{"id":17637,"date":"2021-09-12T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17637"},"modified":"2021-09-12T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T09:40:28","slug":"do-i-need-a-covid-boaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17637","title":{"rendered":"Do I need a Covid boaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">The antigen tests to diagnose COVID infection are not designed to test vaccine response or efficacy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">The antigens produced after a vaccine are completely different.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Unless you are someone who fits the current category for suboptimal vaccine response, you will have generated both antibody and cellular responses and will be protected.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Risk categories include medical history with suppressed immunity or current medication need immune-suppressing medicines:<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&#8211; being older than 80<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&#8211; received a solid organ or bone marrow transplant.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&#8211; current chemotherapy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&#8211; Untreated\u00a0HIV with a CD4 count below 50, maybe 100 etc<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">The information that your nurse has given you is wrong.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Covid booster question. I had two astra shots. I took an antigen test and found that it was low (50) barely protected at all.  I then took a Pfizer booster shot in the past two weeks. The nurse having seen documentation from my antigen test proceeded to suggest I take a further booster shot. Meaning I\u2019d have two astra and two prizer shots. Can this be sound advice? I\u2019ve looked all over for Thai I for and found not ouch understanding this is all unfolding slowly in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}