Can you give a better timeline? How many days after you were with the person did they start feeling symptoms? How many days did you wait from exposure to test? How many days has it been since you were last with that person? Have you been vaccinated? If so, how long ago and how many doses?
Who is giving out that kind of information? Hopefully they aren’t openly stating they’re anti-vax…
They say you’re most contagious right before symptoms begin, so you’ve gotta wait a few days at least before testing again. How long ago did she receive her first dose? Hopefully it has at least some protective effect so she doesn’t progress to any severe symptoms. Sending prayers up for you and your fam. It might be worth checking with your doctor about getting an infusion of monoclonal antibodies. It could help her too for sure at this stage.
Her friend is absolutely right. Median exposure to symptoms is 5 days so she likely got infected right before vaccination and never had a chance to build immunity. Timing is horrible.
The aim is to vaccinate as many people as fast as possible. If we really cared about perfection, we’d test for antibodies first then only use one dose on those with evidence of prior infection. Studies have shown a single mRNA dose on someone who was previously infected gives a stronger immune response than 2 doses in an uninfected person. With the amount of prior infections in this country, we could save lots of doses and send them to our allies. That being said, the US vaccination program is the one shining light in this pandemic and I think we’re doing about as good or better than anyone would have guessed.
Pop some Tylenol and try to get some rest. Should feel much better tomorrow.
I know exactly what you mean. When I wasn’t having any side effects (not even a sore arm like the first dose) 12 hours after my second dose I started getting nervous that I wasn’t making the desired immune response or the person didn’t inject correctly, but I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like crap and was strangely excited. Fear not, only about 20% of people report having any significant side effects, so you’re still likely well protected.
Sometimes testing positive after testing negative can happen. Usually it's because you're testing too early in the covid 19 cycle, as in not enough of the virus in your system to detect yet? I think this is why...
