Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

[Alaskan]

@Baymule Had you seen this article on the subject of the Covaxin vaccine? If Bharat Biotech has been partnered with Ocugen since December, it may not be all that long before we hear that Covaxin is coming soon to a clinic near you! (That's a joke for us old folks, for those who missed it).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/bharat-biotech-covid-19-vaccine.html

I thought that vaccine sounded pretty good.

 

[Baymule]

What are everyone's thoughts about the Johnson and Johnson vaccine?

Better than Moderna and Astra Zeneca, but I still wouldn’t take it.

 

[Bunnylady]

If I were to take a vaccine, it would be a killed virus, not RNA made with fetal cells from a 1973 aborted fetus. Gross. I found that and posted it for those who might want a vaccine, but not a cocktail of who knows what. As always, up for discussion.

Well, as we all know, viruses can't replicate on their own; they have to be grown in some kind of living tissue. While many vaccines are made with viruses grown in chicken eggs, the word is that SARS CoV-2 cannot be grown that way. Does anybody know what sort of cell line is used to produce Covaxin? I've done a little poking around, and so far, I haven't been able to find out.

However, I did find an article about yet another vaccine in development, which basically genetically engineered a whole bunch of Covid spike proteins onto the Newcastle Disease virus (which most definitely does grow in eggs). They are thinking it will be a real boon to poorer countries, since this type of technology is so cheap. No idea whether one of the potential side effects might be feather growth.

What are everyone's thoughts about the Johnson and Johnson vaccine?

I dunno. They recently held a clinic in Raleigh where 18 out of 2300 people who received the J & J vaccine had adverse reactions; 4 were bad enough they were transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation. They were concerned enough to suspend vaccination for the rest of the day pending further guidance from the CDC. The CDC seemed to feel that the numbers and types of reactions were well within what one would normally expect to see with that many shots being given; because these sorts of clinics involve keeping the newly vaccinated patients on site for at least 15 minutes after the vaccine is given, those having reactions received prompt medical attention.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

There's a story circulating from yesterday, they shut down the Johnson and Johnson clinic somewhere in Colorado. 11 people had adverse reactions. I didn't read the whole story, can't do it anymore.
Somebody mentioned the "boob tube". I remember Eb from Green Acres saying it when I was kid.

 

[promiseacres]

Found out that my kids and myself were exposed Sunday. None of us are sick but staying home for the next few days and away from people just in case. Not too worried but the responsible thing is to not expose anyone else. Of course we've been potentially exposing people all week... but what do you do? I just found out this morning.

 

[Beekissed]

There's a story circulating from yesterday, they shut down the Johnson and Johnson clinic somewhere in Colorado. 11 people had adverse reactions. I didn't read the whole story, can't do it anymore.
Somebody mentioned the "boob tube". I remember Eb from Green Acres saying it when I was kid.

CDC says no safety issues with J&J vaccine after NC clinic reports ‘adverse reactions’

Health officials said a North Carolina clinic has stopped giving out shots Thursday after several people had bad reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

www.wsoctv.com

 

[Alaskan]

Found out that my kids and myself were exposed Sunday. None of us are sick but staying home for the next few days and away from people just in case. Not too worried but the responsible thing is to not expose anyone else. Of course we've been potentially exposing people all week... but what do you do? I just found out this morning.

Supposedly most people start to show symptoms day 5 or 6 after exposure.

 

[Beekissed]

Supposedly most people start to show symptoms day 5 or 6 after exposure.

Yeah....like....death. That's one of the symptoms.

 

[caprines.n.me]

Found out that my kids and myself were exposed Sunday. None of us are sick but staying home for the next few days and away from people just in case. Not too worried but the responsible thing is to not expose anyone else. Of course we've been potentially exposing people all week... but what do you do? I just found out this morning.

So sorry to hear that. Sounds like you're doing what you can. Taking precautions not to expose anyone is the responsible and right thing to do. Hope you breeze through with not so much as a symptom.

 

[Bunnylady]

Found out that my kids and myself were exposed Sunday. None of us are sick but staying home for the next few days and away from people just in case. Not too worried but the responsible thing is to not expose anyone else. Of course we've been potentially exposing people all week... but what do you do? I just found out this morning.

That's the reason for the masks and social distancing, after all - "just in case" you could be shedding virus and don't know it. As you said, now that you know you were exposed, the responsible thing to do is self quarantine (ugh!) Hope the time goes quickly and you all remain well!

One of my daughter's coworkers tested positive a few weeks back. The person wound up with a mild case and was back at work a couple of weeks later. She works at a vet's office, where they all wear masks and only deal with clients at curbside anyway, so they did temperature checks before entering the building for the next couple of weeks, and there were no additional cases.