"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 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.