Covid Vaccine - Temporarily locked
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Question, if when the vaccine comes out and we are lucky enough to be given the 2 doses 3 weeks apart. If we were then to take a test would it come back positive?
The reason I ask is that certain countries where we are free to travel to without restrictions require that you have a 'certificate to travel' this means a test 72 hours prior to your flight. If you have recently had the vaccine could this give a positive result?
I'm not sure if the answers are yet know to this question (and many more) but its something that would have to be known if we want to get back to taking holidays and travelling.
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It's my understanding that the vaccine does not give you the infection but enables the body to produce anti-bodies to the disease.
An anti-body test would show your immunity but this is different from the antigen test which shows active infection. It is the antigen test that is routinely used to detect current infection.
I've had all the usual inoculations but I’d not test positive for smallpox, TB, polio and so on.
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Most of the candidate are RNA vaccines. This paper may throw some light on the process and its effect.
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Thanks for your comments. I guess it will depend on which vaccine is received as they may work differently.
I wondered as if you contract covid then for awhile you are infectious, once you are no longer infectious, a test can still show that you are positive as it hangs around in your system for weeks.
I've had all the usual inoculations but I’d not test positive for smallpox, TB, polio and so on.
So have I, would I test positive for any of them, well no not now but could I have in the days post vaccine. I remember getting the smallpox one I had a very severe reaction.
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Didn't Matt Hancock say during the Brexit debate that he had purchased loads of refrigeration to mitigate the concerns of storing the likes of insulin if there were supply problems
No David - he was conned by a second hand fridge/freezer salesman and didn't realise that such machines do not chill down to the required -80 deg. or so that is required.
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More good news. I've just seen on the BBC website an American company have just announced they have a vaccine with a 95% success rate.
Still plenty of unanswered questions, and as yet, the UK haven't placed a firm order for this particular vaccine, but it seems that there will be several different vaccines available in the new year.
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I could be wrong, but I understand that it’s not known whether or not a vaccine will actually stop one catching and spreading the virus. If the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread, giving it to the young first, for example, would imo be a waste of vaccine.
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Matt Hancock confirmed tonight that they have an order for 5 million doses of the latest vaccine, which brings the total of vaccine doses on order to 355 million.
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No errors C, that’s fake news🤷🏻♂️☹️. The dosage criteria & amounts are always checked in the different ratios for efficacy. Under this level of creation & importance no mistakes are made they are all under a microscope & examined to destruction. It’s falsehoods like your statement that actually costs lives. When I first heard that rumour I researched it thoroughly & found nothing to back it up. These Labs are world class from every major world power(except Russia) they don’t make mistakes serendipity plays no part.
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It truly is better to check known & trusted sources. All the tabloids at some point have been sued by aggrieved people & companies due to tabloid stories & their falsehoods. Reputations are nothing compared to lives.
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Thanks for the advice R2b. I did say I found it strange but I must admit I didn't check it with any other source. Did you find from your research why the vice president from Astrazenca was reported to have told Journalists that that was how it was discovered, or was that a lie as well. If it was I can see more libel claims being made.
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What I don't understand is why they said it was 62 to 70per cent effective and then an hour later that it was 90 per cent by giving half a dose on the first vaccine. If they can save on vaccine and get a better rate it seems obvious that they will use the second option, so why release the news of the lower figure first? Either way they are amazing people, they must have worked so hard and are so clever. All credit and our great thanks to them.
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I think we should give it the full name, it's the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, jointly developed between Oxford University and AstraZeneca. They don't fully understand why giving a smaller initial dose and then a second larger dose works better but they think the original smaller dose actual helps prime the immune system according to Prof Sarah Gilbert from the University of Oxford. You can read about it here in the Guardian. The serious papers tend to relay the information in a more serious way than perhaps the tabloids tend to do?
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These Labs are world class from every major world power (except Russia) they don’t make mistakes serendipity plays no part.
If only that was true. Over the years hundreds of drugs, including vaccines, have been found to cause harm and be ineffective. I'm not suggesting that there is anything wrong with these new CV19 vaccines but only time will tell.
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, wonder if I would still test positive for Ind Coop and/or Greenall Whitley ?
