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I am so sorry for your terrible sickness! It's probably impossible to say whether "the vaccine has kept this relatively mild", especially since you got it desp

I am so sorry for your terrible sickness! It's probably impossible to say whether "the vaccine has kept this relatively mild", especially since you got it despite being vaccinated twice. At least earlier strains showed no or very mild symptoms in 80% of the infected, and yours doesn't sound very mild. Maybe you'd be dead if not for the vaccine? or perhaps the vaccine allowed your body to contain it to just your nose, where it replicated like crazy until it overwhelmed your defenses. It seems like there just isn't enough data, but it seems like getting vaccinated is not a silver bullet.

roland35 5y ago
"mild" in terms of delta covid mMans you don't need to go to the hospital. Mild covid still can be pretty terrible, but it at least isn't life-threatening!
meheleventyone 5y ago
Well we can’t test the null hypothesis for me specifically but the data here in Iceland shows that the illness for the population at large is much less likely amongst the vaccinated and much less severe. So it’s not impossible to say at all. And yes my symptoms are mild and suck a lot. The average length of illness in mild cases is 14 days. COVID is worse than most people (including me before getting it) think.
lamontcg 5y ago
> yours doesn't sound very mild. Yes his symptoms sound mild. There's a good chance that whatever you think of as severe cold/flu is all clinically mild (unless you've actually had complications and wound up in the hospital). Actual unvaccinated severe COVID-19 is an order of magnitude worse than what you can imagine as severe.
- peteradio 5y ago
  Very important point. Struggling to take painful breath for days on end is the gist of "severe covid". I'd rather break my arms than experience severe covid.
- Marsymars 5y ago
  > Actual unvaccinated severe COVID-19 is an order of magnitude worse than what you can imagine as severe. “Order of magnitude worse” of disease severity isn’t defined super clearly, but if I heard that description compared to the worst cold/flu I’ve had that didn’t hospitalize me, my feeling would be that the result would be fatal.
palimpsests 5y ago
He didn't get vaccinated twice. He received the Pfizer vaccine. This vaccine, like Moderna, requires 2 doses spaced out in time.

roland35 5y ago

"mild" in terms of delta covid mMans you don't need to go to the hospital. Mild covid still can be pretty terrible, but it at least isn't life-threatening!

meheleventyone 5y ago

Well we can’t test the null hypothesis for me specifically but the data here in Iceland shows that the illness for the population at large is much less likely amongst the vaccinated and much less severe. So it’s not impossible to say at all. And yes my symptoms are mild and suck a lot. The average length of illness in mild cases is 14 days. COVID is worse than most people (including me before getting it) think.

lamontcg 5y ago

> yours doesn't sound very mild. Yes his symptoms sound mild. There's a good chance that whatever you think of as severe cold/flu is all clinically mild (unless you've actually had complications and wound up in the hospital). Actual unvaccinated severe COVID-19 is an order of magnitude worse than what you can imagine as severe.

peteradio 5y ago
Very important point. Struggling to take painful breath for days on end is the gist of "severe covid". I'd rather break my arms than experience severe covid.
Marsymars 5y ago
> Actual unvaccinated severe COVID-19 is an order of magnitude worse than what you can imagine as severe. “Order of magnitude worse” of disease severity isn’t defined super clearly, but if I heard that description compared to the worst cold/flu I’ve had that didn’t hospitalize me, my feeling would be that the result would be fatal.

palimpsests 5y ago

He didn't get vaccinated twice. He received the Pfizer vaccine. This vaccine, like Moderna, requires 2 doses spaced out in time.