Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I did Alpe de Zwift a few hours after my AZ jab. Tempo rather than threshold, but all seemed fine.

[clutches chest, collapses]

As I said originally, it was "no vigorous exercise for 15 minutes after the jab", not any longer than that.

I think it was just about any possible adverse reaction, which would most likely happen within 15 minutes of the jab.

I guess that if I'd said I had driven they would have suggested I hold off driving home for 15 minutes, either by sitting around, sitting in the car or walking around the lovely hospital car park.

The implication being they didn't want anyone to just DFO whilst driving or cycling away.

Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction that occurs rarely after vaccination (hence the 15min wait). Ideally there would be somebody on site who knew what they were doing should this happen to you.

When I had my AZ jab on Monday I was told not to drive for 15 minutes and perhaps "go shopping or sit in the car". They didn't watch me or have enough space for people to sit and wait at the rate they were vaccinating people.

All vaccinators are trained in what to do if somebody experiences anaphylaxis. Including the non medical volunteers.

I guess that if I'd said I had driven they would have suggested I hold off driving home for 15 minutes

That's exactly what I was told.

Yeah me too

Yes, sorry, I thought it was obvious that was what I was going on about. I was just trying to counter the "but I went and did a load of RP laps" and the "but vigorous exercise might interfere with immune response" [md]isinformation that followed.

For both the Pfizer jabs we had to sit in an observation room for 15 minutes. The nurse put a sticker on your arm with the release time on it.

In other COVID news, HK had its first locally transmitted case of one of the new variants (S.Africa)

400 households have been put into quarantine for 21 days to prevent further spread. Thats 1-2,000 people sent to a prison like camp for three weeks because they live in the same tower block as someone with COVID.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1588479-20210429.htm

We just had our first Indian variant positives here... standard home quarantine. Not sure I'd want 3 weeks in an internment camp but likewise, just a vague "stay at home please" doesn't feel like enough either.

Had AZ in my cycling kit and wasn't told anything about not doing exercise for 15 mins, guy who came out beside me on his skateboard didn't seem to have been either.

My jabber told me I was fine to run after.

just a vague "stay at home please" doesn't feel like enough

Someone please tell the Dutch government this

Pfizer has a 15min sit while AZ doesn't anymore.

We all had to sit in Belfast. Since nearly everyone would have driven to the vaccine centre it may be why.

Jabbed and taking temp oxy levels & symptoms notes...see how we go as a small science experiment ;)

CSB - I have been in an Imperial study and just got the latest results.
Suspected I had covid 17th March last year.
Had a (home administered) positive antibody test in October.
Tested positive again (full lab dna test) end of Jan.

So from my data, there are definitely pretty long antibody reactions.

Residents of Liverpool seem really happy to be the government's Petri dish again #plaguerave

Are you all ok again, no Covid after effects?

They conducted similar experiments in the Netherlands.

Few cases of transmission surprisingly.

All fine. I was relatively lightly hit and fine after a few days (while the missus still doesn't have taste/smell fully back a year later).
Given how minor I had it, was surprised to still have antibodies after almost a year.

https://twitter.com/DannyDungarees/status/1387813170232823812?s=19

She married you, did she ever have taste?

New study out* suggests antibodies have a "half-life" of >200 days so you should be good for a while yet.

*Hot off the press, not even been peer-reviewed yet

Why was the public funding of astrazenica not mentioned? So much about the Boris comment that the vaccine was developed by capitalism and that greed is good.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded