"People who have had a "hybrid" exposure to the virus. Specifically, they were infected with the coronavirus in 2020 and then immunized with mRNA vaccines this year. "Those people have amazing responses to the vaccine," says virologist Theodora Hatziioannou at Rockefeller University, "

"In fact, these antibodies were even able to deactivate a virus engineered, on purpose, to be highly resistant to neutralization. This virus contained 20 mutations that are known to prevent SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from binding to it."

  • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I had it in December 2020, probably the Delta variant, and I got the Pfizer vaccine a few months later. I have been conspicuously free of COVID since, even though I use public transport every day, and I know for a fact that I had someone with an active infection breathe directly in my face for a considerable period of time, and I was absolutely fine afterwards. I tested myself every day for two weeks afterwards, nothing showed up.

    I did get ill in Decemeber 2021 though, and I'm still not sure what it was. I tested negative on a PCR for COVID, so :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I had it in December 2020, probably the Delta variant

      What were your symptoms? And how long were you sick for? Any long COVID?

      • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I had muscle and joint pain, fatigue, and a fever on the first day, but the pain was gone by the second day. After that my smell and taste went and I started to develop the characteristic dry cough, but from then on it was no different than a mild case of the flu. My smell and taste were gone for the full two weeks, but luckily came back just before Christmas (I got out of isolation on the 23rd that year, which means I went in on the 9th- quarantine lasted 2 weeks back then).

        When I was walking around outside during the Christmas holidays that year I would have occasional periods of severe breathlessness, but I haven't had it since. Sometimes my chest is a bit wheezy, but I don't know if that is down to COVID. No noticeable brainfog, at least none that is unusual for a neurodivergent person.

        Edit: something I will say though, is that I had a mystery illness back in about 2012-13 that gave me a severe, persistent dry cough that lasted at least a month, if not longer. One of my teachers at school asked if I had been to the Middle East, which I didn't understand at the time, but in retrospect he was probably wondering if I had MERS.