The New Normal

[Brownski]

age and other factors...

But is anybody checking for antibodies? That seems relevant and at this point testing is available, right? I’m not in any hurry for shot 4. I’d Like to know what my antibodies count is though.

 

[jasonwx]

But is anybody checking for antibodies? That seems relevant and at this point testing is available, right? I’m not in any hurry for shot 4. I’d Like to know what my antibodies count is though.

Come on brother , don't be afraid. Ya ever read the ingredients in your diet coke? and the whiskey/scotch that you love can run your car.. roll up that sleeve and get poked. just joking , i wasn't keen on the 4th one either

 

[Harvey]

But is anybody checking for antibodies? That seems relevant and at this point testing is available, right? I’m not in any hurry for shot 4. I’d Like to know what my antibodies count is though.

Antibodies are "easily" measureable so they are measured. But other factors (T cells?) also effect your outcome, also raised by infection and vax but harder to measure.

You might have low antibodies, but still be pretty good to go. I think.

Whenever I get a headache I think I have covid. Then when it's gone in a few hours, I'm like YEA I BEAT IT!

 

[MarzNC]

Antibodies are "easily" measureable so they are measured. But other factors (T cells?) also effect your outcome, also raised by infection and vax but harder to measure.

T-cells can be measured. But knowing a measurement number is different from knowing what level is useful. T-cells and B-cells are directly related to generating new antibodies as I understand it.

Fair to say that with Omicron having only become dominant in the last few months, research has yet to catch up. Here are some articles related to T-cells but they were done mostly before the beginning of 2022 when Omicron started spreading widely in the USA and other countries around the world.

October 2021

mRNA vaccine-induced T cells respond identically to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern but differ in longevity and homing properties depending on prior infection status - PubMed

While mRNA vaccines are proving highly efficacious against SARS-CoV-2, it is important to determine how booster doses and prior infection influence the immune defense they elicit, and whether they protect against variants. Focusing on the T cell response, we conducted a longitudinal study of...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

February 2022

The T cell immune response against SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Immunology

Paul Moss reviews the current knowledge of T cell immunity in the control of SARS-CoV-2.

www.nature.com

April 2022

Disentangling the relative importance of T cell responses in COVID-19: leading actors or supporting cast? - Nature Reviews Immunology

Understanding of the role of T cells in SARS-CoV-2 infection is of great importance for the design of next-generation vaccines. In this Perspective, Davenport and colleagues discuss the challenges in determining a causal relationship between vaccine-induced T cell immunity and protection from...

www.nature.com

 

[raisingarizona]

Didn't you catch the current variant recently?

I think so or I thought so. I had covid again in the first week of February. First time was January of 2020. Still, being exposed as much as possible probably helps that immunity response imho.

 

[Country Gun]

But is anybody checking for antibodies? That seems relevant and at this point testing is available, right? I’m not in any hurry for shot 4. I’d Like to know what my antibodies count is though.

Donate blood to the Red Cross and they will give you the results.
My wife still in the highest antibody group , plasma can help Covid patients, 6 months since she had it.

 

[snoloco]

"New normal" now apparently means mass shootings every other week.

 

[MC2]

"New normal" now apparently means mass shootings every other week.

Oh yeah, no way that the discussion that comes after this post this becomes political

 

[wonderpony]

New normal means an office mate who has two COVID positive kids at home, is testing negative with home tests, comes to work, and then tests positive with a real test.

I have done two at home tests, two real tests and cancelled plans because of this.

 

[sibhusky]

I got shot 4. Easiest one yet. Had maybe a half day of being tired.

My husband is postponing his until it's closer to the date of our daughter's wedding, but I'm gambling that the variant specific ones will be coming out by then and I'll get one of those as well. I think he's starting to push his luck as it's been 7 months.

The daughter and her fiance both just had COVID even though they were vaccinated and boosted. He was sick maybe a day. The problem was he couldn't skip work, so told people he had it, wore a mask, and told them to stay away. She of course had it pretty rough, but works from home, so also didn't miss work.... Much. I'm postponing allowing them to visit for a couple more weeks as they got it from friends who were supposedly no longer contagious and had tested negative.