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Originally Posted by red-beard
This is the correct answer for any vaccine. The whole "breakthrough" non-sense was just that. Non-sense.
A vaccination preps your body for the infection so you can fight it off. The T-cells and memory cells are there to remind your body how to fight it off. And they prepare you for similar infections. Antibodies wane after an infection and they do after vaccination.
Yes, you can get sick after vaccination, but it is milder than it could have been. And I expect some people with "natural" immunity had colds from years ago that were "close enough" that the body was ready to respond. This is why yearly flu vaccines are important. Maybe this year's isn't perfect, but maybe one from the last 20-30 years was good enough to keep you from having a bad case of flu.
Denis, hope you are feeling better soon. My "sniffles" are pretty much done. I still have laryngitis 10 days later. And like you, my first test (with sniffles) was negative!
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Thanks, buddy. One of my good friends in LA had it a while back and told me the first day I was sick that it took him 2 days after symptoms began to get a positive result. He was right on the money...sick on Monday, positive on Weds. Day 3.
