-Removed-Get a blood test to measure your antibody titers. If they're still high, holding off on a booster makes a lot of sense.
If you antibody titers are low, just accept that you're at some risk of getting COVID and being sick for a while, though with your level of immunity, it seems unlikely that you'd get seriously ill.
-Removed-Basically, your body’s antibodies should be enough to fight off corona for 6 months after having recovered.
Although I do hear some people saying 3 months.
Getting a booster before that time isn’t effective.
The fear, as I’ve written elsewhere, with Omicron, is the sheer numbers involved. It’s spreading extremely fast (it truly is an amazing speed, something out of a dystopian film or something). So, even if hospitalisations are far lower, the impact on the health service could be extremely high at the end of January and February.
So, all sorts of measures are being taken just in case. If you wait 2 or 3 weeks to take measures, and this variant does hospitalise to a certain extent, you’d be too late.
This article explains it exactly:
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/omicron-covid-uk-mild-cases-dangerous-spread-hospitalisations
On the 16th of December the UK had 16 confirmed hospitalisations with the omicron variant. On the 18th that was already 85.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1042221/20211218_OS_Daily-Omicron-Overview.pdf
@sh76 saidThe FDA says antibody tests are not reliable. Does this mean you think the FDA is not reliable?
Get a blood test to measure your antibody titers. If they're still high, holding off on a booster makes a lot of sense.
If you antibody titers are low, just accept that you're at some risk of getting COVID and being sick for a while, though with your level of immunity, it seems unlikely that you'd get seriously ill.
@metal-brain said🙄
Two senators, who are both vaccinated and boosted, have reported testing positive for COVID-19 while suffering only mild symptoms from the disease on Sunday.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/sens-elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-test-positive-for-covid-19_4166675.html
@metal-brain said===suffering only mild symptoms===
Two senators, who are both vaccinated and boosted, have reported testing positive for COVID-19 while suffering only mild symptoms from the disease on Sunday.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/sens-elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-test-positive-for-covid-19_4166675.html
Yup. The vaccines worked!
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@metal-brain said===Does this mean you think the FDA is not reliable?===
The FDA says antibody tests are not reliable. Does this mean you think the FDA is not reliable?
There are may other reasons I think the FDA is unreliable; chief of which is that their messaging is far too heavily governed by politics.
Still, I think most of what they say is more or less scientifically accurate, if a bit colored by political or practical spin.
@sh76 saidFalse assumption. Mild symptoms is typical of omicron.
===suffering only mild symptoms===
Yup. The vaccines worked!
You must have a lot of faith in those genetic vaccines to always give them the benefit of the doubt so generously.
Name one single person that was unvaccinated in the US that has had anything more than mild symptoms from omicron. I doubt you can do it.
@Metal-Brain
Considering O has been here only a month or so the stats are TBD.
Of course that won't stop you from weaponizing it anyway.
Your comrades await your next incredible pronouncement, your paycheck from them depends on just what you say this time.
@sonhouse saidWhat is TBD?
@Metal-Brain
Considering O has been here only a month or so the stats are TBD.
Of course that won't stop you from weaponizing it anyway.
Your comrades await your next incredible pronouncement, your paycheck from them depends on just what you say this time.
@metal-brain said===Name one single person that was unvaccinated in the US that has had anything more than mild symptoms from omicron. I doubt you can do it.===
False assumption. Mild symptoms is typical of omicron.
You must have a lot of faith in those genetic vaccines to always give them the benefit of the doubt so generously.
Name one single person that was unvaccinated in the US that has had anything more than mild symptoms from omicron. I doubt you can do it.
Too early to tell, but it stands to reason some people will be harshly affected by Omicron even if it's much less virulent than Delta.
