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noxiousdog wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:58 pm
In other news, there's a big breakthrough in treatment.

"Researchers engineer a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus"

Obviously early and more research is necessary, but really promising.

One day after receiving her first dose of Moderna’s Covid vaccine, Luz Legaspi, 72, woke up with bruises on her arms and legs, and blisters that bled inside her mouth.

She was hospitalized in New York City that day, Jan. 19, with a severe case of immune thrombocytopenia — a lack of platelets, a blood component essential for clotting.

The same condition led to the death in January of Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, an obstetrician in Miami Beach whose symptoms appeared three days after he received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Treatments failed to restore his platelets, and after two weeks in the hospital he died from a brain hemorrhage.

It is not known whether this blood disorder is related to the Covid vaccines. More than 31 million people in the United States have received at least one dose, and 36 similar cases had been reported to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS, by the end of January. The cases involved either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, the only two authorized so far for emergency use in the United States.

Hematologists with expertise in treating immune thrombocytopenia said they suspected that the vaccine did play a role. But they said that cases after vaccination were likely to be exceedingly rare, possibly the result of an unknown predisposition in some people to react to the vaccine by developing an immune response that destroys their platelets. The disorder has occurred, rarely, in people who received other inoculations, particularly the measles-mumps-rubella one.

“I think it is possible that there is an association,” Dr. James Bussel, a hematologist and professor emeritus at Weill Cornell Medicine who has written more than 300 scientific articles on the platelet disorder, said in an interview. “I’m assuming there’s something that made the people who developed thrombocytopenia susceptible, given what a tiny percentage of recipients they are.”

He added: “Having it happen after a vaccine is well-known and has been seen with many other vaccines. Why it happens, we don’t know.”

Daehawk wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:36 pm Just like the flu you can still catch COVID after having both doses of vaccine.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:22 pm And I think that the efficacy of the Covid vaccines are higher than the flu vaccine. I think the effectiveness of the flu vaccine is often ~50%. In comparison, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 95% effective, at least in mitigating serious cases.

The new guidelines were issued after reports of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines causing swollen lymph nodes in the armpit area where the shot was administered.

That area of the body is also where enlarged lymph nodes can be a sign of breast cancer, according to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News chief medical correspondent.

"What they're seeing in real time is enlarged lymph nodes in women who have had the COVID-19 vaccine and they don't want that to produce confusion with results of their mammogram," Ashton, a board-certified OBGYN, said of the SBI's new guidelines. "But the most important thing is to realize that just seeing an enlarged lymph node in an armpit without a breast finding is not necessarily a sign of breast cancer."

YellowKing wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:38 am Update - had no side effects from the second dose, and neither did my mom. If you pressed me I could point to a very mild headache and some tiredness, but that could just as easily have been the result of being cooped up with two kids on a rainy Saturday.

Lorini wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:55 pm

YellowKing wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:38 am Update - had no side effects from the second dose, and neither did my mom. If you pressed me I could point to a very mild headache and some tiredness, but that could just as easily have been the result of being cooped up with two kids on a rainy Saturday.

My arm was in great pain and pain killers (both Tylenol and Motrin) did nothing. Today is the first day since Thursday night when I got the vaccine that I didn't wake up with a painful arm.

Unagi wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:51 am

Lorini wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:55 pm

YellowKing wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:38 am Update - had no side effects from the second dose, and neither did my mom. If you pressed me I could point to a very mild headache and some tiredness, but that could just as easily have been the result of being cooped up with two kids on a rainy Saturday.

My arm was in great pain and pain killers (both Tylenol and Motrin) did nothing. Today is the first day since Thursday night when I got the vaccine that I didn't wake up with a painful arm.

Is this the 1st or 2nd shot for you ?
I’ve heard different reactions on the 2nd shot.

ImLawBoy wrote:Appointments for tomorrow for the first dose! (Hoping that these don't disappear. )

Zarathud wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:07 pm

ImLawBoy wrote:Appointments for tomorrow for the first dose! (Hoping that these don't disappear. )

With the weather, I expect you can get your shot outside!

Lorini wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:47 am I guess it's too cold to crack the window in the car?

ImLawBoy wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:47 pm First dose administered! Of course, the bus never showed up for my wife and we couldn't get a Lyft. My dad offered to come out from the suburbs to drive us. While he was on his way, my wife talked to the vaccination folks, and they said they'd hold her appointment since she was going to be late, but that they needed a letter from my son's doctor confirming that he qualifies as medically fragile. We called the practice and told them and they said they'd e-mail us a letter when they could. It still wasn't here when my wife got to the appointment. She called again and left a message, and as she was leaving they called back and said they'd get the note over in 10 minutes and to go back in. My wife went back in and showed them the letter on her phone, and then they claimed that we weren't in the current phase of vaccinations. My wife pulled up the city's website and showed them and they finally relented. My dad brought her home and picked me up. I was in and out in 10 minutes.

Kraken wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:51 pm Our number is supposed to come up in April.

"If you start talking about when the vaccine would be more widely available to the general population, I was hoping that that would be by the end of April, namely, have gone through all the priorities and now say, OK anyone can get it," Fauci said. "That was predicated on J&J, the Johnson product, having considerably more doses than now we know they're going to have."
Johnson & Johnson will have fewer than 10 million vaccine doses available if the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes it for emergency use in the coming weeks, a federal health official told CNN earlier this month.

"So, that timeline will probably be prolonged, maybe into mid- to late May and early June, that's fine," Fauci said.

He downplayed the shifted expectations and noted that there will be several months between when vaccinations are generally available and when each person will individually be able to access one.

"You can say, let's say in May, vaccines are going to be widely available to almost anybody May, June, but it may take to June, July and August to finally get everyone vaccinated," he said.

Daehawk wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:49 am Isn't the J&J coverage worse than a flu shot resistance? Why would a person take that over the 90%+ vaccines? I mean some side effects and 2 shots is worth it I think.

Daehawk wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:45 am Can you get the 1 shot type now and in some time...like maybe a few months....get one of the 2 shot types?

Daehawk wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:45 am Can you get the 1 shot type now and in some time...like maybe a few months....get one of the 2 shot types?