You get COVID symptoms right after taking the vaccine, so is it possible to spread COVID to people if you're not wearing a mask? Should I quarantine for two weeks right after I get the vaccine?
You get COVID symptoms right after taking the vaccine, so is it possible to spread COVID to people if you're not wearing a mask? Should I quarantine for two weeks right after I get the vaccine?
Nope, but don't travel. If you believe the CDC you are more susceptible to the variant now.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html
Sham 69 wrote:
You get COVID symptoms right after taking the vaccine, so is it possible to spread COVID to people if you're not wearing a mask? Should I quarantine for two weeks right after I get the vaccine?
Nice troll post, but I'll bite.
The MRNA vaccines do not use part of the virus to stimulate immune response. You may get some symptoms similar to COVID symptoms, but you don't "have" covid and can't "spread" covid.
Data is showing antibody and T-cell counts increasing rapidly after a few days of the vaccine, with peak protection in the 10-14 day mark. As with any vaccine, you are not totally immune to the virus, but your best protection and safest time to travel is post-14 days of getting the shot.
Sham 69 wrote:
You get COVID symptoms right after taking the vaccine, so is it possible to spread COVID to people if you're not wearing a mask? Should I quarantine for two weeks right after I get the vaccine?
Depends whether your Covid symptoms are from Covid or from the vaccine.
If the former, then yes absolutely you could spread it. Your vaccine side effects will not include loss of smell, pneumonia, difficulty breathing, etc and will resolve in a day most likely. The likelihood of a significant number of people being infectious coincidentally right after getting the vaccine is nil, so unless you have the above symptoms and/or you have a known exposure to a positive case prior to your vaccine, just carry on and no need to quarantine.
Not the vaccines we are using in the US. If we were using the vaccines the Chinese are promoting (which uses a weakened virus) you might have to worry. Countries like Chile, Seychelles, Turkey, and Pakistan all saw their infections increase after they started innoculating people with the Sinovac / Sinopharm vaccines.
The vaccine isn't fully protective right away - two weeks after the final dose is when it's as effective as advertised. There is a slight chance you have asymptomatic covid-19 right now, or get it in the next week or so before the vaccine is fully effective, so you could be spreading it unknowingly. Even after full vaccination, people can spread covid because it doesn't prevent necessarily prevent infection, it helps your body deal with it. It's safe to assume that fully vaccinated people are less likely to spread covid, but to what degree is not fully studied yet.
If you truly don't have covid-19 (which you can't know for sure without multiple tests) the symptoms that you get can't spread covid, because the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus is just not present.
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