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Do you know many who got covid since having third booster?

101 replies

Cet73 · 21/12/2021 18:27

Hi, Just been wondering.....the stats say that about 70% chance not getting covid or symptomless once had booster (after 2 weeks ). Wondered if many still succumbed to covid despite having the booster?

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BoPeeple · 21/12/2021 22:24

Can someone explain why everyone who’s had mild Covid post-booster is saying ‘hurrah for vaccines, this proves they work’? How do you know your symptoms wouldn’t have been just as mild with only two shots?

I don’t understand why this is proof the booster works? It’s not great proof that you’re 70% protected against symptomatic illness.

WhatsWrongWithMyUsername · 21/12/2021 22:33

Yes, he felt coldy for 2 days, then fluey for one day, then better. This was a few months ago so not omicron.

He didn’t pass it onto anyone else (that he knows of, but everyone he’d knowingly been in contact with did lots of testing after), not even his wife caught it from him.

Delatron · 21/12/2021 22:40

I can only compare for the party I went to.

16 people tested positive. The boostered 3 have recovered in a few days with mild symptoms. The double vaccinated but not boostered have had a range of symptoms but definitely not recovered quite as quick. A few felt ‘really rough’ but more lingering fatigue.
That’s my very small sample size.

It is disappointing that the boosters don’t seem to stop you catching it. Maybe you’re less likely to spread it though.

RifRafia · 21/12/2021 22:45

Yes, me

crispsinasandwich · 21/12/2021 22:48

Another one here. Double jabbed and boosted more than two weeks ago - tested positive on Thursday. I have had a bit of a cold and sore throat for about a month - no positive tests despite testing regularly. Got a text from NHS that I had visited somewhere that had had an outbreak. Told no need to isolate and do LFT or PCR if I had symptoms. Did a PCR anyway just to make sure - positive result on Sunday. In the meantime two LFTs on Thursday and Friday were negative. Sunday LFT was positive. I'm not too bad - like a bad cold since Sunday but seem to be getting better.

Fingers crossed I've not infected anybody in the period between being told not to isolate and getting a positive result.

buddy79 · 21/12/2021 22:55

Yes me! Had my booster in October (social care worker), tested positive on pcr on Monday. It’s very mild. Tired, slight cough, sore throat. DH (double jabbed but not boosted) had it worse.

StolenMadonna · 21/12/2021 22:56

Yep my sister. Three jabs, positive test, HOME ALONE for Xmas

DrNo007 · 21/12/2021 22:57

Yes lots of people; also people who have told me they didn’t get ill at all pre vaccines but now post vaccines they are getting colds, flu and covid.

Covidclaire · 21/12/2021 23:07

@BoPeeple

Can someone explain why everyone who’s had mild Covid post-booster is saying ‘hurrah for vaccines, this proves they work’? How do you know your symptoms wouldn’t have been just as mild with only two shots?

I don’t understand why this is proof the booster works? It’s not great proof that you’re 70% protected against symptomatic illness.

Of course I have no way of knowing whether I would have been hit harder prior to being vaccinated. But given all the many, many studies that have shown that the vaccines are very effective at preventing serious illness I’m happy to believe they’ve played their part in my outcome.

I only know one person who had genuine asymptomatic covid. And everyone else I know who has had covid caught it either pre vaccine (during the wave last winter) or earlier this autumn, so quite a few months after their second jab but pre booster. They were all much more ill than I’ve been.

monkeyblonde · 21/12/2021 23:09

Me

Icequeen01 · 21/12/2021 23:11

Hmmm not sure I believe that to be honest.

Icequeen01 · 21/12/2021 23:11

Sorry my post below was to@DrNo007

LazySundayPlease · 21/12/2021 23:13

I think the statistic is 70% protection against severe hospitalisation with omicron, it is not that effective at stopping any trace of covid causing symptoms/a positive test.

Gensola · 21/12/2021 23:13

My DH - got Covid three weeks ago, 4 weeks after the booster. But he was asymptomatic, who knows how sick
He would have been without the booster.

Poshjock · 21/12/2021 23:15

Booster beginning of October and tested pos beginning November. Routine PCR testing so I had no idea I had it, nor did the other 3 people in my workplace. I have no contact with any of them, no idea how I got it and was asymptomatic until 6 days after test when I lost smell & taste. Had a bit of a stiff neck for a day as well no idea if that was related or just me lying awkwardly during my 10 day bore fest.

MayMiracle · 21/12/2021 23:15

Me. I tested positive 5 days after my booster.

Blubells · 21/12/2021 23:21

Has anyone that is unvaxx'd had omicron? Just wondering how they've faired. Would be interesting to see a study comparing the two in like by like trial subjects to see if it's the booster making symptoms more mild, or just the variant.

Yes, it would be very interesting to know whether the mild symptoms are due to 1) the omicron virus itself being milder or 2) being boosted??

Blubells · 21/12/2021 23:21

Or even being unvaccinated?

pinkkoala · 21/12/2021 23:24

Yes i know of two, we are health care assistants and had our booster in September

soyabean · 21/12/2021 23:28

Me, have Covid now, booster was in October.

springiscoming12 · 21/12/2021 23:30

I know someone. They had mild symptoms for a couple of days, still lost senses of smell and taste but they returned within 3 days

DuchessMinnie · 21/12/2021 23:33

Me, booster in October and I am on day 9 of Covid now. I was very poorly for 2-3 days then pretty much ok although I can feel I still have the virus.

ikeepseeingit · 21/12/2021 23:37

Yep, I have a friend who had his booster a month ago and now has covid for the third time running! He's only 23 as well. We think he's had each variant as his first was in March 2020, and this latest was from going to the cinema and is much less severe than the first two times. He also has long covid from the first time around :(

Mochacino · 21/12/2021 23:52

Me. Was very unwell too but no one else at the time in the house contracted it so I assume it reduced my transmission levels.

TyrannosaurusRegina · 22/12/2021 00:03

@trying29

Me! I’m boosted and I had it in may and I just tested positive today
You had the booster in May? I thought they just started giving the booster as of September? Or do you mean you had covid in May? I hope you're not feeling too bad with your latest positive!