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I think most people have some reaction to the shot within 24 hours.
Just received my test result: negative. The CVS page says this for the "component":
LabCorp/Helix SARS-COV-2 RNA, QL NAAT, RT PCR/TMA
I really didn't need to see the results because I feel perfectly fine. What baffles me is that I clearly have been massively exposed to this virus. We didn't change our routine at home and I work from home. I only slept in another room one night, when she got the positive result around 10pm and could not get to sleep until 1am (I didn't want to wake her with my snoring, she needed sleep most of all at that point!).
Anyway, we assumed she got it at the Girls Night Out at the winery the previous weekend when they were drinking and dancing in a crowd. Having a fun time. Of the three people, only my wife is positive and sick. I really should be counted as a fourth person given my exposure when we know she was contagious. Here are the results:
Wife: positive, Pfizer vaccine in Mar/Apr
Daughter: negative, J&J vaccine in Apr
Friend: negative, had cv19 in Sep2020 and the Moderna vaccine in Apr
Me: negative, Pfizer vaccine in Mar/Apr
One other data point: my wife went to work last Fri morning and left around noon for a court case. By that point, she was contagious but not sick. None of the three other people in the office have become sick. I believe all three of them have been vaccinated and I know that at least two of them had cv19 last Fall.
Final note: the most bizarre symptom is her almost complete inability to taste food. Of course, me, being the experimentalist, I had to test it. She can't taste anything but salt and a little pepper. No red wine, white wine (tart as hell to me!), fish, caesar dressing, homegrown tomatoes, seasoning, etc. Even my straight bourbon, which she normally would recoil from, didn't faze her. Jalapenos are next
I hope she regains it quickly. Can take many months, but hopefully the vaccine limits the damage.
Correct, although there are some like me who recall those who lived through the 1916 flu and their behaviours that (presumably) changed due to it. I had an uncle who would never cough in the same room where there were other people. He would always get up and walk in a different room.
That makes some sense for someone who has a strong reaction to the first shot. Most people I know had very little reaction to the first shot, but moderate-to-strong reaction to the second.
I'd expect to see all variants surging if that were the case. Delta would still surge faster, but not as dramatically.
I guess I should rephrase what I said slightly. “Anything particularly special about Delta” is understating Delta and misses the point I made earlier about the very short serial interval. It is probably a bit more contagious too, that seems clear. But it also spreads faster (not necessarily the same as more contagious!!!!), which makes a HUGE difference in how it can outcompete other variants. The question I was getting at is how much are those characteristics contributing to the rise vs. just general carelessness? Since it spreads so fast, you’d expect it to rapidly outcompete other variants…and even squeeze them out even in an environment where overall conditions are conducive to healthy growth of those other variants (because Delta generates immunity). So I’m not sure you should expect other variants to surge. Delta surges because it spreads so fast and people are careless, while other variants may gradually decline, even though normally they would grow in the current environment.
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It's not like we went through anything like this before. /s
I think we are in the midst of a global experiment with many factors combined: delta (and other) variants, policy changes (re mask wearing, social distancing, etc.), vaccine hesitancy, politics, and more. Statistical analysis can help tease apart some of the data but cause and effect is very hard to prove.
