What to expect with COVID19, double jabbed AZ

[pinball1970]

Delta is spreading in NZ, it -was- contained in the Auckland region but of course the border was penetrated and those who shouldn't have passed through to other regions of NZ. We've given up on the elimination stragedy and will soon move to the 'traffic light' system (https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/covid-19-protection/). It wouldn't surprise me by year end I've caught delta (I've had two Pfizer shots).

Boosters available?

 

[StatGuy2000]

Boosters available?

Booster shots for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been approved in Canada -- currently for those who are immunocompromised, or those 70 years of age and above, although I have read reports that booster shots will be eventually made available to everyone 12 years of age and above.

 

[StevieTNZ]

Boosters available?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...-if-you-need-a-third-jab.1009032/post-6564381

 

[Klystron]

@pinball1970 Sorry to learn of your illness. Thanks for the detailed descriptions of your Covid experience, grim or exuberant.

I received my third Pfizer vaccine dose last month. Today I told my physical therapist something about "feeling ten years younger; like a sixty year old who exercises.".

 

[StevieTNZ]

In any case, I will attempt not to catch it while trying to live life as normal as possible. I've started taking zinc 9mg (alongside B6 and magnesium mixed in) supplement (my now ex psychiatrist prescribed me 50mg of zinc to take daily as he said it is a good anti-viral agent). Funnily enough, I suspect that's how he expects to cope once Covid reaches his area, because he's only my ex-psychiatrist now due to refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate for health workers - "under no cirumstances will I take this experimental biological agent".

 

[PeroK]

In any case, I will attempt not to catch it while trying to live life as normal as possible. I've started taking zinc 9mg (alongside B6 and magnesium mixed in) supplement (my now ex psychiatrist prescribed me 50mg of zinc to take daily as he said it is a good anti-viral agent). Funnily enough, I suspect that's how he expects to cope once Covid reaches his area, because he's only my ex-psychiatrist now due to refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate for health workers - "under no cirumstances will I take this experimental biological agent".

I read an interview with an A&E doctor recently. She said she sees patients every day with complications from COVID, but is yet to treat a patient for complications from vaccination.

Your ex-psychiatrist shows an interesting bias towards avoiding particular risks while accepting greater risks. It's difficult to justify that the risk of vaccination is greater than the risk of getting COVID. Even if the vaccine is more exprimental than usual and carries a greater risk than other vaccines, the risks of COVID itself are well established and significant. It's clear that the unvaccinated remain at serious risk - and are filling the ICU beds in most western counties, to the detriment of the healthcare that the rest of us can expect to receive.

To that extent, people like your ex-psychiatrist create a very real medical threat to us all whereby we may be denied life-saving medical treatment because they are monopolising all the ICU beds! And, generally they are overextending the health services on which we all depend.

 

[StevieTNZ]

He is rather arrogant. The only advantage is now I have a new psychiatrist who 1. actually spends one whole hour with me and 2. asks me questions based on the talking points sheet I give.