NYC’s health department has a website to search for vaccine providers and what they carry. I tried two Walgreens and a Rite-Aid in my neighborhood and although they were listed as having the Novavax, none did. So I went to my independent pharmacy and got the Moderna shot. No side effects, as usual for me.
Had Novavax last two vax, obtained at Rite Aid. No reason, just to mix-it up. (Previous was Moderna’s.)
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My friend has just tested positive for Covid for the first time. She has a fever and is feeling miserable. I know of three other people who’ve just recently become sick with it so guess there’s a mini surge locally. Hope I avoid it.
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I’m pretty sure my son and his wife in Warsaw have had COVID. They were pretty sick for weeks. He didn’t see the point in taking a test. ??
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Did they get the recent vaccination?
On New Year’s Day I heard the story of the son (20) of one of the dinner-party-goers. I did not know her well before that day.
Her son has really terrible breathing issues, has had body rashes, many high fever, etc., etc. since he got Covid in the first wave. From what Mom said, he’s gotten some pretty terrible care in NYC and in his college city. Despite it all, he is about to graduate from a challenging college with a challenging major; one more coop to go.
I gave her contact info for the pulmonologist who treated me way back when. Here’s hoping she and/or her colleagues can help him.
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If he needs referral to another pulmonologist @oldmom4896, please let me know. I know a lot of lung docs, in NYC and around the US.
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That is the questions I’d like to know the answer to as well! My guess would be the 2 who are over 70 have and the others likely not this round - but I don’t know for sure though will try to find out when people have recovered. I was sitting at the same table as the 2 older ones on Monday. One reported a positive test on Wed and the other was sick on Thurs and + on Friday. I had the booster in September and (so far) feeling OK 
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COVID-19 has been increasing recently, although the main variants are still JN.1 descendants (XEC and KP.3.1.1), so this year’s vaccine and/or infection in this summer’s wave may protect better than in previous years when the winter brought a significantly different variant.
Thank you, that’s good to know. I’m still feeling fine so am optimistic the vaccine helped. My sick friend had closer and longer contact with the others and though boosted still became moderately ill (significant fever, nasty cough, sore throat and muscle aches). She heard today that 8 people we’d been at events with now have covid, the number may be larger because some are sick but haven’t tested.
Back to masking again in stores and around crowds 
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I have been vaxxed to the max but had Covid right after Halloween. No one who was around me got it, though. And I have no clue how I got it.
I have had max vaccines and also had covid in 6/2024. I only had covid that one time, from a huge dinner party where everyone on our table got covid. Fortunately all of us recovered pretty well. D and I were really exhausted the other day and slept most of the day but I tested and am negative for covid, RSV, flu a&b. I feel fine since that one day when I was utterly exhausted.
I have had all vaccines and still have never had COVID afaik. I did get a vaccine this year in August because I had a lot of travel coming up, but that was the old version. Now trying to decide if I should get the new one in Jan or Feb, or just wait for next winter.
The current KP.2 (JN.1 for Novavax) vaccines are closer to the current variants than last year’s XBB.1.5 vaccines.
Yes, I had really hoped the new vaccine would have been avail before my travels, but I was off by a few weeks. I’m just questioning if it’s better to get a second booster in one year to get the latest protection. Am leaning that way.
A more recent dose for a closer variant to current ones should offer better protection than a less recent dose of a more distant variant, although there is no guarantee of not getting infected.
Is the hesitation due to unwanted effects, cost, or something else? If unwanted effects like fever and malaise are an issue, you may want to consider Novavax if you have previously used Moderna and/or Pfizer.
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I almost hesitate to post this as it may alter my good fortune, but to my knowledge I have not gotten CoVid over these past almost 5 years.
I have had and continue to have frequent exposures as I work in Home Health Care and while we do use universal precautions, the environment is more challenging than hospital based care to manage exposure. Many times I have gone to see documented CoVid negative patients and their family members in the room are all coughing/ill.
Of course I have stayed up to date with all vaccines and boosters even though they make me quite ill for 24-48 hours. I do mask, but frequently need to pull down my mask to allow for communication with patients as most are very elderly and often hard of hearing or non English speaking.
My immediate family has all had CoVid with me in the home.
I have been so fortunate, and remain cautious but optimistic that in general CoVid infections have less serious effects on our patients (especially the elderly) than those initial months/years. That first year was so terrible to see. Especially when working in Assisted Living Facilities in lockdown where the residents were largely isolated from each other and their families who were not able to visit. I’m grateful those days are behind us.
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I think it’s becoming obvious that there are people who are either immune or symptom free.
My 78yr old father is completely unvaccinated, very social, and travels the world regularly. Never had COVID. Also never seems to catch viruses in general. My mom who travels with him and is vaccinated, has had Covid just once.
One of my friends is a ER nurse who worked all the way through Covid and while she is vaccinated, she worked with Covid patients long before vaccines and she thinks maybe she’s had it once but very mildly and before testing. Her husband is a doctor and has never had it either. He really never gets sick-says it’s from growing up on a farm.
Still a lot more to learn I think.
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I am fully vaccinated and have never had COVID to the best of my knowledge; neither has husband. We are both relatively cautious (me much more; we both have masks handy for indoor crowded places but he’s more lax). He’s also out and about a lot more than me.
Son in Seattle is very careful and has also never had COVID. Although I always suspect that the very bad flu he had at the end of January 2020 could have been it; it was subsequently learned that the virus was circulating in that area at that time before the first outbreaks. But no long term symptoms so hopefully not.
“Dr. Vernon and her team determined that new incidence cases of ME/CFS were 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels.”
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