Dumb covid question

[jackie011]

Being fully vaccinated is meaningless if you are having symptoms, right? I’ve been coughing my head off for hours tonight and I think I need to get tested for peace of mind. Of course, this is a ridiculously busy week at work and the only week of the entire summer DS is enrolled in a camp.

[WOT?*]

Being vaccinated isn't meaningless. You can still catch COVID, even vaccinated (no vaccination is 100% effective, particularly as there are new variants of the virus and this is a novel corona so...) With the vaccination, however, the symptoms will likely be less and the length of time you're affected shorter.

It could also just be allergies from hell or something not COVID.

Get tested and I hope it's just allergies or a miserable cold.

And it's absolutely not a dumb question.

[jackie011]

Thanks. I’m just watching the hours pass by, not sleeping, and not able to do anything until things open up in the morning.

[Leeham Rimes]

It’s not meaningless persay but the advice is to test if you have symptoms, regardless of vaccination status. Allergy season is horrible this year (I say that every year, thanks climate change!) so odds are it’s that, but testing will give peace of mind. (In the unlikely event you are positive, I’ve read on the cdc sure that if your family is also vaccinated, they don’t have to quarantine as long as they have no symptoms.)

[Deleted]

I am vaccinated and had severe cold like symptoms a couple weeks ago and got tested for all the viruses and everything was negative thankfully, it was just a bad cold.

But I do agree I think the current recommendation is to get tested regardless of vaccination status.