Current Events > Breakthrough cases not as mild as you think

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/31/mild-coronavirus- breakthrough-infections/?utm_source=reddit.com

Andrew Kinsey knew that even after being vaccinated against the coronavirus, there was a chance he could still fall ill with covid-19.
He just never expected to feel this lousy from a case doctors call mild.

For nearly a week, Kinsey felt like he had been run over by a truck. He struggled to walk a few steps and to stay awake through episodes of the TV show Doomsday Preppers. He returned to work last Monday as a corporate litigator but needs midday naps.

"The vaccine appears to have worked to protect my lungs, so that kept me from having life-threatening symptoms, but at the same time, a so-called mild course can be sort of the sickest Ive ever been in my life, said Kinsey, who is 38 and lives with his wife and three children in Pennsylvania. Its important for people to know that what they picture in their head of a bad cold isnt necessarily what will actually happen even if they get a mild course.

Matt Longman, who is 41 and lives in Tucson, said he had a 103-degree fever, experienced aches in his elbows and toes like he had never encountered before, and could not stop shaking even after wrapping himself in three blankets. Longman fears he would have ended up in the hospital had he not been vaccinated, especially because his immune system is weakened from migraine treatments.

Longman said he wishes he had worn a mask to the grocery store because he suspects that is where he was exposed.

Kinsey and other vaccinated people who develop breakthrough cases of covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, are learning a mild case may not seem so mild to the person enduring the infection. Those cases can be as modest as a few days of sniffles, but, in other circumstances, can spawn debilitating headaches and fatigue. Symptoms can persist longer than the usual cold.

Seven vaccinated people who ended up sicker than they expected shared their stories and said they did not want to cast doubt on vaccines because they believe their outcome would have been much worse had they not been inoculated. Instead, they said they want to help fellow vaccinated people weigh their risks as they decide when to wear a mask and whether to attend a wedding or travel for vacation. They also do not want people to assume a mild case is trivial.

Tl;dr is wear a mask because will vaccine may protect you from dying, you can still get really really fucking sick from an infection while fully vaccinated

oh god :(.

that's what's going to happen to me soon enough. those hood to coast fucks are spreading it.
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kingdrake2 posted...

oh god :(.

Yeah so wear your mask

Bumping cause ceman will regret not masking up

Yep. Even though me and my mother have been vaccinated, she got Covid and is now having worse issues with her heart. She always had some kind of issue with blood pressure but now it seems like she's getting mini heart attacks where she can feel her heart beating way faster than normal.

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