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Unfortunately the latest COVID strain evades vaccines. I've had a COVID shot every year since it was available and I caught COVID for the first time (to my knowledge) while traveling 2 weeks ago. I even wore masks, although I was lax about it and didn't wear a mask in every public place. Still, yes, absolutely keep being vaccinated. But you could still catch it.
Well, yeah, the Covid vaccines do not stop you from getting Covid. Thought this was well stablished back in 2021. In that regard, nothing has changed.
The media and by proxy people blamed it on the unvaccinated. The fact is that the Covid shots do not elicit a strong and in most people even barely measurable IgA antibody response. Only an IgG in, that is want the product does, hence the claim that it will lower side effects when you do catch it, which is what you heard in the news. In the case of Covid, a strong IgA response would grant sterlizing immunity, when was the last rime you even heard that term used in the media after all these years? There is a reason.
And even if the vaccinated person gets a small response of IgA, it will be start dropping after about 2 weeks, so you will catch it then. Only short fix is ro get another shot. Up here in Canada, back then, they were telling high risk patients to think about getting another shot every 60-90 days.
You will always catch Covid if it is around, whether the people around you are vaccinated or unvaccinated. Sorry to say but this claim that this strain gets around the shot was nonsense even back then. Vaccinated people were always going to catch Covid. Symptoms should be lessen though. Pfizer, Moderna, Aztra Seneca et al, never actually claimed their products would provde sterilizing immunity in their legalese, only lessen symptoms.