I assume there are healthy margins of errors on these kinds of assessments and other misc factors that come into play, and the difference seems pretty minor. Honestly I wouldn’t waste a minute worrying about which vaxx I got.
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My first dose was Pfizer and my second dose was Moderna because we did some mixing in Canada. Hopefully this gives me extra protection. 
The main takeaway though is that vaccines are effective in reducing hospitalization.
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Lack of communication between Biden and his own FDA is astonishing. How do they not get on the same page here?
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Are we going to see a steady stream of announcements that corporations are requiring all of their workers to be vaxxed?
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1438258857873133570
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1438827574612824065
It’s a question of which companies are going to wait for an official order.
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Whoops, totally missed that.
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Hmmm… so do I just fucking get one now?
edit: looks like stuff for HCW is still under consideration
NYC Mayor: next year COVID will be like the flu
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CAVEAT: Dodgy foreign news site
This is in line with what the scientists are saying, FWIW.
It could be true, but I wouldn’t say it like that if I were the mayor of the city that had one of the highest (if not the highest) COVID death tolls in the world.
Number 1 baby! But buying new underwear for these big balls is getting expensive.
Alright first test results came back.
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Negative! Honestly if I don’t have it thats fucking amazing. I had a full on close conversation with a non-vaccinated covid positive person one day before they had symptoms for like 10+ minutes. That’s fucking incredible.
How confident should I be from that test? I took it 4 days after contact and still don’t have any symptoms. I plan on taking another today.
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False negatives are quite rare, like 95%+ or so. The big problem with testing is false negatives. Having said that, a guy I know got a negative antigen test and then a a positive PCR test. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, you are vaccinated which does offer a lot of protection against catching COVID. Fingers crossed it holds, but you should feel pretty good.
I mean, you’re not just relying on a negative test, right? You’re vaccinated, asymptomatic (presumably), and negative. It’s not totally impossible that you’ve caught a small, transient infection, but there’s little reason to doubt the test result.
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I don’t know what the numbers are, but if I was as worried as you are, I’d probably get one more test (probably at a different place) and if that was negative and I was asymptomatic, then I’d stop self-quarantining.
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I get legitimately sick maybe once every five years. The last was staying up all night playing poker, drinking, eating pizza, not even thinking about what my hands had touched, with at least one dude who looked visibly ill. I chalked it up at the time to pasty-faced GTO-bot poker shutin. But thinking about it later, he was probably sick.
I had to get up in a few hours and go to my conference after that. So I was running pretty low.
I think if I’m normal and not stressed from lack of sleep, I could talk to someone all day who’s sick and not catch it. Shit just moves too slow in my body or something. It gives the antibodies time to do their work. #SCIENCE
It also might help that I chewed my cuticles for 45 years. So I was constantly keeping my immune system at the ready.
I’d call it a day, your pretest probability was lower than you think, but it’s not zero so it’s up to you.
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I believe Stim is worried about his mum, so may be more cautious than normal.
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