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If I had COVID-19, should I still be vaccinated?
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY – JANUARY 14: A healthcare professional receives the CoronaVac vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) after the vaccine was issued “Emergency Use Authorization” in Diyarbakir, Turkey on January 14, 2021. (Photo by Bestami Bodruk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines slowly continue to become more widely available across the country and it looks like the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may also be on the way. Most people are eager to be vaccinated, but many are asking: If I had recovered from COVID-19, should I still get the vaccine? The answer is yes, but there are some caveats, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States must be offered to you, regardless of whether or not you have the virus, and you will not need to have an antibody test before you receive the vaccine. That’s because while people who recovered from COVID-19 appear to have some immunity to the virus, we still don’t know how powerful that immunity is – or how long it lasts, says Saskia V. Popescu, PhD, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor assistant at George Mason University. “We know that vaccines are 95% effective in preventing you from receiving COVID-19 and we want everyone to get that benefit,” adds Nate Favini, MD MS, Medical Lead at Forward. After all, the vaccine does not only help protect you – it also helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your community. “It is important to get the vaccine for a variety of reasons – to help protect you and the people around you, to help reduce the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community and therefore the burden on health care and public health ”, Explains Dr. Popescu. Now, about the warnings. If you currently have COVID-19, the CDC emphasizes that you must wait to receive your vaccine until you are quarantined, no longer feel sick and meet the CDC guidelines for leaving isolation. And after recovering from COVID-19, you may want to wait 90 days before taking the injection, the agency adds, stating: “Current evidence suggests that reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19 is unusual in the 90 days after the initial infection. Therefore, people with a recent infection can delay vaccination until the end of that 90-day period, if desired. “Ultimately, deciding to wait is up to you – but if you decide to postpone it, you should definitely get the vaccine once your 90-day window is over, notes Paul Pottinger, MD, a professor specializing in infectious diseases at the University of Washington School of Medicine . Although, to this point, the vaccine has been slow to launch; you may not be eligible to receive the photo within that 90 day period anyway. “In general, we are not encouraging anyone eligible to postpone vaccination,” says Dr. Favini. “Certainly people who may be most at risk due to their age or other conditions should get the vaccine, regardless of how recently they may have been infected.” Dr. Popescue agrees, saying “The goal is to get everyone vaccinated by their priority group”. “The CDC’s clinical considerations say that yes, it is okay to be vaccinated and yes, it is okay to back off and let others go first, because they are almost certain to have some degree of antibody or immunity against the infection itself” says Col. John D. Grabenstein, RPh, PhD, general manager of Vaccine Dynamics and editor of the Immunization Action Coalition. “We just don’t know how durable it is. They have a ‘mild or serious’ case. ”“ Everyone should be immunized and that’s because we believe it will give them stronger, better and longer immunity, ”says Dr. Pottinger. “We are trying to reach people at greater risk, if someone has had it recently, they probably have a month or two before they need it, but those who have had it and know how bad it can be. They should know that the only thing worse than COVID is more COVID. ” Like what you’re seeing? How about a little more R29 goodness, right here? Congressmen are testing positively for COVID-19 The COVID vaccine from Moderna can cause facial edemaWhat to know about the new COVID-19 “Super Strain”