immunity and good T cell immunity from your bout of Covid plus your two previous vaccine doses. Your body hasn’t suddenly lost the immunity you have from having Covid. I was in the same boat and not worried. Just get your booster when the time comes.

They had guy on Sky news saying even if you had covid it’s the different 3rd dose that gives protection and previous infection doesn’t help at all. Hence why I was annoyed!

Did you get his name?

I’ve been wondering the same, double jabbed, caught Covid beginning of November, does this now mean I’m not protected at all until I get the third dose?!

That's what it says here, too:

twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1469350830864322560

There is no data on protection against severe disease.
No news is good news imo.
Its not back to square one and I dont understand the fear mongering as we can't all get boosters in a a day. And stress is bad for immunity.

No that can’t be right, he doesn’t know about severe disease. The Pfizer data the other day said even two doses should protect against severe disease for quite a whike.
Andrew Pollard from AstraZeneca has said similar.
Of course you should get your booster when the time comes but you’re highly unlikely to have zero protection a few weeks after Covid, and after two vaccines

If you read the UKHSA technical briefing it says protection against severe disease is expected to be significantly higher in the vaccinated. So even if you catch it, it will most probably be mild

The word 'mild' is irking me. 10 days flat out in bed is not a mild illness. We wouldn't call a 10 day flat out flu 'mild'.

I wouldn’t call not being able to eat for a week or sleep properly mild either. Having watch 02 stats case drop any lower and it’s a 999 job.

The Twitter link above says AZ 2 does offered 0% against Omicron. Just have to hope for the best until I can have the jab.

Ok so I'm one of the 1 in 5 people who doesnt make antibodies to COVID. I've had it twice now and am resigned to a 3rd bout sooner or later. But even without vaccination my second bout was milder than my first because I do have some t cell protection. You will too even if you dont have any antibodies or it turns out they dont help against omicron. So yes you may get it, and yes you may get symptoms but it is very, very likely it will be milder next time.

I know it's awful to contemplate a second bout when you are still recovering from the first but hang on in there.

Thank you, I guess you had them spread out and not in 90 days of each other? Or PCR can’t officially say you had it again or if it’s old virus being picked up?

9 months apart - original then alpha. So def not the same infection (have long COVID and zoe app sent me for half a dozen pcrs bw July and Dec 2020. None positive til the Christmas one).

So the booster is the same injection that did t stop you getting covid but you need another injection of the same booster to protect you from a variant the injection wasn’t designed for ? Sounds so logical right ?

Oh. This doesn't sound great. I've had it twice now. Only 4 months apart and despite being double jabbed. They were Pfizer though so hopefully that will help. My second round of covid was worse than my first but both reasonably mild. We have to wait for appointments for the booster here. My husband has his next week and I'm around a month behind him I reckon.