New Data on Breakthrough Cases from the CDC

There is new data from the CDC on Breakthrough cases:

COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigation and Reporting

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html

and 

The Possibility of COVID-19 after Vaccination: Breakthrough Infections

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html

Continuing a Day in the Life of Long COVID (or 3) Herstory 4

This is a continuation of Herstory 3 from here:  

Remember the change I found in the refrigerator?  LINK

More Information on Long Covid

 More Information on Long Covid

Long COVID: Live Updates on the Latest in Research and Policy

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/long-covid-updates/

A Long Covid Patient Contributes Her Words Here

I am very happy to feature the words of Carole Terrizzi below.

While she and I are "co-workers" (we are both Professors in Residence) for a large, public university, we did not know each other very well until this experience.

Now for better or for worse, that has changed and we text each other very frequently.  Every day.  Long Covid is isolating.

     "Covid has changed my life. It has taken away my essence and my peace. I was fully vaccinated in April 2021 but contracted the virus in late August. My symptoms were mostly that of a very bad sinus headache and nausea. I never thought I had Covid. From my symptoms I really thought I had a brain tumor. I took myself to the emergency room and they said I had Covid. I got monoclonal antibodies."

     "The headache and nausea were incredible for about a week and then subsided. About a week later I got sick again. Nausea every day.. brain fog.. tingling in my legs. Aches and pains. So hard to sleep."

     "Anyway now it’s October and I’m still sick I’ve been to the emergency room five times. Oh I forgot the high blood pressure. I have seen my GP at least 5 times, and a neurologist and soon a gastro doctor." 

     "I am convinced I have something deadly. I am ridden with anxiety. For now, that’s my story. I’m sad… depressed and I feel like I will never be well again."

Would you like to contribute your words, experience, art work, poems, vents, rants about Long Covid here? Please email your contribution to me at triadasamaras@gmail.com If you wish to remain anonymous I will not post your name. Triada

If you have Long Covid you must start Here

 If you have Long Covid you must start here:

Survivor Corp

https://www.survivorcorps.com/

https://www.survivorcorps.com/advocacy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/

Post Covid Care Centers

https://www.survivorcorps.com/pccc

Time

Can Breakthrough Infections Lead to Long COVID? For an Unlucky Few, Yes

WHO/World Health Organization

A clinical case definition of post COVID-19 condition by a Delphi consensus 6 October 2021

https://time.com/6102534/breakthrough-infections-long-covid/?jwsource=cl

Wearing my New Work Clothes to Bed (Digital Media 3)

 

One of the things I have done while having Long Covid is shop for recycled clothing at this awesome site. I have never had so much time to scroll through clothes!

I call these items: "New work clothes."  Only I am not working.  So I wear them to bed.

Here I am in my new "work" dress that fits like a glove.  Thank you Thred Up!

(And the returns are so easy too).

Yes I was vaccinated....

Was I vaccinated before I got Covid in July 2021?

Yes I got the Moderna vaccine twice in January and February 2021.

Was I treated with monoclonal antibodies in the first 5 days after getting Acute Covid in July 2021?

Yes I was given monoclonal antibodies on day 4.

Was I wearing a mask when I got Covid on vacation in a small, rural and very picturesque town in New England?

Hell yeah.  But it was a very loosely-fitting cotton one.  But I wore it every time I was indoors dammit.

The rest is history. (HERstory)