Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

It's the tiny card you put in a mobile phone, which has the subscriber's phone number and various other data on it. Without that info, the mobile won't work.

You can transfer the same SIM card from one phone to another, which transfers the phone number over as well. I had to do that when I absent-mindedly put my mobile through a 40º wash cycle—phone was knackered, but the card was fine.

 

I’m in such fear of this.

 

Yes, I did know that. But in the context @Wonko used it it seemed to have a different meaning. But I think I was just having a brain fart.

 

Thanks @Kitty for the info.

 

I spent a while wondering why you had a personal assistant, and whether I had missed the fact that you were a high-flying CEO.

 

Problems around the different meanings of pa. I always struggle with which term to use, most of the alternatives are inadequate.

 

The NHS website said I wasn't eligible for a free Covid vaccination, so I booked a private one for today. But the pharmacy's system said I was on the free list, and so was my husband as a carer. I'm not going to try to understand it but am happy with the outcome!

 

I must suggest my ‘pa’ tries to get a Covid jab, as she gets the flue one on the grounds of being my carer.

 

Hi I really need some help! I need to find a clinic that does the Pfizer vaccine, literally anywhere in London at this point. I had the Moderna spring booster & was terribly unwell afterwards - I was also shivering so hard that my mum thought I’d got sepsis & wanted to take me to the hospital! I was wearing about 10 layers and was still shivering and sweating. I don’t want to become very ill after a vaccine again.

I was fine with Pfizer but now can’t find a single clinic near where I live, that does the Pfizer vaccine. Everyone is doing Moderna. Does anyone know any that do Pfizer, please?? Please PM me if needed.

 

Repeated COV-19 mRNA-based vaccination contributes to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses in the mucosa

LINK

 

Thanks for posting, @Mij - there's been a lot of interest in nasal vaccines that would deliver presumably superior mucosal protection, so knowing what protocol with intramuscular injections could have the same effect could be very useful.

Still hoping for something in the world that will deliver R < 1 and deliver me from shielding for the rest of my life...

 

(I have severe FM but whether ME, unsure--if so, mild.)

Got Novovax updated covid vaccine and the trivalent flu vaccine yesterday (tri- this year because they dropped a strain that wasn't circulating for the past few years).

Compared to last year's senior double dose of a quadravalent vaccine (here in the US) I have no sore arm.

Novovax covid vaccine side effects less noticeable than mRNA, per Dr. Daniel Griffin TWIV weekly updates podcast. His family opted for it.

But exactly 24 hr after having received the vaccines, my immune system is in fill canter making me feel crazy-stupid: in the last hour I could not enter a password, burned my neck heat sack (rice hulls) in the microwave. Stumbling.

No sore arm is very nice, just spacey. If anything big happens, like I can beam up to Mars, I'll post it.

 

Huge increase in mental clarity, at 40 hours post vaccination (2 vaccines noted above). Persisted throughout day two yesterday.

Ability to think sharply and fully and without the usual "interferences." Able to drive without any trepidation as I had years ago.

I was so startled by this phenomenon, which has happened (but at a much lower level when symptoms of gastroenteritis from one virus or another have subsided) that I contacted an immunologist to see what she thinks.

I think I've read posts on this site similar: that there is a convalescencing phenomenon of feeling almost inordinately better for a day or two when symptoms of the illness are gone.

 

Recently, my husband got sick with a godawful cough and no symptoms other than red swollen eyes for a few days. A week later, I got sick with the same thing, but my only symptom was a severe cough. We were both sick for about 3 weeks.

We didn't have covid, confirmed by home and PCR tests. It could have been flu, but we didn't have body aches, fever, sinus symptoms, or sneezing. I think RSV usually has more symptoms than just coughing. Ordinarily, I would have gone to my ENT, but they were short staffed, so I couldn't get in.

I wish we had at least gotten flu tests. I didn't know that in the U.S. you can now buy combined home tests for both covid and flu. This is very recent, I think. Some countries have had these for quite a while, and some home tests even show results for covid, flu, and RSV. In the U.S., we are really behind with home testing.

 

Effect of COV-19 vaccination on risk of developing post-COVID conditions: The Venus study, 2025

Highlights

COVID-19 vaccination was able to reduce the incidence of post-COVID conditions.

The risks of long-COVID are significantly reduced when vaccinated within 5 months before infection.

The effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination against long-COVID varies depending on age.

Booster COVID vaccinations provides protection against long-COVID symptoms.

Thread on the study here: Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the risk of developing post-COVID conditions: The VENUS study, 2025, Kim et al.

 

So I received my Covid/flu vaccine certificate update for my recent vaccines (Flu and Covid/Pfizer) and they've got me listed as having 17 vaccines

I wonder if the home visits I got from a few years ago got mixed up.

 

I've genuinely lost count, but I'm pretty sure I haven't reached double figures yet!

 

I had mine today, no certificate and no idea what it was.

On the plus side the person who inflicted it on me seemed happy that I had ME, as a reason for my having a higher priority shot anyway (at this point only higher risk people get free shots).