Vaccines do not treat COVID-19 but effectively prevent the likelihood of severe COVID symptoms, hospitalization, and death. Currently, there is no official COVID treatment for mild to moderate COVID-19. However, many people have benefited from repurposed drugs with good anecdotal results, according to some. Want to know more? See the podcast below for details.
COVID-19 Vaccine Approval
Dr. Anthony Fauci suspects that the Food and Drug Administration will give the Pfizer vaccine full approval within the next couple of weeks. The Moderna vaccine will likely be approved shortly afterward. The full support of the vaccines might improve the public’s trust in vaccine safety while threatening vaccine misuse. For example, unless you are immunocompromised, boosters are not recommended, which free up more vaccines for others.
Experts are concerned that removing the emergency use will cause more people not to seek boosters. The more people receiving boosters, the fewer vaccines we will have available to vaccinate the unvaccinated. Yet, research has shown that the booster is effective with the mRNA vaccines. The data is still pending for the effectiveness of other vaccine boosters’ long-term immune reponses.
Mask
The extent of transmissibility of COVID-19 from the vaccinated to the vaccinated or the vaccinated is still uncertain. What we do know is that the vaccinated can unknowingly transmit COVID-19 to the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people could have no symptoms and transmit COVID-19 to vaccinated as well as unvaccinated people.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director recommends masking in the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Fewer people would be infected by the vaccinated than by the unvaccinated due to a shorter infectious period for the vaccinated.
Previous COVID Infection
The current data has shown that people infected with COVID-19 and recover need at least one vaccine to be fully vaccinated. After all, Europe is considering these people fully vaccinated if there have had a positive PCR test in addition to one vaccine. Fully vaccinated in the United States is defined as two vaccines or one vaccine of the Johnson and Johnson.
Whatever the case may be, in order to protect yourself, you will need at least one vaccine after a positive COVID-19 test and two vaccines won’t hurt you. This is not medical advice and I am not your doctor; so, contact your doctor for medical advice.
A preprint from the Clevland Clinic showed that people with a prior infection don’t need the COVID-19 vaccine. This result was from June 2021. The most current recommendations come from Dr.Fauci, when he has interviewed on meet the press. He recommends at least one shot (jab) to have better protection than people with two shots.
Conclusion
COVID-19 will not be going anywhere any time soon due to several factors that we perhaps cannot control. The low efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, low vaccine rates, and the increased prevalence of highly transmissible variants indicate that. Therefore, we must learn how to manage COVID-19 and utilize all resources, period.
